Winchester primer rebate
- Thread starter Mangun
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QC must have changed because always thought they were one of the best. Pretty much all I use in large rifle hunting loads but primers are probably over two decades old, bought by the thousands at a fraction of today’s prices. Never an issue or misfire that I remember, but don’t here good things anymore. Slowly switching to Federal GM for accuracy and CCI for hunting.
I had two different batches that fired just fine, but ended up with a perforation between the edge of the primer and the case. Apparently many batches had/have thin metal in the cups. The the escaping gas from the perforations ended up scoring the bolt face of a Sako and a Cooper. Both loads were well below max. If you do some research on this forum and elsewhere you will see many people have had the same experience. I will never use Winchester primers again.
I had had this happen as well. My beautiful 686 7” Talo has perforations all around the firing pin hole from Winchester primers loaded near Max. I always though it was my fault somehow because I had just started reloading at the time and didn’t know about others having the same thing happen.
