Help! primer leak... destroyed bolt face...

yomomma said:
So if I ruin my motorcycle because I'm learning, the manufacturer should cover all the damage.

This issue with the primers has been around for way longer than a year maybe even two.
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I had the same problem with Remington primers in 1974 a year after getting out of the service and a year of serious reloading. There was a recall printed in several gun magazines so I took the brick of primers back to the gun store where I bought the primers. The owner of the store verified Remington had problems with several lots and gave me a new brick of primers. He also told me Remington would repair my 760 Game master without charge.

I "learned" something that day after firing three bad primers and seeing a wisp of smoke coming out of the 760 action. And after this I inspected each and every fired primer and case after firing and this became a life long habit. With the exception of semi-auto firearms that throw perfectly good brass away and make you go look for it.

This only happened once in over 46 years of reloading and it didn't happen because I was a dummy. It happened because Remington made thousands of defective primers before the recall was made. And I would have thought it was my fault if I hadn't seen the recall in small print at the bottom of a shooting magazine.

Its like learning to drive nails yomomma, and after hitting your fingers a few times you get better at hitting the nail on the head and not your fingers. And the OP and the people reading this will also learn something. So yomomma tell me you never stubbed your toe, hit your finger with a hammer or stuck your foot in your mouth in front of hundreds of people reading this posting.
 
Big Ed

You are right but I usually stopped after the "first" time.

My tongue in cheek post was to point out that sometimes we need to,even should, take responsibilities for our own cockups or our part there of even if it could be costly to us. Part of what is wrong with today's society, no one wants to take responsibilities for their own actions.

I actually learned about the primers over at M14forum while I was researching how to reload for that platform. There is a lot to be learned from others mistake. That would have been close to two years ago. I had batch numbers then and that's why I am still using win primers.
 
yomomma

This has very little to do with the person pulling the trigger, "BUT" it has everything to do with quality control. Winchester had the contract to produce the ammunition at our American Lake City Army Ammunition Plant but lost the bid to ATK in 2001. After this Winchester/Olin fell on hard times and Winchester sold off its brass manufacturing plant. And Olin sold off its ball powder plant in Florida to General Dynamics Weapons Division and now is only making chemicals for fertilizers.

Bottom line, Winchester is now buying its brass from the cheapest bidders and its quality control department is run by the stock holders.

I copied the image below from a AR15 reloading forum, and the topic was loose primer pockets. The person who posted this photo said he didn't worry about loose primer pockets and just replaced the bolt if it got bad enough. :bangHead:

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Now yomomma you can say dummy and not get any :jerkit: feedback from anyone.

I reload for myself and my son so I keep my standards high, and "dad" isn't going to be blamed for any damage to his rifles. Meaning a simple Google search on bad primers will give you a lot of info.
 
EAL018G can be added as well. One very small mark on my Ross bolt. Not happy. No more winchester for me.

Unfortunately I still have 1000 large rifle of another lot number . 3000 large pistol primers as well.

Anyone have issues with their large pistol primers?
 
To those who have had success with Winchester compensating them for bad primers- how did you contact them? I've filled out their online contact form several times with no success..
 
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