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Old 08-07-2016, 04:52 PM
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Default I'm thinking..

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Originally Posted by AveragEd View Post
They didn't use them 44 years ago as all the R-P .357 brass and ammo I bought back then had small primer pockets.

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I'm thinking that they had to go back at least to the 60's.


I have an idea, though. There have been many iterations of the .38 cartridge. The large primer cases could have been for one of the hotter loads for one of those.
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