Good to know Nitro - if they down to reasonable prices before any other brands, I will order some.

 

Thanks for the info! I’ve been waiting for some of these or Fiocchi’s to show up in my area (MN) as an alternative to CCI, Federal, Remington or Winchester. Prices have been very slowly creeping downward, currently the lowest I’ve seen for anything here was high 70’s/brick. Hopefully Ginex or Fiocchi will help bring the prices back down.

 

Forgot to ask…..does anyone have an idea on where these or Fiocchi fall as far as cup hardness?

 

Good question as far as the compound sensitivity goes. I neglected to point out that I was using a striker system 100% of the time.
Hammer should have zero issues either. Those with a titanium pin??

 

Curious if anyone has used these with a hand primer?

 

I've just primed the last of a 5000 ct. case of the Ginex primers in an old, decrepit Lee hand primer. It's always been a PITN to use, but I encountered no additional aggravations. It all depends on the brand of cases you're priming, Vista Outdoors Products (Federal, CCI, Blazer) seat the easiest, PMC is a little tougher to seat primers in, Hornady cases are kinda tough.

Still, I haven't had any misfires since replacing the Ti firing pins with steel pins. I was impressed enough to buy another 5000 of the Ginex primers. I consider them to be "pretty good" primers.

 

on my Dillon 550 they require too much pressure on the handle to seat, they perform perfectly shooting but loading is not the same

 

What handle are you using, roller or 8 ball?

Bill

 

I have no issue with them in my cases.. With the exception of some of these godrotted 223/5.56 cases.

I thought I had cut out the "staking"/crimp on a handful of cases here, but I had one decide to crush a primer - so I reamed it some more, after depriming the munged primer - and seated a primer w/o issue.

It looks to me like the only time I run into primer-crush issues is when the primer-pocket is nonstandard. The press-arm seats as well as the handprime - but run into a screwy pocket and all bets are off - irregardless the brand of primer!

 

I bought 5,000 of them last year with a friend. I think I have 100 or 200 left. I didn't run into any issues. This year we bought 5,000 Servicios Aventuras from Libtears($350 with all fees included). I shot 100 of them last week without any issue. The SA primers do seat into the cases slightly easier than the Ginex ones did.

 

Nitro,

Thanks for your review. It is good test when you're using different headstamped brass.
I still have the sleeve of the SPP you gave me. Once I get to reloading again (I've been spending time processing brass recently), I'll load some on the Ginex primers and compare them to S&B primers with a chrono.

I have been culling 9mm CBC (magtech) and MXT (maxxtech without the step) brass... With MXT being worse (very thick case wall.. around .015") than CBC.

 

I have been culling 9mm CBC (magtech) and MXT (maxxtech without the step) brass... With MXT being worse (very thick case wall.. around .015") than CBC.

I used some MXT brass, but have also decided to cull it all. I have a case of Maxxtech ammo yet, but I won't pick up the brass when I get around to shooting it up. I've still got a box of about 500 MXT cases in my stash, but I'll probably never bother to load them until wintertime, when I can shoot them in the snow without worrying about policing them up. They are a PITA to fool with, surely.
Happily I've got enough US commercial brass on hand to keep me going throughout the summer and fall. I bought a couple cases of CCI Blazer 9mm when I bought my first 1911 9mm, and saved the brass, along with a case of Federal 147s and other stuff.
For the record, though, Hornady brass from +P loads is equally as tough to size as MXT, but at least it's useable. MXT is too much like work to use it for anything except "throwaway brass" any more.

 

Thought I would start a thread specifically for Ginex since tons of people may be searching various forums for info. Hopefully others will tag on here with their experiences.

I will load more, but my take right now, is that if they get down to a more reasonable price, I would not hesitate to buy them again!

My LGS just got in the Ginex SPP and LPP. It is $95 for 1000.

I want to reload 44 Special and 45 Colt and I am down to my last 180 LPP (Winchester). So Ginex will do for me.

Thank you for sharing and starting the thread my friend.

 

Thank you for sharing and starting the thread my friend

Certainly! You may want to look at American Reloading. If you buy 5000, they are at $350 now. $70/K ship and hazmat included!

 

I've loaded a few thousand, Dillon 550 and 1050. 9mm, 45. Everything loaded smooth, easy, and all went bang at USPSA matches. My go to primer nowadays. Got mine for .06 ea in qty. Also using Cheddite for shotgunning, again no issues.

 

I've only been reloading for 3 months, almost to 1000 rounds total. Ginex were the first and only primers I've bought thus far, so I don't have anything to which to compare. I'd bought 5000 each of large and small pistol durring a site special with free shipping and "free" hazmat.

Out of the first 1000 [half large pistol 45acp, half small pistol 357mag] I had fewer than 10 failures to fire... half of which fired on the second hammer drop.

The only thing I wonder about... compared to factory ammo, all of my reloads are dirty/gritty when firing. I get a little grit blowback from the 1911 and more from the 357 in rounds loaded to be comparable to factory. the factory round fire "cleaner." I'm wondering if the primers arent strong enough to ignite ALL the powder?

