I was out and about Sunday afternoon and stopped in a a place looking for small pistol primers, all this place had was Winchester small pistol mag. primers. The
sticker on the shelf showed $2.29 per 100. I thought this was a mistake but grabbed the last box of 1000 they had. I noticed that the bar code on the box
had been marked out with a black marker but headed to the check out any way. I had another item or 2 and the young woman opened the box of primers and scanned
one pack of the primers and totaled up the items and I asked her if she was sure about that and there was an OOPS and she had left off the other 900 primers.
My conscience made me inquire but I almost got that thousand primers for $2.29.
I have always got regular primers but the shelves had been picked over and that was all they had left. I have been searching for the difference between regular and mag. primers.
There is a bit of conflicting info on this site. Some say reduce the load by 10% and work it back up, others say there is really no difference and say load and shoot.
Now I'm not so sure. I load .38 special using 148 to 155 grain bullets lubed with Tac-1 and 3.1 grains of Bullseye. That is a very mild load and it don't rattle my wrist
at all and can go through a hundred rounds easily. If it ain't broke, there is no need to tinker with it unless the primers can make a difference.