Any Thoughts on CCI Primers?

[Alvarez Kelly]

Spend your time LOOKING for them and quit worrying about whether they work.....thet have worked reliably; they DO work reliably, and they WILL work reliably.

Good grief.

Unless, as Love Life pointed out, you have very light springs in your revolvers...

As long as you realize that one application where maybe they are not the best choice, they will work fine...

[newton]

Personaly, primers are primers to me. unless you got a specific load and are working on the very best accuracy. right now, ANY primer at a reasonable price is what I would use. I dont know if its just my area, but they are scarce...except the guys that have them who are selling them for twice what they normaly sell for.

[1hole]

"Good grief. "

Roger that.

I've been reloading since '65 and the only brand of primers I've ever used is all of them and they have all worked quite well. ??

[John Guedry]

I've never had a "primer problem" 'cept maybe finding 'em.

[Harter66]

CCI is about all I load. 38/357/9mm/40 S&W/45 ACP for SMPP. I even loaded them in some 556 I chopped up for RBH 357 shot shells.

[Woody3]

I use them as well as others. Knock on wood, I've never had a problem with them in my dillon or in my firearms. When this frenzy dies down, I'll buy another few k.

Just my 3 cents

[1616s16]

way to say it good grief
1616s16

[Kydaddy]

They are dangerous. Please send to me for proper disposal.

[doulos]

Ive loaded and fired many CCI primers in small and large pistol both regular and magnum, Large rifle. Never had a problem. In fact Ive only had one failure to fire in the thousands of rounds Ive reloaded and that was a Winchester primer. And I still wouldnt hesitate to use them again or CCI or Federal.

[csmopar]

Another vote of confidence here, I've been using them in all I load for. Including ARs, never had any issues with them at all. Buy and stack em deep if you can find them

[rmb721]

I use mostly CCI. I am happy that I have plenty right now.

[David2011]

Like Love Life said, they are hard to light with lightened revolver mainsprings. Other than that, they're great. Other than revolvers, I use them in my 1911/2011 guns and everything else that needs small primers and they always work. They feed more smoothly in my Dillons than any other brand. I'm a fan of Federals in revolvers.

David

[dragon813gt]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so how do you think I feel about them


Old pic and that's just what I keep in that cabinet. I've used most brands but CCI is always my first choice. It's the brand I started with so I've stuck with them.

[chambers]

Good primers to use, work well in progressive presses also.

[wrench man]

The only time I ever went away from them was when a ***! Taurus Gaucho wouldn't lite them off, but it wouldn't lite Winchester, Remington or Federal's either!, then this last summer when the SPP's seemed to disappear I picked up some Winchesters, I don't know how many thousands of the CCI's I've touched off and never had one issue!, in these tough times I find myself down to about 12K CCI's of various flavors on the bench now!?

[GabbyM]

My stock S&W K frames punch deep dents in CCI primers. No worry there.
CCI leaves a littel less crud in the primer pockets.

[RobsTV]

CCI was my go to primer for everything, and seemed to work well.
Stock S&W X-frame not so good with CCI.
Hangfire (delayed fire) is not something enjoyable with a S&W 500 shooting 440gr slugs at 1450fps.
After half dozen combined over several shooting sessions, switched away from CCI and all problems solved.

[r1kk1]

I've used the major four primer companies. I've uniformed primer pockets and use a K&M seating primer gauge. I've seen ES tighten up with a primer change. I've seen different shooting sports switch from one manufacturer to another over the years. What I haven't seen is a consistent results across a plethora of cartridges. Too many variables. I use Federals and Winchesters mostly but the CCI 350s I use in big bore pistol with ball powder. Nothing against Remington as I've seen these shine in one barrel for one wildcat and something else in the other. This is across the chronograph but targets can be hard pressed to see a difference.

I have not shot Magtech, Wolf, or Tulas. I have seen people swear by one primer brand and swear at another. I keep the big four on hand for load development. It also seems that depending on where you live in this country seems to dictate what is available. I've noticed this on my travels. Thank God for mail order.

It's nice to have a choice. The import primers may be a hidden gem but I don't know. I like them all and can say they all have a home on my bench.

Take care

r1kk1

[DxieLandMan]

Although I have used other brands of primers, CCI is the brand that I use most.

[375RUGER]

I recommend them. Never had one that didn't go bang. Been loading with them for 20 years. Recently been loading some that are a lot older than that and they go bang too.