I don't have a chrono yet, so I can't measure the reload/factory speeds. I DID take apart a few factory rounds and weight the charges, compare to the common powder shapes. I think my 45acp 5gn bullseye is the same as the factory 5gn bullseye... only the primer is different. Behavior is consistent across all brands of factory new 45acp I've tried AND 2AWarehouse's reman ammo. Only mine have gritty clouds.

I've held off on buying the ginex large rifle primers to load 7.63x39 and 7.62x54r. I'm definitely thinking those are worth the 5-7cents per primer more for known brands at least for a comparison test.

Lately I've been seeing small pistol CCI and Reminton primers on the shelf in the Columbus OH Cabelas for ~$100 per 1000, so I might just get a box there and compare on the 357 loads.

Now, if y'all know a rookie mistake I'm making that leads to gritty blowback, PLEASE chime in. I'm open to learning and no question will offend me. If I'm doing somethign stupid, I'd rather know than maybe blame the primers.

 

The only thing I wonder about... compared to factory ammo, all of my reloads are dirty/gritty when firing. I get a little grit blowback from the 1911 and more from the 357 in rounds loaded to be comparable to factory. the factory round fire "cleaner." I'm wondering if the primers arent strong enough to ignite ALL the powder?

Please start a new thread with your question and I’m sure you’ll get some good replies without sidetracking the Ginex primer thread, thanks.

 

Ginex LR primers, of all the primers I have tried, are the hardest to seat. I bought 2K for my 308 M1A. Reliability and accuracy as good as any other I have tried. If Ginex were the only primers available I wouldn't hesitate to buy them. If I can get the USA primers for the same price I would prefer the USA primers. It's hard to find USA LR primers (or LR rifle primers of any brand) these days.

 

I've seen that same problem with Ginex primers - hard to seat completely.

That would also be consistent with that second strike firing.
The first strike seats the primer a little deeper, the second ignites it.

We can easily check for a fully seated primer with the wobble test.
Set the case of a hard flat surface and see if it wobbles.
If it's not fully seated it will wobble.

 

On a progressive press like my Dillon 550 maybe the hard seating Ginex primers could be a problem. I seat them with a RCBS Automatic Bench Priming Tool which can cover up for a lot of primer sins.

 

I don't have any problem seating Ginex SPP using my 550. That may be due to using a roller handle instead of the golf ball handle.

Bill

 

No problems on a progressive with mine either. Primer system has not failed or flipped any. No “wobble” as Cavey brought up and zero misfires. I’ve loaded about 1200 so far without any issue other than being slightly tighter, which may prove to be a good thing on aging brass! 🙂

 

Good to hear that the Ginex seat well on the 550. I reload pistol on the progressive and the way things are going my next orders of SPP and LPP will be Ginex.

 

No worries, thanks! My issue isn't the ginex primes then.

Almost all of them seat easily for me in 45acp and 357 casings. Maybe 3 out of 100 were a little tougher to seat. I'll be buying them again when my other 9000 run out.

 

I’m glad to see that they are still available in the first place. After this Lake City/Gaza panic began everything flew out of stock for a minute, but stabilized fairly quick.

 

I bought 1000 from Midsouth last year
small pistol
XL650

they are harder to seat, which I didn't like

I put them in reserve and will use them if I run out of CCI, Win, etc,

 

They are a bit difficult to seat on my 550,
but the RCBS hand primer has no problem with them at all.

 

You need to stand on a box. When the tough one comes around, jump off.. The occasional stiff seater beats the heck out of $100/Brick, or none at all!!

 

I just started using the Ginex in my old Dillon 550 and they are functioning fine in both striker and hammer fired guns. Only tried them in 9mm so far but happy with the quality. It seems to require a little more pressure to seat but nothing too excessive. Bought mine at americanreloading for 309 shipped free and no hazmat for 5000.

 

Ding Ding Ding 🛎 Winner!🏆
Some of us have done that, and there’s one wise acre that held out and held out and jumped on a batch of……..never mind, it’s a secret…….anyway, they are out of stock! They look like a CCI clone though. STILL WAITING for a range report on them…🤣

 

and there’s one wise acre that held out and held out and jumped on a batch of……..never mind, it’s a secret…….anyway, they are out of stock! They look like a CCI clone though. STILL WAITING for a range report on them…🤣

Did you step on a grandkid's lego, barefooted? For some reason, I thought all the real whining & moaning came from Oklahoma!

Range report will be a while... I could try em, but I know you won't allow me to report on these being used in SPP 45acp! 🤣 That's hilarious, I didn't know these were a secret! I scrubbed the name, so you might get some next time! 😅

The beauty of a dedicated primer slush fund is that you always have options.

 

It's OK Cavey...I'll shoot you a PM when they come back in stock and I get some!! 🤣

 

Notice how he won’t even show an open sleeve….very sneaky! He didn’t even tell a couple of us about these until his order was placed and the available count dropped to 1. Then it was all about “hey lookie what I found”, “did you suckers just buy a bunch of Ginex”? 😆 Maybe he’s holding off on a report because he’s gluing them into the pockets cause they all fell out…🤣🤣