Fed 215 or 215M Primers in 6.5 Creedmoor

[jbs2014]

When I was at the range the other day I heard some folks talking about using FED 215 primers in their 6.5 Creedmoor. Is this safe? It sounded too good to be true for me. I only have about 800 FED210s left but I have about 8 thousand FED 215Ms from the same lot and two thousand FED215s.

If this indeed works is it a safe in an AR10?

Thank you

 

[Jakeweb09]

When I was at the range the other day I heard some folks talking about using FED 215 primers in their 6.5 Creedmoor. Is this safe? It sounded too good to be true for me. I only have about 800 FED210s left but I have about 8 thousand FED 215Ms from the same lot and two thousand FED215s.

If this indeed works is it a safe in an AR10?

Thank you

I don't use federal primers but use Cci 450 mag primers in my 6.5 creed. No issues very consistent

 

[Dmagna]

You have to adjust the powder load to use mag primers. They just hit harder, fed215m and 215s are the same primer, just the M has tighter manufacturing tolerances when produced. I use mag primers when using ball powders.

 

[GLTaylor]

I use mag CCI in my srp Creedmoor. Very good es/sd.

 

[Idaholandho]

I'm not that low yet but am preparing to be there one day Talking to re loaders on other sites the general consensus is to use a grain lower on published min/max and chrono for true results.

 

[jbs2014]

Ok well thank you all for the info. This should not have any detrimental effects on an AR10 provided I drop a few grains of powder right?

 

[LVJ76]

Ok well thank you all for the info. This should not have any detrimental effects on an AR10 provided I drop a few grains of powder right?

Drop a few grains for safety and work up your load for accuracy again.

Stay safe

 

[Idaholandho]

Ok well thank you all for the info. This should not have any detrimental effects on an AR10 provided I drop a few grains of powder right?

No need to drop to drop a few grains. At the end of the day the burn rate of the powder will make the difference but, I personally would start at the low end of the charge and ladder while using a chrono if substituting primers. You'll be fine, be safe.

 

[Kansaswoodguy]

Safe sure needed no

 

[L.Sherm]

Definitely drop your charger if changing to a LR mag primer.

 

[blackbrush1]

Try both. Use perhaps 1/2gr less w mag primer and look at groups and es

 

[Tex_Hunter]

When I was at the range the other day I heard some folks talking about using FED 215 primers in their 6.5 Creedmoor. Is this safe? It sounded too good to be true for me. I only have about 800 FED210s left but I have about 8 thousand FED 215Ms from the same lot and two thousand FED215s.

If this indeed works is it a safe in an AR10?

Thank you

It's certainly safe assuming the typical "back off your known load and work up" disclaimer... but I cant imagine that ES/SD would be very good with this setup.

 

[Tex_Hunter]

I use mag CCI in my srp Creedmoor. Very good es/sd.

215M is a Magnum Large rifle primer... completely different than the CCI 450M SRP.

 

[Mrkdiver]

Ok well thank you all for the info. This should not have any detrimental effects on an AR10 provided I drop a few grains of powder right?

I don't even do that in 308 win in AR10 using Varget and BLC2