Sellier & Bellot primers thoughts???

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I reload pistol, sm rifle and large rifle primers the sm primers on a Dillon 550b


I have always used Winchester primers but they are a PITA to get in my area and about $20.00 more per K then Sellier & Bellot primers

so what's everyone's experience with them?

used in sm pistol glock 17 colt 9mm smg, brs 99

sm rifle ar 15 and m1 carbine

lrg rifle bolt actions and m14's
 
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Recently used S&B SR for 223. Primed using RCBS hand primer. H4198 (21 g) with 55 FMJ. No issues with AR with 14.5 barrel and mini 14.
 
Love them, thousands used in LP, SP and SR. Would continue to use them if I could find them locally as shipping costs negate the $20 a box difference.
 
I would use S&B over Win primers every time.

Win primers are too hard for any of my tuned revolvers or lever guns. I prefer Federal but S&B or Dom primers would be my second choices.

John
 
I have used S&B Small Pistol Primers in the past. When they go bang, all is good. When they don't, this may be the reason:

I loaded about three hundred 9mm Luger one day late last autumn because my "cache" was totally depleted. The following day, some family members and I went to the range to, once again, deplete the cache before winter set in ;)

iirc, about 20% of the rounds were p.i.t.a. duds. We tried the duds in two different semis and a wheel gun - solid primer strikes but still no go...

I gathered the duds and went home to dismantle. It turns out all the duds had no explosive in the primers (pale blue), just bright brass cups and anvils.

I had a look at the remaining seven hundred unused primers from this batch and sure enough, many primers had little or no explosive. I soaked them all (good and bad) in water and tossed them.

I dismantled the remaining un-fired 9mm at some point over the winter and wasn't feeling too happy with Sellier and Bellot by the time I had finished. As I've said before, their quality control must be non-existent!

I guess that I was just unlucky and not as observant as I should have been - one of the few pitfalls of cranking them out on a progressive...
 
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