Everglades 45ACP range brass 20% small primer

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Just finished cleaning and sorting a bag of 500 dirty 45ACP. 96 cases were small primer—20%

For dirty cases Everglades says the package does contain both small and large. So, I’m not complaining just reporting (well, I am complaining, but shouldn’t be). (Remember, Joe Walsh sang, I can’t complain but sometimes I still do?)

Having 400 cases is better than no cases.

For $15 more they sell cleaned 45ACP cases which, in their words, “may” contain small primer. This implies (or am I just inferring) fewer than 20% are small,

Next time, I’ll call and ask before I order. If any of you already know I’d be interested to hear.
 
Sign 'o the times, I think. With SPP .45 brass becoming more prevalent, and unless the seller actually processes it... that is to say, a person stands there and sorts each piece of brass, because I know of no other way to sort LPP from SPP... that's more or less what you are going to see going forward.
 
Charlie98 said:
Sign 'o the times, I think. With SPP .45 brass becoming more prevalent, and unless the seller actually processes it... that is to say, a person stands there and sorts each piece of brass, because I know of no other way to sort LPP from SPP... that's more or less what you are going to see going forward.
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I use .45 spp brass, it works
 
kerreckt said:
What's the problem with spp 45acp brass? I use it all the time. It works great!
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Not necessarily a 'problem,' more of an inconvenience. If you are set up to load LPP brass, for example, a SPP piece can bring everything to a screeching halt... at least on a progressive press.

Further, given the product shortages, some people may not have a bunch of SPP to load, vs LPP they already have on hand.
 
That’s not a problem for me. I inspect all of my brass anyway so just sort out between small and large primers and load away. I have found zero difference in performance between the two.
Also, it provides for flexibility based on primer availability which can be a good thing.
 
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The problem is as some have said one of convenience but far more a practical one for me anyway.

I shoot 45ACP and 9mm and have 15K LPP but just 5K SPP. Where do I want to use my far more precious SPP? In 45ACP? Don’t think so.

Sure, before the current shortage I used the small 45ACP without hesitation. (And actually bought some cause I didn’t know a primer shortage was coming.)
I have at least 1K small primer 45ACP cases some new and others cleaned and ready to go to a new home when I get around to it.
 
CQB45ACP said:
Sure, before the current shortage I used the small 45ACP without hesitation. (And actually bought some cause I didn’t know a primer shortage was coming.)
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That was me, too. I had 5000 SPP's just languishing away... so I thought, why not use them up on some SPP .45ACP? ...so I bought some. Then The Dark Ages hit... and I was forced to start loading 9mm, again... and there goes the 5K SPP's. I wound up selling the SPP .45 brass I bought, thankfully for about the same money as I had spent.
 
CQB45ACP said:
The problem is as some have said one of convenience but far more a practical one for me anyway.

I shoot 45ACP and 9mm and have 15K LPP but just 5K SPP. Where do I want to use my far more precious SPP? In 45ACP? Don’t think so.

Sure, before the current shortage I used the small 45ACP without hesitation. (And actually bought some cause I didn’t know a primer shortage was coming.)
I have at least 1K small primer 45ACP cases some new and others cleaned and ready to go to a new home when I get around to it.
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I have the opposite issue, 10k SPP but no LPP. So having .45 acp SPP brass is a blessing…. since I just got into 1911’s … yes yes were have I been
 
For me it's no big deal. For a test I bought 300 small primed 45 ACP brass and it took 12.5 seconds to change over my priming tool to small primers. My tests showed too little difference to bother with (150 small primed, 150 large primed, all CCI, same bullet/powder/load, fired many over my chrony and my three 45 ACP guns, nor I, couldn't see much/any difference.). I've purchased a little "once fired" 45 ACP brass, but whichever primer size I ordered is what I got, 100% and I inspect every case before I reload it...
 
kerreckt said:
What's the problem with spp 45acp brass? I use it all the time. It works great!
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It only works if you have SPP.

Now that does beg the question of why did they bother making LPP? If SPP work in 10mm and 45 just fine, they could just get rid of LPP altogether and double the supply of primers by only producing SPP.
 
CQB45ACP said:
before the current shortage I used the small 45ACP without hesitation. (And actually bought some cause I didn’t know a primer shortage was coming.)
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I bought 1K online, wet tumbled and polished, decapped but not sized, in 2018 for $40 shipped for two reasons: 1) they were cheap - half the price at the time of LP .45ACP wet tumbled, polished, decapped; and, 2) I knew a primer shortage was coming. ;)
 
In the past small primer 45acp was reloaded and used for shooting at indoor ranges.

I hate it as one oversight and I have wrecked the priming on my star universal. For non star loaders it just becomes a nightmare to pluck the offending case from the process.
 
I don’t hate them but they are an utter waste of my time (and precious SPP) and therefore I won’t use them until and unless SPP return to ~$25/1000 and are readily available.

Now you all know what you get from Everglades’ 500 45acp primers and that was the point to this thread.

Moderators may shut her down if you wish.
 
CQB45ACP said:
I don’t hate them but they are an utter waste of my time (and precious SPP) and therefore I won’t use them until and unless SPP return to ~$25/1000 and are readily available.

Now you all know what you get from Everglades’ 500 45acp primers and that was the point to this thread.

Moderators may shut her down if you wish.
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you can send them all to me! JK
 
1KPerDay said:
It was forged in the bowels of hell by the devil hisself, that's what!!
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No kidding. I give it away if and when I pick it up.

I gave a 1000 pieces to a friend for him to reload as he was just starting out. It will last him forever. He used CCI 400s in it and it worked great.

But it sounds like Everglades needs to get their sorting a little more on point if you ask me. Most brass processers can sort that stuff on the press if they are setup for it.
 
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