Shotgun primers

by **hawcer** Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:06 pm

I have a question...

I was messing around with my Lee load-all shotgun press and decapped a couple shells. I must of never payed attention to 209 primers before....it looked like a large rifle or pistol primer inserted in the 209 primer body....so I punched it out. Except for the anvil, the prime looks and measures out to the same size as a large pistol primer.

Is it possible to re-prime 209 primers with large rifle are pistol primers?

by Reload3006 Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:12 pm

I Dont know. It honestly never occurred to me to ever check that LOL let me know what you find out.

by **Daywalker** Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:23 pm

Talk about using your noggin!! Never thought of that myself Hawcer. I wonder how much hotter the different Primers are? Wonder how much more pressures one would have over the other?

Questions that obviously does not have an answer for LOL....

by **Mohunter** Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:39 pm

Boy, you really got me stumped on that one. I've honestly never took one apart to look inside, maybe I should?

I know that they are plenty hot enough to ignite black powder in smoke poles, and it takes quite a bit of heat if not more so to accomplish that versus the amount that it takes to jump a fraction of an inch to ignite smokeless powder inside a cartridge case.