Thread: Federal large primers

@rigga. I have had the same problem with 215m primers in my 300wm. All the cases have had pockets uniformed. All my different batches of Norma brass is notched on the heads to tell me how many times it has been fired and one batch of brass is a slightly darker color, even after tumbling. And those cases are always hard to seat primers without a little protrusion of the primer.
I have done comparisons of primers with the same load in my 270 and federal were 80 FPS faster in velocity than the cci. Both were large magnum primers.
I’ve had a few cci not go off before. Never had a federal miss fire

Rupert mate I don't know I didn't look at that it didn't dawn on me at the time although now you mention I should have
Dumb move not to

Yeah Cowboy06 it wasn't that they wouldn't ignite my headspace is fairly tight and when the bullet was home
in the chamber the bolt wouldn't close and I wasn't going to force it so I checked them and found the primer protruding out
I had just gone to a new box of primers so I should have checked the first ones of that box but didn't '' Bad move''
I did have some trouble with cci 200 a few years ago so went to 91/2 rem but I put the trouble with the cci 200 down to using a hand primer
tool because I still have that rifle and now use cci 200 or 91/2 in it with no problems although I prime with my press now and it seats the
primers right in to touch the bottom of the pocket where as the hand tool didn't
I have used Federal for years and never had one not go off I mainly use them in my 7mm rem mag and quiet happy with them