Weird primer

You are not supposed to reuse them

Nature Boy said:

Found this in a new pack of SPP

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Good luck with finding the story on that one.

I found one of those too, also in my CCI primers in small pistol. It came out of an unopened case I bought this year and that case had a full sleeve missing out of one of the bricks. That was my first case of CCI primers in 25 years and it will be my last.
Never had that problem with Winchester primers.

The primer I found looked exactly like that, I already pitched it.

One assumes they test fire an occasional item at the factory. Some employees playing a joke on the consumers.

It’s the primer that sets off the OCD of having an odd number of loaded rounds, or an odd number of remaining primers. Either way, it’s enough to keep a reloader up at night.

What does it look like on the inside? Been fired or fired and reprimed?

Some guns come from the factory with a fired case. Maybe the primer is included in that sleeve as an example of a fired primer?

I've seen strange stuff in ammo boxes, but that is a weird primer.

I 've never had that kind of problem! Perhaps as an earlier poster said, it was a joke by factory workers

beeenbag said:

It’s the primer that sets off the OCD of having an odd number of loaded rounds, or an odd number of remaining primers. Either way, it’s enough to keep a reloader up at night.

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I'd like to think I have gotten better at not letting things like this bother me,
but I haven't perfected it yet. LOL

Let's do the numbers....

Going off of just the number of Primers used by "us", what would be the percentage value of this incident?

0.000001 ???

How many Primers does CCI produce?

But seriously folks... I would not want that primer to show up on my bench either.

Thanks for sharing the Pictures & info.

beeenbag said:

It’s the primer that sets off the OCD of having an odd number of loaded rounds, or an odd number of remaining primers. Either way, it’s enough to keep a reloader up at night.

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Naw. Klutz here always manages to drop a few which bounce under the bench or otherwise become lost. I keep an odd box that supplies the ones to make up a batch of 100.

When I first started this game years ago I worried about all the little “land mines” lost on the floor.

Looks to me like a test primer. They must have extensive sampling of outgoing product; one could bounce back in.

whughett said:

Naw. Klutz here always manages to drop a few which bounce under the bench or otherwise become lost. I keep an odd box that supplies the ones to make up a batch of 100.

When I first started this game years ago I worried about all the little “land mines” lost on the floor.

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I have been reloading for around 10 years and still will hunt for entirely more time than I should for a dropped primer. It’s a disease

beeenbag said:

I have been reloading for around 10 years and still will hunt for entirely more time than I should for a dropped primer. It’s a disease

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Wait until your my age getting down to look isn’t worth the effort it takes to get back up.

Nature Boy said:

This is what makes it even stranger. There’s no primer compound in it

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Well clearly you know what this thread will result in?

CCI primers are crap and should be avoided at all costs!
The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.

beeenbag said:

It’s the primer that sets off the OCD of having an odd number of loaded rounds, or an odd number of remaining primers. Either way, it’s enough to keep a reloader up at night.

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Very early on in one's reloading experience, you should have run into that. I have extras of each type of primer I use for various reasons. You just grab one of those.

To some, it takes less than that to change brands.

@Nature Boy are you going to contact CCI?

That’s a new one for me.

Stay safe.,