I picked up a bunch of primers recently at an estate sale. By "bunch" I mean over 2k of various types. Over half were of this vintage. I see no reason not to use them either...
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I picked up a bunch of primers recently at an estate sale. By "bunch" I mean over 2k of various types. Over half were of this vintage. I see no reason not to use them either...
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I HAVE USED SOME VERY OLD PRIMERS WITHOUT ANY problems. I HAVE MORE PROBLEMS WITH CHEAP ONES THAN OLD ones.
Load a couple primers from each batch into empty cases and try them in your backyard before you load live ammo. (they sound like a cap gun)
I bought some Winchester small rifle primers in the wooden tray in the 1970s. Was told folks used them to substitute for small pistol primers in WWII. I have used most of them and have yet to have any not fire. Was told on this forum that there is no collector value for the primers but maybe the empty boxes?
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I have much older Rem primers that have no collector value... some folks are interested in the packaging, however... you can send that via USPS, unlike the primers... I'd shoot 'em.
These came via an estate sale too through my smith...I went in last Tuesday to p/u 1K LRP's and came out with 23.4K LRP's instead. Lucky day.
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Nice find. Congratulations. Yes do use the primers up. Save the boxes as those may have collector value. Basically a old primer looks like a new primer so one cannot tell old from new. Thus not much value to the primers, but they likely still work just fine.
I am, of necessity, an expert in equating lot numbers to the day of production. I am very interested in what lot numbers are on your Federal primers.
I have maybe 30-40 primers left in my last box of Winchester-Western Staynless primers out of a brick I bought in 2003 at yard sale. Can't remember a single misfire out of these from time I bought them to last week's shooting. Always heard primers need a little humidity to function.
I'm using yellow staynless primers right now I will keep the cartons when done I have green rem .308s and 30 40's with ammo
Just as a follow up....I've finished using up these old primers and didn't have 1 FTF! The Winchester LR (yellow box 8 1/2 X 120) did seem to be a tighter fit when seating than anything else I've used. Would anyone know if there was a dimension change over the years?
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I'm going through these primers, and like avo, had no FTF. I like the compact boxes
Yes indeed those smaller primer boxes were much more convenient to use , &
I don't feel any safer using the bigger supposedly safer primer boxes that replaced them .
l have a brick of Super Vel Small Pistol. Very compact pkgng too. Like virtually all Super Vel components, no telling who made them.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |