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Whatever you can your hands on.  Federal have been hard to come by.  I'll think I'm going to get small rifle on my next order.  It seems a lot of people use them for pistol and rifle.

 

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So I have used,, wolf, federal, cci, win, magnum, small rifle, small pistol in race guns,in 40 s&w , I guess I’m lucky they all went bang

not a lot of difference Unless you are right on top of pressure..

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I ran about 180pf for a long time with fed sr primers. Got some umc sr gave to me and had one rupture. So now I only use fed sr for major and I use what ever I can get for minor.

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On 6/8/2018 at 9:24 AM, wingnut said:

Winchester or Federal primers for open gun

I use either based on availability. SR Fed or Win. Both work great at major pf.

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I typically like federal primers, but after having availability issues, I have been using Winchester small rifle primers and they have been working well.  I'm considering switching over to winchester, but the only reason is because of the packaging. 

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4 minutes ago, 3gunDQ said:

 

I have run thousands of S&B in my SVs and they all went boom. 

Pistol or rifle? SB rifle are they only primers that I could not make work short of a 22# mainspring. Pistol were as good as Winchester, not as sensitive as Federal. The price was definitely right.

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I prefer CCI 500.  I get better SDs with them over the WSP.  They are slick and always round so they work extremely well in a primer tube filler.  They always go bang.  I do have some WSP, but I don't like them.  They are often out of round and jam up the primer tube filler, plus the are harder to seat.  I have to use then for one CZ, because the 13 lb mainspring won't reliably fire CCI.  As soon as I can find a 15 lb spring, I'll switch it and go to all CCI.  I have nothing against Federal, except they come in huge boxes.  20,000 of them take up an enormous amount of room.

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  • 3 weeks later...

I used to use federal small magnum pistol with no issues but have recently switched to win small rifle cause of availability. Have shot maybe 3-4K rounds and have been reliable with a 17lb mainspring 

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