These will make you mad on a progressive!

[Shadowrider]

How often and how can that happen?
Wouldn't they catch that during mfg?

They make them that way on purpose!

 

[jbarnett]

They make them that way on purpose!

I have just started reloading but I thought all 45auto's were large primers.
I need to stop thinking.

 

[doctruptwn]

So Far I have run into 2 different head stamps. Win NT, Federal NT. These are from NON Toxic rounds and run SPP's They play hell on you in a progressive. I just chuck them in the trash.

 

[oknavy]

I sort my brass by manufacturer before loading. During my last clean-and-sort session, I found .45 Blazer with large primers and .45 Blazer with small primers.

Besides the size of the primer hole, I noticed a difference between the two. On the large primer brass, the bottom was completely flat. On the small primer brass, the bottom had a concave face, very similar to .45 CCI cases. Of note, the CCI concave brass uses large primers.

All the more reason to not drink beer during a reloading session.

 

[aeropb]

I feel your pain.

Looks like NT brass to me. Not a big deal on a progressive. Just remove it from the priming station and move on.

Just throw them in a bucket till you get a few hundred and load with small pistol primers.

I usually just squash them in a furious rage. Sometimes if I get a whole bunch I do it in Happy Gilmore fashion.

 

[Hawgman]

Over the years I've heard a few times of SPP's in a .45acp but have never, ever seen them....till now of course. I'd pretty much chalked it up to legend but I believe it now. Thanks for the post and pics Shadowrider.

 

[marvinvwinkle]

I too am new to reloading, and fortunately was told about Blazer brass although I have a bunch that is LPP. The last time I reloaded I needed one case to finish and spent almost a half hour trying to load it. It was a Win case and I finally stopped cussing the primer and looked to see that it was a SPP. Some people are hard headed and if I had listened to my loader it would have saved me a lot of time. I guess I'm lucky I didn't set one of the primers off. Lesson learned.

 

[Buzzdraw]

Ah, the joys of reloading when things don't stay "standard". 7.62 x 39 came in both large & small primer versions. Years ago, some .357 Magnums used a large primer.

Gotta roll with it and go on I guess!

 

[Nraman]

I found one WW NT 45ACP case, I tried hard to stick a LPP first and when it didn't fit I looked at it. I Googled it and came up as the lead free stuff.
Is there any place where I can buy lead free primers?
Lead primers is the reason I don't reload inside the house.
How do you guys deal with the lead and reloading inside?