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Thread: 50 bmg primers

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    Boolit Master lablover's Avatar
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    50 bmg primers

    Where does one find spent 50 bmg primers? I hear they will make great jackets for .32 acp

    Thanks

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    I got mine for a guy on "Alaska Out Door Forums" sub section Alaska shooting. He is a gunsmith in Fairbanks, goes by then name of "gunbugs" and shoots a 50 cal Browning machine gun. I bought 3000 from him for $30 plus shipping. I haven't tried other options but there must be a machine gun forum that you could ask about used primers for the 50bmg. Or maybe a forum for those shooting 50 BMG rifles. I make an 85gr swc that is almost jacketed to the start of the taper of the lead.

    I use an old Swag-o-Matic designed to put half jackets on lead cores and form different points. I use a lyman 65gr 25cal boolit as a core and use a home made die and punch at .314 and the 308 swc top punch to form the bullets. The dies are very simple, they are just a straight round shaft with the proper size hole and a nail shaped ejector pin that fits in the bottom. I have a core mold that I could adjust to make bullets of different weights but haven't yet.
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    Jump on the FSCA forum.... They make perfect Jackets for 32 S&W wadcutters in target pistols as well...

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    Try joining some of the 50BMG forums and posting on them for spent primers.

    I probably have 50 or so spent BMG primers; but they are out in the "Casting Shed" and the snow still has not melted away to get into it. If you do not find some - drop me a PM in early May & I'll see what I have,
    Mustang

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    Boolit Master lablover's Avatar
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    Sounds good. Thank you

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    I have about 1500 problem is they are still in the empty cases.

    Don't own a 32 so I'll save them when I reload the cases.

    Always been tossing them for the last 20 years didn't know there was a use for them.

    These would be out of barret cases if that matters.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check