I will (hopefully) soon be a new reloader and was talking to one of my mentors yesterday about primers. I mentioned that there local gun shows seem to have CCI primers, but hardly ever any other brand.
He said that if you use CCI primers on then you have to keep using CCI on that brass from now on because CCI primers are larger and stretch out the primer pocket. He claims that if you switch from CCI to another brand, you will get some gas leaks on any brass that used to use CCI.
This guy loads about 20,000 rounds a month for himself and ome law enforcement buddies, so I tend to expect he knows what he is talking about,
Has anyone else found this to be true? Or is he (ugh!) blowing smoke?
Tnx!
He said that if you use CCI primers on then you have to keep using CCI on that brass from now on because CCI primers are larger and stretch out the primer pocket. He claims that if you switch from CCI to another brand, you will get some gas leaks on any brass that used to use CCI.
This guy loads about 20,000 rounds a month for himself and ome law enforcement buddies, so I tend to expect he knows what he is talking about,
Has anyone else found this to be true? Or is he (ugh!) blowing smoke?
Tnx!