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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronald Vecchioni View Post
    Bob,
    Our team (48th VA Infantry), is a new/young team and we are primarily musket/carbine. Quite by accident, we discovered that 5 us happened to own 1860 Henry/Uberti lever actions, so we have decided to start a new Henry team.

    A couple of the guys don't have the equipment to reload black powder 44-40 cartridge ammunition. However, Rick Chandler and I both cast bullets and have single stage presses. So we pooled our money and sprang for 500 Starline cartridge cases and a 500 count of Straight Shooters bullets.

    I'm bored as hell with being stuck at home all the time, day after day, with this COVID situation. Just figured I might as well go ahead and load up a "standardized round" for the younger guys to practice with until the NSSA matches start up again. The biggest problem these days is finding large pistol primers. I've only got 300 left on hand right now.
    You can use large rifle primers, standard or magnum, if you have them., BUT NOT IN STARLINE BRASS OR ANY OTHER BRASS WHERE THE PRIMERS STAND PROUD OF THE BASE OF THE CARTRIDGE.

    See P. Altland's post below.
    Last edited by Muley Gil; 01-18-2021 at 12:52 PM.
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    DO NOT use large rifle primers in Starline brass!! The primer pockets are dimensioned for large pistol primers ONLY!! Large rifle primers will stand proud of the cartridge face and could cause a detonation in a tube fed magazine.

    22.6

    e. Internally primed ammunition may use modern cartridge primers. Primers must be of a type that will not, when seated in the primer pocket, extend beyond the plane of the base of the cartridge.


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    Quote Originally Posted by P.Altland View Post
    DO NOT use large rifle primers in Starline brass!! The primer pockets are dimensioned for large pistol primers ONLY!! Large rifle primers will stand proud of the cartridge face and could cause a detonation in a tube fed magazine.

    22.6

    e. Internally primed ammunition may use modern cartridge primers. Primers must be of a type that will not, when seated in the primer pocket, extend beyond the plane of the base of the cartridge.


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    I didn't know that!!! Thanks for the info. I edited my post to include that info.
    Last edited by Muley Gil; 01-18-2021 at 12:53 PM.
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    Primer Problem Solved!

    Thank-you for that information! I have been using magnum rifle primers in my .45 Long Colt shells for cowboy shooting. I was thinking that my primers were not fully seating! Now that I will load for my Henry, I will get the large pistol primers. Now comes the difficult part; finding large pistol primers in this time of shortages!
    Quote Originally Posted by Muley Gil View Post
    You can use large rifle primers, standard or magnum, if you have them., BUT NOT IN STARLINE BRASS OR ANY OTHER BRASS WHERE THE PRIMERS STAND PROUD OF THE BASE OF THE CARTRIDGE.

    See P. Altland's post below.
    Regards, Allan Becton

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