Small Pistol Primers

[Phil Griffin]

Greetings.
I, apparently along with everyone else in the USA, am looking for small pistol primers. Any ideas out there?

Thanks,
Phil

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[Certaindeaf]

Greetings.
I, apparently along with everyone else in the USA, am looking for small pistol primers. Any ideas out there?

Thanks,
Phil

Half way down, front page on this forum..

Any luck finding primers?

I’m pretty well stocked in everything but my small pistol primers ar running a bit short. All my sources are out of stock. Have you seen any available ?

www.northwestfirearms.com

 

[jbett98]

I have some that I'm willing to part with, but the shipping regulations make it very difficult and unlawful to skirt around.

 

[cookie]

^ months ago they were plentiful,,,,,

 

[Phil Griffin]

I think months ago lots of things were plentiful

 

[joken]

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[awshoot]

Pack of 1200 for $8 available on amazon. Some assembly required.

Amazon.com: Back to Basics Toys Super Bang Roll Cap Refill (Includes ONE Package -1200 Shots) These do not work with Old Cap Guns.: Toys & Games

Amazon.com: Back to Basics Toys Super Bang Roll Cap Refill (Includes ONE Package -1200 Shots) These do not work with Old Cap Guns.: Toys & Games

www.amazon.com

 

[Helocat]

Small pistol primers and small rifle primers are what Obama taught me to stock.

Same here as @jbett98 would consider shipping some but hazardous material shipping is a bugger.

 

[ma96782]

Greetings.
I, apparently along with everyone else in the USA, am looking for small pistol primers. Any ideas out there?

Thanks,
Phil

You could use sm rifle primers as a substitute for sm pistol primers. *YES, they'll fit. However......
Some primers may not go off (due to variations) in certain pistols.

Example:
My son has a Glock which he says will not reliably set off Wolf steel cased 9mm ammo. While on the other hand my BHP is reliable with the same ammo. So? Is it a matter of the amount of "striking energy transfer" that is involved between the two pistols?

Sure/most likely.

So anyway.....
Would I/do I trust the reloaded ammo w/sm rifle primers to work with 100% reliability in his 9mm Glock?

Maybe not/probably not.

Then.....
What if.......
I used sm rifle primers in my reloads, for my cowboy action pistols (with lightened springs)?

Rrrright......say a prayer first.

OK, Ok, ok.....at least do some tests.

*The same substitution of Lg Rifle for Lg pistol DOES NOT FIT.

Aloha, Mark

PS....you'll also probably need to adjust your load data.

 

[Phil Griffin]

Thanks.
I believe I've located some locally.

 

[joken]

I've seen them from $60 to $100 a brick and people are buying.

 

[Phil Griffin]

I just bought 25,000 Federal Match, small pistol primers for $60 US per thousand. Locally. My issue is solved for a while at least.

 

[Hatman1793]

Search for off-brands. S&B make decent primers, Ginex (Bosnia&Herzegovina) primers work great. And there's an Italian company whose name escapes me just now, that makes great primers too.

 

[ma96782]

Speaking off brands and/or foreign brands....
I got Russian WOLF sm rifle primers (made for .223 Rem) that are GTG. Thank you Mr. OBAMA.


But, I won't be using them for pistol loads. I got other stuff for that job.

Aloha, Mark

 

[Helocat]

there's an Italian company whose name escapes me just now, that makes great primers too.

Meet the Italian primer Fiocchi. They work for great, just funky 150 packs so your 100 count primer tubes overflow. It's European so it has to do something odd. Like Russin Wolf primer boxes when turned inside out are used as TP, in Russia.

 

[Knebel]

Pack of 1200 for $8 available on amazon. Some assembly required.

Amazon.com: Back to Basics Toys Super Bang Roll Cap Refill (Includes ONE Package -1200 Shots) These do not work with Old Cap Guns.: Toys & Games

Amazon.com: Back to Basics Toys Super Bang Roll Cap Refill (Includes ONE Package -1200 Shots) These do not work with Old Cap Guns.: Toys & Games

www.amazon.com

That was something I had already thought about too. The big problem is reliability. Maybe using the plastic caps and fiddling the compound out works better?

 

[awshoot]

That was something I had already thought about too. The big problem is reliability. Maybe using the plastic caps and fiddling the compound out works better?

http://aardvarkreloading.com/resources/homemadeprimercourse.pdf

That's the paper discussed here: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Making Percussion Caps and Primers But Were Afraid to Google - The Truth About Guns

It goes way beyond re-purposing roll caps.

 

[OneEyeOpen]

I just bought 25,000 Federal Match, small pistol primers for $60 US per thousand. Locally. My issue is solved for a while at least.

Just bought 1K Large Rifle Magnum primers, at a retail store for $25. $60 a 1,000 is price gouging. May have to check with Remington's bankruptcy and see if they will sell me, one of their primer manufacturing plants. Would be a win, win, situation. WOW, $1,500 for 25,000 primer, 3X the going rate.

 

[Phil Griffin]

Small pistol primers are normally between $30-40 US around here, and are the hardest to find. I would expect rifle caliber primers to be more available, hence cheaper, but I don't keep up with rifle primer prices so I don't Know. $60/1000 is about double the normal going rate for SPP and is substantially less than most of the online prices I've seen. In any event, I was very happy to get them even at that rate.

 

[awshoot]

Small pistol primers are normally between $30-40 US around here, ...

Same for me at my LGS when they used to have them. The Federal GM100Ms were about $35/box (plus 3.50 in taxes).