SMALL PISTOL PRIMERS Sellier & Bellot

[Hockey7711]

Anyone ever used these before?
Is it a standard size , 9mm 38 sp, etc?

 

[Riomouse911]

I haven’t used them, but S&B is a huge ammo maker so they’re not a fly by night operation.

If the primers you’re looking at are marketed by S&B as small pistol primers, they should be just fine for those applications you listed.

Stay safe.

 

[1KPerDay]

Good primers.

 

[Hockey7711]

Thanks

 

[Pivot Dr]

Yup, I have many thousands of them, large, pistol, large and small rifle too. Use them with complete confidence. A few years ago Cabela’s had them, then had a sale, dirt cheap, I think my son and I bought 15 or 20 K of various sizes. Very pleased with them.

 

[Erief0g]

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/seller-and-bellot-sp-primers.879221/

 

[Rbstuartjr]

Yup great primers, still using my stash up. I’ve been through 6 thousand small pistol.

 

[DanK3Pos]

I've got some, haven't used them yet. I find S&B brass to have tighter primer pockets, so my plan is to sort out my S&B revolver brass to use with those primers. I have enough primers set aside to be able to do that.

 

[Walkalong]

Good primers, wish I had bought more when they were $20 per 1K. Haven't tried the rifle primers or LP primers I got yet, but the small pistol primers are good to go.

A test in 9MM with different primers:

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/9mm-primer-test.840256/page-3#post-10905312

 

[kerreckt]

I have used many thousands of them in the past. I still have some LPP. They have always worked well for me with zero problems. If they were still available I would be buying them. Very good quality....IMHO. Best wishes and Merry Christmas!!!

 

[Bat Rastard]

They have worked for me. I would buy them again.

 

[1KPerDay]

I've got some, haven't used them yet. I find S&B brass to have tighter primer pockets, so my plan is to sort out my S&B revolver brass to use with those primers. I have enough primers set aside to be able to do that.

They’ll be pretty snug IME. S&B primers seem a little more snug in typical brass, and in S&B brass they can be a bear. I prime on an LCT with the full leverage of the press arm and some still need a second try to seat flush. I mostly have experience with .38 Special S&B cases so maybe other calibers aren’t so tight.

 

[2011redrider]

They’ll be pretty snug IME. S&B primers seem a little more snug in typical brass, and in S&B brass they can be a bear. I prime on an LCT with the full leverage of the press arm and some still need a second try to seat flush. I mostly have experience with .38 Special S&B cases so maybe other calibers aren’t so tight.

I've only seen S & B cases in 9mm. They are so tight that I sort them out into the scrap bucket! They are not worth the trouble and I have 3, 50 cal ammo cans of 9mm brass and not may S & B cases in the mix.

 

[Random 8]

Where, prey-tell, are you finding them?

 

[Mr. Zorg]

Some interesting discussion ongoing in this thread WRT seating primers manufactured in the USA vs elsewhere.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/hard-seating-primers.879347/#post-11735011

 

[redbullitt]

Shot lots of the sb...good to go, but wish I bought all of them at 20 bucks per 1000. Boy I feel dumb now lol.

 

[frankmako]

very good primers. i have use thousands with no problems. they were cheap too. that was the reason i first tried them. wish i could find more.

 

[Average Joe]

Just a good as any other, too bad they don't sell the anymore.

 

[gotboostvr]

I bought up a bunch of them, they're good to go as far as I'm concerned. I've got about 5k left of them.

 

[Catpop]

I don’t know about the primers,
But like others have stated, the SB 45 acp cases I tried were very hard to prime with my regular primers. The extra force needed to seat the primers literally destroyed them with flattened and dented tops.
I just gave up on them.
Glad I’m not the only one who had trouble!

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I don’t know about the primers,
But like others have stated, the SB 45 acp cases I tried were very hard to prime with my regular primers. The extra force needed to seat the primers literally destroyed them with flattened and dented tops.
I just gave up on them.
Glad I’m not the only one who had trouble!

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There are a couple of Euro-make brass I've run across like that.

Local Pawn Shop had Tula LR primers, $30/1000, two boxes, last week. I bought both. He said he had tried to get more in SP and LP but, the distributor in TX he dealt with is out of business. These were NOS he had for years nobody wanted because Tula had a bad reputation, locally. If you do find Tula primers, make sure they are non-corrosive; evidently some corrosive primers were imported years ago and may still be floating around(?)

Otherwise, they seem to work fine in my 7.62m/m Russian M-91 loads. Only tried a couple to verify they were not corrosive and would work in Starline brass.