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Previously there were warnings about Winchester primers. I'm wondering what primers you like and why.
Thanks
Jim

I like Winchester, Federal, and Remington. I have a lot of CCI, but haven't used them in years.

I have been using mostly CCI and Winchester primers with an occasional patch of Federals. I haven't had the problems with Winchester people have mentioned so I keep buying them on sale.

I had several misfires with Winchester LRP, Winchester generously re-imbursed me more than I paid for the primers and sent pre-paid packaging for their return. I switched to CCI although I had used Winchester LRP and LPP for 30+ yrs. without any problems.

I have and still use nearly all of the available brands, including Winchester. The only primer failures that I've encountered with handholds have been when I experimented with One Shot case lube a few years back.

I had been using up the remnants of a brick of CCI Bench Rest 2 when I began getting misfires. 14 misfires in 3 different rifles and I pulled the remaining from primed cases I have. I bought that brick about 10 years ago and I'm down to the last 100. It had served me well until this last year. My Win primers are used up and I'm about to get another brick of something. I never had a problem with Win primers but am wondering what you folks are using.

Winchester. New ones are fine.



P

Once the potential issue with some lots of Winchesters came to light I shelved the ones I had and Federal 210's more or less became the first primer grabbed. Although I did start to use CCI 200's more as well. My lot of primers never showed up on the list of affected primers and so I began to use them again.

And like Pharmseller said, the new ones should be fine.

^^^^This^^^^

federal 215 are what Ive used for 4 plus decades with zero issues
Ive never even heard of anyone having issues using them

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/953586171/federal-large-rifle-magnum-primers-215

the only primers I occasionally had hang-fires and duds with were Remington large rifle primers

Seem to be. I made sure mine were recent production, not Obama-era. No issues after several hundred fired.

CCI, never an issue. They always have gone bang when they were expected to go bang.

All Winchester back in the day (silver cups). When the new brass cup primers came out, I used them until split cups messed up the bolt face on a couple of my rifles. I buried all my remaining Winchester primers in a bucket of oil too quickly to get anything back from Winchester. (My bad) Since then I’ve used nothing but CCI and Federal. Hopefully, as Pharmseller noted, the new ones are okay.

I use CCI, Federal and Winchester, along with some Euro-brands that also work well.

Winchester, CCI and S&B.

It might be difficult to trust a brand that has underperformed in the past. Just remember that every once in a great while, every company has needed to recall one or more of their products. Oops! It has happened to them all. If they were consistently bad, they would be out of business.

Federal GM match and CCI Br's when I can't find the Federals.

Federal match.

CCI 200 and 250 Mag, Federal 210 Match and 215 Mag, Winchester LR and SR, Remington 7-1/2 Benchrest and 9-1/2 Mag.

Only issue I have had is with the CCI 250 Mag in my .460 Wby and using Var-Get and a 400 grain Speer. Kinda hard to concentrate on shooting when you're getting hang fires. I use Federal 210 Match and 215 Mag in the .460 Wby now.

Never had a problem with any Winchester primers that I can think of.. Also have lots of CCI & Federal that have been trouble free. Had a bad small pistol primer on a 38 Spl. load about 10 years ago but I'd have to dig out my notes to identify what it was. Now that I think about it maybe it was a Winchester because back then I had a lot of Winchester SP primers.

Mostly Federal 210's. I had several misfires with CCI 200's in 2 30-30's and a 45-70 so I've gotten away from them.