Primers

poolm357

What is the big deal with primers? You drop the hammer and they go BANG. Why are Eley better than others? Any difference in function with rim or center fire?

poolm357

Have been using CCI 200 Large Rifle primers, WantTo switch to Winchester LargeRifle 8 1/2 any difference in size and preformance.

poolm357

Can somebody share their experience please? I am wanting to work up a load in 300 Win Mag to shoot in a Sendero, and am wondering if the bench rest primers are enough better to warrant the extra cost. In the past, I always grabbed CCI or whatever I had around and worked up a load. Now this wrinkle has come up and I wonder if the br primers really are better or is it just sales hype. Please share your experience. PS this is primarily for target shooting purposes.Thanks for any insight you might offer.

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poolm357

I mistakenly bought small rifle magnum primers instead of small pistol primers. I loaded 100 38 caliber and went out and shot them. I did not feel or see any difference between the small rifle magnum and the other bulletts loaded with regular small pistol primers.

Am I going to get in trouble using these primers?

poolm357

I just got a Lee Auto Prime. In the instructions, it says to not use any Federal primers. Do any of you use the Lee Auto Prime? What primers do you use? Has anyone had any trouble with Federal primers?

poolm357

I have a good one for you.
I have always been taught as a rule of thumb, if a primer is chrome colored
the round is reloaded.
If the primer is brass colored the round is a factory round.

Now I have run into a box of Winchester Super - X in 303 Savage.
The primers are chrome colored not brass colored.
It seems to be in all in tense and purpose a factory box. Now I have seen other
assumed factory loads of other calibers listed on the auction side with chrome colored primers.
So would this possibly be factory loaded ammo?

poolm357

What is the difference between regular primers and magnum primers and can you enterchange them safely would like any kind of help on this I can get. Thanks Bob

poolm357

I have alot of (about 50,000) primers, from small pistol to large rifle) some are older but I have never had a single problem and alot are newer. Is it hard to ship these if I put them on here and sell them? Thanks

poolm357

I have some federal 215 magnum primers, can I use these safely in my 270 and 243 Thanks Kumate jr

poolm357

Can you tell me if Winchester ever used silver primers in their .356 ammo? I thought they always used brass primers.

11b6r

Will bypass the joke about the primer police, and just say that you COULD have a problem. Rifle primers are frequently thicker, and could set up high enuff that you could have an accidental firing of a cartridge. Rifle primers are usually harder than pistol primers, and may fail to ignite.

beantownshootah

What 11b6r said.

The biggest issue is to make sure they are flush (or beneath flush) with the primer pocket. "High" primers, that is primers that stick out even a little bit past the primer pocket can go off if the round is dropped, or even in cylinders not aligned with the barrel in a revolver!

Also, rifle primers are generally "hotter" than pistol primers and can increase working pressures.

That could be potentially unsafe if you are working near max pressures already. If you are going to do this, you have to back down the loads you are using.