Thanks for the suggestion but SW is geographically undesirable as they are per website limiting you to only 1k primers per purchase right now
Thanks for the suggestion but SW is geographically undesirable as they are per website limiting you to only 1k primers per purchase right now
... and wait six months.
The current gun-buying panic isn't going to last that long (they never do), and soon all the guys who have been stocking up on components to kill time reloading while they're locked down with COVID will be back to work or whatever they were doing before March.
Only very rarely do I ever see 41's locally here and when I do it is never in any quantity. Which is why I usually buy them online and in the bulk boxes. Just checked - Even Midway and Brownells are both OOS on the 41's with no backorder available. Sportsman's Warehouse online shows zero 41's or regular 400's in stock currently for my store.
With the recent run on ammo and components a guy would be lucky to see regular cci 400's sitting on a shelf at any retailer here.
If 400's were all I could find - I would buy and use them without hesitation as I have done in the past. Plenty of others have used them in AR pattern rifles as well for years and reported zero issues with slam fires.
"What would a $2,000 Geissele Super Duty do that a $500 PSA door buster on Black Friday couldn't do?" - Stopsign32v
Well don't think I will have any more primer issues reloading for my AR's. Stopped in my local Cabela's today on the way home from work and they were literally setting out bricks of CCI 450 small rifle primers with no limit so I bought 10k.
I have been reloading. 223 all spring and testing loads thinking I had my loads too hot. Now I read the CCI 400 primers have a thin cup and flatten easier giving the impression the loads are too hot. Where was this thread in April ? I guess it's better late than never.
kwg
400s are a Non-Issue. There's not much to gain from this thread other than the idea that bad info can get perpetuated.
If I'm loading 5.56 pressure ammo, I pull factory ammo (LC) with crimped primers anyway. 450s are just usually overpriced. The only REAL problem I see on occasion is not related to cup thickness, but the fact that the primers will pop out in certain chambers with reloads that have less than tight primer pockets.
That's a pain because you often get a stoppage and have to find the cup and anvil so the fire control group isn't jammed up.
"What would a $2,000 Geissele Super Duty do that a $500 PSA door buster on Black Friday couldn't do?" - Stopsign32v
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