Winchester Primers look different to me...???

I’ve used Winchester Primers before for small and large pistol but they were always blue box and brass color primers. These are white and nickel and the inside looks red which is foreign to me. Anyone here know more about these than me and if so please explain. Thanks

Those primers look like Winchester ones I used many, many years ago.

They are old stock, the ones with lead in them.  IIRC Winchester switched to the blue box/brass colored primers in the 1990s. I bought a case (5K) of the old ones at a gun show two years ago; they all went bang.

cdrt wrote:They are old stock, the ones with lead in them.  IIRC Winchester switched to the blue box/brass colored primers in the 1990s. I bought a case (5K) of the old ones at a gun show two years ago; they all went bang.

Yup,
Sold hundreds of thousands of those back in the day.

Al wrote:

cdrt wrote:They are old stock, the ones with lead in them.  IIRC Winchester switched to the blue box/brass colored primers in the 1990s. I bought a case (5K) of the old ones at a gun show two years ago; they all went bang.

Yup,
Sold hundreds of thousands of those back in the day.

We used to get them for $12 a thousand or $50 for 5K at the Sacramento gun show.

I tested some 40 year old cci primers in a YouTube video and they worked fine. You are likely ok but maybe use them for only training rounds.


John

Surgeonwithagun wrote:I tested some 40 year old cci primers in a YouTube video and they worked fine. You are likely ok but maybe use them for only training rounds.


John

I'm still using some Fed 215's that were old stock when I started working at a sporting goods store in 1976. Ignorance is bliss, they had all the primers stacked & stored on top of the steam lines (wrapped of course) for decades. Never did have a single dud out of thousands of them.
Al

I still have a case of Small and Large Rifle from the first big panic back in the late 90's, 

think I paid $60 a case,

FWIW, the "New" Winchester primers (when they changed from silver to gold color) are supposed to be more sensitive and give better ignition with lighter strikes. I tried them when they first came out and I still had FTF in my PPC revolver so I'm not convinced they are as soft as Federals. I do use winchester for everything else and they works fine in all my guns except that revolver.

John