Went to the local gun show today and managed to pick up some small rifle primers. The usual company I deal with at this show was limiting primer/powder purchases in kind of a weird way. If you bought primers you had to spend the same amount in other merchandise (as luck would have it I needed a new Lyman loading manual and some 7mm bullets for the .280 Rem). You could buy a maximum of 1000 Small Rifle Magnum primers and a total purchase of 3000 primers. Powder was something else all together and they didn't have anything I needed. So I picked up 100 CCI SR Magnum for my .223 loads for about $33 which I thought was a little higher than normal. Later on walking around I found a guy selling Fiocchi small rifle primers for $40/1500 and he had probably a case left. Never used Fiocchi primers before but I've used their shotshells before and found them fairly decent. Broke out the smartphone and did a quick search for people reporting problems with these primers, when I saw positive reviews I went back and snatched up 3000 of them. So all told I ended up with 4000 Small Rifle primers I can use in the .223 although I'll have to rework my loads a bit with the Fiocchis. If these Fioochis work out well then I may switch to them altogether since they seem like a better deal and extra $8 for another 500 primers seems like a good buy to me.
-Infidel
-Infidel