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Small Rifle Primer / Small Pistol Primer

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  • December 29, 2021 at 4:04 pm #399197
    poagw
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    After reading several columns on substituting SRP for SPP I feel confident in with my trial. Results will follow. Let me know your opinion!!

    January 21, 2022 at 7:11 pm #404527
    kerry
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    Hello,
    I dont recommend it but, I have done it.
    I have used Small Rifle in place of Small Pistol primes in the past and looks like I will need to do so soon. Do your homework, start low with a hard to ignite powder that can be loaded light, ball powder is best because its harder to ignite then flake powder. I have only done this with Accurate #2 for 9MM loads, 4gn under a 124gn projectile worked great.

    January 31, 2022 at 9:30 am #406642
    mk10640lv
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    Recent attemp revealed Win SRP’s did not reliably fire out of factory SIG p365 or G17. CCI 400’s function perfectly. YMMV

    January 31, 2022 at 11:43 am #406688
    poagw
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    Results from SRP vs SPP 9mm 5″ Barrel CZ

    Ramshot Silhouette 4.3gr SRP SNS LRNC 125gr 954 ft/s C.O.L. 1.100″ Crimp 0.378″

    Ramshot Silhouette 4.5gr SPP SNS LRNC 125gr 988 ft/s C.O.L. 1.100″ Crimp 0.378″

    Small Rifle Primer performed well. No signs of excess pressure. Do more trials. Appears One keeps loads at minimum, primers should be fine. Certainly can live with the 4.3gr load for practice.

    February 1, 2022 at 1:01 pm #406876
    mdi255
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    Early on in my reloading, I experimented with a lot of different “substitutions”. Way pre-web and mainly out of curiosity, not necessity. I had revolvers so I had not FTF problems with rifle primers in pistol applications. Didn’t have a chrony at the time, but found very little noticeable difference. Of course as with any change I did another load work up and only substitution I didn’t do was large rifle in large pistol applications (large rifle primers are .008″ taller than large pistol primers. No problems substituting magnum primers for standard primer, but my results were from a new load work up. Don’t know where I learned it, but “Reloading 101”, do another load work up any time a component is changed…

    February 18, 2022 at 6:01 pm #411502
    SC
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    I have tried it in the past using Wolf branded primers. They all fired out of an H&K P30 but I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw issues with striker fired pistols.

    There have been a couple articles on primer thickness. Here is a pic that I found online that compares them-

    https://www.bearblain.com/images/Primer%20cup%20thickness%20chart%20RIFLE.png

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by SC. Reason: corrected link
    February 23, 2022 at 2:29 pm #412547
    Nixoid
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    Last 10k round in 9×19 I use srp from cci instead of spp. No any problem on: HK VP9, SIG 365 SAS and XL, Kriss Vector, Glock 17g5.
    Powder: Winchester Auto Comp.
    Case: Mix from range.
    Bullets: RMR, Blue Bullets.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Nixoid. Reason: Add data
    March 9, 2022 at 4:45 am #415334
    togmaster
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    The only significant difference between SP and SR is cup thickness (hardness). SR have thicker cups in order to handle the higher pressures of rifle rounds. The thicker and therefore harder cups may be more difficult to ignite for some guns especially ones that have been modified with lighter hammer and striker springs. Most modern guns will not have any issues with SR primers.

    March 24, 2022 at 8:26 am #419650
    pjoybrickman
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    My 2 S&W Shield’s nor my M&Pc liked smr primers. Had several ftf. But run through the wifes Shield EZ was flawless. Its hammer fired.

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