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bambambam
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Think it would be ok to use small magnum pistol primer as a small rifle primer?
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For instance, I often use pistol primers in my 30-06 with 18 gr of SR4759 as a reduced load; as such that's fine. But with a full tilt load, no. might be ok, but might drench you in gas.
I ordered 1000 cast bullets for .38/.357 loads.
I was going to load "cowboy" loads and figured shooting them in a GP-100 wouldn't hurt anything?
I bought 15k Wolf small rifle primers and have used them with no problems in my 40 and 38super 1911s. They don't work well in striker fired pistols. Light strikes.
I use small rifle primers all the time in my hammer fired pistols.
If you would not use small rifle primers in your AR loads then neither should you use the small pistol magnum primers in these loads either.
This will not work with large pistol and large rifle primers as rifle primers are deeper/taller.
Once again the answer is yes. I've been doing it for years and know others that do too!
Oh, and they would work just fine in your GP 100. I also use them in my 27 with no issues.
Packaging has nothing to do with it either. And if the small rifle primers don't get "punctured" then neither will the small pistol. Guessing is not much help here. I've done it!
I have used pistol primers for cast bullet rifle loads.
If they were commonly interchangeable, they'd come in a package marked"small magnum pistol/small rifle".
UPS just delivered these. Rifle,pistol,revolver.