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Old July 22, 2013, 06:35 PM   #9
James K
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I think there was some match ammo as late as 1950 loaded with mercuric primers, though I could be wrong. The problem in those days was not that mercury was poisonous to people (I don't think anyone really knew or cared) but that it was poisonous to brass, making it brittle and not reloadable.

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