Also, allegedly, the #34 primers have magnum priming mix.
Read here under product overview:
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1301152162
some reading
http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.php?topic=56422.0
and here basically the same...
https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/threads/a-primer-on-primers.6936610/
-Rock
You can interchange small rifle and small pistol. Though small pistol isn’t likely to do well igniting a rifle charge as they aren’t nearly as hot. Small rifle would lead to over pressure in a pistol load that was already on the edge (hotter than a magnum small pistol primer). Probably wouldn’t need to reduce your charge by more than .1-.2gr.
Most pistols would set off a small rifle primer. A striker fired gun with a light striker spring or other gun with a particular light seat spring might not set one off as they are harder than small pistol magnum primers.
Acually, there is a difference between large rifle and large pistol other than cup thickness. The large rifle primer is taller than the large pistol primer.
See this page for info:
https://ballistictools.com/articles/primer-pocket-depth-and-diameter.php
There is no dimensional difference between small rifle and small pistol.
thanks for the correction. I know Lee only has 2 primer arms, small and large. I had assumed the outer dimensions of rifle and pistol were otherwise the same.
ok yall, your punishment for answering my question is another question.
I find myself hankerin' for a brick of large rifle primers (non magnum)
In the past I have used nearly ALL CCI #200 primers without any issues. During the LAST shortage I purchased 2 bricks of Winchester primers. They worked but a significant number (maybe 3 or 4 per hundred) ended up falling on the floor. Most of them I was able to rat up and use. I use a Lee safety prime system for on press priming if it makes a difference.
I find many other primers listed in stock and would like to have any opinions you care to share regarding any problems you have experienced with these alternate standard large rifle primers.
When I started reloading, I was getting CCI primers from a local shop. I had problems with them feeding in the press, a Dillon 550. When I contacted Dillon, they told me that the CCI primers were not consistently round and recommended Winchester primers. I started using Winchester primers and have used them since. That was over thirty years ago, and I understand CCI has improved. I do use Federal match primers for certain loads. However, since Federal primers are known to have softer cups, I won’t use them for my loads that will be fired in the Garand’s or M14 series of rifles.
I keep hearing this, but I have loaded tens of thousands of CCI primers in my 650.