Honestly are wolf primers any good?

[Redneck with a 40]

I've loaded a few thousand 40 S&W rounds with Wolf SP primers, no issues. I've loaded about 300 .223 rounds with Wolf SRM primers, again, no issues. I'll continue to use'em, I'm happy with'em.

 

[Uncle Chan]

I've loaded several thousand 223 with Wolf SRM primers. No issues except that they can be hard to seat. I'm happy with them and even happier with the price.

 

[lgbloader]

I have assembled ammo with Wolf primers and have had no problems with mis or hang fires. I have never really had any problems with seating them either. I have more in stock and will use them again.

LGB

 

[bluetopper]

I like em. If you are leary or don't want to use them, don't.

 

[mrcooper]

American primer Co. created a shortage, so I will always buy foreign when I can.

 

[Soonerhawk]

Primers

I've used about 50000 of these primers and have had great success. I used the Federal small rilfe primers in the past and have found the Wolf standard small rifle primers to be very comparable. I have a reduced trigger pull and the Wolf small rilfe primer is the only one I've found that will work the same as the Federals have in the past.

 

[RustyFN]

They seem to seat the same as Winchester primers to me. My friends and I have shot thousands of them without any problems.

 

[Historian]

Wolf primers are just fine IF YOU SEAT THEM PROPERLY. I use an RCBS Universal priming tool for seating SP primers in .40 S&W cases. If you want a good work out, this will increase your forearm strength by 10%. I seated 200 Wolf primers last week and shot them all at the range over the weekend. Didn't have one single failure. The trick is making sure that they are completely seated in the primer pocket. This requires some extra effort on the handle of the priming tool. Seat them deep enough and they will work every time.

Historian

 

[Noveldoc]

Loaded Wolf LRs and LPs with no problems. Just takes a bit of an extra scrunch.

I am loading for a Garand and 45 auto though where the rounds get slammed around by an auto action. Like the extra security of the Wolf tight fit myself.

Tom

 

[madd0c]

As noted in my other posts, I am new to reloading, but I have loaded up several hundred .308 rounds with Wolf primers, very snug fit with a hand primer, but all have gone bang. No complaints from my limited experience.

 

[orionengnr]

Just bought my first thousand (large pistol).
Loaded all and fired most of them. No problems so far...

 

[EddieNFL]

They produce very low ES and SD numbers.

Better than BRs and 205 match in my .223 loads.

 

[vernosr1]

Wolf Primer Experiences

2 experiences to report
-Wolf Small Rifle Magnums used for 5.56 and 223 loads have yielded me 100% success and the target accuracy at 50 and 100 yards has been within my capabilities to detect a large change over other primers

-Large pistol primers used in 45ACP reloads have been OK for accuracy but "no fires" have been consistently running at about a 2-3 % failure rates. Even single shotting the "no fires" only gets 50% of them to work.

-CCI and Magtech have been perfect in both above said applications.

 

[mgkdrgn]

I'm working through 5K of the small pistol primers now. Everything goes "bang" so far! They -are- a little harder to seat ... but given the alternative of -nothing- to seat ....