O.K., O.K.- I learned my lesson!

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Willie,
What caliber are you shooting, you didn't say.
The large pistol primers from Wolf are larger in size, thus you need to really seat them home with a lot of force.
I also bought a lot of Wolf primers, when I started to prime the 45 ACP cases with the Wolf primers on my LNL I could immediatley tell the difference.
I now prime on my Lee Cast Turret and run those baby's home, no problems since.
Floydster
 
I never clean my pistol brass primer pocket myself. 1eyedwilly, I'm not sure about the Suare deal but on all other Dillion presses you can adjust the primer seating depth on the press itself. Look on the bottom of the toolhead near the priming station you will see a little bolt with a jamnut on it. If you watch during the primer seating stroke it will bottom out on the body of the press. You can adjust that little guy to your liking.

I had some issues with mixed brass misfires with my .38 super due to some cases having a deeper pocket than others. I've found it easier to adjust the little stop all the way back and just rely on feel for proper primer seating. 6k+ rounds later no more light strikes.
 
Thanks to everyone. I will try again on a hundred or so with the primer seating adjustment bottomed out on the press and seat them as deep as possible. Unfortunately, it may be a while before I can get to the range to try them out. I will report the results as soon as I can.
 
Update--better late than never.

Well, my last post on this thread said it would be a while before I could try again. I was right.

I took the remainder of my troublesome batch of reloads (the ones with the Wolf primers) and disassembled them leaving the primers intact. I ran them through the primer station (no primers in the tube, naturally) and really seated them home until they were well below flush (anywhere from .003 to .005 below). By the way, I had called Dillon and they confirmed there is no primer seating adjustment on the Square Deal B. They said just forcefully push on the handle at the end of the stroke.

End result was, all the rounds went off fine at the range--no failures. This is a load off my mind because I had ordered 10k of those Wolf small pistol primers and really needed to use them. Thought I would give everyone the feedback for the benefit of others who may have had a similar problem. Oh, by the way, I didn't need to clean the primer pockets. Thanks to all for contributing your knowledge. You saved me a bunch.
 
Chuck B -
Can you please describe or post a picture of the "offending" PMC primers. I followed a guy at a pistol match who is usually an ace. He must have had 2 misfires per stage. It really ruined his day. His non-detonating primers were copper colored. I've never seen primers like that before or since.
 
"Chuck B -
Can you please describe or post a picture of the "offending" PMC primers. I followed a guy at a pistol match who is usually an ace. He must have had 2 misfires per stage. It really ruined his day. His non-detonating primers were copper colored. I've never seen primers like that before or since."

Don't have a pic at the moment. PMC primers are "copper colored", and have a tiny indentation in the rear surface. I've taken a little heat here about blaming the primers, even though I've had zero issues with other brands, and some postings on other forums have almost uniformly complained about PMC's. Maybe there is a problem with them!

Chuck
 
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