Primers - In general

[Catfish]

Acouple of months ago I did some testing. I used the same powder charge and same bullet in my .22-6mm for the test. I loaded several different brands of primers in both reg. and mag. Nuch to my supprise the total varation in velosity was less than 60 fps. The most consistant in that load were the Fed. mag. match, and they also grouped the best. I always have several different brands of primers on hand and in both LR and SR. I have found that some rifle prefer different primers with different loads, most of the time not worth worring about unless your shooting compation. The one thing that might be of benifit to to handgun shooters is that the Federal primers have a softer cup than any other brand which makes them the best primer for guns with a light hammer fall. Other than that, I will just add that CCI`s tend to be the worst primers for SD and accuracy in most loads. With most of my varmint ammo that uses SR primers I usually use Rem. 7 1/2 primers. Match primers, in my oppenion, are not worth the extra expence unless your gun in already shooting sub moa.