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45 ACP primer size
Henry0Reilly
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I had a customer decline to purchase Federal 45 acp because the cases take small primers whereas Winchester and other brands use large primers.
I'm pretty sure he was wrong. Don't all brands of any given caliber use the same primers if they are Boxer primed?
I suspect the customer must have gotten some Berdan primed cases at some time and thought they were Federal brand.
I'm pretty sure he was wrong. Don't all brands of any given caliber use the same primers if they are Boxer primed?
I suspect the customer must have gotten some Berdan primed cases at some time and thought they were Federal brand.
I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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What a particular brand uses I don't recall off hand.
WIN NT
BLAZER
FEDERAL
FIOCCHI USA
SPEER
"When: I first posted on it in 2005, nine years ago. Surely I wasn't the first to notice.
Why: The Dinol priming compound used in lead free primers is "hotter" than lead styphnate. First generation Winclean used large primers loaded with Dinol, but have very large flash holes to vent the pressure into the case.
They then went to small primers because less Dinol is needed and it is expensive. Those cases are headstamped NT for Non Toxic.
We are now seeing small primer .45 cases without NT headstamp, in Federal and CCI Blazer Brass (Both Alliant owned.) I think this is an economy measure. It lets them use small primer cases two ways and even styphnate small primers are probably minutely less expensive than large."
But I'm like your customer, I don't buy .45 shells unless they are large primer. I see no reason/advantage to doing so. And for ease of reloading, consistency is best.