bishop952000
New member
Evening. I have a questions regarding .243 primers and am going to give a little background so please bear with me. I'm new to reloading and and going to be using Sierra 55 grain pills. I've looked in my Laymen manual and they don't have a recipe for that light of a pill. I borrowed a co-workers Lee manual and it doesn't have a recipe either for the bullet I want to shoot. Sierra does have a recipe that calls for Federal brass, I'm going to use Winchester because that's what I have plenty of and it calls for Federal primers. The Lee manual doesn't recommend using Federal primers and one other. It does recommend using CCI and Winchester primers however. Since I'm new to reloading I was going to follow the recipe from Sierra as is, except for the brass. But after reading the Lee manual I'm now confused as to which primer to use. Do I use the Federal as it calls for or can I use one of the Lee recommend primers? Any help from you who have been reloading would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.