federal primers

**savage308** · January 22nd, 2010, 08:50 PM

i bought some federal primers and they are 205 small rifle primers what is the biggest cartridge that these will fit into

**max384** · January 25th, 2010, 12:26 PM

They'll fit into the largest cartridge that uses small rifle primers. You can find that information in any reloading manual... Was that your question or did I misunderstand you?

**soup** · January 25th, 2010, 01:30 PM

Are you trying to use them in something other than a small rifle cartridge???

**savage308** · January 26th, 2010, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by max384

They'll fit into the largest cartridge that uses small rifle primers. You can find that information in any reloading manual... Was that your question or did I misunderstand you?

Originally Posted by soup

Are you trying to use them in something other than a small rifle cartridge???

no just wondering what is the biggest caliber that they consider a small caliber

**max384** · January 26th, 2010, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by savage308

no just wondering what is the biggest caliber that they consider a small caliber

There really aren't many rifle calibers that use small rifle primers... but .223/5.56 do, which makes it a hard to come by primer... Anywho, the largest round I can think of is the 7.62x39, but they even sometimes use large rifle.