45 ACP Brass With Small Primers

[Heavythumb]

I have enough 45 ACP brass with small primers to make it worthwhile to reload them. Do I use the same recipe as I do with the 45 ACP brass large primers?

TIA

Heavythumb

 

[retarmyaviator]

Yes, difference is negligible.

 

[venomballistics]

short answer ... yes
slightly longer answer ... start from scratch and work em up to make sure you don't run into some weird quirk

 

[67tempest]

45 ACP small pistol primers

The small pistol primers were used in the .45 ACP Non Toxic loads. They are loaded the same as the large pistol primer brass. I had several mixed in with my .45 ACP brass. Did you ever try to put a large pistol primer into a small pistol primer pocket? It aint pretty. I dug thru all my brass to pull out anymore I could find and threw them all in the garbage!! Why complicate your loading by having the same cartridge use 2 different style primers? Unless you have a large quantity of them my advice is to throw them away.

 

[Seabear1500]

That's all I load , that way I don't have to change the primer feed or buy two kinds of primers to load .38 and .45

No difference in the loads.

 

[Heavythumb]

Thanks

Vibrator and Vernom:
Thanks for your help. Glad to hear I can use the same recipe. I shoot a very light load so I don't think I need to work my way up.

Tempest:
I have over 1k pieces of brass with small primers. For me, that is worth buying a case of small CCI primers and changing the primer arm on my press. But YMMV.

Again:
Thanks for the information.

Heavythumb

 

[blujax01]

I pick up range brass and in addition to the NT loads (which I rarely see) ALL Blazer .45 acp is now small primer. The small-to-large primer ratio is now about 50:50.

Those of you that throw them away may want to rethink that.

And I load them same-same.

 

[S&WIowegan]

I reload them both with the same recipe. I have a 550 for small primers and a second press for large. All I do is move the tool head.

There are lots of people who get mad and throw the small primer brass away. Make it known you'll take it and they might give it to you.

Be safe...

 

[TSQUARED]

Personally, if I had a large enouh supply of small primed brass I would use it. Currently the samll amount I pick up is destined for the scrap pile.

 

[dirty gary]

Would not surprise me if all mfrs. went totally SP. I've set aside enough to load a few thousand, only drawback is sorting which is not too bad. A friend had an LP go BOOM when he tried priming a SP case, definitely something to be aware of

 

[Jim Watson]

When they first started showing up in some number, I chronographed small and large primer cases with the same loads. Depending on the powder and bullet combination, I got 25-40 fps less in the small primer stuff. That is negligible for most purposes unless you are really right at the margin on function or power factor.

 

[papajohn428]

ALL Blazer .45 acp is now small primer. The small-to-large primer ratio is now about 50:50.

Maybe all the newer Blazer brass features SP primers, but I'm still finding plenty of LP stuff as well.

 

[Beans]

I use the same load for both. However I save the Small primer brass to use in the lost brass matches.

 

[RCR]

For any one that scraps sp 45 brass, I'd be interested in it, please.
Roger

 

[blujax01]

Maybe all the newer Blazer brass features SP primers, but I'm still finding plenty of LP stuff as well.

Yep. I used to hoard the LP and spent way too much time making certain that I recovered every single piece. but the amount of SP laying about became too much for me to ignore. The sorting process is tedious and like Dirty Gary's friend I had a primer go off on the shell plate. Now THAT will wake you up!

 

[Maximumbob54]

It's too easy to take a bucket and just toss the small primer .45's in and wait for it to get full. Why throw away such a valuable thing???

I too would buy them if someone had them.

 

[kentguy]

Jim Watson,
Thanks for that piece of info, I have a pile of SP .45 brass and have not put any together just yet. I was wondering what these would chrono at, and your right, sounds like for general target loads... eigher way it wouldn't make a difference.

 

[retarmyaviator]

That's all I load , that way I don't have to change the primer feed or buy two kinds of primers to load .38 and .45

No difference in the loads.

My reason is similar, I do not have to change the priming system out on my Dillon 650 when switching between 45 ACP and 9mm, the only calibers I use that press for.

 

[Islander]

I pick up .45 range brass all the time and have been getting lots of federal small primer brass shoots the same just small primer.
Bob

 

[310Pilot]

I have quite a bit of both small and large primer 45 ACP brass. No difference in the loads I use, but I try not to mix them up when I shoot. Separating the SP from the LP is tedious, I try to keep them separated after the initial go-around. I believe all the Wally World Federal 45 ACP made in the last couple of years has been SP. If you keep them separated (from shooting on), there is really no problem.