Who out there reloads small primer 45's?

View · by **Seismic Sam** on Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:49 am

Was brass scrounging yesterday at OGC, and was happy to pick up over 100 brand new 45 cases. 8-)

When I got home, I found out that 90%+ were Blazer small primer cases. :evil:

I have been accumulating these invitations to a priming mishap for some time, so I probably have 200 - 300 cases, and wanted to know if anybody deliberately shoots these and wants to trade for some large primer cases they have. I live in Afton, so the closer you live the better it will be for both of us. I would prefer Winchester, Federal, or R-P cases and am willing to scrounge through what you've got, but that's not a necessary condition for the trade. I just want to get rid of the EFFINg things!

PM me if you want to trade.

EDIT: I decided to count how many small primer 45 cases I had, and was revolted and horrified to find out I had accumulated 500 of these things! So PM me if you have at least 500 large primer 45's, and if you have a lot more than that I'd be willing to sort through it to get the headstamps I want. My cases are all clean and shiny, BTW.

View · by **LarryFlew** on Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:28 am

engnerdan is always willing to do your kind of trade as he only loads the small now.

View · by **FJ540** on Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:28 pm

Drill press? :lol:

View · by **Retread1911** on Sat Nov 24, 2012 2:51 pm

I have accumulated enough that I load the small pistol 45 with fine results.

If you are looking for a trade let me know and we can work something out.

View · by **bdub416** on Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:47 am

Reviving a dated thread ... I have several hundred .45 small primer brass that I would be interested in trading for large primer .45 brass, or other caliber brass. I can get an exact count this evening, and I have also sent a PM to retread... but is anyone else interested in such a trade?

Cheers,
dubs

View · by **Eleanor08** on Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:57 pm

Sure.

I reload small primer .45, and I have about 800 large primer brass siting on my bench that I was going to reload (already resized, decapped, and cleaned). It doesn't matter to me what I reload, but I'll trade you for the small primer brass.

Shoot me a PM.

View · by **bdub416** on Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:23 pm

Excellent! PM sent.

View · by **FJ540** on Sun May 05, 2013 3:56 am

I've got 49 of the bloody things (speer once fired from gunstop) if someone wants to trade 1:1 for large pocket.

View · by **Deputyhiro** on Sun May 05, 2013 5:40 am

What is so bad about small primer 45? I like them because most of what I reload uses small primer, so switching over to large primer tooling on the press just for 45 sucks. Not that it's hard, but just another step to avoid.

View · by **FJ540** on Sun May 05, 2013 5:57 am

Why should I have to develop another load just because speer used the wrong primer?

I also run them on a progressive, so it sucks when you go to prime and it just mashes the primer. After the first 20, I sorted the bag before dumping them into the case hopper and found the rest.

If it was my range finds, then I would be a little bummed, but I paid for these and 10% of the bag is unusable for my purposes. I did get a lot of nickel federal cases, so it wasn't all bad. I use those for hunting/carry ammo when I have them.

I know lots of people prefer the small primers because it fits with their other calibers they reload - I only care about all my brass matching for the caliber. If I'm working on uber accuracy loads, then I match lot numbers or weigh cases, but for everything else I just want uniformity in parts.

View · by **Seismic Sam** on Sun May 05, 2013 8:37 am

Deputyhiro wrote:What is so bad about small primer 45? I like them because most of what I reload uses small primer, so switching over to large primer tooling on the press just for 45 sucks. Not that it's hard, but just another step to avoid.

What's bad about it is that this is a case that has ben around for 102 years now, and is probably in the top 10 of cases sold, and there are BILLIONS of cases out there with large primers. It's not like changing the primer pocket on a 7mm BR case, where no benchrest shooter will even pick up a case that's from a different LOT than his cases, much less a different headstamp. And yes, there have been some primer tube KABOOMS on some Dillon systems that are pretty serious events, and the ammo companies did this only to save a fraction of a cent on their production costs, and left the consumer to deal with the consequences. So it's a potential safety issue, that was done for the sake of just a very small amount of corporate profits, and it affects one of the most popular cases in the word today. How would you feel if multiple companies went to LP 40 S&W cases, and made you start to have to scavenge for the old SP cases and deal with that mess??