Poll: Small Primer 45 ACP what are people doing with it?

[WVsig]

So I have been finding more and more small primer 45 ACP brass in my range pickup. I also have some older leftover Federal Champion from my pre reloading days that have smaller primers. I have noticed that the smaller primer 45 ACP is almost exclusively Blazer or Federal Champion.

So are people chucking it or loading it? I hate having another thing to sort but I also think it is stupid to trash about 500 decent cases.

So what are people doing with these cases?

 

[mikld]

I don't use a progressive press and inspection is an integral part of my reloading, so small primed 45 ACP is no big deal. I set them aside and reload as normal (same data, bullets, etc.)...

 

[alexcue]

I put sorted and using it, but technically I'm just stashing it for now. I guess when I have enough of them I'll reload them. Just have too much of the LP primer pockets in my inventory to worry about it.

 

[Ronic]

I use it a range that has a "if it hits the floor it's ours" policy. I only go there once a year or so when friends are to lazy to go the good ranges.

 

[condor bravo]

Just set them aside until accumulating enough to make it worth while to convert the progressive Dillon to small primers and go for it.

 

[WVsig]

I put sorted and using it, but technically I'm just stashing it for now. I guess when I have enough of them I'll reload them. Just have too much of the LP primer pockets in my inventory to worry about it.

Yeah that is what I have been doing up to this point. I guess when I have enough I will load them up and try to keep them separated from the large primers.

 

[condor bravo]

Strange about those ranges mentioned by Ronic. No problem if shooting only revolvers or bolt or lever action rifles. But discouraging to those with semi pistols or the numerous and common semi rifles. But with the Garand my recovery rate is never more than 50% so all would not be lost. But most of the .223s seem to throw the brass to the rear for easy recovery. But surprisingly I've noticed that sometimes 90% of the shooters do not pick up their brass anyway. They are mostly those who buy their ammunition at each range visit and obviously not reloading.

 

[alexcue]

Strange about those ranges mentioned by Ronic. No problem if shooting only revolvers or bolt or lever action rifles. But discouraging to those with semi pistols or the numerous and common semi rifles. But with the Garand my recovery rate is never more than 50% so all would not be lost. But most of the .223s seem to throw the brass to the rear for easy recovery.

We have a very popular indoor range here that works like that. When ammo was tough to come by I'd go there, but never took my own ammo. I wasn't going to contribute to their grab of MY brass. I still can't get over why it's so popular, I mean it had a 45 minute wait at times, and guys brought there "dates" here. The only thing I can figure was they had a good assortment of rentable guns and smaller rifles, shotguns.

I found a better range quickly, joined it as a member and use the heck out of it. As long as I police my own brass, and usually people know that I'm collecting my brass, no one ever hassles me about it. ie, my .380 can toss them about 10ft plus after it bounces around. I usually check to make sure it's mine.

Anyway, Small Primer .45's occasionally end up in my little pile of brass at the end of the day. I try to be real careful when I sort to keep an eye for it.

 

[T. O'Heir]

"...Blazer or Federal Champion..." The stuff been on sale locally? Blazer and Federal are owned by the same holding company. However, Blazer "Clean Fire" is AL cased and Berdan primed. Isn't reloadable. Pitch 'em.
Federal doesn't make .45 ACP in their Champion brand.
"...most of the .223s seem to throw the brass..." 20 feet away out of an AR. If you're losing M1 Rifle brass something is wrong.
"...a range that has a..." Wouldn't go there myself. If I did it'd be with the most useless steel cased Berdan primed crap I could find.

 

[WVsig]

"...Blazer or Federal Champion..." The stuff been on sale locally? Blazer and Federal are owned by the same holding company. However, Blazer "Clean Fire" is AL cased and Berdan primed. Isn't reloadable. Pitch 'em.
Federal doesn't make .45 ACP in their Champion brand.
"...most of the .223s seem to throw the brass..." 20 feet away out of an AR. If you're losing M1 Rifle brass something is wrong.
"...a range that has a..." Wouldn't go there myself. If I did it'd be with the most useless steel cased Berdan primed crap I could find.

Really Federal doesn't make Champion in 45 ACP? What is this then? See it at Walmart all the time and is sold at other places like Lucky Gunner, Academy etc...

Yes Federal and Blazer are owned by the same company. Champion has replaced Blazer as the low priced brass ammo for a lot of retailers but you still see a fair amount of Blazer. Why are we even talking about Blazer aluminum cases?

 

[Mike / Tx]

I use it a range that has a "if it hits the floor it's ours" policy.

I have a couple hundred loaded and ready to go should one of my friends want to head over to one like that. I recover them when I am at our club range and once home I just pitch them in a mixed bag while sorting things out.

I give whatever a gallon bag of them will hold to my friend when I fill one up. He just LOVES them. He said it is simply easier to change just the the die head when going form 9mm to the SP 45 ACP's. I think he even shoots about the same load in both so he doesn't even have to fiddle with his powder measure.

 

[mavracer]

I voted sell/trade as I have a buddie that only loads small primers in 45.

 

[Nick_C_S]

I selected choice #1 because it's the closest to what I do.

I don't often pick up range brass but a nice, shiny 45 ACP just laying there is hard to pass up. Sometimes, they have small primers.

I recondition them for reloading - just like their large primer brethren. But then I segregate them and put them away for another day/time/era. I've never loaded them.

The most likely use I'll find for them is if I find myself going to a shoot where I won't be able to collect my brass.

 

[qrz]

I rarely find the small primer 45acp. My last one was a Speer. I won't throw it away, just seems wrong for some odd reason. I just hand prime it and enter it in the end of the progressive cycle at the appropriate place.

 

[krunchnik]

I am also in the sort and save till I have enough to reload a couple of hundred rounds-I have a hard time keeping my .45 brass-I will not throw it away

 

[Slamfire]

Might as well collect it as the shooting community follows the practice of manufacturers. Some day all your large pistol brass will be worn out, replacement difficult to find, and no one uses it anymore.

 

[444]

I shoot with a guy that only uses small primered cases so he knows what brass is his.

So if I come home with any brass with a small primer, I know it's his and I give it back to him.

Of course I find it when I try to load it in my progressive press

 

[mikejonestkd]

I save a bunch and load it for trips where I know I won't be able to pick it back up.

 

[rclark]

Chuck it in the round file.

 

[oldpapps]

None of the above.

I drop the few of them that I have encountered into my 'other brass' box. I don't toss anything.
Brass - the metal sells.
Some day, maybe, I will accumulate enough of the small primer brass to load it and then I will use it in those locations that the loss of brass is a given. Want to keep my good 'normal large primer' brass.

Load with care,