What to do with a bad batch of primers???
- Thread starter Polar_Hunter
- Start date
- Location
- Iroquois Falls ON
The Magtec brass is made to take LP's. Large rifle primers will not seat all the way. Perhaps for a single shot like the Snider it wouldn't hurt to have them stick out a bit????
at the risk of repeating myself, I posted the following in an earlier thread: (https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1562954-Sellier-amp-Bellot-primers-thoughts?p=13770450&viewfull=1#post13770450)
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I have used S&B Small Pistol Primers in the past. When they go bang, all is good. When they don't, this may be the reason:
I loaded about three hundred 9mm Luger one day late last autumn because my "cache" was totally depleted. The following day, some family members and I went to the range to, once again, deplete the cache before winter set in
iirc, about 20% of the rounds were p.i.t.a. duds. We tried the duds in two different semis and a wheel gun - solid primer strikes but still no go...
I gathered the duds and went home to dismantle. It turns out all the duds had no explosive in the primers (pale blue), just bright brass cups and anvils.
I had a look at the remaining seven hundred unused primers from this batch and sure enough, many primers had little or no explosive. I soaked them all (good and bad) in water and tossed them.
I dismantled the remaining un-fired 9mm at some point over the winter and wasn't feeling too happy with Sellier and Bellot by the time I had finished. As I've said before, their quality control must be non-existent!
I guess that I was just unlucky and not as observant as I should have been - one of the few pitfalls of cranking them out on a progressive...
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I have never seen this manufacturing error with any other make of primer in my 40+ years of reloading.
Moral of the story: DON"T BUY S&B Primers!!
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I have used S&B Small Pistol Primers in the past. When they go bang, all is good. When they don't, this may be the reason:
I loaded about three hundred 9mm Luger one day late last autumn because my "cache" was totally depleted. The following day, some family members and I went to the range to, once again, deplete the cache before winter set in
iirc, about 20% of the rounds were p.i.t.a. duds. We tried the duds in two different semis and a wheel gun - solid primer strikes but still no go...
I gathered the duds and went home to dismantle. It turns out all the duds had no explosive in the primers (pale blue), just bright brass cups and anvils.
I had a look at the remaining seven hundred unused primers from this batch and sure enough, many primers had little or no explosive. I soaked them all (good and bad) in water and tossed them.
I dismantled the remaining un-fired 9mm at some point over the winter and wasn't feeling too happy with Sellier and Bellot by the time I had finished. As I've said before, their quality control must be non-existent!
I guess that I was just unlucky and not as observant as I should have been - one of the few pitfalls of cranking them out on a progressive...
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I have never seen this manufacturing error with any other make of primer in my 40+ years of reloading.
Moral of the story: DON"T BUY S&B Primers!!
M12shooter
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- East St. Paul, mb
email them. I have been hand loading for 41 years, both metallic and shotshells and have only had one bad primer in all that time. However, many years ago I had a batch of RP small rifle primers that were piercing and blowing out. Remington had issues with this lot and replaced the bolt on my Sako 222 varminter as bolt face had been gas cut badly. Email or call SB
