Have not bought them. Reports are they work fine, but cup is a little harder than most primers. Have not heard of any misfire issues. Have bought quite a bit of components from Powder Valley, they are great people to work with. You can actually talk to a human if you need to. They ship promptly. They are reported to be the largest distributor of canister gun powder in the USA.
Where you located? Might be able to work something out.
I'd like to think that they have marked them down to move them out before the American primers are at that price. I'm still working off my $35/1,000 stash but plan to start replenishing when Winchesters hit $50 something. Hopefully.
I've loaded with them and haven't had too many issues overall. Between us and a few guys I know running them, that is probably close to 40 million rounds this year without any major issues. They had a hiccup earlier this year with some lots produced where the anvil wasn't seated completely and so you would get separation in feed bowls for the priming machines. They corrected that and the recent lots have been much, much better in terms of that issue. Now they are no worse than any other import primer in terms of finding "spare" anvils in your feed bowl. The camera catches them for us and you'd catch it loading your sticks or feeding in a RF100. Otherwise, compared to American brands they are slightly dusty in volume (nothing that a handloader would care about) and they have a slight flash to them. The latter isn't noticeable unless you are shooting in low light and doesn't affect performance. Overall, they work well and have been a good primer.
So you saved about $37. Let us know how you like them.
I've read and others here commented that fully seating the primer was a possible issue. I've never bought them or fired bullets loaded with them. It must not be a common problem, lots of people buy them from Powder Valley, especially when nothing else is available. I've been told, they require quite a bit of seating pressure to fully seat. I've used CCI, Winchester, Remington, and Federal. Never had a single misfire. I too shoot a revolver, Uberti 357mag/38spec.
I'll try seeing what I can do about seating them. I loaded these with the priming system on my Lee Classic Cast single stage and it normally has no problem seating primers. There's no "stop" on it like my Dillon. I might get out the Lee Ram Prime I never use but keep as a back-up. That gives you the full-force of the press on a downstroke. I'm going to hand-clean some primer pockets and try it again. As long as I can get them to work in something at least I can get through this thousand. I have a fair amount of Winchesters on hand in the meantime.
