Magtech Primers

[Yankee]

A few older posts here indicate that Magtech primers are reasonable quality and fine for most non-precision applications. They have only just appeared at my local store (Australia) and are half the price of Winchester, CCI, Federal, etc but no local shooters have any experience with them yet. I just wanted to confirm with some US shooters that they are still reasonable quality. Anyone have first hand experience? I am mainly loading 9mm, .45 acp, .303, .308 and 30-06.

 

[PC40]

I've gone through 1 or 2000. They seem to be hard like CCI but work well in guns with stock springs. Magtech ammo is fair to good quality.

 

[Redneck with a 40]

I went through a brick of 5000 awhile back, small pistol, no problems.

 

[ReloaderFred]

I've gone through approximately 20,000 MagTech small pistol and large pistol primers, and find them to be almost as sensitive as Federal primers. My tuned match guns that won't reliably set off a CCI primer have never had a misfire with either Federal or MagTech primers.

My advice is to buy all you can afford before the prices go up like they did here. Now they're the same price as Federal, Winchester, Remington and CCI in the U.S.

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[Yankee]

Thanks - looks like they'll suit my needs just fine. Prices are pretty bad here in Oz with Federal and Winchester going for $65 per 1000 while the Magtechs are only $38. Those are Australian dollar prices which works out to about $27 USD for the Magtechs and $45 USD for the other brands.

 

[democrat]

Hmm... I wonder why the prices went up here.

My advice is to buy all you can afford before the prices go up like they did here.

 

[1SOW]

Democrat: It surprises me...considering: , but you're right.

NOBODY CAN SHOOT ALL THE COMPONENTS AND AMMO BEING SOLD(out).

But, I'll try.

 

[Yankee]

My advice is to buy all you can afford before the prices go up like they did here.

A lot of gun shop stock was purchased back in the golden days of mid-2008 when Australia's dollar was the same value as a US dollar and when the idea of Obama as President was still a joke. Gun shops are already warning customers about the higher prices we are are going to have to pay shortly due to our currency decline and the massive demand for components in the States.

 

[ReloaderFred]

I stocked up two years ago, and I'm really glad I did. I haven't had to buy much lately, but the time will come when I'll have to replenish.....

And Democrat, my stocking up had nothing to do with your inability to find components now. I stocked up when they were plentiful and lots cheaper than now.

Fred

 

[45ACPUSER]

I have had good results with Mag tech LP and SP in HK USP, G17, and Sig 220. But, I did not have reliable ignition in my tuned 625's with the large pistol primers, so they are not as sensitive as Fed 150's as some alluded too IMHO.

 

[otblue]

Have only used the Magtech's in small rifle size (haven't seen the other sizes yet). Gone through several thousand and really can't tell the difference between them and the USA brands, in my particular application. My dealer said that they were MilSpec hard but it doesn't say anything on the box. My tests using the SR primers in a few pistol loads does tend to confirm this though.

 

[jjohnson]

Quite Good Enough

I've used maybe 10,000 of their primers in the last year. No problems.

I don't shoot high precision match - the majority of the ones I've used were Small Pistol primers with maybe 2000 Small Rifle primers. No failures, no problems.

Since I haven't done any scientific analysis, I can't tell you if they're great for high precision. I CAN tell you that they're very reliable - I have had zero failures so far. I would not hesitate to use them for anything but precision shooting, and that caveat is only because I don't have data one way or another. Being bargain priced and available, I bought many and haven't been disappointed.

 

[Afy]

I just used some Magtech Small Pistol primers...
Seem to go bang just fine.

 

[presidents_topgun]

I've had ignition problems with Magtech primers. So far its been in small rifle primers only and no failures in the large rifle.

 

[hanno]

I'm working on my second thousand of Mag-Tech large pistol primers and so far all have gone bang. No complaints.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Like the others have said, MagTech primers are just as good as Federal, Winchester and CCI primers. I've also used over 5000 Wolf primers and they are good too.

 

[greyling22]

I've had a couple boxes come with a few missing primers (say 94 instead of 100) and they are a little hard. even had a few dud's, but on the whole they work fine. given equal prices and a choice I would buy something else though.