CCI Primers?

[what2be]

Can someone please explain why people keep telling me CCI primers are bad and to stay away from them? I know CCI isnt synomous with quality, but a few of my reloading friends told me to not use them for reloading.

And while trying to do a search on here for CCI Primers, I ran across alot of posts with people either selling CCI primers or wanting to trade them off.

Are they only good for plinking stuff or are they fine and im coming across some FUD?

I still dont understand how a primer really matters much. I was under the impression as long as it went bang you were fine, but I guess if they have varying degrees of igniting the powder then maybe there is a difference in them?

[Experimentalist]

In my limited experience CCI primers tend to be "harder" (more mechanically resistant to deformation) than similar primers from other manufacturers.

In the worst case this increased hardness can result in misfires.

[Ahhnother8]

Many of the best long-range shooters in the world use CCI primers. Anyone wanting to "dump" 20-50,000 CCI BR primers, just let me know.

Lane
2007 U.S. Palma Team
2008 U.S. National Team
2009 U.S. National Team

[J-cat]

Your reloading friends are ignorant.

[sgtbuck]

When I started reloading 223 I was told by many reloaders and Lee corp to only use cci primers. So that's what I use (when I can find them) and neverr had an issue or miss fire from them.

[NRAhighpowershooter]

Other than my Service Rifle OLL in which I use Wolf primers. I use nothing but CCI in my match rifles, Varmint rigs, and handguns. I only recently switched to Wolf in my Service Rifle because I was given 10K of them and they showed a slight increase in accuracy, but before that I had used CCI in my Service Rifle for 10yrs. I've also never had a misfire using CCI primers..weather they were CCI200's, 400's, BR-2' or BR-4's, SP or LP primers either.

[ivanimal]

CCI primes for 20 years without issues. Find new more informed friends here!

[cassius]

hwomever is telling you this is pulling your leg, or simply parroting some line of BS that was told to them.
There's nothing wrong with CCI primers. They've been doing the job just fine for decades.

This sort of nonsense about primers is like folks arguing over sports teams.
soft primers, hard primers, magnum primers, overblown slam fire tales,

Sometimes reloading just seems like a giant screwed-up game of 'Telephone'. With the worst sort of pedantry, lore, and gunshop FUD passed around as edict. That's not even counting the increasing numbers of dysfunctional compulsives that seem to be coming to the field.

[10fcp]

That's pretty much all I use. Agreed I have heard that they have a little harder cup than others but I have never had a misfire or issue with any of them. The nice thing to is they are a little cheaper than most when you can find them.