Hi All:
I made up my first batch of .308 win a while back, and had a chance to take it to the range yesterday. For the most part, they worked great, pretty accurate as well. I did, however, have 3 failures-to-fire out of about 40 rounds fired, and I'm wondering what I might have done wrong.
I was shooting them in my Norinco M305, btw. All the reloads were 150gr with 41gr of IMR 4064, winchester primers.
First, a picture of the brass of a successfully fired round (one of the reloads):
The indent in the primer looks very slightly "light" to me, compared to an image of commercial brass fired in the same rifle:
Now a "broadside" view of the successfully-fired reloaded case. A bit of soot and stretch-marks at the mouth. Look normal?
Now the ones that didn't fire: Again, to my eyes it looks like the primer indent is not sufficient for the primer to ignite.
Any comments on what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
I made up my first batch of .308 win a while back, and had a chance to take it to the range yesterday. For the most part, they worked great, pretty accurate as well. I did, however, have 3 failures-to-fire out of about 40 rounds fired, and I'm wondering what I might have done wrong.
I was shooting them in my Norinco M305, btw. All the reloads were 150gr with 41gr of IMR 4064, winchester primers.
First, a picture of the brass of a successfully fired round (one of the reloads):
The indent in the primer looks very slightly "light" to me, compared to an image of commercial brass fired in the same rifle:
Now a "broadside" view of the successfully-fired reloaded case. A bit of soot and stretch-marks at the mouth. Look normal?
Now the ones that didn't fire: Again, to my eyes it looks like the primer indent is not sufficient for the primer to ignite.
Any comments on what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!