Are all 454 Causull Brass Sm primered:

[Russ in WY]

And then meant 2-B filled with Sm-Rifle Primers.???
Seems that is what I have seen in Loading Manuals..
Any Info on this much appreciated . Tks RussinWy

[osteodoc08]

All the 454 brass I've ever loaded was with SRP.

[Tom W.]

Me too.

[ddixie884]

I could be wrong, but I believe the very early brass had large pockets. That was a long time ago.

[Russ in WY]

Thanks guys , would U say what powers U were using ?? Pls I am about to load some for a good friend & don't really want to do Full power loads @ the start. Plan to tr a few cast bullets to begin with .Tks Russ..

[KMac]

I seem to remember reading about someone taking .460 S&W brass and cutting it down to .454 Casull length to get large primer brass.


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[Duckiller]

Load #2 son's Casull with small rifle magnum primers. Stout loads but not anything screaming hot.

[Jeff Michel]

I use Remington 7 1/2 primers, never had a problem lighting pretty substantial loads of H110/296. If your starting with light loads you will want to steer away from these two, they really don't work very well unless you are near a max load. For lighter stuff I use Unique and 2400. Just my opinion, others will differ.

[osteodoc08]

I could be wrong, but I believe the very early brass had large pockets. That was a long time ago.

They were but quickly realized they had primer issues and changed to SRP. Don't quote me but I believe it was blown primers from the pressures and quickly loosening pockets

[bdicki]

I had some early ones that had large primers.

[Reddirt62]

Yes

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[454PB]

A while back, myself and some others from this forum went on a binge of enlarging the small pockets to large pockets on .454 brass. While the results were good, the amount of work and time involved was not worth it.

By the way, cast boolits and maximum loads are not mutually exclusive. I've pushed 325 grain cast boolits to 1600 fps in my Taurus RB.

[bbailey7821]

All mine are small rifle. Original Freedom Arms headstamp and contemporary.

[alamogunr]

I use Remington 7 1/2 primers, never had a problem lighting pretty substantial loads of H110/296. If your starting with light loads you will want to steer away from these two, they really don't work very well unless you are near a max load. For lighter stuff I use Unique and 2400. Just my opinion, others will differ.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/%22Practice%22+loads+for+big-bore+sixguns.-a0110470557
Sort of off topic but I've made use of this article many times. I don't particularly like max loads in the Casull. I guess I should go further and say I don't shoot them at all any more.

[Lloyd Smale]

I made up a pile of it. Id say across the board about all my loads shot a bit better with the 460 brass and cci350s. It also helps during primer shortages to have brass that can be loaded with either small or large primers.
I seem to remember reading about someone taking .460 S&W brass and cutting it down to .454 Casull length to get large primer brass.


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[TXSlade]

I have a box of original FA brass, large primer pocket. But, I also have probably 800-1000 Freedom Arms brass with small primer and a good 600 FA factory loads left of small primer. The small primer is much more prevalent.

[Lloyd Smale]

that lg primer FA stuff has to be OLD. Ive heard of it but have never seen any.