Servicios Small Pistol Primers.

[Hugger-4641]

Thought I'd share my experience so far since I've seen a few bad and good reports on them.
I know its a small sample but so far they've all went bang. I've only fired about 60 out of the brick I bought. These were in .40sw and .357, mostly .357
What's interesting to me is the sd I'm seeing. I chronographed some .357 158xtp, all same brass, all same powder charge, same Coal, etc.. The only difference is the primer.
I shot these round robbin in my Henry Big Boy this evening in the order listed:

Fed Gold Metal gm100m:
1613, 1667, 1615, 1668, 1642, 1620

CCI 500:
1721, 1696, 1690, 1672, 1580, 1676

Servicios:
1710, 1725, 1705, 1705, 1690, 1701

I know its a small sample so far, and maybe I got luck of the draw with a good batch, but now I'm gonna have to test some .40 in my G23 and some 9mm in my PCC just to see if the trend stays true.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Thought I'd share my experience so far since I've seen a few bad and good reports on them.
I know its a small sample but so far they've all went bang. I've only fired about 60 out of the brick I bought. These were in .40sw and .357, mostly .357
What's interesting to me is the sd I'm seeing. I chronographed some .357 158xtp, all same brass, all same powder charge, same Coal, etc.. The only difference is the primer.
I shot these round robbin in my Henry Big Boy this evening in the order listed:

Fed Gold Metal gm100m:
1613, 1667, 1615, 1668, 1642, 1620

CCI 500:
1721, 1696, 1690, 1672, 1580, 1676

Servicios:
1710, 1725, 1705, 1705, 1690, 1701

I know its a small sample so far, and maybe I got luck of the draw with a good batch, but now I'm gonna have to test some .40 in my G23 and some 9mm in my PCC just to see if the trend stays true.

The company name, Servicios y Adventurus, transliterated means, “For duty and game.” My observation is similar to yours: these are closer to small rifle than small pistol as far as platen hardness and brisance are concerned; plus, the anvil design suggests they are for use in service weapons where a slamfire is a possibility. Or at the least where firing pin intrusion is a good possibility.

I have only tested half a brick so far but the firearms I’ve used with known weak fire mechanisms had trouble with about 1:100 while those with known brisk fire mechanisms had no problems. And they worked about the same as SR primers with W296. That is a good clue right there.

 

[cougar1717]

SA primers throw sparks in the daytime and create larger than normal flash in low light, but still sets off 100% with a 1st gen S&W M&P. That M&P only runs about 90% with Tula primers. I do not consider SA to be "hard" primers. They function well, but probably aren't ideal if you compete for time.

 

[stonebuster]

I've shot another 200 S&A primers without any issues since I last chimed in on this subject. That's a total of @3K with two FTF which I believe I didn't seat deep enough. They were the from the same box of 50 and went bang the second strike. Using them with HP-38 at near 38+P levels.

 

[Soonerpesek]

I've shot another 200 S&A primers without any issues since I last chimed in on this subject. That's a total of @3K with two FTF which I believe I didn't seat deep enough. They were the from the same box of 50 and went bang the second strike. Using them with HP-38 at near 38+P levels.

Me LIKEY to hear all the positive results with the SyA primers...........
I am having the same positive results after almost 1000 of 'em...............................makes me glad I purchased 2 cases...................prolly more in the NEAR future...................