30 Luger snap caps

rhuff · 07-11-2014, 06:41 PM

Of course any handloader that has 30 Luger dies can produce dummy rounds in nothing flat. I have produced dummy rounds for all of the different projectile profiles that I load in the 30 Luger brass. I use them in all of my 30 Luger handguns to check things out.

What Vlim's suggestion to do, I don't think will work out satisfactorily. Once you pull the bullet from the brass, in order to dump the powder and ignite the primer, you have lost the neck tension between bullet and case mouth. I have never seen a 30 Luger bullet with a beveled base, like seen in rifle and some handgun bullets. IF you could get the bullet to seat back into the brass case without belling the casemouth, there would be nearly zero neck tension on the bullet and when you tried to get it to feed into the chamber, you, for sure, would get marked set back and a jam.

I don't believe that one can ignite a primer with a flat surface......if you could, we would have a ton of primer ignitions when we seat a primer into the primer pocket with the primer ram of the press. I have no idea how many Ks of primers that I have seated since 1971-72, but quite a few. I have yet to ignite a primer. To me, the ram would be more prone to ignite a primer than would be a breach face to the sunken primer of a properly primed brass case. Just my thoughts.

07-11-2014, 06:41 PM	#9
rhuff Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Az. Posts: 2,315 Thanks: 2,748 Thanked 998 Times in 733 Posts	Of course any handloader that has 30 Luger dies can produce dummy rounds in nothing flat. I have produced dummy rounds for all of the different projectile profiles that I load in the 30 Luger brass. I use them in all of my 30 Luger handguns to check things out. What Vlim's suggestion to do, I don't think will work out satisfactorily. Once you pull the bullet from the brass, in order to dump the powder and ignite the primer, you have lost the neck tension between bullet and case mouth. I have never seen a 30 Luger bullet with a beveled base, like seen in rifle and some handgun bullets. IF you could get the bullet to seat back into the brass case without belling the casemouth, there would be nearly zero neck tension on the bullet and when you tried to get it to feed into the chamber, you, for sure, would get marked set back and a jam. I don't believe that one can ignite a primer with a flat surface......if you could, we would have a ton of primer ignitions when we seat a primer into the primer pocket with the primer ram of the press. I have no idea how many Ks of primers that I have seated since 1971-72, but quite a few. I have yet to ignite a primer. To me, the ram would be more prone to ignite a primer than would be a breach face to the sunken primer of a properly primed brass case. Just my thoughts.