Hey quit bashing my state's exports
I have used a lot of CCI, Winchester, Remington, and Federal primers over the last 30 years (I just went through 5,000 in the last 3 months) and I can't distinguish that any one primer is better then any other. scrat if you are having that many FTF with CCI you need do some investigating and find out it the primer is really dead or whether your gun is not dimpling the primer enough. I don't doubt that the hardness of the primers vary between the manufactures but if your having an issue with one brand of primer over another I suspect that the culprit is the weapon providing that they were handled the same and used in exact same reloads. I read here recently here on the Forum that primer not seated deep enough can cause a FTF. I don't know whether it is true or not; I would think that a protruding primer would go off easier since they are closer to the firing pin and more prone to cause a slam fire instead. True or not I always check my primers when I load my cartridges into their storage boxes more so because I am more worried about slam fires instead of FTF. In 33 years of reloading I don't think I have had more then 5 primers FTF. Three of those were because I sprayed down a gun while out hunting with WD40 that I soaked it in a snow storm and it was two hours back to camp where I could clean it properly. I didn't remove the three rounds in the magazine and the next day they wouldn't fire, the primers were dead.