
During the last shortage (2013 to . . . never really fully ended), I picked up some Federal Small Pistol Match Primers (GM100M) out of desperation. I paid about $15 or $20 extra for them, compared to the CCI 500's I normally bought. So they were like $55 or $60 bucks, instead of CCI's $40. Something like that, can't remember for sure.
It turned out to be a good thing, because not long after, I bought a Smith Model 67 (38 Special) that was just for recreational shooting (I'm a revolver guy). I had a mild trigger job done on it and found that about 1 in 100 CCI 500's wouldn't fire - light strike. I could just index the cylinder back and stab it again, and they'd always go off the second stab. Anyway, the Fed Match Primers functioned flawlessly, but were rather expensive.
So I gave Winchesters (WSP) a try, and that fixed the light strikes without the expense of the Federal primers. BUT . . . the Win primers aren't nickel plated (or whatever makes them silver in color) and so they have more friction in my Lee hand primer - making for some slightly tricky priming technique (and more time).
Fast forward to now. I'm out of Winchester primers, but still have about 1300 of the Federals. That's nice, but I much prefer to have more than that (I have lots of loaded ammo, btw). At my LGS, they had these Match Primers and they are still $18 more than the CCI 500's - $124 compared to $106. The difference now is that percentage-wise, they aren't that much more. So I bought another brick.
Here's my point (FINALLY

