ronlaughlin

Gosh! when I worked the Omega plug, I really thought it was soft. It drilled out very easily so if the CVA plug is softer - I can only think wow!

The reason I iniatially drilled that plug out was that I recommended to 'lemoyne' that he drill - tap - and install a Lehigh Vent Liner in his worn out Omega plug. Then to prove that it would work - I did one of mine, not because I was having a problem but just to show it could work. It did - it does... I also modify my Omega plugs for the 25acp which is also easy to do but I have not tried a vent liner in a ACP plug yet, cuase like you say it works great the way it is.

The most durable steel I have worked with in a breech plug has been the steel that Dave uses in the Lehigh plug... you know when you are drilling one of those, they are really a strong steel.

i'm currently using rem. cleanbore primers, shooting t7, out of my triumph. if i won't to shoot bh209, sounds like i need to move up to standard 209 primers...!?

yes johnnyo you'll just have to switch to a hotter primer.

Me too!

I had a problem using Winchester shotgun primers. I would get the primer to go off, but no fire. I got in touch with the folks at BH209 and they recommended using Federal 209A or CCI 209M primers.

After doing so my problems went away. Give one of them a try, it should help you.

The Winchester W209 primer is what i have been using in my Triumph to ignite BH209. Ignition has been 100% so far in about 150 shots. I haven't tried the Triumph in cold weather yet.

I have had 100% success using the W209 primer to ignite BH209 in my Omega in the very very cold. In the past 2 hunting seasons, my Omega has been in the truck overnight, loaded, when temperatures have been as cold as -19* or so.

After the past season ended, i was able to modify the Accura breech plug, so it more resembles the Omega breech plug. Since then the Accura has been 100% igniting BH209 with W209 primer. If i have been some successful this coming season, i will try the W209 primer in the Accura this coming January. If we don't have enough meat, i will not take a chance with the W209 in the Accura, and in it i will use Federal 209A primer to ignite BH209.

Well I was shooting a Knight Vision, and I lost a nice buck using the Winchester 209 primer. Because I didn't read the label and had my head up my backside, I blew a nice deer. As it turns out not only is the Winchester 209 primer one of the weakest primers out there, the BP in the Knight Vision is a little longer then other BP. With those two elements working together, I was the looser!

Lately I have been paying attention to the manufacture's recommendations when they go through the trouble of putting it on their labels. Since switching over to the hotter primers in the Knight Vision, she has been humming along.

the cci 209m primers are all i will use. I still want to try the rem sts primers but have to drive 2 hours to get them. I dont mess around with the winchester w209's. A hunt is to expensive to do and then end up blowing it because the primer used wasnt hot enough.