Monday, October 10, 2011

A Brief Primer...

... on primers. Skidmark sends in this this most excellent pictorial link on the different types of primers out there:


Primer Flash Test Photos

Obviously, when it comes to primers, small rifles are small rifles and large rifles are large rifles...

That is all.

4 comments:

Freiheit said...

"PMC (Russian) Small Rifle Magnum"

I thought PMC was South Korean?

Mikael said...

The remington 7.5 small rifle looks like it puts most of the large rifle primers to shame...

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, the pretty pictures do not tell us the temperature of the flame, nor its duration, nor its velocity. Kind of worthless, IMHO.

Old NFO said...

Pretty pics, but Anon is correct... There is LOT more to it!