What to do with SP 45ACP.
45 ACP casings used large pistol primers from about 1905 until some idiot decided it would be cool to change to small pistol primers.
I have a supply of 45 ACP casings and the vast majority of them are large primer casings, however I am steadily acquiring small primer casings as I cull them from my LP casings. The question is: "What to do with them"?
My first thought is wait until I gather enough of them to load a decent size batch and just consider them to be disposable casings that I don't bother to pick up.
I assume that at some point in time the small primer casings will become the norm but I'm not sure how long that will take. In the meantime, the small primer casings are an annoyance.
Occasionally I'll miss one and it will turn up in the press where it brings the loading operation to a sudden halt. That's a bit of a pain to pull it out, put it with the other SP casings and replace it before resuming the loading operation. It also requires checking the casing under the powder measure to see if it was charged with powder so that I don't double charge a casing when I resume loading. That process is generally accompanied by cursing the person that thought it would be cool to change something that's been working fine since about 1905.