old primers

[XBT]

A friend recently gave me this tray of old primers from a carton he received when a relative died.

Anyone have a guess about their age? He said he loaded some and they worked fine.


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/retiredBT/primersresized.jpg

[lylejb]

hard to see your picture, very dark. Sorry

[XBT]

It's showing up fine on my screen, anyone else having trouble?

[AZ-Stew]

The original is a little dark on my screen, as well. Needs a histogram tweak for brightness and contrast.

Does this help?

http://www.inficad.com/~gstewart/misc_photos/old_win_primers.jpg

Regards,

Stew

[Hickory]

I have some in a wooden tray and
they are from the early 60's.

[DIRT Farmer]

Are these military issue? I have been buying primers since the late sixtys and the only wood tray primers I have found are Remintons that my Cheif gave me from when his Grandfather was sheriff in the 50s.

[AZ-Stew]

I guess I should have mentioned that I still have a few WW primers from the mid 70s that have wooden trays. As far as I know, they're still good. Use the correct loading data for them and you should be OK.

Regards,

Stew

[kbstenberg]

I have a box of winchester primers in a wooden tray. The outer cardboard covering is a pail green. I'v wonderd if anyone was interested in them. I don't have any use for them.
Kevin

[Jim]

Make sure you have enough for everybody.[smilie=1:

[C1PNR]

Your package doesn't say it, but the WW primers I have are 8 1/2-120 Large Rifle.

Mine still work fine, but if you're not comfortable using those, send them along and I'll see they are properly handled. I'm thinking in the 45-70 loads I'm preparing for the "Whistle Pig" season this coming Spring.:coffee:

[beagle]

I'd say those are some of the old primers sold through the Director of Civilian Marksmanship to NRA members. That program started during WWII and as well as I recall, they were still selling .30 M2 bullets up through the early 60s. NOt sure about primers though but I know they sold them for a while.

Winchester primers came commercially in wooden trays up into the 60s and then CCI popped out with the first plastic trays I ever encountered.

The contract number may contain the clue of either 1936 or 1936 which would make them corrosive.

Now, someone may come along with more knowledge as I'm just guessing on the contract numbering./beagle

[gnoahhh]

Winchester, like every other domestic manufacturer of primers, contracted to make bazillions of primers for the gov't after the Arsenals quit using the FA-70 primer. These date from the late 50's to the early 60's. Definitely not corrosive. So long as they've been stored halfway properly over the last 50 years they should work fine. Shoot 'em up.

[Tom W.]

I just used up the last of some old Federal primers that are older than I am. I e-mailed Federal and they said that they were made in 1950. I still have 1k small pistol primers made by CCI that were made in the same time frame. Never had a problem...Both the Federals and the CCI primers have the wooden lined boxes.

[Buckshot]

...........I've got a couple thousand old primers and they still go boom :-)

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................Buckshot

[oldhickory]

I'm still using some old Alcan primers from who knows when. I wish they still made them!

[mpmarty]

I'm still using some old Alcan primers from who knows when. I wish they still made them!

+1 on the Alcan Max Fire primers. I've still got a few thousand of them. Good primers.