Been shooting my FA 83 primarily with the .45 Colt cylinder. Just shot some .454 brass with a 325 LBT , 10 gr of Unique and a Winchester small pistol mag primer. It's a sweet shooting, field load. Got me thinking though. WHAT primers should I really use in the 454 brass?

I can imagine that std small rifles would work fine for the heavy 296/H110 charges. But for the more moderate 1000 to 1200 fps loads with say Unique or Lil Gun???? What to use?

FN in MT

Small rifle.

Lee Martin
www.singleactions.com

Thank You Gentleman for the replies. I tried some CCI400's and some RP's and my velocity was not only +20 fps overall but the extreme spread was very low at about 15 fps. (Compared to the same load but with small pistol mag primers)

Elk season starts in a week. Hopefully I should have a "dead cow with a FA 454" post pretty quickly.

FN in MT