Tucked away in my garage I found an ancient box containing about 800 Remington 97* 209-sized shotshell primers. That's about $44 sitting there. Had them since the early 1980's. They appear to be in good condition. No corrosion, bright metal.
But I wrote a note on the box that they have open flash holes and should not be used with fine-grain ball powders. (Sure enough, my Federal 209's have a paper cover over the flash hole so powder cannot migrate into the primer.)
I'm light-loading 12-ga 2-3/4" AA hulls for Cowboy Action in my Stoeger Coach Gun.
- Claybuster CB0178-12 wads
- 7/8 oz of 7-1/2 shot (MEC 30278 bar)
- 13.6 grains of Clays (MEC bushing #25)
- Federal 209 primers
So far, the above components reload and go bang just fine. Mild recoil and sufficient pattern and punch for the short-range targets in CAS.
Question:
Clays appears to be fairly coarse. I don't think it will migrate into the flash hole of the Remington 97* primers.
Do you see a problem combining Rem 97* primers and Clays?
What do you experts think? Thanks.