If it was me I would try another brand of new fresh primers and see what happens, I personally never had a tray of defective primers
Did you buy these primers new off the shelf?
Did you buy these primers new off the shelf?
If it was me I would try another brand of new fresh primers and see what happens, I personally never had a tray of defective primers
Did you buy these primers new off the shelf?
Crimping the primer would have no effect on the ammo. The military uses crimped primers out of an abundance of caution so as not to risk a primer coming out after firing and locking the action in combat. It has nothing to do with the round firing. Besides, how would you crimp the primer safely anyway? The Remington 7 1/2 primers are on the suggested list too.I did try and fire one from my AR and it didn’t go off but these rounds not being crimped I was nervous to slam it in so I loaded it by dropping it in the chamber and lightly riding the bolt home,
It could be slightly under sized brass and primers set too deep. These two things could stack the tolerances and make it not fire.I just put some factory ammo in my case gauge that always shoots fine through my gun, along with a handful more of my loads that didn’t fire... looks identical. The only difference is my primers look a little deeper. I’ll clean my firing pin and see if that helps, I did try and fire one from my AR and it didn’t go off but these rounds not being crimped I was nervous to slam it in so I loaded it by dropping it in the chamber and lightly riding the bolt home, I don’t think it seated properly though since it didn’t extract the first time and I had to slam the bolt and try again to get it out.
My brother was with me sighting in his brand new .223 bolt but wouldn’t let me try a “reject round” in his gun since I’m new to reloading and he was convinced his gun would explode.
Crimping the primer would have no effect on the ammo.
It could be slightly under sized brass and primers set too deep. These two things could stack the tolerances and make it not fire.
If the extractor wasn't over the case rim when you tried to fire the AR, I'm fairly certain the bolt want locked home. It will still click, but not fire.
This puts you back to only tried in one gun.
I would set the resize die to match the brass checker.
Then I would try to fire a primer only case in the bolt gun. Then try the same one in the AR.
If that doesn't work, buy new primers and repeat.
If you go slowly seating the primer, you should feel the point where the primer bottom out. It shouldn't take gorilla strength to prime cases.
I don't recommend doing it too the same case over and over because it will push the shoulder back, but a properly headspaced 223 with a case that is in spec will not lose the primer.Even the bullet boot. Being crimped won't hurt anything. It's perfectly safe.
It's not a good idea to fire primer only cases in your rifle. When you fire a complete round the primer backs out of the case and because of the pressure the case slams back into the bolt face pushing the primer back into the case. No powder or bullet means no pressure so the primer is not pushed back into the case and it's possible the backed out primer could lock up the works. It's just a bad idea IMO.
I did, ordered them from MidwayUSA. I’ll try some different primers but I feel like since it’s my first time reloading the odds of the problem being user error are a lot higher than a bad batch of primers.