Primer Quality

[Tod Soeby]

I just opend up a new box of Fed 215 Match primers. I am getting my loads together for Nats next week and I am checking and rechecking all of my components. I noticed that about 20% of the primers look "different". There isn't as much purple on them, or it is missing in some spots all together. In those places it is yellow, or it is the copper "tripod looking thing" (or brass, or tin or whatever it is.....). Is the purple just a coloring that they use? Would it mater a hill of beans as far as ignition goes? All of my primers may have looked like this in the past...it's just that I didn't give a krap before!!

Please forgive my lack of proper terminology as far as primers go......like I said....All I gave a krap about before is that they go BANG and that I get low E/S. I have never used my reading glasses when priming....usualy only safety glasses..............Ignorance is BLISS!!!!

Thanks,
Tod

 

[John Kielly]

That's one reason I stopped using Federals several years ago, that I found different coloured anvils & primer cakes in one single 1000 primer brick, all neatly & mindlessly painted. Federal's respons was, "That's interesting. They come from differnt assembly lines". When the next brick included one primer without any priming cake at all, just a neat paint job on the bottom of the cup, I gave up.

I had missed that one primer until after I took the round that wouldn't fire apart, but it lost me a match.