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Skgreen said:
Them little suckers like to cling to the decap pin sometimes,,, I've 'reseated' a few spent primers on my LNL AP before
Usually easy enough to feel when it happens, but awful hard to deny when you see one later in your ammo can at the Range ,,, :oops:
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Aha!
A more simple explanation is the more likely one, no magical bouncing primers.

Depending on the loading, I may or may not notice an extra case or missing bullet at the end.

It just seems a shame to ditch a bunch of primers if we can pin down the cause to simple error.
 
Demi-human said:
more simple explanation is the more likely one, no magical bouncing primers
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I am confident at this point that primer was not fired previously. It's still same shape as a new one rather than flattened out.
Demi-human said:
Depending on the loading, I may or may not notice an extra case or missing bullet at the end
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I load rifle in 50 and 100 round lots. Use Midway plastic shell cases which hold 50 rounds, primers come in 10x10 plastic trays. Maybe not good count on bullets, be really hard to miss a primer or piece of brass.
Demi-human said:
It just seems a shame to ditch a bunch of primers if we can pin down the cause to simple error
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Primers may be harder to find sometimes, still not terrible expensive. A few hundred is not worth the hassle or peace of mind to me.
 
illinoisburt said:
Possible? Maybe but I think I would have noticed at some point. These are loaded with a LCT and I put the primers in the ram individually from a tray. My normal procedure I always check the primers to make sure they fully seated.

Yes, looked completely normal. No clumps or discoloration.

That's purely lighting.

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I'm going to hope a spent primer bounced out from the press and landed on the tray, then got pressed back in by me. Anything else my OCD will mandate pulling the rest down, ditching the primers and starting over.
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BTW, alphabetically it's CDO ....
 
Skgreen said:
Can't say I've ever seen a water damaged primer. Not saying it can't happen, but only that I've never seen one and would appreciate a pic if anyone has one.
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Ones I've seen look pretty much like what the op picture looks like. Ones I've seen were stored under a shelf were a a/c was, the water was coming inside falling on the work bench then of the back side to were primers were stored.
 
David Hoback said:
Take note of the “Likes” there chief. Sorry you are so triggered! :rofl:

I help more firearms enthusiasts in a single DAY than you likely have all year! So take your negative attitude elsewhere. My reply wasn’t meant as an attack on the OP. Being he replied after shows he knew that. Then my follow up proves that your statement is WRONG!
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ah yes, likes. The ultimate measure of quality. Justin Bieber once sold out Madison Square Garden. That must mean he's bigger and better than the Beatles.

I think your follow up right here proves I am right. If we didn't post new threads, you'd have no one to 'help,' if that's what you call it.
Looking on other forums, I just see you getting the banhammer on places like Calguns and SniperForums.
 
As unlikely as it may seem, it almost had to’ve been a primer that fizzled instead of popped.

I can’t believe that the OP’s process would be so shoddy as to miss a spent primer remaining.

id set that batch of primers aside for some real close scrutiny
 
I would not pull all of those down or trash anything just yet. I would keep them separate and use them for lesser important purposes unless another one of them did that.

In my lifetime I only remember 2 occasions when a primer caused a dud. I also remember at least once finding a faulty primer when I was priming. They are remarkably dependable.
 
Ironicaintit said:
id set that batch of primers aside for some real close scrutiny
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Need set up a GB account *** Great news for those folks searching for primers. I just happen to have 600 fresh Winchester Large Rifle Primers now available for the great low price of...... LOL!

FROGO207 said:
Now me, I am stubborn enough that I would load up the remainder of the primers in "practice" rounds and label them as such. I would want to know if any others were bad or not. Enquiring minds and all that.
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I don't want the uncertainty. It's true the vast majority of my rifle shooting is informal plinking with steel plates so a click generally won't matter. Still, I don't trust now that I might instead get a pop and bullet stuck in the bore. Even the best scrounger shouldn't take risks like that for what's in the end less than $30.
 
lightman said:
In my lifetime I only remember 2 occasions when a primer caused a dud. I also remember at least once finding a faulty primer when I was priming. They are remarkably dependable
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I completely agree. This is the first actual dud I've loaded in almost three decades and way over 100k rounds. Suppose it was bound to happen at some point. Of course had some crush or inverted, but that's my fault.
 
Mal H said:
Primers, and especially rifle primers are powerful and will produce a lot of high pressure gas. If that was a good primer, even if not one grain of powder ignited, the bullet would have at the very least been dislodged from the crimp. The bullet will usually even go a short way into the lands.
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Bingo! That bullet didn't even break crimp.

It was a dead primer. And from the looks of it, that primer has been fired. Conclusion, a spent primer got mixed somehow into the fresh primers and was inadvertently loaded.
 
My fired rifle primers generally look a whole lot flatter than that one does. I am going with something strange wrong with the primer as a guess. I have made a mistake loading shotgun shell and loaded a unsized and deprimed shell. I made the mistake using fired cases to catch shot and powder drops from a progressive press. But never with a rifle.
 
illinoisburt said:
shouldn't take risks like that for what's in the end less than $30.
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Sounds like you are 'well stocked' and perhaps have been for a while now. Nothing wrong with that.

If the insides of all the remaining primers in that batch look like the pic you posted, eh, I'd be tempted to follow suit/chunk'em.
If all the rest looked primo, I'd lean more towards 'that was my first one in 30 years' and load the rest of 'em up,,,, hopefully for another 30 years. :)

As always, YMMV.
 
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