CCI 450 primer failure

Pull the bullets. Is there powder? What does the powder look like if there’s powder?
What do the primers look like?
That one that didn’t go off for me due to gummy striker went off when I put it back in an empty case and fired it just to try.
 
As Maynard would say...

The two loudest sounds are a bang when it should have gone click, and a click when it should have gone bang.
 
legi0n said:
I must have had a bad batch of CCI450 because I have had plenty of "failure to ignite".
CCI kept on saying it's my fault. In the end they said the primers are 1 year old and they don't know how they were stored so I should give up.
I still have 800 of them :(
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Have you tried these primers in different rifles
 
Clean your priming tools, whether your using your press or hand primer. The primers I’ve had problems with are a result of my own priming practices.
 
I've had about 5 or 6 duds of BR4 out of the last 1600 I've shot. I haven't been able to figure out why.
 
When you push out the "dud" primer, check for no anvil in the primer.
Over the years, I have had about a half dozen primers from different
makers that had no anvil. Always caught them on a visual inspection,
but if you seated it without noticing, it will be a misfire. Dave.
 
I thought i had some duds a long while ago. I pushed them out. Hit them with a hammer. Nope not the primer. That is when i realized i didn't seat them enough. Plus goop on a firing pin can slow it down just enough.
 
Ruger007 said:
I thought i had some duds a long while ago. I pushed them out. Hit them with a hammer. Nope not the primer. That is when i realized i didn't seat them enough. Plus goop on a firing pin can slow it down just enough.
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Potentially a firing pin problem for me. I have switched to a different pin and haven't had a recurrence in the first 100 rounds
 
I had a bunch of duds of the cci large rifle benchrest primers
Think it was a bad batch as it was only from the one package
Was loading 303 British and all were seated properly and had good hits to the primer after pulling the trigger
It was cold out I remember so not sure if temps had anything to so with it or not
 
I’ll double check my firing pin and priming tool tonight. It’s a new-ish rifle that’s only seen a couple of hundred rounds so I’ll be curious to see what I find. As for powder, I can hear powder shaking around inside the case.

Clearly there is a lot of trust in primer quality although missfires do seem to happen. I’ll see about eliminated other potential variables.
 
Primer tool and firing pin are perfectly fine. I’m not sure how to tell which one is the lot number. There are a few sets of numbers and the bar code.
 
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