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Joined: 04 Mar 2019 Posts: 1841 Location: Central ND

Cold Iron,

Those Cheddites don't pierce in your shotguns?

They pierce in just about every shotgun I use on a regular basis. 16 ga. 1100, 16 ga. Citori, 16 ga. 870, Benelli SS and a Beretta 686. I even put new firing pins in the Citori, 1100 and the Benelli, they still pierce.

I wish I could use them.

This made me check my spent primers in the tray & the spent hulls I have. I do not recall any pierced Cheddite primers in the last 5000 or so between the re-primed & new primed hulls, and definitely none in the last 300. Very deep hits for sure, but no piercings that I can tell. These are all with my Citori.

Maybe you got a defective batch?

Joined: 04 Mar 2019 Posts: 1841 Location: Central ND

Citori16,

The first time I tried them was a few years back when I bought 500 new primed Cheddite hulls. Just about every one pierced in my 1100.

I deprimed the rest of the new hulls and tried the primers in other loads/guns, with the same issue.

I put new firing pins in the 1100 and Benelli and the Citori had brand new pins in it.

It's fairly common (others have complained/commented about it), and with the price of primers I am a bit concerned that if I buy 5,000 and they pierce.......it wouldn't be good.

I probably should go to a LGS and see if I can buy 100 and see what happens with newer stock.

Joined: 09 Mar 2016 Posts: 754 Location: Mn.

Joined: 04 Mar 2019 Posts: 1841 Location: Central ND

I'd buy RIO G1000's again. They don't pierce and they work pretty well with my 700-X target loads.

My favorites are Winchester 209's and Federal 209A's. I arrived in ND 9/2020, before this nonsense started with 10,000 Winchesters and 5,000 Federal 209A's, plus some CCI 209 and 209M's.

I have about 5,000 Winchesters left, 900 Federals and 2,000 RIO's out of a case that I bought at the end of 2021 and a few CCI209M's. I don't like being this low on primers.

Joined: 06 Jan 2017 Posts: 88

i have to make a correction to the post I made above about reloading the new Herters hulls. Although they shot without any problems, the crimps on some of them were starting to unfold. Just reloaded them. Added a bit more crimp depth and I don't think that will be a problem from now on. Looking at the results of the 2nd reloading, it looks as if all of them should make a 3rd reloading unless you're concerned about the occasional small split at the case mouth, around 1/2" or so. I think most of them will likely make a 4th reload. Too bad they're twice as expensive as the previous herters shells were, but that appears to be life these days for those of us who reload 16s.