I suspect it was just bad primers. A few years ago, I had 8 bad primers out of 100 in a batch of Winchester srps. I sent them back to Winchester and they sent me a couple hundred replacements. It happens; rarely, but it does happen.
I suspect it was just bad primers. A few years ago, I had 8 bad primers out of 100 in a batch of Winchester srps. I sent them back to Winchester and they sent me a couple hundred replacements. It happens; rarely, but it does happen.
It's pretty hard to dud a primer deliberately, much less do it by picking them up with dry hands. Multiple threads on the 'net about people failing to dud primers they don't want. Your hands would have to be dripping in solvent, oil, or some caustic solution to do it. Despite all the warnings in the loading books, it just doesn't happen by picking them up with clean hands.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |