Originally Posted by
JM7.7x58
While I don’t have decades of experience. The few thousand primers I have seated on my Lee Classic Cast have all been touched by my hands. They all went off. It seems that there are two camps with primer handling the “rubber glove and tweezer” camp and then the rest of us. I’ve read many threads about primer handling, and have come to the conclusion that clean dry hands won’t contaminate a primer.
I do however have a cheap imported aluminum frame revolver that misfires (that I purchased when I was young). It has a light double action hammer strike. It is the only gun that I get misfires with. Both factory and reloads. But what do you expect for seventy-five bucks.
So, at least in my limited experience, a primer not going off is related to a mechanical problem with my firearm.
JM