Product reviews for Misc/Asst FIRED Primers 1 lb

About 60% are a mix of large rifle and pistol primers which I don’t reload for as I don’t have any guns in those calibers yet.  It is hard to tell the difference between large pistol and rifle as their only difference is their height. The small primers(about 40% of the first bag I opened) I think are mostly small pistol and some small rifle. About 8% of the cups in the bag both large and small are unusable. If you are reloading the cups I recommend you only use the primers for pistol calibers like 9mm if you are using it for 223 be careful and don’t load high pressures as it WILL BURST. It works very well for 9mm and subsonic 223 loads that I do but be careful as reusing the cups again after you have already fired it once especially with 223 (as rifle firing pins are sharp compared to pistol ones and will stretch the metal thin) it could burst. When hammering out the dent on the cup from the firing pin use a light hammer with fast strikes and don’t hammer too much all you need is the inside to be mostly flat again, hammering too much will thin the metal on the bottom of the cup and cause your firing pin to punch through the cup and burst the primer. This is a VERY GOOD source of anvil as they are hard to destroy allowing you to use them almost indefinitely. I recommend you get a primer cup maker for primer cups instead of using the once fired ones as you can use it for higher pressure rifle loads without worrying about a bursted primers hurting you or your bolt carrier group. Overall good product for anvils and cups could be reused but only 4 stars because of hassle of picking apart the different primer types, some unusable cups, and me not needing all the large primers. (ProTip you can collect the primes once bad and some scrap yards will buy it allowing you get make back 50% of your money)