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10-21-2017, 09:44 PM
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Preferred brand of primer for 30-06
I am in the process of gathering components to start loading for a new to me Remington 700. Only item I have left to get are primers. I do have some Winchester LR primers but am willing to try something else.
What do you like and why?
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10-21-2017, 09:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FallAirFever
I am in the process of gathering components to start loading for a new to me Remington 700. Only item I have left to get are primers. I do have some Winchester LR primers but am willing to try something else.
What do you like and why?
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I always have luck with cci 200 in most of my standard cartridges and use fed 215 in the magnums.
I dont trust win primers anymore seen a few failures
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10-21-2017, 10:01 PM
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I generally use Federal primers, and I refuse to use Winchester primers because of the issues with Winchester primers rupturing, and damaging bolt faces.
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10-21-2017, 10:01 PM
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I use dominion although a light striking gun may need to hit it twice. I use federal in that case. I find cci not strong enough sometimes and winchester is lucky if they work
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10-22-2017, 08:21 AM
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I use all Federals. I am sure I have some CCI and Winchester shoved in my drawer somewhere.
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10-22-2017, 08:32 AM
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If you are gonna load north of 55 grains of 4350 or slower powder and will be hunting in below freezing temps, I've always switched over to a magnum primer(proper load development)
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10-22-2017, 08:59 AM
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As we can see by the above answers, it is not critical.
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10-22-2017, 09:04 AM
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I use nothing but CCI. 250's and CCI BR2's
I have found winchester primers specs are a tiny bit smaller. I find CCI fits snug in the pocket, and I have never had a failure in 1000s of rounds
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10-22-2017, 09:15 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by marxman
I use dominion although a light striking gun may need to hit it twice. I use federal in that case. I find cci not strong enough sometimes and winchester is lucky if they work
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CCI not strong enough? The are harder than Federal.
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10-22-2017, 11:34 AM
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CCI not strong enough? The are harder than Federal.
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I mean the power of the primer. I was getting hangfires using blc2 in 6.5x55 and in another cartridge i forget what it was with the same powder. Federal primers fixed it up. This was a few years ago they may have changed but i never had a problem with federal or dominion except the dominion are a bit too hard
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10-22-2017, 01:48 PM
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CCI’s are quite hard. Weak firing pin strikes can be exacerbated by them for sure.
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10-22-2017, 01:53 PM
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Primer choice
We mainly use Federal primers here, either 210's or 215's. We use CC1 450's in the PALMA cases, just getting into that.
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10-22-2017, 02:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by elkhunter11
I generally use Federal primers, and I refuse to use Winchester primers because of the issues with Winchester primers rupturing, and damaging bolt faces.
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Had some old winchester primers. Blew a hole in the side of one. Always had good luck with CCI.
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10-22-2017, 03:35 PM
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CCI200's and when they arent available Ill grab CCI br2 for all standard calibres. For no other reason than ive used a bunch of them, never had any problems with them, and i have a bunch of them. Use what you have, work up a load and go hunting!
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