White River Energetics Primers

[CQB45ACP]

Thanks for testing.

Not criticizing at all, but comparison testing like this is relative to one’s typical practices and equipment so the details don’t matter much to me, a third party with my own unique practices and equipment.

Being a simple kind of man, just look for something I can love and understand—do they seat and shoot? Yep.

So, if the price is/was competitive, I’d buy them. But of course that won’t be until 2025 or if I move to New Zealand.

 

[Shovel]

Reminds me of the "Lee Corey" (G. Harry Stein) SF 'Manna'. Highly independent country has blister packed pistols for sale to passengers coming in from repressive regimes.



Loading bulk 9mm on a D550, I can feel the seating vary in mixed cases. Some takes a hard push, but so do WW in some of that junk brass, although I think more with WRE SP. I have some trial lot bullets coming in, I might get a chronograph session up to compare.

100% of my 5.56 loads are done with LC '92 cases - the cleanup crew from a military exercise gifted me a rather large pile of them back in '94.

 

[Jim Watson]

Yeah, matching brass is nice but except for a couple of thousand TZZ 86 Match .45 and the commercial cases I bought for target rifles, I figure mixed brass is adequate for my present main game of IDPA.

 

[NZ308]

The laws have changed drastically since a couple of high profile shootings, I do know that. That’s why I was a little surprised at the reloading angle.

Hopefully with the new government we will have some better and more balanced laws and the truth comes out about the events that triggered this. Still have our bolt rifles and pistols, as for reloading - can you good old boys take a pause and let the manufacturers have enough stock to send us some too please. Our shelves are short of a lot of good stuff and we are at the wrong end of the supply chain - we get the leftovers from Australia if there are any after they supply their stores.

 

[CQB45ACP]

Hopefully with the new government we will have some better and more balanced laws and the truth comes out about the events that triggered this. Still have our bolt rifles and pistols, as for reloading - can you good old boys take a pause and let the manufacturers have enough stock to send us some too please. Our shelves are short of a lot of good stuff and we are at the wrong end of the supply chain - we get the leftovers from Australia if there are any after they supply their stores.

You can have my share of the white river stuff.

 

[NZ308]

You can have my share of the white river stuff.

Thanks for the offer, seen the tide going out and had stockpiled 20,000 CCI LR plus a few hundred of some other leftovers. Had an offer too good to refuse of 8,000+ red box Federal 205M SR from a clubmate going overseas at historic pricing. Proceeded to then get about another 9,000+ of RWS and CCI after switching to Petterson Brass.
Think I may have had a small impact on Aucklands primer supply seeing as most shops had zero stock after I visited and a couple of others.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Thanks for the offer, seen the tide going out and had stockpiled 20,000 CCI LR plus a few hundred of some other leftovers. Had an offer too good to refuse of 8,000+ red box Federal 205M SR from a clubmate going overseas at historic pricing. Proceeded to then get about another 9,000+ of RWS and CCI after switching to Petterson Brass.
Think I may have had a small impact on Aucklands primer supply seeing as most shops had zero stock after I visited and a couple of others.

That’s the way to do it.
I don’t know if the banking and credit sector panics pre-Y2K hit down there like it did here but I came across a lot of folks with a, “take to the hills,” mentality who were stocking up on anything portable; and almost as many who were planning to dig in and defend their castle who were stocking up on durable goods. The prices for reloading supplies were crazy but there were bargains to be found if you looked. I stocked up huge on jacketed bullets and brass. I still have stock from back then I’m shooting now.

Best of luck with your new government. Don’t forget what Pete Townsend said.

 

[CQB45ACP]

Thanks for the offer, seen the tide going out and had stockpiled 20,000 CCI LR plus a few hundred of some other leftovers. Had an offer too good to refuse of 8,000+ red box Federal 205M SR from a clubmate going overseas at historic pricing. Proceeded to then get about another 9,000+ of RWS and CCI after switching to Petterson Brass.
Think I may have had a small impact on Aucklands primer supply seeing as most shops had zero stock after I visited and a couple of others.

That’s good because my share of any future white river primers will likely be the same as I have today.