Federal 10mm

[gerhard1]

On a recent purchase of Federal 10mm Auto from Midway, I opened the box and found that they seem to use small pistol primers.

I compared them (visually) to some 10mm ammo that I have and the primers are definitely smaller that on the other stuff I have.

Has anyone else encountered something like this?

 

[sklfco]

Are those the “non toxic” flavor of range fodder??
Usually where I see those being used.

 

[Bahick71]

They have been putting small primers in 10mm for quite some time, used to be pretty
Rare, becoming more and more common now days. I have not noticed any difference in the
Way they shoot. I don't load different for small or large primer either. Just a small pain
To sort them out.

 

[SoonerP226]

I wonder if the switch to small primers coincided with everybody figuring out that .40S&W was an answer to a question nobody asked. "Hmm, 10mm is gaining in popularity again, and .40 is going in the tank, so if we standardize on the small primers, we can use all this tooling that's being underutilized..."

 

[gerhard1]

Looks like I'm going to watch out for this in Federal 10mm then, because I handload. This is going to be a pain.

 

[gerhard1]

This is a question I sent to Federal.

This concerns your 10mm ammunition. I reload and I am set up for using Large Pistol primers for this cartridge.

I recently acquired some 10mm personal defense loads made by Federal that have Small Pistol primers in them. Do you not make 10mm with LP primers anymore?

Thank you.

I'll share their response, if any, with you.

 

[gerhard1]

This is a question I sent to Federal.

This concerns your 10mm ammunition. I reload and I am set up for using Large Pistol primers for this cartridge.

I recently acquired some 10mm personal defense loads made by Federal that have Small Pistol primers in them. Do you not make 10mm with LP primers anymore?

Thank you.

I'll share their response, if any, with you.

FYI

This is Federal's response to an email I sent them asking about this.

Gerhard1

We manufacture them with small pistol primers.

Thank You

Federal Ammunition

Tech Services

 

[Moparman485]

Yep, cci and federal do it, as do a few other manufacturers. I loathe coming across them as I cannot run spp in my 1911-10mm due to them not having enough meat on them to reliably be detonated by the firing fin strike location.

I use them hog hunting mainly in my hi point carbine as I know I’m not gonna find them, and don’t mind losing them.

For what it’s worth, I’ve discovered that subbing a small pistol mag primer will make the performance on the chrono be loosely identical to the large pistol standards I use in most of my other 10mm loadings.

 

[Catswithguns]

Yep, cci and federal do it, as do a few other manufacturers. I loathe coming across them as I cannot run spp in my 1911-10mm due to them not having enough meat on them to reliably be detonated by the firing fin strike location.

I use them hog hunting mainly in my hi point carbine as I know I’m not gonna find them, and don’t mind losing them.

For what it’s worth, I’ve discovered that subbing a small pistol mag primer will make the performance on the chrono be loosely identical to the large pistol standards I use in most of my other 10mm loadings.

I had to look to see what the latin phrase under your avatar meant. Quite philosophical.