Primers - In general

[petey]

I agree with Catfish on CCI. I've tried all makes and manors of primers. Seems like most of you have had good luck with them, but let me tell you that CCI is the ONLY primer I've ever had actually fail, (in two separate boxes out of two different guns in the same caliber) That is a missfire. A couple from the bench and one at game, and the fireing pin wasn't an issue. Those were benchrest primers also. I will never use them again. (talk about embarassement when your handloads don't fire!)

New cases, no internal lube/grease to cause issues and the primers left their manufactured packaging into a hand primer tool, and were primed with no touching.

I could see something like that happening if a fellow had grease/oil on his fingers and he was handling the primers, but I don't handle any primer in that fashion. I didn't even send the POS primers back to the manufacture, b/c I didn't want them to replace them w/ another POS primer. I just pitched them... Everyone can have a defect, but once I had multiple from two different boxes (probably same batch) I just gave up on that particular manufacture.

I guess once you get a soar taste in your mouth you tend to go another route. Hope the rest of you that use them don't experience the same issues.