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Posted: 12/22/2008 11:11:14 PM EDT
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As a relatively new reloader, I have only used CCI and Federal primers and assumed that all primers available to reloaders were nickel plated.
I was prepping some mixed year LC brass and a lot of it had brass colored primers but the primer crimp had been reamed out. What brands of primers available to consumers are brass colored? |
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CCI #41 have a light brass color. They're what I use for 223. The #41s are silver colored also. I have some from 2 different lot numbers. 1 is silver colored, the other is brass colored. The brass colored primers seem harder to seat than the silver colored ones. |
You'll find some primers are plated and others are not. Further, you'll find that unplated primers can be different colors of brass, all depending on how the material was produced and treated. There is no real functional difference between plated and unplated primers, except that perhaps plated primes are easier/smoother to seat and remove than unplated ones. Maybe...
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