If you are putting primers in regular brass you may need to drill the flash hole wider to prevent the primer from backing out and locking up the cylinder rotation. Blank brass has a wider flash hole typically to prevent this issue. On live ammunition the recoil pushes the casing against the back of the chamber and reseats the primer, this doesn’t happen with blanks as there is almost no recoil.
I load my own 45 colt and 5 in 1 blanks using starline blank brass (which is made with the larger flash hole) for cowboy reenactments. I’m guessing the 9mm pak is designed smaller than the 9mm luger to prevent live ammunition from being possible to chamber in the blank guns.
If you got a decapping pin and a hammer and a lee hand primer and some small pistol primers you can probably reprime the 9mm pak pretty affordably for primer only blanks, you wouldn’t even need dies or a press
That'd be both more work (harder steel, six chambers) and require more precision (too much, and the firing pin won't strike enough, too little and it jams). Doesn't seem worth the risk to me.
Thnx, i just went for it lol. soaked the blanks in water after emptying the powder. Some of the primers popped right out but some were rly stubborn so i just shot em. they were pretty quiet. maybe from the water? now i can reuse em for dry fire training and just gettin familiar with the actions.
If you are putting primers in regular brass you may need to drill the flash hole wider to prevent the primer from backing out and locking up the cylinder rotation. Blank brass has a wider flash hole typically to prevent this issue. On live ammunition the recoil pushes the casing against the back of the chamber and reseats the primer, this doesn’t happen with blanks as there is almost no recoil.
I load my own 45 colt and 5 in 1 blanks using starline blank brass (which is made with the larger flash hole) for cowboy reenactments. I’m guessing the 9mm pak is designed smaller than the 9mm luger to prevent live ammunition from being possible to chamber in the blank guns.
If you got a decapping pin and a hammer and a lee hand primer and some small pistol primers you can probably reprime the 9mm pak pretty affordably for primer only blanks, you wouldn’t even need dies or a press
Thanx for the info !! My R2 keeps locking up after 5/6 shots !! 💥
have you thought to drill out the lip of the chambers in the cylinder for crimp 380's
That'd be both more work (harder steel, six chambers) and require more precision (too much, and the firing pin won't strike enough, too little and it jams). Doesn't seem worth the risk to me.
@@pewtube I agree, will be interested about the primer reloading the PAK
how loud is the primer only? i cant rly tell. is it like an oldschool cap gun? im tryin to punch my 9mm pak primers out but im afraid to set it off.
Yeah, kinda. Depends some on the prop too, and how muffled it gets.
Thnx, i just went for it lol. soaked the blanks in water after emptying the powder. Some of the primers popped right out but some were rly stubborn so i just shot em. they were pretty quiet. maybe from the water? now i can reuse em for dry fire training and just gettin familiar with the actions.
Yeah, I've also cut down snap caps before. @@PFunk609