Federal Small Pistol Magnum Primers?

[LonGr]

Is anyone have first hand experience using Federal Small Pistol Magnum (and/or Match) Primers in full house .357 loads? Federal primers have a reputation of having thinner cups than most others, but I'm not sure if its true or not, or just internet BS. I'm guessing BS.

...While I've got ya, how about hot loads using their standard primer?

I've had great results with warmer rifle loads using the Match primers, but never used any in a pistol.

TIA

 

[Crashbox]

I use them all the time in my GP100 and my SP101 with all of my loads, whether 7.2 grains of TiteGroup, 17.2 grains of 2400 or 21.2 grains of H110. Zero problems whatsoever.

You could probably use a standard primer with 2400 but H110 requires a magnum primer.

 

[kelbro]

I prefer them.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I use very little numbers of Federal primers BUT, no company is going to put out primers that will fail under the pressures generated by SAAMI spec ammo. If you use published load data I doubt any primer, even federal primers will fail. (or even a little over SAAMI pressures for that matter)