Fail to fire 243 win

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marlin300

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I had 4 fail to fire on the range on saturday I havent been reloading very long but I am very curious on possible reasons (other than the obvious) I checked and double checked on charge and bullet seat depth and OAL for rifle and casing the only thing I can come up with is faulty primers I was using CCI 200
.243 win hodgdon superformance 80 grain speer hp's, first FTF was 45 grains superform, second was 46.5 grns next was 47 grains, the last was using hybrid 100 42 grains, the case had a very visible firing pin strike, rifle i was using is a T/C venture just looking for some reasons this could of happened thxs
 
Can you hear the powder while shaking the case?
Had you previously washed the cases, any chance the powder got wet?
Do you have a bullet puller?
Does "very visable firing pin strike" look the same as a fired case? Same, not sorta.
Plugged flash hole?

You need to pull the bullet, weigh the powder, check for clumping and or media in the powder, assuming there is powder.
The strike should match fired cases, and you can pop the primer out to see if it fired.
 
I pulled the bullet out and verified that powder was inside I didnt weigh it tho just discarded it, I havent pushed the primer out yet but will, none of the powder was wet, the primer looked like all my other fired cases ill try and get a pic
 
heres a pic not very good quality tho
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Are you using a hand priming tool or are you priming on the press,
If using the press, it has too much torque and not enough "feel", you might be seating them too deep.
Or, not seating them deep enough.

Or, is your resizing die set too low, pushing the shoulder back too far, causing excessive headspace.

Or it could be a weak firing pin spring, or a broken firing pin that doesn't appear to be broken, I've see that before.
 
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slicknova said:
throw em back in your gun, with the bullet and powder removed!!!!!!!! and see if you can get em to go
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I had primer issues when I seated them too deep in my 500 mag. I suspect the anvil pushed through the priming compound so there no ignition. I've also had primers not seated deep enough that went off the second time.
 
I had my first ever FTF in over 20 years with a CCI primer.... after inspection, there was no compound in it :)
 
It was 4 out 0f 42 rnds, I used a hand primer, Is it possible that using too much lube while resizing can cause the neck to shorten therefore giving a headspace issue, although there is no visible oddities on the case,and it measures within tolerences, reason for asking is I have had damage from resizing before from using too much lube, Im hoping its a simple problem with primers or my reloading skills not my relatively new rifle,
 
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