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I had several FTF issues with Remington factory ammo, some Magtech primers during the shortage and recently with some old manufactured CCI 250 primers I picked up at a gun show for $15. a thousand. Traced all issues to the primers or in the case of the Remington factory ammo poorly formed primer pockets.

I have had 2 in the past several years...both were CCI 200. I am thinking that when this batch is used up I may switch.

Same lot or different?

If there us a marginal firing pin or spring problem a miss fire is more likely with a CCI primer because they generally have thicker cups

A good friend dropped the hammer on a 35 Rem (Remington Factory Core Loc Round) in a Marlin and it went click.... on his nicest deer this year. Needless to say he has spent the fall and early winter going through the 10 pages worth of self doubts.... and what ifs.
Round still failed to fire at the range the next day. And the Buck is still walking but looks up a lot more now in pictures!

I've only ever had one primer fail to go bang in over 20 years. It's so rare I don't worry about it. I wouldn't fret over one misfire over hundreds or thousands of rounds either. However, if I was getting several from the same batch of primers I'd be a bit concerned. The recent Winchester primer issue from a couple of years ago has seen my buying CCI instead.

Same lot

I had a bunch of misfires with Win small pistol primers that were bought around '10-'11. I bought about 2k of them, they gave me fits. All from the same lot. Misfires in different guns and chamberings, so I knew it wasnt a gun problem. Called Olin, the basically told me too bad.

I havent bought a WSP since then, nothing but CCI's and no issues.

The 2 I have had misfire from CCI 200 were in 2 different guns, and 1 had just recently had a new spring put in the firing pin because it was striking lightly. I think it is a primer issue for me