A Mild Rant

[Petrol & Powder]

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.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Mixed in but once you've got them separated I really like them because I don't have to reset up my Dylan for large primers when I'm set up for small. It's really no different than crypt primer pockets when you think about it it's just another step annoying as it is to have to check. Justify it to myself I guess

 

[david s]

Yeap, it's always fun to crash the Dillon. On the plus side there's no need to repaint the reloading room after you turn the air blue with your language.

 

[Hawk]

Some days my supply of curse words is insufficient for my needs!

 

[Petrol & Powder]

When the press is configured for large primer and you introduce a small primer pocket case, it's a show stopper.

It's not catastrophic and you can recover quickly; it's just a PITA.

It's similar to having a 357 mag casing in the shell plate when you're set up for 38 Special and you put a huge trumpet shaped bell on that longer case.
OR, having a 380 auto casing sneak into your supply of 9mm Luger brass.

All minor, but truly annoying, issues.

 

[fiver]

I get to the point I start seeing half the big ones as small ones.

 

[fiver]

what's worse is letting a 454 Casull case sneak through when your set up for 45 colt on the 650.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

I get to the point I start seeing half the big ones as small ones.

On some days, I reach that point pretty quickly.

 

[Brad]

I don’t see that many SP 45 ACP cases. I’m happy about that.

The worst for me are 380 and 9mm Mak brass in with 9mm Luger. The 380 get sorted when the primer seating on the 550 pushes them out of the shell plate. The 9mm Mak are a pain.

I have gotten pretty good at spotting a 40 SW case and separating them out.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Last night I sorted about a thousand 40/357sig cases.... I was doing them
In my sleep!!!

hahahaha. This am I took them out of the tumblers and bagged them.

CW

 

[Ian]

I deprime and wash everything first, then sort by headstamp. The small ones are easy to spot and sort out when the pockets are clean and empty. I also sort the large flash hole Federal out and load them differently.

 

[358156 hp]

At least it didn't go the other direction, being set up for small primers, and having a few large primer cases slip through. I hate having to stop a run on the Dillon to clean up powder that leaked out of an unfilled primer pocket.

My 45 ACP cases are all so old that I don't have any SP cases at all. I do have to watch range pickups though.

 

[Winelover]

Just another reason not to own a 45 ACP.

 

[BBerguson]

Some days my supply of curse words is insufficient for my needs!

I make em up when I run out, this is usually done on the golf course though, not while I’m shooting or reloading. Although, I may have come up with a few new ones for the Marlin 1894 I just got rid of...