Jumping Frog
Member
Had my first Wolf primer misfire at the range on Monday.
I was loading .44 Mag with: Wolf LP Magnum primers; 240 gr gas checked SWC cast boolits; and 22.8 gr H110.
All primers were seated correctly, a couple of thousands below flush. On one out of 75 shots, the primer fired but it sounded like a squib. The boolit left the case and was stuck half in the chamber and half in the forcing cone.
At first I was berating myself, thinking, "How did I miss putting powder in that case."
I used a wooden dowel rod and tapped the boolit back into the case in the chamber so the cylinder would get freed back up. Then I pulled the boolit from the case. It was full of unburnt powder, the primer simply didn't get a good burn going.
I had purchased 20,000 Wolf primers late last year, and this is the first problem I've had in the first 3,000 or so used.
I was loading .44 Mag with: Wolf LP Magnum primers; 240 gr gas checked SWC cast boolits; and 22.8 gr H110.
All primers were seated correctly, a couple of thousands below flush. On one out of 75 shots, the primer fired but it sounded like a squib. The boolit left the case and was stuck half in the chamber and half in the forcing cone.
At first I was berating myself, thinking, "How did I miss putting powder in that case."
I used a wooden dowel rod and tapped the boolit back into the case in the chamber so the cylinder would get freed back up. Then I pulled the boolit from the case. It was full of unburnt powder, the primer simply didn't get a good burn going.
I had purchased 20,000 Wolf primers late last year, and this is the first problem I've had in the first 3,000 or so used.