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Has anyone else had light primer strikes with Fiocchi 616 primers? or Fiocchi factory ammo?

Ask me in November. I�m hosting a duck hunt for Fiocchi USA in Oct and they will be bringing all their new shells

I have had misfires with factory Fiocchi TTi 21g (3/4 oz) 12 bore loads. They are gun sensitive being 100% OK in some guns and up to 25% 'light strike misfires' in two of my other guns (both o/u Merkels).

None. Ever.

I've used perhaps 40,000 Fio 616.

Only thing that won't light reliably is Titewad. Fio 616 is better with a flake powder than with a ball powder.

I finally had one misfire a few years ago. One in 40K is pretty good, and it apparently had no priming compound.

That said, all my Fiocchi primers were/are a few years old. I have not used 'current' manufacture Fio 616's.

Like Shotgunjones I've used maybe 40K-60K 616's. No problems whatsoever. Can't comment on the ball powder thing. Haven't used ball powder for 25-30yrs. Been an Alliant user nearly exclusively for 25yrs or so.

Straight ball powder is very regressive burning. Virtually all ball powders whether shotgun, pistol or rifle are thus coated with a deterrent to slow down their initial burn rate & make them more progressive. This also makes it harder to ignite.

For shotshell reloading, I have almost universally used Hercules/Alliant powders.

I did too until their self induced shortage a few years ago when their products were unobtainable.

As much as I hate buying from the modern day version of 'The Powder Trust' (Hodgdon) I discovered Titewad.

It's great stuff, and the best thing ever made for gas automatics. That's not important to most here but it is to me. It works fine with W209's, which to this day still have about a 1 in 5,000 failure rate. Fiocchi does not.

I started with Fiocchi 616's when the price of W209's went way up, and see no reason to not use them with flake powders.

Fiocchi in general makes very good stuff.