The Best Large Rifle Primers

Whenever I............

start loading for a match I have about ten steps I go through prepping brass, weighing primers, sorting bullets, etc. I know I don't need to go through ALL these steps to get good results, but WHICH one do I eliminate? I don't dare not going through all of them. If I talk to other shooters some follow the same steps, perhaps not all of them. Other shooters follow other procedures. I continue following the same steps after many years of competition
 
slugger said:
The Gold Medal primers are apparently STILL filling military contracts so they will be hard to come by. It is my understanding that the 210s and 210Ms differ only in the color of the box they come in. It has something to do with using their best sorters but the primers are the same. I never could tell a difference between them myself. It's kinda like putting a Select match barrel on your 30-06 for deer hunting; it really doesn't hurt anything but surely isn't necessary.

As of recently, I have had the best luck with CCI BR2 in my loads and I typically use the Remingtons in Small rifle. If I get something really good going, I may experiment a little more with primers but I rarely have much luck fussing with them.

I would like to try some Wolf primers and see if I can get lower ES for the long range loads.
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Federal Gold Medal primers are not what the military uses in issued ammunition (except match ammo). The cups are to thin. The lines manufacturing the Gold Medals were temporarily converted over to make the military primers. The primary order has been filled and lines have been back making their regular runs. People are just buying up a lot of components right now and I can not disagree with that....now is the time to get what you want to last for a good long time.

Hovis
 
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