wsryno
Member
Hi all, have been lurking THR for months and just joined. I hope you can help me.
I've reloaded maybe 4-5 hundred rounds, rifle and pistol, so I'm really new to handloading. I purchased a brick of primers and bought MAGNUM large pistol by mistake. I'm loading for .45 ACP which should use a standard primer. I've loaded several hundred rounds and am embarrassed to say I shot 20 or so before I noticed the error. Not because the loads seemed different, but because I simply happened to notice MAGNUM on the box this afternoon.
So my question is, is it safe to use these primers in non-magnum rounds? I don't load my handgun ammo hot, it's at the second-lowest FPS weight in the data table. Or do I need to buy a Magnum handgun to use up the remaining 800 primers?? Thanks in advance...
I've reloaded maybe 4-5 hundred rounds, rifle and pistol, so I'm really new to handloading. I purchased a brick of primers and bought MAGNUM large pistol by mistake. I'm loading for .45 ACP which should use a standard primer. I've loaded several hundred rounds and am embarrassed to say I shot 20 or so before I noticed the error. Not because the loads seemed different, but because I simply happened to notice MAGNUM on the box this afternoon.
So my question is, is it safe to use these primers in non-magnum rounds? I don't load my handgun ammo hot, it's at the second-lowest FPS weight in the data table. Or do I need to buy a Magnum handgun to use up the remaining 800 primers?? Thanks in advance...