Primers

[smartassbrat]

What primers is everyone using for 9mm 357/38 spl?

 

[lister]

small pistol, or small pistol magnum for the .357 mag.

Why? the large rifle primers not fitting?

 

[Breaker61]

Currently CCI #500 small pistol primers. I have also used Winchester and Federal in the past. Never had a problem with any of these brands, they always went BANG. My advice is buy as many you can, when you find them, especially if the price is right.

 

[mlehtovaara]

Try........ Whatever the F ck I can find!!!!!!!

 

[ampegor]

have only used federal and winchester but may have to branch out as availability is becoming limited.

 

[H4831]

Any small pistol primer. Mgnums are not needed, even for the 357. Otherwise, a primer is a primer for your pistol loads. If I had three brands on the shelf, I would blindly reach for a box and use whatever came up!

 

[smartassbrat]

what is a" good price" for primers?

 

[Longwalker]

Standard small pistol primers are OK in "9mm 357/38 spl", with the exception of slow, hard to ignite powders in the .357 magnum. Win 296 and H110 and Li'l gun are NOT powders to use with standard primers, they burn much better with magnum primers. If you use faster/easier to ignite powders like Unique, any SP primer will do fine.

 

[Buffalo Creek Law Dog]

I use both standard and magnum primers in my .357 CAS guns. Just what ever I randomly grab when reloading.

 

[H4831]

Sounds funny to year 296, H110 and LilGun referred to as being "slow burning!" I've used all three and always with standard primers.
These people that say you need a magnum primer for this or that powder, under this or that condition, or if the sun goes under a cloud, I wonder how they think the handloaders got along for the first sixty years of reloading, before the magnum primer was thought of.

 

[randall1]

I use standard small primers

 

[redbirddog]

what is a" good price" for primers?

$26-30 per 1000

 

[Airwolf]

$26-30 per 1000

I guess you get your S&B primers from the same person I do for that price, eh?

 

[tjhaile]

Primers are primers for me for the most part. Federal primers allow a lighter double action trigger in my K-38, but I can usually only find Winchester or CCI primers in Calgary.

 

[woodchopper]

good price, anything under $40/1000 is a good price.

 

[redbirddog]

All my primers are Federal. I want to know they go off when they get hit. Specially with my light actioned revolvers.

S&B makes poor ammo, I would never use there primers.

 

[hitch.bd]

try........ Whatever the f ck i can find!!!!!!!

x2 !!!

 

[john simmons]

I use cci and win small pistol primers,but glad to hear other people are having a hard time finding primers.I was thinking it was just a Whitehorse thing!!Today i ended up buying remington small pistol primers, out of all others.They were $35 per 1000.Alot more $$$ than down south?

 

[Antoine22]

good price, anything under $40/1000 is a good price.

$40 for a box of 1000 primers is a ripoff IMO.

 

[Moose02]

The primers ive been getting are $50 for a 1000, im in the north gta area. I would like to be paying under $40