Replacement for cci 450’s

[Alanh]

I’m hoping there is an answer for this question. Does anyone have an idea for a good replacement? I found powder but as everyone is aware 450 primers are non existent.

 

[Codiekfx400]

Remington 7.5 is a good alternative but they are even more scarce.

 

[IPoutdoors]

CCI 41 is equivalent

 

[shoot4fun]

Remington 7.5 is a good alternative but they are even more scarce.

I'm getting the loads together to test 7 1/2 against the CCI450. It, by all accounts I've reviewed, they are the same hardness and thickness. The 7 1/2 may be just a little hotter but will soon see.

 

[Matt_3479]

I got lucky and just bought 5000 cci 450’s tn actually. But have tested in the past in 3 rifles the 7 1/2’s against the 450’s. I found that they were extremely similar, very consistent. The 7 1/2’s had lower sd’s in 1 rifle and the 450 had it in the other 2 but I’m talking by very small amounts.

 

[TxWelder35]

I'm getting the loads together to test 7 1/2 against the CCI450. It, by all accounts I've reviewed, they are the same hardness and thickness. The 7 1/2 may be just a little hotter but will soon see.

I just did back to back testing with rem 7.5 and cci 450 in my 260 rem with small primer brass.

I saw zero difference in FPS or SD. The 2 are interchangeable. Same in my 223.

Tested with a Labradar

 

[charnicus]

They aren’t non existent. You’re just going to have to pay for em. 41s and BR4s are ones you could look for. I wouldn’t call them equivalent but Federal 205Ms don’t suck. My 308 load works quite well with either.

 

[Alanh]

Interesting... I wouldn’t have thought about the 7.5’s.

 

[22-Dasher]

Main ones are BR4’s, 205M, 7 1/2’s. All those are very comparable to the 450’s performance wise

 

[shoot4fun]

They aren’t non existent. You’re just going to have to pay for em. 41s and BR4s are ones you could look for. I wouldn’t call them equivalent but Federal 205Ms don’t suck. My 308 load works quite well with either.

Luckily, I fell into a closeout deal a while back. I got several thousand 7 1/2s for an unbelievable $5/1,000. I bought them to use in 221 Fireball and 17 Ackley Hornet.
No they are not for sale.

 

[Alanh]

Well after checking around for way more time than I want to admit, 450’s and 7.5 are gone everywhere. I backed out of a match this weekend so my 12yo could shoot but that was it, not a single primer left. I have some H4350 to trade if anyone has 450’s.

 

[nn8734]

Well after checking around for way more time than I want to admit, 450’s and 7.5 are gone everywhere. I backed out of a match this weekend so my 12yo could shoot but that was it, not a single primer left. I have some H4350 to trade if anyone has 450’s.

There’s plenty of CCI450s on gunbroker; most listings are $200+ per thousand.

 

[Alanh]

Yea I guess that is going to be the place I end up going to. (Catch-22) Buy the grossly over price primers- then not enough $ left to register for the matches lol.

 

[patscrazy]

Tula Small rifle mag primers. Just able to score 2000 for $60 locally from a guy getting out of reloading.

My velocities are about 10-20 FPS higher than the cci450s. Must have a harder cup though. Seating force necessary is greater on same lot of virgin brass.

 

[Tx_Aggie]

There’s plenty of CCI450s on gunbroker; most listings are $200+ per thousand.

And many of them have been bought specifically to resell from places like Midway within the last couple of months, at regular retail price.

Same as always during a panic.

 

[nn8734]

And many of them have been bought specifically to resell from places like Midway within the last couple of months, at regular retail price.

Same as always during a panic.

Writing was on the wall in 2018 when we lost the House so that’s when i started buying powder and primers whenever I had extra funds. Money was reallocated from other non essential shit to reloading supplies. They were still plentiful up until Covid then shit went crazy.

 

[tsu45]

Tula Small rifle mag primers. Just able to score 2000k for $60 locally from a guy getting out of reloading.

My velocities are about 10-20 FPS higher than the cci450s. Must have a harder cup though. Seating force necessary is greater on same lot of virgin brass.

Holy shit! You bought 2 million primers for $60?

 

[patscrazy]

Holy shit! You bought 2 million primers for $60?

Couldn’t pass it up . Never enough right

 

[Alanh]

Wish I would have had the foresight to buy up extra supplies. Oh well.