CCI Primers

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The usual place was out of WSP's so I decided to give the CCI's (Small pistol) a shot.

anyone have any insight to these..??

I found that I had major problems with them.. about 3/4 of the rounds has FTF's or FTE's .

I'm loading a .40 in 180 grains with 4.1 of w231.. WSP's are perfect and not a single problem in 3000 rounds, but the first 30 CCI where a nightmare..
 
Cups are hardest I know of, some guns will not ignite them properly. Especially bad in wheel guns. I use them in my PARA without problem, but this is not the first complaint I have heard.

Andy
 
I have tryed them and will never use them again in a gun that has had a triger job done as i had to many miss fires
 
Using them exclusively for my STI Open...no missfires....had problem before with another STI Open...with a SVI Triglide trigger

Edited: Over 30k used so far
 
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Think it very much depends on the lot. I have had some that varied significantly in diameter and had all kinds of problems in my Dillong 550. That said I have recently had to buy some and had no problems. Prefer Winchester or Remington in my pistol cases.

Take Care
 
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Crap !!!
Wish someone posted this last week before i just loaded up 800 rounds of
.40 S&w with CCI primers on a single stage press( needless to say my shoulder is sore)....
Cracked off 300 of those rounds today with my brand new STI Edge and I got 14 failure to fire!!!! was so mad i came home and threw the last 200 primers in the garbage.......DONT USE THEM!!!.
hope the other 500 rds will fire in my buddys s&w sigma.
JOHN442
 
Humm through my Edge I have shoot thousands of them....no failure, the problem I have is with the light trigger on one of my open gun...
 
Never had any problem with igniting my reload of 45ACP with Winchester, CCI, Federal or Remington. Now & same with my 9X19 semi-auto.

Though when it comes to a revolver in DA only & breathed on for light trigger puls then Federals only & I stick with Winchester brass as the primer cup is shallower.
 
I use CCI 500 excusively in my 9mm loads... Never in my customed up revolver on account of the action job. They are hard! I have never had any problem whatsoever with them that wasn't directly traceable to my own error in setting up the primer feed or failing to push the handle all the way forward on my Square Deal B to seat them properly.
 
I've only had a problem with my PPC revolver.

I have a 26lb hammer spring in my BHP9, and it sets off CCI's.

They are good primers, but the cups are harder.

They aren't any harder to load than Win or Fed.

RePete.
 
tried the cci primers in the sigma won't use them again but the gun was being fussy and was having mis hits even on another set of primers so i went home and added a spacer in the firing pin to get more pressure and hopefully that will fix the problem. we'll see in a couple of nights weather permitting got my fingers crossed don't really want to use factory load i'm cheap black badge on april 22 so hopefully i figure something out
 
I do not know were all those failure to fire come from. I never had a CCI not firing in 30 years !! There is something wrong here, be that some of you tumble their load ( this can damage the dry primer pellet ), bad handling, bad storage. poorly seated or modified gun. I shoot an average of 25 000 rounds a year..and NEVER had a single one not going off.
 
Ive been using CCI 200 primers for my 303 brit, and have had no misfires as of yet. However i just started reloading this year with my Lee hand press and probably reloaded only about 500 rounds so far. Im quite yhappy with them so far and dont plan on changing brands as of yet.:)
 
Janeau said:
I do not know were all those failure to fire come from./QUOTE]
Mainly they are talking about tricked out firearms, especially revolvers that strike lightly (light trigger pull). The consensus is that the CCI primer requires more pressure to set off. If you have a normal to heavy trigger pull, you should not have any problems.
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