Primers taking two strikes to fire

[Uncle Rico]

My 9mm cartridges sometimes take two pin strikes to fire. I suspect it's because I'm going too fast with my turret press and the primers aren't going in all the way. I'm using CCI small pistol #500's and a Deagle 'baby eagle'

Anyone have this problem before?

 

[CanAm]

Yes, they are likely not seated in all the way. Try a hand primer.

 

[CeeZer]

If primers are seated flush, they are seated. What gun? How old?
Look into hammer spring/firing pin spring age; also make sure round goes into chamber all the way...

 

[Uncle Rico]

The gun is about 5 months old, maybe 500 down the pipe. Brand new IWI baby eagle. I'm not cleaning the pockets either but I tried cleaning 50 just to check and it did the same thing. Guess I'll just push the handle harder while seating and see if that helps.

 

[Breaker61]

Don't worry about giving it a little extra on the press when your seating CCI primers, they are a bit on the hard side of the scale. Just make sure their slightly below flush. If your still having trouble try Federal 100's, their a softer primer. They always go bang.

 

[CeeZer]

Also, if you didn't do it yet, take firing pin out and clean it along with the channel it lives in and it's spring - there may be some oil/grease in there preventing it from moving forward freely.

 

[John Y Cannuck]

This is also typical of using a rifle primer where a handgun primer should be.

 

[Uncle Rico]

Do you guys seriously clean every pocket on your pistol ammo? I tumble with the primers in so I don't have to poke corn out of the hole all afternoon. I never had this problem until I used the turret press, the single stage breech lock challenger and CCI primers worked well in this gun.

 

[hatman1793]

Other possibility.

When you have a dirty chamber, and you haven't cleaned it in a while, or are using a particularly dirty powder, you can get crud build up in the chamber.
When you drop the hammer on a live round in that dirty chamber, the cartridge sometimes does not seat all the way in. The first hammer strike pushes the cartridge all the way in with the unleased spring power. The second strike sets it off. So, always clean your chamber.

 

[frward]

Same problem for me i am using a RCBS turret and in pistol case the primer doesn't go down enough. one out of 10 or something has to retried.

i will trie a hand priming tool

 

[RojamB21]

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[577/450]

use a little less crimp on the bullet, if it is too much maybe the bullet is going in too far in the chamber????