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Now to CCI primers. Remember about 3 years ago when Obomamania hit and all components got scarce? Right then one of my buddies who doesn't have a computer discovered he was plumb out of Large Rifle primers and there were none to be found locally. I told him "no problem, pard. I'll chase some down on the internet". Hah! All the usual suspects were showing L.R. primers as "back-ordered". I kept checking back daily and then one day I hit the Cabela site and they showed CCI as "in stock". So I ordered the pard 10,000 and figured I'd better pick me up a 10 pack as well.
A few days ago I was out plinking with some freshly loaded 30wcf casties, and had a "FTF". But it fired on the second try. And I remembered I'd had two others not fire within past year; one of them was still sitting all lonely amongst a batch of fired brass, waiting to have the bullet pulled. So I pulled it yesterday and it is one of these "new batch" of CCI primers. Here's a pic of front and back: So to the best of my recollection this makes 2 "FTF's" and one that took a second try out of about 2500 primers used so far from that batch of CCI L.R. primers. About a 0.1% fault rate.
I guess the only point I have here is to note how fantastically reliable primers are that this level of "fault rate" is a shock to my tender system. I've been loading for lots of years and may have had a failure from a CCI primer sometime previously, but I sure can't remember such. These particular primers were obviously made when the crunch was going full-bore and I'll bet CCI had put on some new employees to speed up production. I may have got the only bad primers CCI ever produced: friend Butch hasn't had a failure out of his batch yet, though I don't think he has used a thousand so far.
This doesn't qualify as a "rant". I'm just remarking that primers have been almost wonderfully reliable for me for something approaching 50 years. Which almost gets our manufacturers an "attaboy".