45 ACP primer differences

12-10-2012, 01:58 PM

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This is pretty well known for 45 reloaders, although in practice I rarely see the small primer brass.

I did run into one last weekend, and it was a Speer. Usually you see this in Federal.

You can try to sort your brass beforehand to get rid of the small primer ones, but frankly I don't bother... I just load them up until I can't seat a primer, and I toss the offending brass. I don't reload them, but YMMV.

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