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top pic: duds
bottom pic: duds, and primers that went off
I took my old 29 out shooting yesterday, and had some issues with light primer strikes/duds. I shot a cylinder through it and had no problems. I loaded it up again, fired a few rounds, then got a dud. I waited a minute in case it was a hang fire or something, then shot the rest of the cylinder with no issues.
I shot a few more cylinders, and had two more duds as well. I also tried shooting one of the duds twice, and it never went off at all. These were all reloads too BTW.
I switched to some different reloads, and out of about 60 more rounds I fired, I had about 5 more duds. All of them that I looked at had weak strike marks on the primers (see pics). I had duds in both single action and double action mode.
I've still got a lot to learn when it comes to reloading, but I don't think any of the duds had high primers. Until this, I had only had one dud/misfire out of all my reloads, and it was with a different caliber.
You can look at the pics and compare the primer strikes of the duds to the rounds that went off. If there was something wrong with the firing pin, I'd expect all the rounds to have light primer strikes, but most of them look good and shot fine.
This gun also has had a trigger job. (Don't know who did it, that's the way it was when I got it).
Since I've had this gun, I would guess it's had around 600 rounds through it, and never an issue except sore wrists and a sore wallet until now.
Any ideas on what the problem could be? I've heard of people using certain brands of primers with guns with light triggers because they won't set them off otherwise. I'm thinking that maybe the springs or something (I know nothing about the inner working of revolvers....I'm just throwing some words out there right now because I'm clueless) have just become too worn out, but I don't know.
thanks