I still use them. I have the tray also.
I remember them well. When I began reloading in the late 70's, those were the boxes primers came in. Being in a rural area, there were only 3 shops around the county that sold them. I still have a few trays of them in various sizes. It seems I'm always winding up with a few of something left over from the early days.
Murphy
If I should depart this life while defending those who cannot defend themselves, then I have died the most honorable of deaths. Marc R. Murphy '2006'.
I recently bought a brick for $10.00 at a local flea mkt.
I have over 100 bricks of those in SPP and LPP, been stored in a closet and they all still go bang exactly as if they were brand new!
It’s funny to have a few bricks stacked next to a few bricks in the current Federal packaging.
now we know to go the nc to get primers
I have happy memories of those packages as well , I could load my round lee hand primer without spilling them .
I dislike the federal packaging, its way over done, takes up all the shelf space, two 1k boxes Federal occupy the space of 10k cci large rifle or pistol. I thought manufactuer's were trying to reduce over-packaging.
I still have several thousand that I use regularly. Just used some yesterday. Work as good as the day I bought them. Stored in military metal ammo can's in the house.
I still have CCI primers in white cardboard boxes with green and black printing. They work as well as the 2-year-old CCI primers that are stacked alongside them and the 12-year-old CCI primers I got in 2009. They don't spoil if kept in consistent dry environments.
I don't paint bullets. I like Black Rifle Coffee. Sacred cows are always fair game. California is to the United States what Syria is to Russia and North Korea is to China/South Korea/Japan--a Hermit Kingdom detached from the real world and led by delusional maniacs, an economic and social basket case sustained by "foreign" aid so as to not lose military bases.
I have a stack of these but 209. I use them in my noise makers and perimeter alarms.
I had some with wooden trays, shot them up and gave the boxes away.
I have a coffee can full of empty wood tray boxes. My dad saved everything. He used an individual stick from wood trays as a primer pocket cleaner.
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 |