Winchester Primers

[doyalan]

Are Winchester mag primers good for reloading?

 

[crystalgayleguy]

yes

 

[Huntsman66]

The best primer you can own, is the one in hand right now...lol. Yeah they are fine.... general rule Mag primers for cases holding 62gn of powder and above, large rifle 62Gn and below... hope that helped

 

[LRNut]

Here I thought it was a post alerting us to primers for sales somewhere...

 

[doyalan]

Sorry LRNUT. Thanks DHARDY. I have a brick of Winchester Mag Primers and a brick of Winchester Small Rifle Primers. I have had them for several years but never used them. Always used Fed 215 before but can't find them anymore. I was just wondering if they were good as Fed 215.

 

[BillLarson]

I,ve got a bunch of w- large rifle primers.

 

[epags]

Are Winchester mag primers good for reloading?

Assuming you are referring to large rifle magnum primers. As crystalgayleguy said "Yes" and somewhere in the forums have been several posts about how you can use them in place of regular (non-magnum) primers if you run short of the regular primers. Just lower your powder load and work up.

 

[Huntsman66]

Sorry LRNUT. Thanks DHARDY. I have a brick of Winchester Mag Primers and a brick of Winchester Small Rifle Primers. I have had them for several years but never used them. Always used Fed 215 before but can't find them anymore. I was just wondering if they were good as Fed 215.

Primers are all manufactured to a good degree of quality control, until you get to the Match primers which are the same primers just controlled more stringently.. as far as the age of them, if you store them in a nice cool, dark, dry place the will last for years. I have primers that have been stored for 15+ years and work just like new...

 

[doyalan]

Thanks

 

[Huntsman66]

Sorry LRNUT. Thanks DHARDY. I have a brick of Winchester Mag Primers and a brick of Winchester Small Rifle Primers. I have had them for several years but never used them. Always used Fed 215 before but can't find them anymore. I was just wondering if they were good as Fed 215.

Just keep in mind that if you change primers you will need to verify load data and zero. Not that one primer is worse than another, they are just slightly different. That's why ppl try to stay and like buying in the same lot for bullets primers and powder. the exact same powder, bullet and primers can differ slightly from lot to lot. Just verify.
that's what makes these times so frustrating, you can't buy enough product in the same lot type and gn size to get you very far down the road.. good luck and happy shooting!

 

[doyalan]

Thanks. I finally got my kind of brass. I have a new barrel i am putting on the 300 Ultra Mag and have 2 pounds of RL25 and 2 pounds of H 1000. Hopefully with the Winchester Large Mag primers I will be ok. The rifle is a Christensen Arms carbon fiber barrel. Had it for about 11 yrs and need to change the barrel.

 

[jdyoung]

Thanks. I finally got my kind of brass. I have a new barrel i am putting on the 300 Ultra Mag and have 2 pounds of RL25 and 2 pounds of H 1000. Hopefully with the Winchester Large Mag primers I will be ok. The rifle is a Christensen Arms carbon fiber barrel. Had it for about 11 yrs and need to change the barrel.

Just keep in mind that if you change primers you will need to verify load data and zero. Not that one primer is worse than another, they are just slightly different. That's why ppl try to stay and like buying in the same lot for bullets primers and powder. the exact same powder, bullet and primers can differ slightly from lot to lot. Just verify.
that's what makes these times so frustrating, you can't buy enough product in the same lot type and gn size to get you very far down the road.. good luck and happy shooting!

If you back off your charge just as you would on working up a load, you will be ok.
Primers are a little more than slightly different.
Winchester Primers have always been regarded as the Hottest Primers.
Little story:
My father in law reloaded for his 270 win. He always worked up to the hottest load in the manual. I stayed with him a week while hunting, and used his reloading setup for my" 06 Spr. When I left (after a successful hunt) I left a card of WLR, ( Winchester Large Rifle ) primers . I told him they were hotter and if he used them to start from scratch and work up his loads.
Well , he didn't do that. He was loading out of an RCBS manual which specified CCI 200 primers for his load. He'd been usin' that load for years. He ran out of primers, and substituted the Winchester WLR primers I had left. No he didn't back the load up to below a starting load.
First shot locked up the bolt in his Rem 700 requiring a trip to the local gunsmith to replace the bolt. No injury to him.
But.......Next time I was there, he gave me the WLR primers back, and bore me no ill will.
Primer strength is referred to as brisance- meaning the shattering strength of the explosion created.
Remington primers are the lowest brisance.
CCI primers are a low medium brisance.
Federal primers are a medium brisance.
Winchester primers are the hottest brisance.
You've got good primers , just use proper caution and procedure.

 

[doyalan]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[lyle2231]

If you back off your charge just as you would on working up a load, you will be ok.
Primers are a little more than slightly different.
Winchester Primers have always been regarded as the Hottest Primers.
Little story:
My father in law reloaded for his 270 win. He always worked up to the hottest load in the manual. I stayed with him a week while hunting, and used his reloading setup for my" 06 Spr. When I left (after a successful hunt) I left a card of WLR, ( Winchester Large Rifle ) primers . I told him they were hotter and if he used them to start from scratch and work up his loads.
Well , he didn't do that. He was loading out of an RCBS manual which specified CCI 200 primers for his load. He'd been usin' that load for years. He ran out of primers, and substituted the Winchester WLR primers I had left. No he didn't back the load up to below a starting load.
First shot locked up the bolt in his Rem 700 requiring a trip to the local gunsmith to replace the bolt. No injury to him.
But.......Next time I was there, he gave me the WLR primers back, and bore me no ill will.
Primer strength is referred to as brisance- meaning the shattering strength of the explosion created.
Remington primers are the lowest brisance.
CCI primers are a low medium brisance.
Federal primers are a medium brisance.
Winchester primers are the hottest brisance.
You've got good primers , just use proper caution and procedure.

The older nomenclature on the box "For Standard and Magnum"
Loads.