CCI Primers

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Has anyone had any problems with CCI brechrest primers, Out of a brick I have had 25-30 that have not gone off. I was told it could be a seating problem, I don't belive this because all the wincheaster's work.:runaway:
 
Yes I have problems with CCI primers, my 226 has less problems than the M&P. Adjusted the seating depth as well so we will see.
 
Have you taken them apart? Do they look like they fired at all, is there clumps of burnt powder? Or is everything normal except for a dent on the outside of the primer? Do you think you had them too deep, not deep enough? Any noise at all, when run through the gun, or just the click of the firing pin?
 
Used them for years 1000s fired never had one not work, check there is no oil contamination like wd 40, other than that I would have to say your seating them to deep
 
I've had a lot of problems with the magnum primers. I had to give up on them in my .338 Edge this winter, with constant misfires. A few actually went off and welded the powder together without fireing the cartridge. :confused: There was just a pinhole burnt through the compound without even lighting the whole primer. The rest of the bad ones just didn't go off at all. I swapped to a 32 pound firing pin spring, checked protrusion a thousand times and still got misfires. Then I switched to my hoard of 215 Match and never had another. Big difference from 2-3 out of ten.
Funny thing is, I've shot a ton of CCI Benchrest without any issues.
 
I had a few CCI250's that FTF a decade ago. Used a few thousand since of CCI400, CCI200, CCI br2, CCI250 with zero issues
 
Oh sure :) I just picked up a few 250's today for my Edge and now I hear guys having troubles with them. CCIBR2's very little troubles with those. For a while I was sizing cases with collet die and then tumbling them and might have had a kernal of media in the flash hole. I stopped that nonsense and no issues since.
 
Br2's and Br4's

The only time I have had issues with CCI primers, and I have used thousands and thousands. Is when I have not seated the primer correctly, and when the firing pin stikes the primer, it just pushes the primer into the primer pocket further.

When seated correctly the primer always fires when struck by the firing pin.

Check the seating of the primer (assume you are using a hand priming tool for best feel of how it is seated). Or check that the firing pin will strike the primer with the correct force/depth.

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