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Old 04-26-2017, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Toolguy View Post
What you are dealing with is different brands of primers. It is well documented that Federal primers are the easiest to fire with a lighter hammer strike. Winchester is usually the next easiest, with CCI being the hardest and all the other American ones somewhere in between.
That's interesting to hear....and not what I would have thought...given my own recent experiences with CCI. I'm occasionally piercing them with both my 586 and my 627. I was under the impression that my CCI's were made of steel too soft. I definitely poked holes in a few of them. I looked at them under magnification and there is a tiny hole within the crater and black residue around it. I still wonder if I got a bad batch...as I did buy some older stuff from a friend...I think the primers are CCI 550 and late 1980's to early 1990's.
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