Why Federal Primer Hate

[DocRDS]

In my local neck of the woods, a lot of customers at my son's store turn their noses up at Federal Primers. (no they are not in stock nor does he have a line on them)

What is the story behind this (if any).

I am familiar with the "soft" primer Federal is known for--but that is more a "feature" for some light striking handguns--Personally I've never known people to avoid them and of course before I started reloading, FGMM was THE standard and pretty sure that had Fed primers....

 

[Moose]

Years ago when I reloaded for an M1A I would get slam fires with federal match primers.They worked good in a bolt 308 rifle.

 

[lash]

No hate here. I’ve been using FGMM large and small rifle primers for many years with no issue at all. I also use Winchester Magnum large rifle with zero issues. I suppose if I had primer piercing or slam fires related to primers, I would change to something else for that use.

 

[needham]

a bunch of guys here on the hide the federal 205m and 205mAR small rifle primer is the go to primer.
I use them and love them.

 

[Downtown]

The revolver shooters in USPSA all use Federal primers in their lightly sprung revolvers. Only primer that gives reliable ignition after the trigger work.

 

[1moaoff]

Kind of thae same thing as certain guns like certain bullets or velocity....
Nothing wrong with them. Just an option!

 

[Mr Tibbs]

I’ve used Federal Small Pistol Magnum in 357, Federal Small Pistol, in 9MM, Colt Super 38 Auto. Federal Small Rifle in 223 Remington , Large Rifle in 243 Win, 308 Win, 7.92x57 for almost 2 decades never had failure to fire or any other primer related malfunction.

 

[mr45acp2u]

I was going to say it’s the over done tray and packaging that takes up 5x the space of any other box of 1000.

 

[vinniedelpino]

I was going to say it’s the over done tray and packaging that takes up 5x the space of any other box of 1000.

I like that. It gives me the warm and fuzzies when I have full shelf of reloading supplies.

 

[918v]

Stupid people hate FC primers.

 

[Sniperwannabee]

its reverse psychology

 

[AManWearingAHat]

Nothing, they're a little "softer" to ignite speaking generally but otherwise they're good to go. I use Winchester almost exclusively when times are normal for no better reason than "it's what Ive always used"

 

[DocRDS]

OKay--being rather "new" to the community I didn't know if this was a thing of days gone by (He frequently gets the "Remington is the bolt action standard") or something else.

 

[Steel head]

I always ran CCI, got a good deal on 215m’s and have no complaints at all with them.

 

[charnicus]

205Ms have been pretty rock solid in my 308. Enough so to pay end of the world prices to keep loading with them. I always thought the 210M was more popular than other offerings but could be wrong.

 

[olive drab]

because the packaging is 10x the size of CCI.

They are my go to for everything, but had to switch to CCI for pistol during this shortage.