What is your favorite primer?

[Burnt Powder]

Well, I'm not so sure that this topic wasn't well coverer in years gone by. I'm a bit foggy right now with the names/personalities involved, but it was just arround the end of the BIG war that it was detirmined that one particular lot of Frankford Arsonel primers were indeed more accurate. They commanded a premium in the old long range rifle days. I forget again just who, but memory leads me to Townsend Whelen, Atkens, Keith, maybe Oconnor saying that the finest accuracy is always obtained with the "coolest" primer that fully ignites the powder charge. They had done a fair amount of testing for the government at Abradeene and Frankford to develop those conclusions. Wonder if that principal still applies?? I get my best results with RP primers, they are "supposed" to be the coolest available. No, I seldom shoot magnum, large capacity chamberings with slow burning powders for extreme accuracy. And again, the coolest that will fully ignite, and that may indeed be a Federal Mag primer, but it doesn't need to be used in a 7-08 or a Br cartridge.

BP