Yep, a lot of fitting and fiddling went into the building of a top shelf PPC gun, but they were designed to keep on running... 60 rounds per match for many many matches. They just keep on shooting well!

I heard about the Federal primer situation way back in the eighties and preferentially loaded them, but occasionally used Remington or Winchester (if I had to) without issues. It was an article of faith that CCI made the "hardest" primers, so I didn't even try them. BTW, I was shooting the demo gun Fred Schmidt built to take to matches, etc. I bought it from his estate and campaigned it locally for a few years.

Froggie