Pistol Rifle primer difference

[125JHP]

Every once in a while I find a loose primer in some nook or cranny around my bench. About the only way I can come close to telling what kind it is, is by trying to match up the metal and mix color to labeled samples I have put aside in clear coin flips for that purpose. I hate to waste a 3 cent primer so if in doubt, load it up in a mild range load, if really in doubt, make a blank round or throw it away.

 

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Every once in a while I find a loose primer in some nook or cranny around my bench. About the only way I can come close to telling what kind it is, is by trying to match up the metal and mix color to labeled samples I have put aside in clear coin flips for that purpose. I hate to waste a 3 cent primer so if in doubt, load it up in a mild range load, if really in doubt, make a blank round or throw it away.

Thanks you you get it. That was my entire point. I just got done loading some rounds. I had a couple of primers miss and hit the floor. If there were a way to tell them apart I could have saved them. Since I also load pistol I didn't know if they were the rifle primers I just dropped or the pistol primer that I may have missed before. I threw them out. I hate to waste them also but if I can't tell them apart I won't take the chance.