A lot of good advice from previous posters - it sounds like the primers might not be properly seated.
You might want to press the handle forward twice on your SDB to make sure the primer is properly seated (first time when you've just lowered the shell plate, second time after you've placed a bullet & new piece of brass, before cycling/lowering the handle).
If you're still getting failure to ignite after you've made sure primers are properly seated, I'd start swapping ignition parts one by one with good quality components (EGW for example), in this order:
1. heavier main spring
2. up to spec firing pin & and firing pin spring
3. firing pin strut
4. hammer (normal weight steel hammer)
You could try swapping parts from your 2011 to find the culprit, so you're not buying parts you don't need. FWIW, cutting off coils from the FP spring doesn't sound like a good idea to me.