RainDodger
Member
I have an interesting situation going on with primers. I thought I’d get an opinion from other experienced hand loaders.
Background: I’ve been loading for decades. Never had any serious component problems in all that time. I just loaded 75 rounds of 9mm to range test with a different powder I’ve not used before. Out of those 75 rounds, there were 3 failures to fire.
1. Primers are CCI Small Pistol.
2. All 3 cartridges failed to fire in a 100% reliable H&K USP (multiple strikes) and a 100% reliable SIG 239 (multiple strikes). 72 rounds fired perfectly.
3. None of the 3 cartridges have light strikes.
4. Primers appear seated perfectly against bottom of primer pocket.
5. Brass: 2 Winchester cases, 1 Federal case.
I just pulled the bullets, then tried to re-seat the primers, in case they were not set deep enough. They didn’t move and the primers still failed to fire when I ran the primed cases through a pistol with multiple strikes for each one.
This lead me to believe the primer pockets were perhaps too deep. Nope. They’re fine. Just to check, I seated 3 NEW primers in those 3 cases and they fired perfectly in the same pistol. The potentially faulty primers that I removed look perfect.
I re-seated the potentially faulty primers back in the cases and tried to fire them again – no luck. They will not detonate.
My conclusion is, I have 3 dead primers out of the 75 loads I put together. This pisses me off greatly, as I primed 1,000 cases with that brick of primers, getting ready to load 1,000 rounds after testing the load.
I’ve called CCI/Speer and they took my number to call me back. The biggest bummer is… I primed the cases over the holidays and ALL of the boxes with the lot number on them went to the dump with the garbage. AUGH! Not to mention all the primed cases are mixed with roughly 5,000 others in ammo cans.
Is this a sad story, or what?! I know CCI won't be able to help with no lot numbers, but I thought I'd ask them if they've had any recent issues. I'll let you guys know what I hear from them.
Background: I’ve been loading for decades. Never had any serious component problems in all that time. I just loaded 75 rounds of 9mm to range test with a different powder I’ve not used before. Out of those 75 rounds, there were 3 failures to fire.
1. Primers are CCI Small Pistol.
2. All 3 cartridges failed to fire in a 100% reliable H&K USP (multiple strikes) and a 100% reliable SIG 239 (multiple strikes). 72 rounds fired perfectly.
3. None of the 3 cartridges have light strikes.
4. Primers appear seated perfectly against bottom of primer pocket.
5. Brass: 2 Winchester cases, 1 Federal case.
I just pulled the bullets, then tried to re-seat the primers, in case they were not set deep enough. They didn’t move and the primers still failed to fire when I ran the primed cases through a pistol with multiple strikes for each one.
This lead me to believe the primer pockets were perhaps too deep. Nope. They’re fine. Just to check, I seated 3 NEW primers in those 3 cases and they fired perfectly in the same pistol. The potentially faulty primers that I removed look perfect.
I re-seated the potentially faulty primers back in the cases and tried to fire them again – no luck. They will not detonate.
My conclusion is, I have 3 dead primers out of the 75 loads I put together. This pisses me off greatly, as I primed 1,000 cases with that brick of primers, getting ready to load 1,000 rounds after testing the load.
I’ve called CCI/Speer and they took my number to call me back. The biggest bummer is… I primed the cases over the holidays and ALL of the boxes with the lot number on them went to the dump with the garbage. AUGH! Not to mention all the primed cases are mixed with roughly 5,000 others in ammo cans.
Is this a sad story, or what?! I know CCI won't be able to help with no lot numbers, but I thought I'd ask them if they've had any recent issues. I'll let you guys know what I hear from them.