Wolf primers?

[deanodog]

I finally ordered some wolf primers today as bad as I hated to. I have been backordered for 4 months and finally gave up on CCI. The question is to someone using these primers. In hardness where do they compare to CCI or Winchester.

Lee does not recomend using anything but CCI and Winchester in their hand primer tool. Their classic turret safety prime attachment says any brand can be used. I have never used Wolf brand before but I cannot find anything else.
There is nowhere close to buy and no gunshows close so I have to pay the haz-mat charge to order but at least I will have some primers.

 

[dg101win]

I can not help you as far as their hardness when compared to others.
However I have used them in 44Spl,44Mag,45Acp and 45Colt. I used them to replace Winchester brand when prices started to climb. For me they work great. Soon I need to try them in 38&357 but just haven't done that yet.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I have used ~5000 Wolf primers, small pistol and large pistol and all went bang. They work as well as any other primers I've used. (including CCI, Winchester, Remington, Federal, PMC and Magtech)

 

[cptdco]

Same here: at least a brick each of both LP and SP with no problems and at least a few hundred LR in an AR-15. All were fine.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I think Wolf even has 5.56 primers that are supposed to be like the CCI #41 NATO primers.

 

[Skip Sackett]

I too have used over 5000 Wolf primers of varying sizes. LP, LPM, SP, SR & LR.

With the exception of one primer all have gone bang. There was a post here a while back where the odds with factory ammo wasn't that good!

I bought mine when they were still under eighteen dollars a thousand. Still have 5000 Federal LP & SP put back too. I got all of these about a year before the hoarding started. Glad I was prepared.

I use Wolf in my carry ammunition too. I don't want to start an argument over the legalities of carrying your own handloads, I'm just trying to state a fact about reliability.

They are about the same hardness as Winchesters and not as hard as CCI. CCI's in my experience are the hardest to light off, they need the heaviest hammer fall. I don't use them.


Wolf primers provide consistent ES and SD values across a chronograph too. The only thing I have to say about them that could be taken negatively is that you need to have the magnum variety to get the hard to light ball pistol powders to light off consistently. I used to use Winchester LP for my 44Mag loads with several ball powders. When I switched to Wolf standard primers, my consistency numbers fell off to unacceptable levels. For those large case, 44Mag and above, with heavy charges of H110/W296, WC820, 2400, Lil' Gun I now use the Wolf LPM. The numbers came back into line and velocity came back up as well.

Hope this helps.

 

[fredj338]

I bought 1K LP to try. I find they run a bit hotter than RP or CCI. They al have gone bang, from my XD, to my tuned M625. Just make sure you check your powder charge. If you are running max w/ something uberfast, I would back off & work back up.

 

[running iron]

Wolf primers are heavy duty. They are thicker than any other but work great. The military likes them. If you use a hand priming tool you can feel the difference. They are just a little harder to seat.

 

[hddeluxe]

They work great, and as stated they are harder than other primers. I have used over 15k of them in SP, LP, SRM and LPM and never had one fail. I am hooked on them.

 

[jeepranch]

this is good info, as I finnally broke down and bought some after trying to find winchester primers for over a year.

 

[magnum12pm]

this is good info, as I finnally broke down and bought some after trying to find winchester primers for over a year.

I think I have already mentioned this before. But I am amazed when I go to the range each week at the large number of large pistol primers they have in stock. Just last week I noticed they now have in addition to Federals, mag tech, winchester, CCI, and Remington. Thats the first time I have ever seen Remington primers. They had unopened cases on the shelf below. However they have not had small pistol for three or four months.