HI all, Hope the holiday season is treating you right.
For the first time in 20 plus years I had a primer not ignite on me. It was seated properly and was the only one out of 50 hand loads of this particular batch. It was well struck by the firing pin and has a substantial "divot" closely resembling one a normally fired cartridge would exhibit. When it was fired we observed the usual hang fire procedure and after waiting quite a while longer removed the cartridge from the rifle. My question now is what do I do with it? Try to fire it again? pull the bullet? bury it in the yard? THrow it in the fire pit? (just kidding). Seriously though, this has never happened before and I don't have a tool to pull the bullet, can I just use pliers? Thanks for any help, I'm sure this has happened to someone else before.
FYI it was a magnum primer (cci 250 i believe (i'm at work so going from foggy memory), 54 grains of IMR 4350, Hornady 110 grain hollow point bullet for a .270win in Browning Abolt2.
For the first time in 20 plus years I had a primer not ignite on me. It was seated properly and was the only one out of 50 hand loads of this particular batch. It was well struck by the firing pin and has a substantial "divot" closely resembling one a normally fired cartridge would exhibit. When it was fired we observed the usual hang fire procedure and after waiting quite a while longer removed the cartridge from the rifle. My question now is what do I do with it? Try to fire it again? pull the bullet? bury it in the yard? THrow it in the fire pit? (just kidding). Seriously though, this has never happened before and I don't have a tool to pull the bullet, can I just use pliers? Thanks for any help, I'm sure this has happened to someone else before.
FYI it was a magnum primer (cci 250 i believe (i'm at work so going from foggy memory), 54 grains of IMR 4350, Hornady 110 grain hollow point bullet for a .270win in Browning Abolt2.