Primers

[lancetkenyon]

The only FTF (Failure To Fire) I have ever had was with Rem 9 1/2 mag primers. I have had quite a few. That is why I will only use them to fire form brass.

I don't normally touch primers by hand. But it never concerns me if I do. If one hits the floor, I pick it up without a thought.

 

[meatyrem]

Had a bad batch of rem9 1/2 mag only after I bought 2000 of them did I find out they had many ftf. Was so sick of them I traded them off for store credit.

 

[RH300UM]

30 years of hand loading add 10's of thousands of rounds loaded, I've had 5 no fires that I can recall. All were with CCI and the 250 size. Different lots also. I use Federal, Remington, Winchester also. Just the CCI's have failed. I never worried about touching the primers in all those years either.

 

[Husky user]

Some time around 1980 I had 4 misfire out of a box of 100 Rem.large rifle primers.
Have not used Remington primers since!
Almost cost me a Rag Horn Bull!(almost)

 

[Ol' Red]

I have had four 209 shotshell primers not function properly. I used to shoot trap and skeet during the winter in Alaska. Shells were ejected into the snow and I reloaded them the following day before they dried out. The following week I had four misfires and had to shake the shot out of the barrel and clear the wad. Lesson learned. I had one large rifle primer not go pop in over 35 years. I really don't know why.

 

[Beluebow]

I touch every primer I load.....

There is a a**hole in every crowd.

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

I touch every primer I load.....

There is a a**hole in every crowd.

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Looks like your missing the anvil in one of them. Is that the A hole ?

 

[Beluebow]

Looks like your missing the anvil in one of them. Is that the A hole ?

Yes sir. Lol

 

[Critter Picker]

I touch every primer I load.....

There is a a**hole in every crowd.

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There's 1 primer in that box with no anvil.

 

[BSPPC]

Only misfires I've ever had were when I seated primers upside down……..
In the 70's we never touched primers, we used tweezers to handle them. I quit that nonsense in the 80's.
I bought a S&W 29-2 recently and bought a box of Winchester factory 44 Mag shells. I had several misfires out of that box. It looks like light primer strikes to me.

 

[Critter Picker]

Only misfires I've ever had were when I seated primers upside down……..
In the 70's we never touched primers, we used tweezers to handle them. I quit that nonsense in the 80's.
I bought a S&W 29-2 recently and bought a box of Winchester factory 44 Mag shells. I had several misfires out of that box. It looks like light primer strikes to me.

If you still have the original main spring,you probably need a new one. They will take a set in time. My K-22 needed one when it was about 7 years old.