Had my 94AE .44 mag carbine out for some shooting. Moderate load of 19gr./2400 and RCBS 240gr boolit with WINCHESTER large pistol primers and Remington brass.
Fired 50 rounds and was picking up brass. Noticed slightly dark ring around primer pocket on 2 empty cases, indicating a leakage.
Looked at bolt face and it left 3 tiny pin-points of gas cutting on the bolt. I could just scream!!!
These Winchester LG pistol primers are probably about 5 years old,...bought them some time ago.
MY brass is not worn out or junk, the load is not a super "hot magnum load", been using this load for years in Smiths, Ruger and this rifle. The primer pockets should not be stretched by over-pressure loading, as I have never went over 19-20 gr of 2400 with these loads.
Always used CCI large pistol before, but ran out of them, and had a box of the Winchester's I had bought years ago.
Anyone else had any problems with Winchester primers?
I pulled the boolits on the remaining rounds and trashed the remaining primers from the box.
I am really P.O.'ed about the divits on the bolt face!