Best place to get 9mm blanks

[Matto2494]

Best place to get 9mm blanks please, ive found a few places but dont want to rush into it purchasing and get ripped off.

Thanks Guys and Gals

[Sitting Duck]

9mm blanks are much more costly than shotgun primers

 

9mm blanks may cost about £17:50 for 50

also be careful some 9mm blanks for pistols may not detonate 101% correctly in BFG's

I bought these a while back:

 

https://www.justbbguns.co.uk/product/534/FLASHBANG-GRENADES/515/OH-SHI-BOOM/2544/9MM-BLANK-AMMO

 

but they are out of stock and there are longer & different blanks that Fiocchi make

 

these might work ok but not tried them myself so don't flame me:

 

https://www.justbbguns.co.uk/product/534/FLASHBANG-GRENADES/515/OH-SHI-BOOM/3412/SP-KNALL-380-9MM-BLANKS

 

shotgun primers cost about £7:50 for 100 - that is getting on for a 1/5th of price

 

https://jdairsoft.net/trmr-primers-shotshell-100pcs

 

so see if your BFG has a 9mm to .209 shotgun primer adapter

[Esoterick]

As Sitting Duck said 209 primers are much cheaper. 9mm are louder but I find it negligible and to be honest who can't hear either very clearly at 5 metres?!

[TheGrover]

I'm still using my 9mm blanks, they might cost more than .209s but they're a long way from being expensive. I might go back to 209s because I still have over 70 that I hardly use. There isn't much difference between the two really bit the 9mms are significantly louder, especially in small spaces.

 

I found 209s were 5p a throw and 9mms were 40p a throw (£5 for 100 and £20 for 50 respectively) it's a big difference but neither one is expensive compared to single use pyrotechnics which are often around £3 a throw

[Sitting Duck]

I think the main deciding factor though is:

 

crimped 9mm blanks are a LOT easier to pick up/install with gloves on than tichy - "damn it wtf did that go" 6mm/203 primers

 

out in the field just seems less fumbling with gloves on to reload a BFG

9mm might be a bit louder but unless you are Mutton Geoff - you know ya got owned

 

an adapter can knocked up using a bit of imperial metal tubing tbh

(forgot exact sizes but is cheap as chips to do - something a bit bigger than an thick old $hite inner barrel about 20 to 25mm in length)

plop it in, bob's ya uncle - primer adapter for next to nothing & fill/blow ya boots with both types