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Old 02-09-2020, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Battle Rat View Post
More like that the firing pin is fouled a bit and not hitting hard enough.
Unless the primers are stored under water they should be fine.
That was my initial suspicion, and I’m not ruling it out as a potential contributing factor. What weighted my thinking towards the primers is that everything I had loaded prior ... has gone bang...and only those loads made using the primers from that last brick are not igniting. I actually used different brass on the last attempt to be certain the primer was not seated too deep ...and they too were duds.
Tomorrow will try a new batch of primers and get the firing pin mechanism cleaned up.
And, in the future will use a plastic container...makes sense.
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