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Old July 23, 2013, 12:37 AM   #10
Jim Watson
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I think that mercuric primed Western Match .30 and .300 hung on as late as 1960. But the US Army dropped mercuric primers about 1898.

Some European makers produced noncorrosive primers that were actually mercuric around 1930. They did not last long, the styphnate primers came out before WWII.
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