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    Speedluvn

    Speedluvn

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    tomcat7 said:
    I have been loading .45 ACP since I can remember and my Dad did back in the 60s before me. We only had brass with large pistol primers on the .45 ACP so a little confused here?
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    I have all of my father’s reloading supplies and I see that he had a case of large pistol primers.
    I’m looking at some .45 ACP that I recently deprimed and dry tumbled. I will assume that the brass that I have all take large primers. Can someone tell me around what time period did the small primer .45 ACP become available?
    How common are they. It sounds like a competition round. Am I correct?
     
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    bpm32

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    Speedluvn said:
    I have all of my father’s reloading supplies and I see that he had a case of large pistol primers.
    I’m looking at some .45 ACP that I recently deprimed and dry tumbled. I will assume that the brass that I have all take large primers. Can someone tell me around what time period did the small primer .45 ACP become available?
    How common are they. It sounds like a competition round. Am I correct?
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    No, they were invented several years ago in a Guatemalan insane asylum. No serious competition shooter would ever intentionally shoot small primer 45 Auto, although each of them does live in fear of seeing one and accidentally touching it.

    I have honestly encountered more copperheads at the range than small primer 45 brass, and thank John Moses Browning for that.
     
    Pinecone

    Pinecone

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    It came about with the lead free ammo.

    A major source of lead in shooting is the lead azide in the primers. So they developed a lead free primer.

    Since most of the major calibers for the lead free market are small primer, they decided it was easier to make small primer .45 brass than make a large lead free primer, just for .45.
     
    Uncle Duke

    Uncle Duke

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    Speedluvn said:
    I have all of my father’s reloading supplies and I see that he had a case of large pistol primers.
    I’m looking at some .45 ACP that I recently deprimed and dry tumbled. I will assume that the brass that I have all take large primers. Can someone tell me around what time period did the small primer .45 ACP become available?
    How common are they. It sounds like a competition round. Am I correct?
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    Best guess....I'd say its been 12 years ago or so now since they first reared their ugly case heads. They are plenty common.
     
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