Another Screwy Lot of CCI Large Pistol Primers

[Tall]

I am still using CCI Small Pistol primers from the 1980's. Never a problem with thousands of them, SPP and LPP.

[COUSIN DANIEL]

From may 2020 I have not bought cci primers, I had no idea about the quality just am now glad I only bought federal.

Dodged a bullet

[Horn Ridge]

Hate to bump an old twice bumped old old thread, but...........I found myself at the bench tonight priming new Starline 45 ACP with {old} brown box CCI 300's. The ones where the primers lay sideways in the trays instead of flat. Anyway, using my Lee Auto bench prime I thought I was going to break the handle out of it trying to seat them. First one out the gate didn't feel right. Didn't seat deep enough to get out of the shell holder. Hmm.......take the tray off, rotate the brass half dozen times and finally get it to seat.

Update again.....I put some case lube on my fingers and rolled the edge of the primer around and they seat like you'd expect a primer to seat. I think there is a micro burr around the bottom edge and they're galling. It's frustrating but I'm determined to use them up. A "newer" batch of blue box CCI's seat just fine in the same brass.

[Bills Shed]

You blame the primers. Have you checked THE NEW brass?
Did you uniform the primer pockets to confirm your statements?
Blame is easy, details are better.

Bill

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[Horn Ridge]

You blame the primers. Have you checked THE NEW brass?
Did you uniform the primer pockets to confirm your statements?

Yes, I can confirm it is not the primer pocket.

[JSnover]

This thread will be old enough to buy itself a drink in a few years. Maybe whoever inspects primers at CCI won't be there much longer.

[Electrod47]

For a guy (me) that considers himself fairly unlucky and never won anything in his life, I must have been the luckiest guy in the world for the last 45 years buying CCI primers.......

[flintlock62]

It's been a while since I posted on this forum. I have never had a problem with CCI. Every brand I've used, I've also found no problems, including Winchester, Remington, and Federal. I've loaded quite a few thousand with about a total of 5 mis-fires. I have had a couple of mis-fire with quality factory ammo as well.