I started reloading last Spring 45acp cases. One day the large primer would't go into the case. I must have pickup a small primer pocket case at the range. I thought I had it under control, but the other day had the same problem. Since I only have about 150 small cases, I decided to mark the bottom of them with black ink. Hopefully, that will help.
I was told to keep the small primer pocket cases because manufacturers will be making more small primer cases in 45acp.
Welcome to The Firearms Forum. Those .45 ACP cases with the small primer pockets are indeed a pain in the butt. I sent the ones I had to another one of our TFF members a while back. As of now, I have not accumulated any more of them.
Welcome xbowman, I don't buy much new .45 acp as I reload for most of my shooting but the .45 acp I have purchased in the last couple years has had the small primer. I have just been sort them out but keeping them. One of these days when I have enough I will load them up on one batch and hopefully keep them separated in the future. Nothing wrong with them other than the sorting for priming hassle. I also expect to find more of the small primers with new ammo in the furture.
Welcome to the forum! I just set mine aside untill I have enough to make reloading them worth while. A little red finger nail polish will mark them, so I can keep them seperate form the large primer pockets.
It's mostly all I load. They work fine. As the others have said, just need to keep them separate. As soon as I shoot the larges up I'm gonna give em to someone else and just keep the smalls. Only one size pistol primer to keep on hand then.
I remember the first time I ran into those small primer 45s
It was a couple years ago, running an older Lee 400 and I started crushing primers and went:dontknow:
I just sit there with my reading glasses and hand sort all of the range brass by hand now. When I get 300 of the small primer brass together, I'm gonna load em up and shoot them
Probably one of, if not the most important part of reloading is inspection. Every case should be inspected prior to any processing. All ya gotta do is look at the case head; large primer or small? If you just dump cases into the hopper, you should expect problems, not only from small primer pockets, but any case defect...
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