Decided do a load up with federal small pistol primers and Hornady xtp. (9MM)

Typically I've been using CCI but I think they're a little harder cupped and have been having ftf.(on multiple guns).
Anyways... I'm thinking Federal Engineers don't do a lot of reloading if they package the primers like this

Packaging them sideways takes up a lot of room, and more of a Pia to put in tray... That is all, thank you for listening

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I'm ok with them...I just loaded up 600 rounds with Federal primers last night, didn't give me any issues. It is weird their boxes are so big...not sure what that is all about.

The boxes are big because they put them in sideways instead of upside down flat

Seems like a silly waste of space. I have full 1000 boxes of the Fed small pistol primers that dwarf tiny 1000 ct boxes of CCI and Winchester large pistol primers...

Exactly, and they don't fit in my drawer now

Putting them in reloading trays sucks compare to CCI as well

If they streamlined their packaging they could probably sell them for half price.

If only

Rem primers are loaded sideways and their boxes are really small. Smaller than CCI and WAY smaller than Fed.

@dryflash3 So you're saying if they lay flat they have a chance to go off?

But why sideways and not flat?

Sure makes it a pain in the ass to put them in a tray that way

Interesting

Not as bad as the Winchester primers that have some kind of rough coating on them, making primer flip trays useless

Edit: these ones with the white triangle in the corner

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They are Supposed to be doing things that make it easier

You just gave up a benchmark post count lol

I think I'll blame this on them too

Federal primers go off from sympathetic detonation easier.

I tried  a case in my 1050 one time, never again.

I mail ordered a bunch of primers. Much of it was Federal...  When it arrived and I opened the package, my first thought was WFT?!

I don't give a rats ass about whatever the heck happened at the warehouse.  I just know this:  The damned retarded Federal primer packaging is a mess.  Who ever designed this shit must have come up with the packaging idea during a pause in window-licking as they rode the short bus home from daycare.

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The packaging is nearly twice the size of the primer tray on all my tools, and it makes it just about impossible to load the primers from the package into the tray without dropping the damned things everywhere.  I know that CCI, and Remington, and Winchester and every body else can apparently manufacture primers by the billion, and stick them in packages that don't suck....

Damned Federal primer packaging reminds me of Buffalo Bore ammo:  Lets stick 50 little .380 ACP cartridges into the same box we use for .45-70

My solution is simple:  I no longer buy Federal primers, for any reason. It isn't worth it.

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