Small vs large primer - help identify

[acepilot55]

So a couple nights ago, I was sorting about 4000 pieces of .45 brass to prep for selling and toward the end of the session I realized I most likely f**cked up.

All the pieces you see in the pics were being tossed into the large primer bucket. For some reason, my brain at 3am in low lighting told me "oh, those must just be crimped primers since only Blazer, some Speer and the rare Federal have small primers..."


First pic: two pieces of GFL brass... obviously a large primer on the right, and I'm pretty sure that's a small primer on the left. Can someone confirm?

Second pic: the two on the right are large primer, I'm sure. And I'm thinking the ones on the left are small primer? Again, can anyone confirm?


Next to a piece of Blazer SPP brass the odd ones looked bigger... yet next to the LPP in the GFL and Winchester pieces, the odd ones look smaller. I think my eyes are messing with me, and I know this is probably super obvious for the long-time reloaders out there so please cut me a little slack on the comments.


If I screwed it up, I'm just gonna sell it as mixed. Ain't no way I'm sorting it again...

[Maht_g]

[Dark Hunt]

Who ever decided to make the first small primer 45 ACP cases should burn in hell for all eternity.

[alexisjohnson]

i wish they were all spps, then i wouldn't have to buy lpps.

[pchang1201]

Who ever decided to make the first small primer 45 ACP cases should burn in hell for all eternity.

Didn't that start out with the Winchester NT lead-free rounds?

[Fishslayer]

Didn't that start out with the Winchester NT lead-free rounds?

The first I ever encountered were Federal. There was absolutely no way to tell the difference except that the boxes were slightly different size.

Not a whole lot of popular headstamps these days that don't come in either size.

[kcstott]

i wish they were all spps, then i wouldn't have to buy lpps.

You should be slapped every time you think that. not only slapped but kneed in the nuts each and every time.

I hate spp 45 ACP and do my part to rid the world of them. every time i find them in the brass bin they get crushed with pliers and sent to the scrap bucket.

[bcrich]

I load them all .... spp 45 aren’t going away so might as well use um . I’ll take your unwanted spp 45’s ����

[kcstott]

[Fishslayer]

You'll be kicking yourself in the nuts next time we have a LPP drought & all you have are SPP & SRP

[kcstott]

You'll be kicking yourself in the nuts next time we have a LPP drought & all you have are SPP & SRP

Not hardly.
I shoot about 500 round of pistol ammo a year, all pistols.
So I have about a decades supply of primers on hand.

[tonyjr]

I really don't do technical on the primers
Most of time I / you notice the difference when using the RCBS case station
The 45's [ all pistol cases ] get decapped by hand, tumbled or vibrated , then
they hit he RCBS station for final cleaning of primer pocket and flash hole .

[ptmn]

I hate SPP 45 ACP brass too. I usually toss them in a zip lock bag and once I have enuff, I change out my priming tool to punch mew primers and load. I keep all of the SPP loads together an use them when I shoot on open land where I won't be able to recover most of the brass or if I really want to be evil and lazy, I shoot at an indoor range without picking up brass to pollute the supply of fired brass on the floor with the SPP brass that I was too lazy to pick up

[robert101]

PUMN,
You got it brother. My thoughts exactly. Typically I don't reload SPP 45 Automatic at all unless they are to be scrapped after shooting.

[kteas1]

SPP 45 was designed for sling shots. You shoot them case and all.

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