greyling22
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I'm having light strikes.
Ok, there are few possible places this could be from:
I was given 100 shiny primed 308 cases out of an old man's estate. I tried to chamber one in my newly rebarreled savage. It didn't chamber. That's when I realized that he had just primed new brass. So I punched out all the primers, saved them because 100 primers don't grown on trees these days, resized, trimmed, and reprimed them.
Now, I primed all 100, then loaded 25. Of those, 3 failed to fire. They show light strikes. I also had 4 random 308 rounds I had picked up at the range over the years. 1 failed to fire.
I looked at my reloads that didn't fire, and the primer is well below flush. .013 below to be exact. I looked at several of the primed cases, and they are anywhere from .008 to .013 below flush. The random round that didn't fire is .003 below flush and appears to have a light strike.
Savages have an adjstable firing pin, and I took the bolt apart and replaced the bolt head during the rebarrel. I set the firing pin to .051 protrusion. Brand new PTG bolt head, new and correctly sized firing pin and bolt head retaining pin.
so it could be 2 things I suppose, the gun, or the ammo. on the ammo side, I don't know anything about these primers. could it be they are large pistol primers? When I was seating them, some fit very loosely in the brand new primer pockets. most felt fine though. Also, these are re-used primers.
I put a primer I know for certain is a brand new large rifle primer in one of the fired cases, and it sits .008 below flush.
So what do ya'll think? load them all up and pull apart anything that doesn't fire? decap and toss the remaining 75 used primers and use known ones? adjust the firing pin to even more protrusion? adjust to put even more spring tension on the firing pin?
Ok, there are few possible places this could be from:
I was given 100 shiny primed 308 cases out of an old man's estate. I tried to chamber one in my newly rebarreled savage. It didn't chamber. That's when I realized that he had just primed new brass. So I punched out all the primers, saved them because 100 primers don't grown on trees these days, resized, trimmed, and reprimed them.
Now, I primed all 100, then loaded 25. Of those, 3 failed to fire. They show light strikes. I also had 4 random 308 rounds I had picked up at the range over the years. 1 failed to fire.
I looked at my reloads that didn't fire, and the primer is well below flush. .013 below to be exact. I looked at several of the primed cases, and they are anywhere from .008 to .013 below flush. The random round that didn't fire is .003 below flush and appears to have a light strike.
Savages have an adjstable firing pin, and I took the bolt apart and replaced the bolt head during the rebarrel. I set the firing pin to .051 protrusion. Brand new PTG bolt head, new and correctly sized firing pin and bolt head retaining pin.
so it could be 2 things I suppose, the gun, or the ammo. on the ammo side, I don't know anything about these primers. could it be they are large pistol primers? When I was seating them, some fit very loosely in the brand new primer pockets. most felt fine though. Also, these are re-used primers.
I put a primer I know for certain is a brand new large rifle primer in one of the fired cases, and it sits .008 below flush.
So what do ya'll think? load them all up and pull apart anything that doesn't fire? decap and toss the remaining 75 used primers and use known ones? adjust the firing pin to even more protrusion? adjust to put even more spring tension on the firing pin?
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. But the pin strike is solid.
