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Posted: 6/30/2011 3:02:19 PM EDT
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I just bought some wolf primers
wolf large rifle and wolf 223 primers I know nothing about the wolf primers, I have mostly used CCI and a very fet winchester. How does the wolf compare to the CCI and whay does wolf have a primer for just the 223 insted of just the small rifle? |
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I just bought 4K Wolf large pistol primers and haven't loaded any yet either. From what I've read, sometimes they can be 100% reliable, other lots have 3~4% failure to ignite on first try. For the price, I can accept 4 out of a hundred having to be hit twice. I'll just save my CCI's for when I want them 100% reliable. CCI also has primers made specifically for 5.56, they're called number 41 primers. Their primer cups are thicker to help prevent slam-fires in autoloading rifles with free-floating firing pins (AR15). Wolf has their equivalent and "normal" small rifle primers just like CCI.
Mike |
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I've used several thousand Wolf 223 primers, and never had a misfire. I've used a couple thousand Wolf small pistol primers, and never had a problem with them either. When I compared identical loads (77 SMKs, 24.0 gr of Varget) the Wolf primers gave me a slightly lower ES and SD than CCI 400s or Rem 7 1/2s. All the average velocities were within 35 fps of each other. According to the Wideners website, the difference between the Wolf small rifle primers is this: The small rifle SR is similar to Rem 6 1/2s, not recommended for .223 or 5.56. The small rifle magnum SRM has the same primer charge as the SR, but with a thicker cup. The small rifle 223 (or 5.56) has the thicker cup of the SRM, but with a slightly hotter primer charge. Either the SRM or SR223 can be used for 223 rem. |
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I posted the same question about a month ago and got mixed answers also. Some had problems and some didn't. I decided to find out for myself and ordered 3000 of them to try. I've loaded 2000 of them and shot a little more than half of these so far with no problems. These were all LP. I did the same test on my own of Tula SP and have no problems with these either. I think operator error cause the 1% failure rate some are having.
Here is my post http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=42&t=343001 |
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