Smokey Joe
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One thing...
(Warning: Rant mode) that's just plain nasty about .45 ACP that I've recently discovered, much to my disgust: Speer has taken to making some of the cases with SMALL pistol primers, while still having their cases with large pistol primers on the market. Everybody else, of course, since the Year 1, has been making .45 ACP cases with only LP's.
Of all the nasty things to do to a reloader!!!! you haven't lived until you've tried, and tried, and tried, to force a LP primer into a SP primer pocket,:banghead: then checked to see wotinell was the matter, and felt like you've been done dirt when the cause came to light.
WHAT IN THE BEEPEDY BEEP BEEP BEEP can they have been thinking??????? Ye gods and Little Fishes!!
The only other such example of which I am aware is Remington's 7.62x39 cases, which use Small Rifle primers. The entire rest of the world, of course, uses LR primers for this cartridge.* Idiots. (/Rant mode)
There. I feel better. And, I know whose brass I will recycle on sight, and NEVER pay money for.
*I know there are foreign military cases in 7.62x39 with SR's, but those are also crimped in, and probably corrosive anyhow. So I don't try to reload them. Good brass isn't THAT expensive, and having to futz around and be frustrated is to be avoided wherever possible. I get enough of that at work.
(Warning: Rant mode) that's just plain nasty about .45 ACP that I've recently discovered, much to my disgust: Speer has taken to making some of the cases with SMALL pistol primers, while still having their cases with large pistol primers on the market. Everybody else, of course, since the Year 1, has been making .45 ACP cases with only LP's.
Of all the nasty things to do to a reloader!!!! you haven't lived until you've tried, and tried, and tried, to force a LP primer into a SP primer pocket,:banghead: then checked to see wotinell was the matter, and felt like you've been done dirt when the cause came to light.
WHAT IN THE BEEPEDY BEEP BEEP BEEP can they have been thinking??????? Ye gods and Little Fishes!!
The only other such example of which I am aware is Remington's 7.62x39 cases, which use Small Rifle primers. The entire rest of the world, of course, uses LR primers for this cartridge.* Idiots. (/Rant mode)
There. I feel better. And, I know whose brass I will recycle on sight, and NEVER pay money for.
*I know there are foreign military cases in 7.62x39 with SR's, but those are also crimped in, and probably corrosive anyhow. So I don't try to reload them. Good brass isn't THAT expensive, and having to futz around and be frustrated is to be avoided wherever possible. I get enough of that at work.
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