So wanted to just get this out there…purchased 1000 of the White River Energetics Large Rifle Magnum Primers to hold me over until I could get my hands on some Gold Medal LRM primers. Reloading supplies have been sporadic lately, and combine that with how hard it is to get stuff in Alaska, and you have a decision being made to just buy whatever I can get my hands on. I decided to use these to fire form some .338 Lapua Improved brass out of regular Lapua brass. I loaded up 50 of them with some US869 and 300 grain Bergers to start making brass. So far I have fired maybe 40 shots, and of those, I have had a failure to fire on 14 of them. As you can see in the picture the firing pin is striking them good, but they didn't go off. I even tried shooting them a second time to see if it was a light strike or not and they still didn't go off. Not sure if I got a bad batch or not, but thank god my Gold Medal's are here for me to use from now on.
Mac
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