Reeder Custom Guns - some strange primers hitting the market

this last week or two we have been able to buy several thousand primers that I have never seen before. They are made by CCI and are listed as the #41 primers, meant for the 5.56 loading. Not sure if that means you can't use them for other situations where small rifle primers are intended.
The down side is the cost. Buying them in 5000 round packets they cost us well over $110 per thousand. Plus shipping and Haz Mat. So we are having to sell them for $14.95 per 100 pack. I hate it that we have to jack up the prices but it is either that or sell none at all. And we aren't selling them in bulk or by the thousand. They are going by the 100 pack so everyone will have a chance to get some.
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are hammer fired and not striker fired as most rifles.

If so I would bet you would have way more problems with the G-2 and Encore than most rifles. The single shots have a small hammer fall to set off the primer and it isn't the hardest hitting hammer around being lightweight and a fairly mild hammer spring, especially if you have had an action job or your hammer is wearing one of those silly hammer extensions that cause a lot of misfires due to slowing down the hammer fall. Either way I wouldn't put the single shots in the same category as a rifle. The rifle has a 7 or 8" firing pin and a stiff firing pin spring. Unless the spring is worn thru the years or the rifle has had a way too light action job done to it, they seldom misfire.

In old Contenders and Late (stock, Non-modified) G2. But I’ve not shot the military spec caps or tried them on a chassis with a lighter hammer spring.

I’m not sure about the story of thicker or harder cups. I’m a little skeptical. I figure they just use brass, unplated cups, and bland packaging to cut costs. But I’d not really try any rifle caps in a revolver. I have before myself though, (I actually do a lot of goofy things you probably shouldn’t) some worked some didn’t.

1000 Remington Percussion caps.

is the highest I have ever seen percussion caps.

I bought 100 CCI at local shop a couple weeks ago ...$12.00 plus tax.

primers. We have had several thousand of them ordered since March or so and nothing yet.

illegal here in this county so black powder rifles and such are a very small percentage of our sales. I don't remember the last time a customer came into the shop asking for a black powder rifle.

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danger.

years back... towards end of the 20th Century. Can't remember the number, but CCI and labeled for military calibers. Large Rifle size, got a lot of misfires/no fires in the old P17 and quit using them. I think the old rifle's mainspring needs swapped out. Anyway, the military caliber designation indicates a harder primer cup than usual. You'll need a health WHACK to set it off reliably.

Reading Townsend Whelen's book on reloading and doing the math, he was paying the equivalent of $10 per hundred for large rifle primers back in the 50's. It hurts to see them retailing for half again as much, but not unexpected with the current situation. I'd pick up a pack to try "just for grins and science" if dropping by your place.

It’s a military spec primer for the 556 ammo developed by CCI.
Usually reserved and sold to ammunition manufacturers for military ammo contracts.

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