barnfrog
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Friend was shooting some .44 Remington Magnum loads I put together for him and one didn't go off. He put it aside, the rest shot fine. I thought maybe I hadn't seated the primer fully, so when we were shooting together today I had him try it again. No joy. Brought it home and pulled the bullet. Full charge of powder, which I suspected because if it was powder and not the primer it should have been a squib. Carefully pushed out the primer and pried the anvil out to find the compound was basically powder, not a consolidated cake or wafer. Remington 2-1/2. I've shot Winchester and CCI mostly; the only rounds I've loaded with Remington primers have been these .44 Rem Mag for him, and he's shot less than 50 rounds so far so not a big sample size.