Click no boom

Heddok said:
How do you clean your cases?
Click to expand...

Vibratory tumbler with corncob (I believe).

Not seated deep enough? May be the culprit.

Golden Yellow color? I have no idea. Could I have mixed something up? I will be much more carefull on the next batch.

The loose primer was possibly physically altered by the process of removal, so I wouldn't read too much into the shape or position of the anvil.
 
track said:
The OP was shooting a 308 Win., not a handgun. Not unless he was shooting large pistol primers in his rifle.
Click to expand...

Large pistol primers, while the same diameter, aren't the same depth. I measured this primer I removed, and the depth was too great to be a pistol primer. Perhaps I was mistaken about them being Federal Primers. I thought that was all I had, but anything is possible. This brass was prepped and primed about 5 years ago, stored in a zip lock bag, in a plastic storage box, in a warm dry place. They shouldn't have degraded under the conditions they were stored under.
 
They shouldn’t but they most likely did. Primer and powder are chemical compound. They is no warranty or implied time for them to stay functional and not deteriorate.
Experience show they should have a long life span but it seem it’s not always the case.
 
Because of moving and reorganizing I've been shooting up old primers, part boxes, part bricks, part boxes of bullets and part boxes of cartridges for rifles I don't have any more and loads I don't use anymore. Whatever, just to streamline things a bit.

Now with that preamble to the point. The newer 210s are a bright red, the older a fainter and duller red and some are sort of faint with not much red at all. A few of the old ones were just yellow. According to Federal the colour is a latex identifier that doesn't affect performance at all.
 
Went to the range and used more of the same batch of brass that I had prepped and primed a number of years ago. More loads of the same powder and 46 grains. Mind you it was plus 3 that day. Didn't experience any FTF.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom