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what is aluminum cases and boxer large pistol primers. i have a guy who wants to buy some brass and i dont know what he is talking about.
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Well, aluminum cases means that the cases themselves are aluminum, rather than the usual brass. Unlike brass, aluminum cases are generally not reloadable.

Boxer refers to a type of primer. There are basically two types, the other is called Berdan. Generally, Boxer primers are easily reloadable, while Berdan require a special tool, and are considered not worth the effort.

Large pistol refers to the size of primer. There are a few different kinds/sizes of primers depending on what type of ammo you're reloading.
 
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Al is a metal, sometimes it takes a break from wrapping your potatoes, and works as a single use case, NOT RELOADABLE

Back in the day, a guy named boxer, and a guy named berdan came up with two different buy similar in idea primers for cartridges. Both are reloadable, ones, just a PIA to do.

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so i understand ,aluminum cases are the grey brass correct. he said he would buy my 45 acp brass if they where the box large pistol primers.
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Aluminum is aluminum. It is silver in color. Commonly found in many millions of applications in the world. It is a relatively modern metal, as mass production of it requires massive amounts of electricity, something that wasn't feasible before the early-to-mid 20th Century. Prior to that, it was extremely rare and expensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum

Brass is a different metal entirely. It's an alloy of copper and zinc (as opposed to Bronze, which is copper and tin). Has a golden color to it, very distinct. Much older metal, has been in common usage since antiquity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass
 
Oh, I think I see your problem. Your 45 ACP "brass" is probably silver. Walk into any store that sells ammo and open a box of 45 ACP, and rifle ammo with traditional ammo, not some "brown box" military stuff. The 45 ACP brass will probably be shiny sliver. It is brass versus aluminum. Check some new rifle ammo and it will have bronze colored brass. (Something like 30-30.) This is the normal color. Some Remington rifle ammo is loaded in silver colored cases; they are usually the special or more expensive stuff in the black boxes.

The aluminum cased ammo is generally loaded by CCI with the Blazer name. In new ammo, it will be a dull silver color and is generally a couple dollars cheaper than regular brass per box. Blazer also loads in brass cases. This is what folks call "Blazer brass" and it will be marked on the box as brass. Places like Walmart often sell both. Folks buy the Blazer brass ammo because it is often loaded a little more powerful and the cases are reloadable. Folks normally don't save the aluminum cased empties. But they technically are recyclable as aluminum without the spent primer.

There are also steel cases. They are mostly used for some military rifle ammunition.
 
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Aluminum ammo cases are a silvery color, usually not a polished mirror shiny finish, sort of a flat gray and grainy look {best I can describe it}.

If you have cases that are very shiny silver, they are probably nickel-plated brass. Last time I looked at the headstamp on some Blazer Aluminum .45 ACP ammo, also in the head stamp at the 3:00 & 9:00 positions were the letters N R for Not Reloadable.

Last time I bought some Rem "Golden Sabre" rounds in .45ACP, they were nickle-plated brass, very shiny.
 
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