I used many thousands of CCI primers with full satisfaction. Occasionally made excursions into use of Federal brand, buying cartons of five, 1K boxes thereafter, but that had to do with a cheaper source of those. I was doing a lot of IPSC shooting with .45 ACP, and was always on the scout for a more economical way.
Then I got my Dillon 550B loader and the company cautioned against use of CCI primers in their auto primer feed. I observed this caution and used Winchester almost exclusively, with the occasional thousand or so of Remington, also with full satisfaction.
Three or four years ago, a friend came up with a BUNCH of old CCI primers and gave me a box of a thousand. These were in the old green and black checkerboard box, like the company, Cascade Cartridge Industries (how many of you knew THAT??) back in the sixties when I started loading. I don't know when they changed the box design, but the primers could easily have been 30 years old. I momentarily forgot the Dillon caution, and used these old primers in the 550B. Nary a glitch.
JPG
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