CCI small pistol in 650

[e-mishka]

Right now im running winchester small pistol primers in my 650 with no problems. Now i have an option to get some CCI small pistol primers on sale.

Are there any issues with running CCI small pistorl primers in 650?

[Pop N Fresh]

I've ran at least 15k of them through my 650 last year with only the occasional upside down primer (maybe 1 in 500) only CCI issue I ever had was a large pistol primer lodged itself in a primer tube which the fine folks at dillon quickly replaced

[mizer67]

I've run ~20K through mine without issue since December. Seat easily and no light strikes in my guns.

[reichebrown]

Off thread topic but I didn't know dillon would replace a tube with a primer stuck in it.. (face palm) oh well live and learn.

[3gunnah]

I have run over 25k through my 650 in the last 5 years with ZERO issues. Also several Thousand SR CCI as well.

[whistlepig]

There have been some posts on other threads here on BE about some serious quality control problems in some CCI primer runs in the last year, to wit: out of round and squished, but to be fair I did exactly what you are talking about (finding some at a good price) and have had 0 problems. I got 5000 and they all looked good. I have run about 1400 through a 650 with no problems.

[basman]

Picked up 10K at a great price. Zero issues.

[e-mishka]

Thanks guys, just wanted to make sure before i buy 10-15k

[dillon]

Current production CCI primers are fine. It is a good idea to periodically push a small cloth patch wet with alcohol through the tubes to clean them.

[kalaur]

It is a good idea to periodically push a small cloth patch wet with alcohol through the tubes to clean them.

Q-tips seem to work great for this. Every 10k rounds or so I'll cut q-tips in half, wet one with alcohol, push it through the tube (I use a the plastic primer follower rod), then push a dry one through. Repeat until no more yellow priming compound is showing on the q-tips. I do this with the magazine tube, as well as all the primer tubes.

[Simon]

8k last year without any problems

[Retread1911]

Current production CCI primers are fine. It is a good idea to periodically push a small cloth patch wet with alcohol through the tubes to clean them.

Great advice. I have never cleaned my primer tubes and likely should. I clean everything else on a regular basis.

Perhaps I have been in a cave for a decade but I just found the blue primer fill tube caps. Makes it much easier to fill the primer feed tube in the reloader.

[wes777]

I seem to be the oddball here in that I have had lots of problems with CCI primers. I ordered 10,000 at a great price and have spent a lot of time regretting it. The issue I am running into is that the primers will cycle in the 650 just fine, but they hang up in the primer pockets on a regular basis. Have contacted Dillon and my primer punch is aligned correctly. I have had zero problems with Winchester primers and will gladly go back to using them.