So This Whole Small Rifle Primer Thing is For Real...

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After about a 4 month hiatus from the range, I finally got to get out today. Wow. Weird how you miss the small things in life when you get so busy making a living. Anywho, stopped at my local gun store as I was driving by today. Tried to grab some small rifle primers. Nope. Sold out. :( I then asked my buddy across from the counter if I could grab some stuff to start reloading hand gun ammo. Nope. Out of 9mm AND 45 bullets. That's when it hit me. WTF!!! Thank God I am set with what I need in the rifle department. But can you imagine being a noob reloader in these times? Makes me feel a little better that I stocked up back in the day with everything that I needed back then. But it sounds like Johnny Public is going nuts for firearms. I went upstairs to try and find a 16x1 RH Piston for my suppressor. Never purchased one, and one of my handguns uses this for my thread pitch. NOPE. CRAZY MAN. CRAZEEEEEEEEE...
 
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Not the first time and surely not the last.
I pretty much try to standardize with small rifle primers were possible years ago to simplify things.
But also have thousands of CCI200, BR-2, FGMM210M, FGGM215M to fill the needs of everything else.
I have never fired a round of large primer 6.5CM but just in case have 500 sized and prepped cases to reload for it.
Gotta plan ahead
 
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I'm sitting on plenty of small rifle primers, and I also use the large rifle for a few of my 6.5 Creed loads. I'm good. Just hit me in the face today as I try to stay away from the public and stores. Only go out when I have to...

And no, not because I am scared of the COVID. Only because I hate today's public. Can not stand today's Liberal public. Keep to myself, fend for myself.
 
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Yeah, I'm one of the guys that picked a bad time to get into reloading. Ironically, found Varget and H4198 without much trouble, but never imagined finding primers would be the hardest part.
 
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Habituallinestepper said:
Yeah, I'm one of the guys that picked a bad time to get into reloading. Ironically, found Varget and H4198 without much trouble, but never imagined finding primers would be the hardest part.
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12 months from now, go out and buy yourself whatever you shoot, and stock up. I have dealt with this sort of buying crazyness many times. At one point in my life you could not get .22 ammo to save your life. But it passed. After it passed, I stocked up. Always prepare for the shitty times. Awesome that you got into reloading. Now watch your groups shrink... (y)
 
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RLinNH said:
After about a 4 month hiatus from the range, I finally got to get out today. Wow. Weird how you miss the small things in life when you get so busy making a living. Anywho, stopped at my local gun store as I was driving by today. Tried to grab some small rifle primers. Nope. Sold out. :( I then asked my buddy across from the counter if I could grab some stuff to start reloading hand gun ammo. Nope. Out of 9mm AND 45 bullets. That's when it hit me. WTF!!! Thank God I am set with what I need in the rifle department. But can you imagine being a noob reloader in these times? Makes me feel a little better that I stocked up back in the day with everything that I needed back then. But it sounds like Johnny Public is going nuts for firearms. I went upstairs to try and find a 16x1 RH Piston for my suppressor. Never purchased one, and one of my handguns uses this for my thread pitch. NOPE. CRAZY MAN. CRAZEEEEEEEEE...
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Foul Mike said:
I have had no luck shooting "pills," they disintegrate, I can, however, launch a lot of bullets with great results.
Where did this PILL bullshit come from? Reading too many magazines?
Do you load your clip, or your magazine?
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The only thing more annoying is “bbl.” What the fuck is a “bbl?” Where did the extra ‘b’ come from?
 
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I've heard the original abbreviation was for "beer barrel" in the early oil fields. Here's Wikipedia:

The "b" may have been doubled originally to indicate the plural (1 bl, 2 bbl), or possibly it was doubled to eliminate any confusion with bl as a symbol for the bale. Some sources assert that "bbl" originated as a symbol for "blue barrels" delivered by Standard Oil in its early days. However, while Ida Tarbell's 1904 Standard Oil Company history acknowledged the "holy blue barrel", the abbreviation "bbl" had been in use well before the 1859 birth of the U.S. petroleum industry.[17]
 
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This , after all, is a rifle shooter site. What you call things should be as close to correct as we can and use the proper noun nomenclature. No questions then.

Maybe it is me being cranky as all hell with smoke in the air from the fires, of I am just an ASSHOLE!

"Pills," is obviously one that gets me going. They are called bullets or projectiles you dummy.

Don't get me started as to Point blank range or anything else. So few people know that depending on the firearm, it is many yards out. You have to read the dictionary thing. It doesn't mean that the shot was up close, journalists are not too bright. Neither are a lot of others.
 
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If we really want to go down the nomenclature/jargon path, bullet is a french word, and projectile is any object that is fired from a gun with a propelling charge..a rifle fired grenade could be considered a projectile. Even missile could be defined as anything thrown or shot, such as an arrow or a rock.
A ball is specifically a projectile for a cannon, rifle, pistol, etc.
Cheers!
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I stopped correcting people a long time ago. I pretty much wrote all you stupid, ignorant assholes off when they changed the dictionary definition of forte (fohrt-strength) to fawr-te, which is a French musical term meaning louder. Stupid fuckers thought saying fawr-te made them sound like something other than what they are, and the word was so misused that they actually changed the dictionary rather than teach people how to correctly pronounce Forte. Call my chart a map...whatever. Now I just look at language as a personal and cultural tattletale.

“Calling things by their proper names is the beginning of wisdom.” - Confucius

Calling them “pills” is reloading slang. Nobody who shoots factory calls them pills. It may annoy you, buy if there it is.
 
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If you need 9/45 get a mold or two (even a 2 cavity Lee,) some powder coat, a toaster oven and call it a day. The scrap yards here used to sell lead for $1/lb and scrap is down so it may be cheaper now.

Now then small or even large pistol primers? Have fun with that.

In terms of small vs large rifle primers, I do like the idea of having some large rifle primered brass on hand if only because they seem to be what goes last typically. The posts saying wait for it to die down are a bit of a bet on the election but if they pay off you'll probably see stuff going back to normal in a year or two. I'm not saying to hoard shit but to have a readily available stash of supplies on hand is a good thing.

In terms of the "bbl" issue they just like big, beautiful ladies. 🤣
 
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OK- So I fucked up. I do that all of the time but I can speak in a way where everyone knows what I am talking about and I do not refer to bullets or projectiles as "pills". nor do I refer to magazines as "clips," nor do I call a rifle a "stick" nor do I call a shooting at "Point blank range" a shooting that is up close.
I try my best to be accurate at shooting my rifles and how I describe things, be it components, clips and magazines, point blank range, and the list can go on if you want to.
I have watched and listened to some of the mental giants from the D Party, such as Chuck Schumer and Dianna Degette from Colorado, ramble on about high capacity "clips" and other things and know they don't know what they are talking about, yet, there they are legislating and writing laws against all of the above. I would also bet they have never shot a nice rifle in all of their lives ,let alone even had one in their hands. They, and their ilk, are the ones writing these laws that affect and effect us all. I don't want to be grouped in there with them as they speak their babble. I will call things by their proper nouns.
I know the difference between a magazine and a clip, taught to me by the US Army 50 years ago.

The only clips that I reload are the ones for my M-1 Garand.
 
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