A friend was cleaning out some of his late fathers stuff and gave me a few thousand primers Sunday. Most are bricks of CCI but there is one box of Alcan SP primers and one of Alcan LR primers. I haven't used Alcans since the mid 70s but I see no reason they would not be safe to use, do you? My friends dad was not a shooter or reloader, he bought out abandoned storage units before it was trendy, I'm sure that is where these came from.

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As long as the Alcan primers aren't corrosive, I'd sure give 'em a shot...

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I received some Federal primers recently that are from the 60's and or 70's and they work just fine. I think I used some Alcan primers many years ago.

Alcan is a subsidiary of Fiocchi (and S&W) their primers are the same as Fiocchi's of that time frame and a little hotter than most US standard primers. My F-I-L won 2 national Championships (Police Combat) using Fiocchi primers. The normal Bullseye powder charge had to be reduced 2 tenths to maintain the same velocity, and 45's had to be reduced 2 tenths also for his 1911's. They are great primers. We lost the last 80,000 we had when his house burnt down and took the reloading shed with it!

Ivan

When I started loading back in the early seventies, the only place to buy reloading components in the small town I lived in was at the local gun shop. He carried Alcan/S&W primers and I used several bricks of them using a Lee Hand Loader. I think those primers cost 99 cents a hundred. Worked fine. Haven’t seen any of them in years.

I happen to have a few thousand Alcan primers and while Alcan wasn't a subsidiary of Fiocchi they used rebanded items that were provided by Fiocchi. Primers and powder were included in them. The shotshell primers called Alcan Max Fire are still being sold here under the Fiocchi brand number 616. Use the Alcan primers. You can also find loading data for S&W ammo using S&W/Alcan/Fiocchi primers and powders. Heck I still have few Primers sold by Hodgdon that were inported by Speer? made in Finland I think..,You could get them in a package deal when you bought the old Surplus powder. I still have one of the wooden crates they came in

Edited to add the Alcan LP primers on the shelf have a sticker price of 5 dollars. Not cheap at the time. I used a lot of Alcan plastic bagged shot in the 60s too. 5.50 a bag