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PMC primers any experience with them

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Post icon  Posted 29 July 2009 - 10:57 AM

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any experience with PMC heavy metal free small pistol primers?
good or bad.....
heck, i would buy ammo from handgun control inc if it was cheap enough

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Posted 29 July 2009 - 11:40 AM

PMC was importing the Russian primers before Wolf was. See if the box say "made in Russia"
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Posted 29 July 2009 - 12:32 PM

yes it is made in Russia.
are they any good? hard, soft?
heck, i would buy ammo from handgun control inc if it was cheap enough

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Posted 29 July 2009 - 12:34 PM

Those look like the lead free ones that have a shelf life of about 5years.......being non-toxic and all.....Worth checking out though
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Posted 29 July 2009 - 12:41 PM

PMC is no more. The factory closed down for about 3 years before being re-opened by Wolf. PMC primers were made grossly popular here in the States by a well known long range shooter named David Tubb. He swore by their consistency and pushed them hard.
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Posted 29 July 2009 - 02:23 PM

Still have some of those myself in large pistol. I found them to be on the hot side with relatively soft cups.

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Posted 30 July 2009 - 02:17 AM

View PostDougCarden, on Jul 29 2009, 12:34 PM, said:

Those look like the lead free ones that have a shelf life of about 5years.......being non-toxic and all.....Worth checking out though
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You know... I have been wondering about "lead free" primers. I have heard they existed, but had never seen or been able to buy any. Are/were the PMC brand the only ones that were lead free that were generally available? And what kind of pricing did they/do they have? You mention they only have a shelf life of about 5 years too. Not the kind of thing you want to stash for the SHTF scenario, but certainly viable for competition shooting if they are priced right.

Any more info on these or any other lead free primers?
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Posted 27 September 2009 - 05:41 PM

I've had some issues; may be related to using a "slow" powder (AA7). No problems when I used with Unique. Details were posted elsewhere in the forum under "PMC small pistol primers".

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Posted 05 November 2009 - 10:16 AM

I got some of thoes this summer when I couldent find anything else. they work fine in most of my guns but are a litte hard to set of for one of my double action witness' that I put reduced power hammer spring in. the cups are also a litte soft ( I think they were trying to make up for the priming compound being harder to ignight ) so they flatten out more than normal primers. other than that they work great.
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