Year: 2022

HOW ARE SMALL RIFLE PRIMERS MADE Every rifle, including your favorite hunting rifle, is powered by a primer that ignites gunpowder to propel the bullet down the barrel. A primer is powerful enough to detonate the charge for one shot. However, after that first shot you will need to re-ignite this powder charge without using […]

Ammunition requires reloading components such as bullets, brass cases, powder, and primers. They are manufactured by several firms and sold in different parts of the world. Several stores carry only the limited items and components in their huge stock, except for the primers. Primer production is in demand and relatively difficult, making it the bottleneck in […]

CAN SMALL RIFLE PRIMERS BE USED IN PISTOL LOADS Every time you walk into a gun shop or sporting goods store, you may notice that there’s a shortage of ammunition and reloading supplies. Primers seem to be so hard to find nowadays. The next thing that comes to mind is to use small rifle primers during […]

Primers For 9mm. primers come in different sizes to suit specific calibers when reloading ammunition. The most basic is the small rifle and large rifle, but there is also pistol, magnum, and a few other types. Since 9mm is a small caliber round, a pistol primer will work for them. You may find a large pistol primer […]