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Posted: 4/14/2013 3:25:59 PM EDT
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I had a long overdue backorder for primers come in a couple of weeks ago. The LPP's are CCI 300's. I loaded some test rounds and everything looked good. My previous loads were Federal match LPP and all I did was switch from those over to the CCi's. Everything else on the press is exactly the same and the rounds are coming out identical in every respect. Went to shoot some of the new loads and about 1 in 5 won't fire on the first try. There is a nice firing pin strike on the primer but it takes 2-3 tries to get the primer to finally ignite. I loaded a mag with the older Federal rounds and everyone fires perfectly. Back to the new ones, same issue. The only thing I can figure out is that the CCI's must be a lot harder than the Federal match primers. I stripped my slide and cleaned everything and even changed out the hammer spring but am still getting the same results. Anyone else have issues with the CCI 300's before?
This is with an HK45. I am the second owner and the first owner sent it to Bill Springfield for a complete trigger job which is why I swapped out the hammer spring just in case it was a lighter one but it appears to be the stock spring. I fired some factory CCI ammo through it just fine but it is small primer and they are copper colored instead of nickel so I am guessing they are not as hard as the large primers they sell. Ron |
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