Winchester 209 primers

[lazydrifter]

Just a heads up for those living up on the Olympic Peninsula.  Swains got in a bunch of Winchester 209 primers.  I haven't seen these for a long time.

[Sabotloader]

Just a heads up for those living up on the Olympic Peninsula.  Swains got in a bunch of Winchester 209 primers.  I haven't seen these for a long time.

That is a really good sign that shotgun primers other than Cheddite are starting to show up.

[wadu1]

If you use them, get them while you can. The plant that makes them had an explosion last week killing one employee while transporting the chemicals to make them. I haven't seen any more Infor on this lately. 

[Dirty Mike]

Just a heads up for those living up on the Olympic Peninsula.  Swains got in a bunch of Winchester 209 primers.  I haven't seen these for a long time.

That is a really good sign that shotgun primers other than Cheddite are starting to show up.

do you like the cheddite?

[Henrydog]

I have loaded just short of 10k cheddite with zero issue except finding recipes is a little harder.  I still prefer Winchester but nothing wrong with cheddite. 

[Sabotloader]

Just a heads up for those living up on the Olympic Peninsula.  Swains got in a bunch of Winchester 209 primers.  I haven't seen these for a long time.

That is a really good sign that shotgun primers other than Cheddite are starting to show up.

do you like the cheddite?

For myself I have been using them for years reloading Trap shells and really have never had a problem with them.   I have experimented with a little in a ML and they have worked,  But... they are a shorter primer and very slightly fatter as they built to metric standards.  Originally they were built to mimic the Winchester W209 in performance.

[wadu1]

Off the topic on this post, regarding Win 209's.
Back story, I was shooting Sporting Clays in Scotland with two Retired engineers. Engineers being Engineers after a round of clays it was time for a cup-a 9 (tea). The two started asking me what primers I used for reloading. The previous year the two took a brick of Fed, Win, CCI, Rem, Ched, Nobel, RIO and Fio’s and mic’d each one, did a heat test, and a pressure test. When done the Ched came out on top for being the most consistent.