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DenverDave

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I recently bought a second 223, and I'd like to use a different colored primer for it so I can keep the brass separate. I can remember using some brass-colored primers in the distant past, but I have used only Federals for the last several years so I have long forgotten what brand they were. Anyone know?
 
Marker Pen?

I usually use a marker pen and mark the headstamp , lasts quite a few firings.
 
The Remington primers I have are brass in color not silver like CCI or Federals.

Waterboy
 
Just bought 5000 Winchester primers from Natchez last month that also are brass colored.
 
A better way might be to use the primer that works best in the rifle and keep the ammo in different colored boxes?

Up until recently the only primer that was usually brass in color was Remington.

Paul
 
Paul is spot on.......


The Wolf primers are copper/brass colored.
 
Applying some nail polish of differing colors around the primer to act as a sealant would do double duty. Say red for one and white for the other.
 
DenverDave said:
I recently bought a second 223, and I'd like to use a different colored primer for it so I can keep the brass separate.
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A friend with a similar problem dunked the bases of the cases for his second rifle in Birchwood Brass Black. Now if one of your rifles was a Remmy, you'd have a match for the bolt! :D
 
Thanks for the replies. I could walk into Sp Warehouse and start opening boxes, but they frown on that. The latest box of Win I had were silver. Maybe they've changed.
 
The experience I had with...........

the Win primers that are brass colored was, that if kept in a metal ammo can, they became tarnished in a very few years( I know, I know, don't keep 'em there, its a bomb, etc. I got them from someone ELSE who had them there, and this guy did it for convenience out of ignorance) I liked the 7-1/2s better when they were COPPER-colored. I was always leery of that new color. ;)
 
Brass cokored primers

Rem 71/2

Wolf

Blue/ gold boxed winchester are brass. However the silver colored are in the white/red box and are OLD stock
 
cassidy said:
Rem 71/2

Wolf

Blue/ gold boxed winchester are brass. However the silver colored are in the white/red box and are OLD stock
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The older stock has harder cups! I shoot a lot of them in my M1A's.
Mark
 
Doesn't have anything to do with primers, but I solve the problem with a Sharpie and MTM case boxes. All my cases are in MTM boxes and the rifle they're for is marked on the lid in Sharpie for calibers with more than one rifle.

I'm not smart enough to remember primer cup colors, and with shortages you might be outta luck getting the brands you want anyway.
 
Color coding cases, etc

After you color code cases and or primers, it would be wise to write all
that down. Now as simple as it sounds, why not write it on the box you keep the shells in. You can't loose the paper you wrote all this info on, and you
can't loose the shells. Pbike and Larry Elliot have a great system, its fool
proof.
 
>>>Rem 71/2

Wolf

Blue/ gold boxed Winchester are brass. However the silver colored are in the white/red box and are OLD stock<<<

Thanks! I realize there are a number of ways to do this. As long as I'm at the reloading bench I can be very organized, but once I start shooting and switching guns the cases tend to end up in the wrong coffee can. Not a problem when I'm shooting different calibers - I just sort them out later. I've marked cases and primers before and noticed some of the color eventually transferred to the bolt. Probably harmless, but this would not happen with a different colored primer. Also, I've tried different primers in the past and can't tell any difference in my varmint guns, so I just use Federals since that's what a bench-rest buddy recommends.

I've avoided Wolf ever since a firearms instructor told us not to use any ammo with an animal name. Of course, he was talking about loaded rounds, not primers.....
 
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