One shotgun round has enough gunpowder for 3-5 pistol rounds.
But primers… many people consider them beyond the capability of the average person. They are wrong.
-Brooks
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Yeah, I'm not that desperate - yet.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Make your Own Home Made Caps & Primers for your “Ghost Ammo”~ VIDEO
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- For most of a year now commercial ammunition primers #ad have been almost impossible to purchase due to demand. I once believed primers were the weak point in making and reloading your own ammunition. Cartridge cases last a long time, when used with moderate loads. There are tens or hundreds of billions of them in existence. Bullets can be cast from lead or swagged for those willing to do the work. Gunpowder can be made. Hobbyists make black powder fairly commonly. There are even a few substitutes for smokeless power, or which can be used to stretch smokeless powder.
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Not that desperate yet either but good info. I have cases and cases of trap/skeet shotgun ammo and there is a guy on YouTube who has a little tool for making them into slugs.
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What about the idea of taking a shot shell and cutting the shell casing almost all the way around, leaving a small amount of plastic on opposite sides of the shell around the wad. Supposedly when fired the business end of the shell casing breaks free it will hold the shot together making a kind of poor man's slug. Does this work?
ReplyDeleteOnly if you pour gasoline down the barrel. Have fun!
DeleteThat was the hillbilly solution when I hunted deer as a kid...60 years ago.
DeleteThat was called "the poor man's slug" back in the day. It will work but it needs to be shot out of a single shot or double barrel.
DeleteThe lost art of Cut Shells
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYk8fez2d0w
Percussion caps too!
ReplyDeletehttps://thearmsguide.com/10724/make-11-percussion-caps/
Back in the Obama years I did some research on making fulminate of mercury to use rebuilding primers. A disassembly of the spent cap and a cleaning is required. Straiten the firing pin dent then add the fulminate of mercury crystals and put the anvil back in. I made 300 of these in small primer that showed negligible difference to CCI SP in 9mm. It dropped off about 200 fps in 223. With both the calibers there was a larger spread for the average speed. It is labor intensive and a last resort.
ReplyDeleteFulminate of mercury is made by dissolving mercury in nitric acid and adding ethanol to the solution then straining to filter out the crystals. It is not that hard to make if you have passed a first year college chemistry class. FYI: I did have a few caps go off when I pressed in the anvil.
Mercuric primers contaminate your brass with mercury which then begins to form an amalgam, which rots out the brass and drastically shortens case life.
DeleteAnother option would be to use mercuric primers in steel cases. We all know, well most of us know, that steel cases are not intended to be reloaded, but if they can handle *two* firings, this would save the brass cases from corrosion.
DeleteI have not reloaded steel cases myself, so can't comment on whether they can handle two firings.
Brass is not an issue for 9mm. I have a 5 gallon bucket of once fired WIN for way in the future use. I am shooting once and leaving all other brass at the range. I have a 10 year supply of "other" brass in 9mm. I got all the brass from a GA State patrol range for a couple of years when they were transitioning from 45GAP to 9mm.
DeleteThere are a lot of 45 ACP purest that rag on the 45 GAP. What I have found is that the 45 GAP goes head to head with the 45 ACP+P but it does not go beyond 200 grain bullets. It is also close to 10mm 185 gr and 200 gr bullets but does not do well with smaller weighted bullets that the 10mm can zing out there. The biggest limitations I see are only two weights of bullets and a 10 round magazine.
Hi, I am the author of the Homemade Primer Course that Dean wrote about in his article. I learned how to make my own primers and am sharing the knowledge. The primers I currently make for my own use are made with my EPM8 compound which is better than what is used in commercial primers. Because I wisely stockpiled primers before the 2020 elections, I don't need to make primers. But it is nice to know I can if I had to. I also reload steel berdan primed cases because I can recharge the 4.5 mm and 5.0 mm primers that they use. I also have learned how to reload rimfire cases which is fun to do. Download a copy of the course while you can because I don't know how long it will be available to the public. If you have even the slightest interest in recharging primers you need to act now to purchase the required chemicals. Finally, there is a very active community on MEWE where folks are sharing their experiences and ideas for recharging primers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the article and comment information, Marshall. Like you, I'm not hurting, but I've always kept several thousand primers on hand since the primer shortage back when Obama was re-elected.
DeleteMidway had CCI # 34's & CCI SR/BR in stock yesterday. I did get one brick of each. Soooo...hopefully primers are beginning to show up at retail again. BTW: The buying frenzy crashed their system.
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