Petrol & Powder
Well-Known Member
Small primer 45 ACP casings are clearly here to stay.
FINE, I don't have to like the fact but I do have to deal with it.
I've become reasonably capable of using my Mark I eyeball to sort spent casings by primer size. (adding yet one more criteria to my sorting process, not that I'm bitter about that),
I have achieved about a 85% success rate on getting that right on the first pass. The other 15% are sorted out when I try to ram a large primer into a small primer pocket on station 1 of my Dillon 550.
Good news - I have become much better at removing the small primer pocket casing from the press and putting it in a dedicated can; as opposed to throwing it across the room as hard as possible.
So to the list of annoying sorting operations that I already perform poorly, I have to learn a new one.
Separating 380 Auto from 9mm
Separating 357 Mag from 38 Special
Separating 40 S&W from 9mm Luger OR 45 ACP
And now, separating small primer 45 ACP from large primer 45 ACP.
OK, I'm done ranting.
FINE, I don't have to like the fact but I do have to deal with it.
I've become reasonably capable of using my Mark I eyeball to sort spent casings by primer size. (adding yet one more criteria to my sorting process, not that I'm bitter about that),
I have achieved about a 85% success rate on getting that right on the first pass. The other 15% are sorted out when I try to ram a large primer into a small primer pocket on station 1 of my Dillon 550.
Good news - I have become much better at removing the small primer pocket casing from the press and putting it in a dedicated can; as opposed to throwing it across the room as hard as possible.
So to the list of annoying sorting operations that I already perform poorly, I have to learn a new one.
Separating 380 Auto from 9mm
Separating 357 Mag from 38 Special
Separating 40 S&W from 9mm Luger OR 45 ACP
And now, separating small primer 45 ACP from large primer 45 ACP.
OK, I'm done ranting.