Federal Sm Pistol Primers

[GA442]

Georgia Arms had Federal small pistol primers my last several visits. They are the same $35/1000 that I see everywhere now.

Good luck...

 

[dmar]

I've found Winchester, Federal, and CCI available at local shops in my area (NC). They have generally limited purchase to 1k/day (one place limits to 500/day), so that seems to slow down the hoarding and make them last longer. No real gouging either, as I've been paying $29.95/thousand for SP and LPs.

I recently cancelled a Cabela's backorder, since early April, as I was tired of getting emails telling me that they'd be in within a couple of weeks... I just got more persistent in checking around locally for primers. In my area, if you are pretty regular in visiting the local shops, you will run into decent quantities of primers.

 

[acl864]

I shoot 686 revolver needing soft primers and have been using Federal standard small primers. I have an opportunity to pick up 5000 Federal small Magnum primers. Is the magnum hardness the same as the standard primer???

As far as I can tell- Yes. I use Fed SP and Fed Magnum SP in loads for my M19 with lightened mainspring. Both work fine. Don't forget to reduce your loads when substituting Mag primers for regular SP. Most folks say 10% reduction.

 

[Emerson]

The Big Brown Truck brought me 5K Federal Small Pistol yesterday. I had them on backorder with Grafs for about month.

 

[SW CQB 45]

I just ordered from Grafs
5K sm pistol Fed
5K lg pistol Win

we will see what happens.