Until this component shortage became an issue I loaded only Winchester primers. With those becoming scarce I secured some Cheddite primers. I’ve loaded a couple thousand shells so far.
I was shooting my Remington 1100 on the skeet range. (Yeah, yeah, I know.). After shooting the singles I dropped a shell in the receiver and then tried to load one into the magazine for the doubles on station two. The shell wouldn’t load and I discovered there was a spent primer preventing the shell from going into the magazine tube. The same thing happened one more time the following round.
I was shooting Winchester AA CF 20 ga hulls that had probably been loaded 3-4 times. I don’t imagine this will become an issue while shooting the shells in an over an under, but I shoot a number of autoloaders and this could become problematic when I’m shooting games that require two shells. I‘ve read the various posts about the concern of Cheddite primers causing an issue with oversized primer pockets. As I shoot more of these reloads it will be interesting to see if the two occurrences are isolated or I will have additional issues.
I was shooting my Remington 1100 on the skeet range. (Yeah, yeah, I know.). After shooting the singles I dropped a shell in the receiver and then tried to load one into the magazine for the doubles on station two. The shell wouldn’t load and I discovered there was a spent primer preventing the shell from going into the magazine tube. The same thing happened one more time the following round.
I was shooting Winchester AA CF 20 ga hulls that had probably been loaded 3-4 times. I don’t imagine this will become an issue while shooting the shells in an over an under, but I shoot a number of autoloaders and this could become problematic when I’m shooting games that require two shells. I‘ve read the various posts about the concern of Cheddite primers causing an issue with oversized primer pockets. As I shoot more of these reloads it will be interesting to see if the two occurrences are isolated or I will have additional issues.
