OT/327 Federal Magnum

[Jingle]

Just curious, ask first right?

Just wondering if using small rifle primers in a 327 Federal Magnum case would be ok?

Hodgdon lists a Federal 200, Small Pistol Magnum, where as Hornady lists a Federal 205 which is a small rifle primer.

So I have some Remington 6 1/2 small rifle primers, can I use those or any small rifle primer for that matter? To my understanding if Hornady lists a small rifle primer in this pistol case then its safe to use any small rifle primer be it fed/rem/cci etc...

Thank you

[Bambob]

It shouldn't be dangerous but they probably won't fire on the first try since the rifle primers have a "thicker" cup than pistol primers. You may wind up having to pull the bullets and start over if they don't go off.
Bob

[Chickenthief]

Prime a few and try them in the gun before reloading.
Small pistol primers are in general 20% thinner than small rifle.

I have found that revolvers are less finicky and fire rifle primers just fine.

[dungheap]

Originally Posted by Chickenthief

Prime a few and try them in the gun before reloading.
Small pistol primers are in general 20% thinner than small rifle.

I have found that revolvers are less finicky and fire rifle primers just fine.

At least in some cases. I'd go one step further and just load a few rounds and try them in whatever gun I wanted to use them in. Note the "some cases" part and be safe.

[GrocMax]

Use rifle primers in my 5.7x28, work fine.

[MIBULLETS]

I use mostly small rifle primers in my warmer 357 magnum loads with no issues.

[georgeld]

Prime a few cases and pop the caps to see if they'll all fire.
That's all I use in revolver ammo since PVI didn't have any
SP's on hand that day I was there. I bought 20,000SR's and just
been using them up even for plinkers in .38's. Never had a problem
so far.

[Jingle]

Thx guys.

I have Remington 6 1/2's srp I'll prime a few cases and try them. I'd rather get small rifle primers on account that I would use them more in my rifles as well.

[GrocMax]

The one thing all of us *should* have stated is start over on your load dev, drop at least 0.5g and work back up when using rifle primers, especially the 'hotter' ones.

[Jingle]

Right, but to my understanding or as I read. A small "magnum" pistol primer is like a standard small rifle primer. Is this assumption correct?

And when developing loads I would start from the Hornady reloading manual which states using Federal #205 which is a small rifle primer.

I'm not one to take things for granted.