For over 80 years, Magtech has been dedicated to manufacturing and marketing top quality ammunition products throughout the world. The Magtech brand name is commercially recognized internationally and sold in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Magtech’s rifle primers are new to me. I was casting my net wide and some were brought to my reloading bench for trial in .308 and .223. Viking Arms supplied Lapua brass for the review based around longstanding, modest and reliable recipes for comparison.

Both variants are packaged in polymer trays of 100 units, allowing tens to be slid out onto whatever primer flipper or priming tool you use. Close inspection shows the brand logo impressed into the brass without plated colouration. The inner anvils are neat with no obvious compound overspill. The rounded edges retain enough edge bite to catch on the serration and flip conveniently face down ready for presentation to the primer pocket.

Lapua brass is noted for its superb standards and with the hand-priming tools I use, you get a great feel for any pocket irregularity when pressing primers into place. All felt firm without the need for excessive force, a compliment to its adherence and tolerance control of standardised dimensions where thousandths of an inch are critical.