Would any of you know of a wholesale or retail business that I could purchase a box of CCI Magnum 209 primers from? Would purchase a box of 100 of the Federal 209 magnum primers. Black Horn powder requires the hottest 209 primer available and I read on MM that these two were the hottest. I need to purchase a box of hot 209 primers. I cannot find either locally. Cow Tag
CCI Magnum 209 Primers or Federal 209 Hot Primers
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TripleSe7en
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What gun is this for? Do you have a factory breechplug in it? You may be eligible to use the mid-level Winchester 209s, which are easier to find. Plus the Winchesters are a wee-bit longer, cut back on blowback and easier to extract.
What gun is this for? Do you have a factory breechplug in it? You may be eligible to use the mid-level Winchester 209s, which are easier to find. Plus the Winchesters are a wee-bit longer, cut back on blowback and easier to extract.
I have a TC Encore in .50. It has the factory breech plug. I read a while back on MM that a shooter could use the Winchester regular 209 shotgun primers for Black Horn. I am wondering if the Winchesters perform as well as the CCI or the Federal magnum? I can purchase the regular shotgun primers made by Winchester locally....I live in deep south Illinois near Paducah, KY. thanks for your comment.
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I also was thinking I needed the mag primers, but after talking with a lot of guys shooting bh209 they said that all I need is a federal 209 primer, the magnum primer is as they put it a myth. Will see. I'm going to shoot mine for the first time here in a couple days.
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I believe Muzz is mistaken. The Federal 209A is the hottest primer available right now, followed by the CCI-Mag.
The Winchester 209s are fine for your T/C Encore with Blackhorn. I own a T/C Omega. Any of the top-5 I listed below will work fine. I never used the Cheddites thou. With those, I'm going by what other members say.
FED 209A
CCI 209M
FIOCCHI 616
CHEDDITE 209
WIN 209
CCI 209
REM 209
I believe Muzz is mistaken. The Federal 209A is the hottest primer available right now, followed by the CCI-Mag.
The Winchester 209s are fine for your T/C Encore with Blackhorn. I own a T/C Omega. Any of the top-5 I listed below will work fine. I never used the Cheddites thou. With those, I'm going by what other members say.
FED 209A
CCI 209M
FIOCCHI 616
CHEDDITE 209
WIN 209
CCI 209
REM 209
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I have shot almost an entire 10 oz container of Blackhorn in a Knight rifle using Win 209 shotshell primers. When everything is correct it fires everytime.
I have had problems with to loose of a projectile/bullet but never a failure due to using non-magnum primers. I do have a box of the CCI 209 magnums but have not had reason to try them so far.
I have had problems with to loose of a projectile/bullet but never a failure due to using non-magnum primers. I do have a box of the CCI 209 magnums but have not had reason to try them so far.
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Just be sure you get the regular Winchester primers, NOT the Winchester 777 primers.
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The federal 209a is a magnum primer. I have tried both federal 209a and cci 209 mag and i felt the cci's gave me slightly better accuracy and less blow back in my gun. So i have used those. I also tried a few other primers. With any less hotter primers i could only fry my gun 4 to 5 times before i would have miss fires. With the cci mags and fed 209a i fried over 10 shots without ever having a miss fire without clean the breech. I would just assume use the hotter primers and never have to worry about the gun going off in cold weather.
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Yep and a big thing that I notice is that the hotter primers like the cci,cci mag and federal 209a primers, leave the bore a lot cleaner while the lower temp primers leave a ton more soot in the bore and unburnt powder granules.
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