Wolf Small Rifle Magnum Primers? Good or fodder ?

[abishai]

Long story short. My LGS is calling it quits despite my best efforts to give them all my money.
In a last hoorah, I paid 400 bucks for 20K Wolf Small Rifle Magnum Primers (SRMs) all the same lot (7-10 with a purple circle).
I really liked the large primers and their 22 cal match ammo but I have no experience with the SRM
primers. In a perfect world I would have time to mess around with them but life is busy.
Are these best left for 556 bulk loading or some 6 GT F class ?
I todays world I figured any primer on the shelf is a good primer.
Thank you

 

[ELR LVR]

Wolf SRM's I have found are as good or better than Rem 7-1/2's
I love those primers

 

[pikespeakgoat]

My 30 BR loves them as do 3 of my 6mm BR's.

 

[Highpower-FClass]

Long story short. My LGS is calling it quits despite my best efforts to give them all my money.
In a last hoorah, I paid 400 bucks for 20K Wolf SRMs all the same lot (7-10 with a purple circle).
I really liked the large primers and their 22 cal match ammo but I have no experience with the SRM
primers. In a perfect world I would have time to mess around with them but life is busy.
Are these best left for 556 bulk loading or some 6 GT F class ?
I todays world I figured any primer on the shelf is a good primer.
Thank you

Wow, that's a lucky break. I would *really* like to come into 20,000 Wolf SRMs at 2 cents a piece!!!!

 

[Jason Boersma]

Wolf shoot great

 

[jimcasey01]

Buy all that you can. They are excellent.

 

[LAH]

I've used a couple thousand in my 223 bolt gun with H335. No problems.

 

[Preacher]

Some of my best numbers has been using these Russian
primers, no matter if they say wolf or Tula...
My 6brs love em, my 22 + 6mm + 25 + 6.5 x 47 Lapua love em. !!!!!
Sweeeeeeet catch. !!!!!!!!

 

[DHD]

They are a very good primer as many others have stated. IME they want a very good seat, or crush if you prefer that wording. I think their claim to fame is a thicker cup and standard consistent pressure especially with small flash hole brass.

I have never seen higher velocities with them, but very consistent es/sd and very consistent accuracy if the rifle/load is good.

I am pleased that I still have 5K+ of them, but don't use them except for one rifle right now.

 

[Rwfish]

Very good primers. About 10yrs ago they had issues with the anvils coming loose on their spp. I had purchased 10K of them.. When I contacted them they indicated what I had may be fine but they sent another 10K at no charge and told me to enjoy them all…. Good company!

 

[TC260]

$400 for 20K Wolf primers...I'm calling the cops to report a highway robbery

 

[Dgd6mm]

Wolf/Tula. Not SRM but I did buy 30,000 from the last vendor that had both SRM and the LRM that I bought for $19.99 per 1000. Wish I had bought some SRM at the time since most of my shooting these days and will continue to be SRM cases. I have 1000 of SRM in different varieties.

 

[pauls]

Great primers - have had better SD's with them than several domestic brand primers. I'd easily buy 20000 for $400. Good purchase - ya dun good!

 

[CJ6]

If it needs a SRM it gets a Tula/Wolf primer.

 

[jpjulian]

Those are some really good primers. Fabulous score!

 

[Pete Wass]

Long story short. My LGS is calling it quits despite my best efforts to give them all my money.
In a last hoorah, I paid 400 bucks for 20K Wolf Small Rifle Magnum Primers (SRMs) all the same lot (7-10 with a purple circle).
I really liked the large primers and their 22 cal match ammo but I have no experience with the SRM
primers. In a perfect world I would have time to mess around with them but life is busy.
Are these best left for 556 bulk loading or some 6 GT F class ?
I todays world I figured any primer on the shelf is a good primer.
Thank you

I'm down to 5k, wanna sell any?

 

[Laurie]

What @DHD says in post #9 - excellent performers and very 'tough'.

These are the Murom manufactured KVB-5,56 model which as the designation suggests were designed with 5.56 military applications in mind with a thick and very strong brass cup ('silver' nickel plated in my old PMC brand version). It uses the same mild explosive filling as the standard (soft copper cup) SR version (KVB-223).

They can be too mild for some powders especially in SRP versions of larger cartridges, so Murom introduced a slightly more aggressive brass cup colour version under the name SR223 (KVB-223M) a few years before supplies were cut off through trade sanctions.

 

[Shifty6br]

I had the complete opposite results as others above...

Bought a box of the magnum srp Lot# 16-10... during the first scare shortage back in 2012., used them in 6br as I was getting low on 450's.

Experienced erratic hang fires, trigger press, a good second or so later bang...some would hang some wouldn't. Very inconsistent.

Eventually refilled my stock of 450's and problems went away...perhaps it was a bad batch or they had really really hard cups I don't know for certain, but personally for me I would not entertain the thought of using Wolf primers again.

ymmv

 

[Laurie]

Experienced erratic hang fires, trigger press, a good second or so later bang...some would hang some wouldn't. Very inconsistent.

What powder? As I said in Post #17, they are very mild - too mild for some powder grades for consistent ignition.

If you have a read of the first (223 Rem) part of this look at Winchester StaBALL-Match tested in 223 and 308,

https://www.targetshooter.co.uk/?p=4151

note the increase in MVs when I loaded three of the 223 batches with Rem 7.5BRs instead of PMC (Murom) SRMs.

 

[Shifty6br]

What powder? As I said in Post #17, they are very mild - too mild for some powder grades for consistent ignition.

If you have a read of the first (223 Rem) part of this look at Winchester StaBALL-Match tested in 223 and 308,

https://www.targetshooter.co.uk/?p=4151

note the increase in MVs when I loaded three of the 223 batches with Rem 7.5BRs instead of PMC (Murom) SRMs.

Varget