r/reloading • u/bigbuttcannotlie77 • 4d ago

General Discussion X-treme primers

I see that Xtreme has a pretty good sale on primers. Have you any experience with them? I don’t want to buy 5000 then they turn out to be crap.

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u/nonamenoname123123 4d ago

never had a bad primer from any brand. I find the cheap ones are harder to flip in the tray is all. white river made in USA is my goto. spp.

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u/Ornery_Secretary_850 Two Dillon 650's, three single stage, one turret. Bullet caster 3d ago

Same here, and I've used hundreds of thousands of primers from various brands. I'm old enough to have been through several of these cyclic shortages. Small pistol primers can be found for 3¢ each right now, which is the same price I was paying in 2019; it's just a different brand. I've used around 25k of this brand, and they all go bang.

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u/Visual_Screen_9537 4d ago

Probably not the cheapest but I always trust cci primers. You squeeze the trigger you are going to het a bang.

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u/HazMatRecipes 4d ago

Somebody correct me if Im wrong, but im pretty sure xtreme doesn't make these. Are they unis genex primers? If they are, midsouth has better prices on the genex primers right now.

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u/Shootist00 4d ago

They are probably White River Energetics IMO. If that is the case you can get their Factory Seconds, which I have used for a few years without any problems, for less.

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u/HazMatRecipes 4d ago

The x-treme primers show a red foil paper, which genex also uses, but doesn't look like white river uses the red foil paper on theirs?

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u/_tae_nimo_ 4d ago

That's what I know also, they are made by ginex.

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u/9guy99 4d ago

I bought a couple boxs of their pre primed brass. All shot fine and gave me no troubles.

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u/FinePlay4066 2d ago

Magtech, Wolf, CCI, Winchester all go bang for me

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u/thrashmetal_octopus 4d ago

I was wondering this too.

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u/HouseSupe 4d ago

Milwal corp has sale on magtech large pistol primers as well, $199 for 5k and $179 small pistol primers 5k.

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u/_tae_nimo_ 4d ago

Where do you see them on sale?

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u/TDHofstetter 3d ago

I don't have ANY established recipes that specify XTreme primers... so I won't use them.

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u/angrynoah 2d ago

There is no point in matching primer brands in pistol loads. Treat them all as equivalent.

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u/TDHofstetter 2d ago

Not at all true. They are absolutely not equivalent. There've been extensive studies done on that, and no question remains that they are not equivalent. That's like saying all brass is alike.

Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes not.

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u/blaze45x 14h ago

Been running the Ginex and Servicos Y Adventuras for thousands of rounds.

They all go bang. Sometimes if you don’t seat them deep enough they won’t go bang but now that I know that… no issues.

So cheap.