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Factory Ammo with silver primers?

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18 February 2015, 21:08
GAHUNTER
Factory Ammo with silver primers?
I bought a couple of boxes of Winchester 200-grain Silvertips in .358 Winchester a while back, mainly for the head-stamped brass. When I got them home, I noticed that in both boxes, all rounds were loaded with silver primers.

Seriously, I don't think I have ever seen factory ammo loaded with silver primers (except Buffalo Bore, which is really just custom loaded ammo). Now I wonder if I really bought someone's reloads. It really doesn't matter, 'cause I pulled the bullets, dumped the powder and stuck my powder and bullets back in them.
18 February 2015, 22:44
Texas Killartist
Factory loads have had different coloed primers over the years. Win primers used to be silver. Rems have always (that I know of) have been brass/bronze colored. The newer Wins that I have purchased have been copper colored.
19 February 2015, 02:46
larrys
As I recall, only Remington and Winchester are brass color, and I still have several hundred Winchester LRP that are still silver before they converted several years ago. All Federal is silver primers as is CCI, I believe. Nosler and SSA ammo is all silver primers.


Larry

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19 February 2015, 04:32
butchloc
i dunno all the factory primers i ever had were in the rim Big Grin old
19 February 2015, 05:08
craigster
Factory 30-06 in my "inventory" :

WW 180 PP (yellow box), silver.
" (silver box), brass.
Fed 180 Premium, silver.
" Power Shok, silver.
Rem 178 Extended Range, brass.