Wolf Primers..Any thoughts on Use/Reliability?

[Southampton]

I note at least one of the major reloading component vendors sells Wolf brand primers, at about half of the cost of other brands I typically use.

Any experience regarding this product ?

Thanks

Southampton

 

[Rule3]

Lots of threads on these.

I and others use nothing but them. They are fine, go bang every time.

 

[HKSmith]

I'm on my second batch of 10,000 with no misfires or seating problems in a wide variety of guns and cartridges. I've also got 10,000 Tula primers, which are from the same factory, but I haven't tried them yet.

 

[OFT II]

I bought 500 Wolf primers a couple of months ago and have used about half. They work just as good as any other brand I've used. No problems here.

 

[Skip Sackett]

More than 10,000 down. Another 30,000 on the shelf. All varieties and sizes. I have had a misfire or two. Nothing any worse than I have had with all except Federals.

If you are going to use them in a revolver that has a lightened hammer, they may give you a bit of trouble. Slip a spent primer, with the anvil removed, between the strain screw and the spring, tighten completely, you will be good to go. I had to do this to a M625JM to get it to fire Winchester primers consistently. Never removed it to use the Wolf primers. Goes bang now every time.


FWIW

 

[BE Mike]

I found that they are a little bit harder to seat than American made primers. Do any of you use Wolf primers in Dillon 550 or 650 presses?

 

[Skip Sackett]

XL650, Dillon Square Deal B (3 different presses) and soon to be an old Dillon RL450! No problems and yes, they do take a bit more effort to seat.

When the Obama component scare came, I had already had stockpiled a bit. I had over 20,000 Wolf and another 10,000 Federals. Shooting competition at the time and didn't want to run out. Watching the political horizon is a smart thing. Plan ahead a bit and you will not run out of components!

 

[dg101win]

I found that they are a little bit harder to seat than American made primers. Do any of you use Wolf primers in Dillon 550 or 650 presses?

I use Wolf large and small pistol primers in a 550. They have worked great in all different headstamps,with the exception of S&B 38's.

 

[pete950]

been using them for 2 years now over 10,000 no miss fires
buy em

 

[wheelgun28]

I have used them, they work.

However I found that they dont work in the Dillon RF-100 primer filler machine, and they make a mess in the machine, yellow dust.

So I will usem now that I havem, just hand fill the tubes.

Is it worth it, to me no, I'd rather CCI, Winchester or Federal.

 

[AzShooter]

I bought about 30K of Wolf primers over the past two years and have had no problems with seating them or having them go off even in my lightened 627. I only use Federal for competition but you can't go wrong with the Wolf primers.

 

[Hammerdown77]

I have a bunch of Tula small pistol primers. Same as Wolf. I get light strikes every magazine with my M&P Pro 9mm. I think it's probably the gun, but I don't have the problem using CCI primers. Smith is sending me a new striker assembly.

My Glock lights off these primers every time.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I used a few Thousand Wolf Primers but found them a little hard to seat. Other than that they are fine. I haven't tried their rifle primers, only their handgun primers. I decided to stick with CCI and Winchester from now on even though Powder Valley has Winchester primers for $25/1000 and Wolf are $15/1000. (don't ask me why!)

 

[fredj338]

I found that they are a little bit harder to seat than American made primers. Do any of you use Wolf primers in Dillon 550 or 650 presses?

I have no issue w/ the LP but won't use the SP. I have seen first hand the seating/ reliability issues w/ them in progressives. YMMV, but if I need it to go bang, it would not be a Wolf sp anything. The LP, they even run fine in my tuned M625, hand priming, 550B or 650 no issues.

 

[walnutred]

I've been running Wolf SP primers since mid 2008 and have had no misfires. These are being loaded on a Dillon 450 and a Lyman Turret using a Lee hand primer.

 

[Fkimble]

Been using the LP in my dedicated large primer Dillion 550b to load 45acp for a couple years. Even a couple I managed to mangled, no fault of primer, went bang just like all the rest. Got a couple hundred LR through a 308 Rem 700 sniper rifle, still shoots 1/2 MOA at 300 yds. Been wanting to pickup a quantity of the SP since thats my biggest user. Lots of HiPower shooters swear by the SR Wolfs in their AR's.