With the current shortage of availability of Federal SPP, some pistol shooters are loading with Magnum SPP in 9mm and .38Spl for IDPA/USPSA competition.
One of the local guys, buyer for one of the local action pistol clubs, told me that the only difference in his testing has been a slight increase in velocity (~30fps) with the magnum primers. Most of the serious guys are loading Clays, TrailBoss, Bullseye, 231, N320, and HS-6.
Does anyone have any experience and/or horror stories about using Federal magnum SPP primers in place of regular SPP?
I'm only asking about Federal small pistol primers as they are just about unobtainable. CCI SPP are everywhere.
We're not talking about loading anything toward the upper end either, only pretty mild loads. As an example, my .38spl competition load is a 170gr Hi-Tek coated bullet over 3.0grs of Clays for a velocity under 700fps
One of the local guys, buyer for one of the local action pistol clubs, told me that the only difference in his testing has been a slight increase in velocity (~30fps) with the magnum primers. Most of the serious guys are loading Clays, TrailBoss, Bullseye, 231, N320, and HS-6.
Does anyone have any experience and/or horror stories about using Federal magnum SPP primers in place of regular SPP?
I'm only asking about Federal small pistol primers as they are just about unobtainable. CCI SPP are everywhere.
We're not talking about loading anything toward the upper end either, only pretty mild loads. As an example, my .38spl competition load is a 170gr Hi-Tek coated bullet over 3.0grs of Clays for a velocity under 700fps
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