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Is there a way to tell the difference between small pistol and small rifle primers, both magnum and standard?
I got this film container with about 40 odd primers in it and I'm not sure what to do with them if I can't tell what's what.
Maybe I should just get rid of them, but I can't pull myself to throw them away...
Also, if someone I know loaded a couple dozen 380ACP's using magnum small pistol primers by mistake, should that someone just pull them?
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Cant throw them away, bury them. Not worth the risk.
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Is there a way to tell the difference between small pistol and small rifle primers, both magnum and standard?
Not really. In some brands the rifle primer is just a smidge longer than the pistol primer. CCI was I know. Unless you know what brand primer you have that won't help you. No way to tell between standard and mag that I know of.
I got this film container with about 40 odd primers in it and I'm not sure what to do with them if I can't tell what's what.
Maybe I should just get rid of them, but I can't pull myself to throw them away...
Also, if someone I know loaded a couple dozen 380ACP's using magnum small pistol primers by mistake, should that someone just pull them? BCR
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The risk is not worth it - get rid of them.
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I ain't skeert of no primers.
Send em to me.
I got a can of mixed powders to go with em.
It's called "load experimentation and development". BANG !!!!!.........................
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Sorry, I would get rid of them, not worth the possibilities of damage or injury.
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40 primers are worth about $1.50, not worth worrying about.
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40 primers are worth about $1.50, not worth worrying about. Hey come on now. You guys are going to talk him out of sending me some valuable reloading goods. It's far too risky for RWE to use them - BUT - I'm an expert.  I was hoping he'd just send them to me for free. Now you've gone and put a buck-fifty value on them and I ain't sure I'm willing to pay that much for a mixed bag of what not.  fish head
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best way to tell them apart is to use them all in a maximum pistol load. You'll be able to figure out which one was magnum when your gun blows up......
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I think I'll blow them up....
Got some blasting caps in the garage, somewhere
And a 222 rem....
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Throw them in the fire.
Kinda like popcorn.
? ? ? Which ones would go off first? ? ?
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Unless something has changed in recent years, Winchester, Remington, and Federal primer foil colors can be found in Lyman reloading manuals based on pistol/rifle and magnum/non-magnum.
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i wouldn't chance i would get rid of them
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You can make a GREAT impact initiator with them.
Throw them in a fire and run like hell.
Blow up a Garbage can.
I could go on......
Good clean fun for the Forth, which is coming up pronto.
Good advice though, on dismissing them as reloading comps.
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Use them for light loads in a rifle cartridge, or with 38 Special data in 357 cases and pistol.
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get some of those plastic/wax bullets for primer only inside the garage practice.
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Unless something has changed in recent years, Winchester, Remington, and Federal primer foil colors can be found in Lyman reloading manuals based on pistol/rifle and magnum/non-magnum. Any idea which edition would have such a chart? No joy here looking at my 46th edition.
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The idea of 40 primers loose in a film can is scary enough. One good shake could set them all off. Never do this.
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