Quote from: sqlbullet on March 23 2021 05:43:15 AM MDT
Best of luck.

I was going to say I could bring you some primers in October when I visit your great state, but then I realized I won't be checking a bag and I can't carry anything you need on the plane.  Hopefully by then the shortages will have ended.

I just appreciate the thought!! Thank You!

I was told small rifle primers could be substituted for small pistol. Is this true?

Quote from: triggerman10 on March 21 2021 08:51:15 PM MDT
What make is the brass with a small primer? Never saw that.

I didn't look close to see the brand but I'll check this evening and let you know. Thought I had scored huge as it only cost me $5 for 248 pieces.

Quote from: sparkyv on March 18 2021 05:06:19 AM MDT
And now the media and large cities (liberal bastions) are drumming this up as a new racial movement against Asians.  Total BS, but they never miss the opportunity to flame the devisive fire.  They "Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste".

Absolute Fact!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from: gadabout on March 22 2021 05:45:41 AM MDT
I can't ever remember putting a gun in my hand that felt as bad as the Glock. Oh well!!!!!  Craig

This has been my experience as well but I have friends that shoot Glocks better than anything else so I can't really bash them. I almost bought one until I found that 1911's came in 10mm and I just had to have one. Of course I could have bought 3 Glocks for the money but oh well. Enjoy the gun. It might grow on you.

sqlbullet, Unfortunately I haven't dropped the hammer on a live round with this new gun yet. I'll keep all of this in mind. Right now I only have 200 rounds of factory ammo right now and until I can either find brass that takes large primers or I find some small primers I'm not loading any of my cast bullets yet.

Thanks for all the info guys. My first 10mm and 1911 so I'm having fun even if I haven't puled the trigger yet.

I picked up some 180gn coated cast bullets from Acme at $52/500. Need some brass with large primer pockets so I can load them. Only brass I have right now has the small pocket but I don't have primers for those.

Sorry, didn't realize I needed more posts to post in hear and help folks out. Delete if not allowed.

Quote from: The Earl o Sammich on January 31 2021 01:05:10 PM MST
Anyone near north eastern Wisconsin, west end of UP want to hook up and do a trade? I got brand new nickle plated 30-06 brass, brand new nickle plated 10 mm auto brass, What elks you after? I might have it. I just got the email from club for this years High Power schedule. My crap is flaky for 5.56X45

Did you ever find the small rifle primers you were looking for? I've got them and can get more near me. Seems like they are the only thing they get in. I need some small pistol. I'm in downstate Michigan but could ship them to you if you end up needing them bad enough. My store is more expensive than they should be but not bad considering everywhere else. $49.99/1k. I have no idea what it would cost to send them to you.

Still saying in stock but it won't add to the cart.

Quote from: The_Shadow on March 20 2021 09:50:17 AM MDT
Hello and welcome to the forum lechwe!  They are probably already sized properly at 0.401".  You will want to fully seat them without any crimp being applied, that will prevent any snagging or shaving of the coatings (same for lead alloy without coatings).  The afterwards you can go back and apply a taper crimp to finish.  Measure the crimp on the very edge of the case mouth and it should be about 0.4220" - 0.4215".  Do not use the LEE factory crimp die because it can squeeze the bullet smaller that it is.
I use a 1/8" spacer under my seater/crimp die to raise it up enough that the crimp doesn't occur. (using that spacer means I don't have to adjust my locking ring each time)
After all of my cartridges have the bullets seated I take the spacer out and back off the bullet seater to final crimp and finish.

Thank you. I've got a set of RCBS dies with a taper crimp die. I'll seat them and then go back and crimp them. That is once I find primers. I have 3k large pistol primers but picked up 250 once fired brass and they are all small pistol primers. Didn't realize they made them with both sizes. A bit frustrating for sure.

OK. I've been handloading for decades but have always loaded copper jacketed or solid jackets. With all the craziness out there I found some coated cast bullets for my 10mm. I've never loaded this type of bullet before and see people talking about sizing them. Do I need to get a sizing die and run them through before loading them or am I good to go? They are supposed to be .401. Just want to be sure before I go to work.

Thanks

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