ORIGINAL: Mike AR
Cayugad-Great advice as usual.Your comments on primers leads me to ask another question. I know there's been a lot of talk about which primers are hotter than others and someone a while back listed them in order. My question is not which ones are hotter but: How do you determine that one primer is hotter than another? I guess that' something I should know but I don't.
Mike
That list by poster Triple Se7en was most helpful (as usual). He posted it some time ago as I remember now.
Where I live I am only able to get three kinds of primers. I can get the Winchester W209, the Winchester WML209, and the Remington Kleenbore Primers. I judged which primers were more powerful by the fowling they leave in the the striker area of my rifle, and how badly they will burn and pop out the ramrod when I start my rifles up.
When I get ready to shoot, I pop a 209 primer or two to clean the breech. Then I put a new clean patch on the loading jag and push that to the bottom of the breech and pop another primers. The Winchester WML209 blew that ramrod over three inches out the barrel and incenerated the cotton patch, blowing the end off and over the jag. The blow back left from it was terrible and it even hadenough power to help distroy the retaining spring on my Black Diamond XR 209 nipple.
The Winchester W209 while they still fowl the breech of the rifle a little will move the ramrod about two inches and burn the patch real good.
The Remington Kleenbore Primers will move the ramrod about an inch and a half sometimes and they burn the patch good too, but they do not fowl the breech as bad.
That is how I was basing my evaluation of which primers were the hottest and the coolest. Maybe Triple Se7en will post that list again...