500+ Free Small Primer .45acp Brass - Page 2

mikld · December 23, 2017, 03:21 PM

I believe it was an attempt to make primers less toxic (that evil lead,ya know). I doubt if anyone saved any money by using the then new non-toxic primers, and at that time they were prolly more expensive. The original NT ammo was meant to give off less toxic fumes for shooting indoors, perhaps instigated by police depts or military?

Tom-R2 · December 25, 2017, 08:51 PM

I reload both. Deprime them, clean them together. I sort them after cleaning. Once primed, since they will be just going to the range they get dumped back together and reloaded together. For my plinking, I don't notice any difference.

hdbiker · December 26, 2017, 04:46 PM

I actually called and talked to a Federal ENGR, about small primer .45 acp brass. Was told the only difference is the primer and place of MFG. I've loaded many hundreds small primer .45's and tested them against large primer .45' over the crony with no apparent difference with same load. hdbiker

uncle.45 · December 26, 2017, 05:15 PM

Thanks, everyone!
That's the sort of info I need.
I will load these separately from large primer brass, but load them the same.
Thanks again!

December 23, 2017, 03:21 PM	#26
mikld Senior Member Join Date: February 7, 2009 Location: Southern Oregon! Posts: 2,891	I believe it was an attempt to make primers less toxic (that evil lead,ya know). I doubt if anyone saved any money by using the then new non-toxic primers, and at that time they were prolly more expensive. The original NT ammo was meant to give off less toxic fumes for shooting indoors, perhaps instigated by police depts or military?

December 25, 2017, 08:51 PM	#27
Tom-R2 Member Join Date: January 16, 2017 Location: Central Ohio Posts: 95	I reload both. Deprime them, clean them together. I sort them after cleaning. Once primed, since they will be just going to the range they get dumped back together and reloaded together. For my plinking, I don't notice any difference.

December 26, 2017, 04:46 PM	#28
hdbiker Senior Member Join Date: December 19, 2012 Posts: 297	I actually called and talked to a Federal ENGR, about small primer .45 acp brass. Was told the only difference is the primer and place of MFG. I've loaded many hundreds small primer .45's and tested them against large primer .45' over the crony with no apparent difference with same load. hdbiker

December 26, 2017, 05:15 PM	#29
uncle.45 Senior Member Join Date: November 11, 2017 Location: Lakeland, Florida Posts: 134	Thanks, everyone! That's the sort of info I need. I will load these separately from large primer brass, but load them the same. Thanks again!