C Younger
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Has anyone had an issue with weak WSR primers? I loaded up some wax .38spl cartridges by melting wax and placing some .38 casings mouth down until the wax cooled. I then used WSR primers as the only propellant.
About 1/3 of the rounds failed to fire so I disassembled the duds to see what was up. One of them had pushed the wax slug out of the case very gradually. Another still had pressure behind the slug because it hissed at me as I disassembled it. The remainder had black dust indicating that they had popped, but didn’t have enough pressure to do anything.
These primers are about 7 years old and haven’t been stored in any extreme conditions. I’m not really expecting BR primer performance, but I didn’t think they would very by that much. Can they still be relied on to ignite powder consistently?
About 1/3 of the rounds failed to fire so I disassembled the duds to see what was up. One of them had pushed the wax slug out of the case very gradually. Another still had pressure behind the slug because it hissed at me as I disassembled it. The remainder had black dust indicating that they had popped, but didn’t have enough pressure to do anything.
These primers are about 7 years old and haven’t been stored in any extreme conditions. I’m not really expecting BR primer performance, but I didn’t think they would very by that much. Can they still be relied on to ignite powder consistently?