Interesting primer situation with Hornady LNL

[Darrell Davis]

Have been getting up close and personal with my Hornady LNL progressive after many years of loading on a single stage press.

Still working through the learning curve, but gaining rapidly.

The other evening I was going to load a batch 45acp, using Winchester LP primers (corrected from "LR" primers, thanks guys!) I got probably 10 +/- years ago.  The primers came to me from a friend who's father had died a number of years before.

I have already used a bunch of the primers with good results, but this was the first attempt of use in the LNL.

These primers were slightly domed, rather then being flat in the face like primers of current manufacture, and just that small increased depth kept them from feeding through the priming system of the Hornady.

Nothing wrong with the loader here folks, just an odd sized component which fouled things up.

I went and primed enough cases through my RCBS bench top primer tool to use up that batch of primers, but found the situation to be interesting to say the least.

Keep em coming!

CDOC

[LaOtto222]

Why would you use LR primers in 45 ACP?

[P.A. Myers]

Some pistols will not smack a LR primer hard enough. My 45acp revolvers must have a absolutely flush primer to rotate.


     Good Luck

[Darrell Davis]

Sorry, you are correct that was LP Winchester primers.

Good thing your watching!

Someone needs to keep me squared away!!!

I will correct the posting.

Keep em coming!

CDOC

[Catfish]

Darrel, It not our job to keep you squared away, that your wifes job,  our aren`t you married? 

[Darrell Davis]

Your correct Catfish, but after about 47 years she does let a few things slip through.

For example she is past throwing things when I call our common area the "Reloading Room".

However, she is not above slipping in the correction of "sewing or hobby" room.

Keep em coming!

CDOC

[Steve P]

I have three progressive presses for rifle/pistol ammo and I still end up seating more primers with my original Lee Ram Prime.  In the time it takes to pick up 100 primers in those little pick up tube, I can seat half a box of ammo.  Of course you have to load three of four 100 round boxes at a time so you end up dumping out 400 primers to pick up with those little tubes.

I have found sizing my brass is usually a task unto itself.  After sizing and cleaning off any lube, it is almost as fast to prime with the Lee tool as it is to set up my loader to do the priming.

However, if I have a large batch of ammo to get out, say 800-1000 357s or 38s or something of this nature, then yes, I load up 500-600 primers in the tubes, use my carbide dies and will load like a madman for about two hours to get them done.  One set-up and a long run on the press.

Someday someone will come out with a priming system that is faultless and I will be sitting back in my rocking chair shooting up ammo that took me years to reload.... 

Steve

[Darrell Davis]

Even'in SteveP,

Well, I can't fault the Hornady LNL system, as it was a glitch caused by the old Winchester primers.

Be'in an Ol'Coot, it might have slipped my memory, but of the thousands of primers I have used, I don't recall any rifle or handgun primers that were domed like these Winchesters.

The primers are good, and have no problems with ignition OR?, but have to guess they must be at least 30 years old.

Keep em coming!

CDOC