John W
Large rifle primers in the 44 magnum?
Saturday, February 04, 2023, 17:48

Hello All:

In the New England area, primers are very hard to come by. As it stands, I am running low on large pistol primers for loading the 44 magnum. That is one of my favorites and I regret not buying a couple of thousand a few years ago. The guy at Shooter's Outpost in NH said they are on backorder for a number of years.

I have quite a few large rifle primers and had a thought. Could I safely substitute a large rifle primer for my usual large magnum pistol primer?

My go to powders for the 44 are H110, WW 296 and I have some Alliant 2400.

I did some searching and could not really come up with anything too definitive.

I know that people on this site have a great deal of experience with reloading.