Light strikes

[iblong]

I just got my GP 100 back from my smith and he did a realy nice job on the action,Its butter smooth.I had this done because I plan on using it in IDPA compition and the stock pull was real heavy at 14 lbs.Well I shot it last night (all hand loads) and it was only about 50% with CCI primers It seamed fine when I used ammo with winchester primers no light strikes in about 50 rnds.
If this was your revolver would you leave it and use Win and Fed primers or would you re spring it so it would use all primmers.Im on the fence with this one,I love the way it shoots now but with primmers hard to come by its a tough call for me.I do have 3,000 CCI primers on hand and 2,000 38 spl.allready loaded.I do have 2 38s I can use them in as for comp I intend to shoot 357's,but the rounds I have loaded for practice would be useless in the gp.Are the CCI primers that much harder than the others?. I get no light srikes in single action.your input is wellcome.My Smith told me up front this could be a possibility and would change it out should this be an issue.
Thanks,Bob

[Dark Skies]

Personally I'd re-spring it. A firearm needs to be reliable - not some prissy spoilt brat that plays up if it doesn't get its favourite food. Besides. Every time a round fails to go off you have to go through the whole thirty seconds safety procedure and unload. On some ranges (here, at any rate) you're supposed to hand the round over to the RO for safe disposal. That's going to get old pretty quick if you're obliged to use different primers / ammo for one reason or another.

[Sam1911]

Most competition revolver shooters are using Federal primers. That's just a fact of the game. A trigger job on a revolver can very, very easily lead to light strikes on hard CCI primers.

When I worked over my 629 (which is my IDPA SSR/ESR gun) I bought an assortment of Wolff springs and started with the lightest set. Wow! What a pull, but sure enough, I got an occasional light strike. Moved up to the next stronger spring and it's been 100% since then. Sure, the pull isn't QUITE as easy, but that's a compromise I can live with.

The best approach in my opinion, is to step up the mainspring weight until you get zero light strikes with any ammo you're likely to use.

-Sam

[iblong]

Thanks guys,I brought it back to my smith at lunch,If primmers were more availiable I would have left it but I need it to work with what I can get.
Bob.