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Old 11-08-2020, 07:37 PM
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During a previous component shortage I bought 10,000 of those Ginex P1 primers.
No one had heard of them at the time and they were sold as surplus and were cheaper than any others.
They turned out to be good primers made in Bosnia.
Some of my favorites now which is just as well as I have enough to go the distance I suspect.
My testing indicates they are hotter than the CCI and WLP but deliver good deviations.
The packaging is not up to USA standards but the primers are excellent.
But $.14 a primer?* Sheesh. Not a chance unless cost is no object.
Don't remember what I paid but it was less than USA primers were going for at the time if you could get them.
American Reloading was the source and was doing land-office business at the time in surplus powder and these primers.
Think I got the "grey market" CSB-1 powder from them as well.
Their stock is pretty low right now unless you want to play with non-canister mil-surp powder which has always been their specialty.

44 Special:
Starline brass, Speer 200gr GDHP, 7gr Universal, 1.485", 696-1, LabRadar
CCI300.. 728 fps s=19
Ginex P1 749 fps s=17

W-W brass, COP 200gr SCHP, 5.5gr CSB-1, 1.48", 696-1, LabRadar
CCI300.. 742 fps s=3
WLP....... 742 fps s=44
Ginex P1 798 fps s=18

* This is almost entering the same fantastic financial territory I am in when modeling solid gold bullets in QuickLOAD
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