S&B primers/questions

[M1A4ME]

Anyone here used S&B primers?

Next question is how to figure out which ones are for what?

I saw some the other day and almost bought some, but the text was mostly "not English."  Some said small pistol primers on them, some boxes just had numbers (X/X) and some, even though they had small pistol primers on them also had different numbers.

The price was good, but the confusion level was too high right then.

Thanks for any info.  Oh, all my guns have the factory strength springs in them so I don't worry about hard primers, misfires, etc.

[M1A4ME]

Sorry, after I posted it hit me I could look up the S&P primers (probably), so I did and got all that number/letter stuff wrote down.

Now, just waiting on the experience/advice of others who may have used them.

Thanks.

[extremist]

Have used "hundreds" of them and never had an issue.  Got a bunch of them cheap at Cabela's when they had them on sale for $19.99/K

James

[inspector1999]

So I have loaded 11,000 this year and haven't had any issues. I have two different box styles.



Both work with out any issues with my SP-01 Cajunized (sprung to use all primers).

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[ReloaderFred]

Of the 40,000 S&B primers I purchased awhile back, I've shot over 12,000 without a hitch, all in handguns.  I have another 5,000 Small Rifle S&B primers that I've yet to load, but I expect no problems with them.

They are a little flatter in construction, so they have to be seated properly, which simply means to the bottom of the primer pocket to set the anvil into the primer pellet.  My "aim for" seating depth is -.004" below flush.

Hope this helps.

Fred

[motosapiens]

we have shot about 15k of them this year. The 2nd one I ever shot was a dud, which made me nervous, but I haven't had one since then. I got 30k of them for under $20/k. Much more than that and I would just buy cci or win in bulk.

[M1A4ME]

Thanks for the info.  The boxes I saw were around $25 per thousand but still much cheaper than CCI, Federal and others in the stores.

[snakeye]

They are outstanding in my book...Cabelas puts the on sale a couple times a year...last time was in August i believe.... i have got them for 17.99 and 19.99 in the last year and have around 30,000 and will buy every time the do this.

 ReloaderFred is right they have to be seated deep had several FTFs before it figured that out.

[IDescribe]

I bought (I think) 20,000 at $18/1000 from Cabelas a while back.  I've used maybe 10K.  I got some first strike failures when I switched to an 11.5 main spring, then figured out I had to lean a little harder on the priming stroke, and that went away.  No issues since. 

Winchester is my preference.  Soft, but not Federal soft where seating the primer is enough to flatten it a little.

[Old Rocket]

I have used 16k and look to buy everyone in cabelas especially if on sale.
I use them in a ts40, reduced springs and no extended firing pin and no issues but I almost flatten the primers during seating .
I also love win but feds are to soft for me so stuck with too many feds.

[.45 acp nut]

I would say " Don't buy them" but that would be totally selfish. I too, have used thousands of them in 9mm & 45 acp. The only issues I have had were some 45's that needed a second strike to set them off with the 11 1/2 # spring. I have since put the 13# spring in the 97B and will be checking it out tomorrow. They have all gone "bang".