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seeing is believing. Not that i doubted Del, but I like to TRY things for myself... I just got back from a successful TEST at Ike's... :yay!:
so, I bought some strike-anywhere matches and crushed them per Delmar's directions...
http://www.hipointfirearmsforums.com/Forum/index.php/topic,18339.0.html (any of you new folks that don't know what Delmar did here, take a look! He even made a video!!)
I loaded two into empty shells and fired them off my deck last night, nice blue flame erupted from the barrel so i said DO IT!
I devfiated just a bit from Del's plan in that I put just one heaping load of match sugar into each cup. I tamped it down good AND pressed a hole in the middle with a nail... let me explain.
I saw Del's burned thumb & decided I'd use my Lee press to push the primers into place, BUT they load from the bottom, so I can't put the anvils into the case. Instead I set the loaded primer cup into the Lee auto prime (without the dispenser thus far) and then set the anvil, point down, into the indentation made with the nail... ram it home and viola!
I weighed the match sugar & found I had used 4 grains to fill 10 Large Pistol primer cups (loading .45acp).
ALL 10 rounds fired & cycled flawlessly and hit the target close to where i was aiming (now there's a first, ha).
soooo, as far as I'm concerned the SHORTAGE is officially OVER! Yeah, it'll take a little time, but i do love to tinker, so no big loss there, just add to the addiction probably.
To Delmar I say WELL-DONE bro! I know your humble nature will have you blaming some author somewhere from some obscure book written dozens of years ago, but man, YOU found it for us and you posted it AND taught us how it's done. So a hearty THANK YOU Delmar!
FYI: for those interested in COST, at $1.00/box of matches & casting my own boolits, provided my shells and cups hold-out, the cost of a box of 50 rounds is well-under $1.00 now! WOO HOO :yay!:
for detail freaks... when i removed the anvil (gotta show ya the tool i made for this) there was always a mess in the store-bought cup, hadda clean that out. BUT Del's match sugar, clean as a whistle!
so, I bought some strike-anywhere matches and crushed them per Delmar's directions...
http://www.hipointfirearmsforums.com/Forum/index.php/topic,18339.0.html (any of you new folks that don't know what Delmar did here, take a look! He even made a video!!)
I loaded two into empty shells and fired them off my deck last night, nice blue flame erupted from the barrel so i said DO IT!
I devfiated just a bit from Del's plan in that I put just one heaping load of match sugar into each cup. I tamped it down good AND pressed a hole in the middle with a nail... let me explain.
I saw Del's burned thumb & decided I'd use my Lee press to push the primers into place, BUT they load from the bottom, so I can't put the anvils into the case. Instead I set the loaded primer cup into the Lee auto prime (without the dispenser thus far) and then set the anvil, point down, into the indentation made with the nail... ram it home and viola!
I weighed the match sugar & found I had used 4 grains to fill 10 Large Pistol primer cups (loading .45acp).
ALL 10 rounds fired & cycled flawlessly and hit the target close to where i was aiming (now there's a first, ha).
soooo, as far as I'm concerned the SHORTAGE is officially OVER! Yeah, it'll take a little time, but i do love to tinker, so no big loss there, just add to the addiction probably.
To Delmar I say WELL-DONE bro! I know your humble nature will have you blaming some author somewhere from some obscure book written dozens of years ago, but man, YOU found it for us and you posted it AND taught us how it's done. So a hearty THANK YOU Delmar!
FYI: for those interested in COST, at $1.00/box of matches & casting my own boolits, provided my shells and cups hold-out, the cost of a box of 50 rounds is well-under $1.00 now! WOO HOO :yay!:
for detail freaks... when i removed the anvil (gotta show ya the tool i made for this) there was always a mess in the store-bought cup, hadda clean that out. BUT Del's match sugar, clean as a whistle!
