Odd piece of .45 Auto brass
So I set my newly-minted 13-year-old to decapping .45 ACP brass with a Lee Loader yesterday. He was working along having a grand time (always good when he gets to whack things) when he says "Hey Dad... this one's got a smaller primer than the others."
So later on I go look and, sure enough, there is a handful of Blazer brass cases, .45 ACP, that appear to take small pistol primers. They have the single flash hole of boxer-primed brass, but the primer pocket is smaller than all the other ones I have.
Has anyone else seen these, and do you know why Blazer would have made them that way?
-AaronB
Bulk Federal 45 FMJ uses the SP too...
by Sarge 
, Central Misery, Monday, February 11, 2013, 15:05 (4249 days ago) @ AaronB
I'm a bit amazed by Hoomie's comment that they've been around 20 years. As much range brass as I scrounge from time to time, you'd think I'd have noticed before last summer. I processed about 650 rounds of range brass and found six during the priming stage, all of which got set on the anvil and kissed with a 4# hammer.
They were Blazer & Federal, BTW.
I've shot several thousand rounds of Blazer .45's...
by rob , Monday, February 11, 2013, 22:20 (4248 days ago) @ Sarge
And I just noticed this issue a couple months ago and so far, as far as I know, I only have one 50 count box of them...all sized and belled and ready for a primer until I noticed they were SP pockets. I'm gonna save mine. Never know when a large primer shortage might render a .45 useless save for some small primer pockets. Definitely have them well segregated though:)
Odd piece of .45 Auto brass
by Cherokee , Medina, Ohio, Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 10:00 (4248 days ago) @ AaronB
I've got several thousand SP cases I have culled out of the range brass picked up over the last several years, Blazer & Federal, maybe others. When SP primers get plentiful again I'll load them as one batch for "loss brass" use.