Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Small pistol primers in the 222 Remington?

Anyone have any experience using small pistol primers in the 222? I have fair supply of these and was wondering if they can be used with relatively mild loads in this cartridge.

Factory ammo. Never reload, too dangerous.

To dangerous for who retards

I would not use them! That is unless you want to punch them and leave flame cut pits in the bolt face.-Muddy

you could use SP primers in your 222 Rem, but primer cups are thinner on the SP than the SR Primers and you would be taking a chance of getting a pierced primer with the stronger firing pin spring of the rifle compared to the Pistol weaker firing pin spring. Another problem, your 222 Rem operates at a much higher pressure than most handgun rounds and could cause some gas leakage with a pierced primer back into the firing pin hole of your rifle bolt plus damage your extractor . Answer you could use SP in your rifle but i wouldn't recommend unless a chit hit the fan situation and you can't find SR Primers and then i would use what i had.

trade them to the guys needing them for 9mm and do it right.The work reqiured to make a worthwhile reload for a double dunce is time and compontant well spent...

yup. primers are cheap....

They work, but aren't optimum. (yeah, I've dinked with them a bit in a 222)

They are better suited to Hornet loads.

Rifle primers are miles better in a 222.....

What I figured... Thanks to all.

maybe you should take up Krochet or quilting........

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Want to try this again?

I use them in Blue Dot and SR 4759 loads in a pinch, and they work fine... but I am doing it at pistol pressures vs small rifle pressures....

Try what again