help!! hangfire?

[Kevin M.]

Your fingers would literally have to be dripping with oil. And even then, several people have done tests where they soaked primers in oil overnight and they still went 'snap' no problem.



My opinion: use magnum primers.

Agreed that the natural oils in your hands virtually certainly wouldnt cause any issue, it is very easy to have many other oils on your hands while reloading depending on what you were doing... case lube, press lube, gun oil, wd-40, etc... and if you don't use primer flip trays or primer tubes, you increase the chances of something going wrong.

It's likely not a major issue, but still something worth considering to reduce all variables.

 

[camster]

I'm newest of th'new to reloading... I'm not certain it's a true hangfire in my case (h380 in a 6.5x55 CCI LR), but since reload data for me varied (6.5x55 140gr sp) I started low instead of middle of all published data....it's the very first time I've heard the "click" of a hammer falling on a live shell. I stepped up load to most modern sources (ball powders vary by batch so all test data is accurate not not nec. what you have at home), and worked closer to mid instead of low numbers, and all is good since. I hate to say it, but it happening in my very first batch of 5 was kinda unsettling!