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  1. Yes I agree with your experience. I now have about 500 rounds down range using these primers. I had no real malfunctions using a STI 2011. Lately I have been shooting a couple single stack guns. An officer and commander and have had a few ftf issues. All fired the second shot. I would say one or two in a hundred. Good for practice but would not be good at a match. I wish there was an alternative at this price.
  2. No, actually these loaded really easy. I just have a Dillon Square deal and use it for 9, 45 and 10. Did not have any trouble at all with the loading, they flip fine on the tray and seem very uniform. If I wasn't switching powders as I ran out of 231, I would not have noticed anything. I am new to clean shot and was working up a simple plinking load for 9 and noticed the craters. I am convinced that these are just soft. I do wonder than if they are used for anything up at max, say 10mm at max, would they have problems? Doubt it, but I would tread softly or save these for the lighter stuff. For plinken they seem OK.
  3. Just tried a few with the same load and Winchester spp. They look normal- no craters. These are just soft. Good to go! If it makes anyone feel better, I shot a few out of my 10mm. 180grain not anywhere near max and they look just like the 9mm brass did. So, for 250$ per 5000 I’m Gona shoot ‘em.
  4. Thank you all! I was suspecting that the cups are just soft. That combined with possibly a little extra room around the firing pin just squeezes the crater into the cup. Gona shoot a few with Winchester spp just to double check, then Gona ignore it. Thanks again for the responses Neal
  5. Sorry, realized my pictures are bad and two look the same. Here is a dozen out of this group for comparison.
  6. I bought 5000 of these Servicios Aventuras small pistol primers for 250$. Cheapest primers I have found in a long while. I had run a few hundred previously without problems so I dove in. Here is an interesting find this week with these primers: What I am seeing is cratering without any other signs of pressure. These are mixed used brass, some with quite a few loads out of them. 124gr coated rn acme, 4.0 grains of clean shot and 1.140 getting about 1050 fps average. I have not seen anything like this with other primers in the past. I am today loading the same load with some Winchester SP and will compare. Just wondering if anyone has run into this. The cases in the pictures are placed in a case gauge and some dropped right in some slightly raised as the picture but none seemed bulged, no obvious case bulges, no extractor marks that I can see, primers do not seem to be flattened. Just the craters. ? OH, shooting through an officers STI 1911 (escort) and another double stack STI VIP and a new to me Alpha Foxtrot double stack. All shot well with about 200 rounds down range and no issues either shooting or loading. Just writing this to get some input. Been loading for a few years now in my little SDB but have not seen this. Don't really think this load should be high pressure at all. I have thousands of rounds through the STI guns without any of this, that is I don't think the firing pin hole is loose around the pin as you would think I would have seen this before. I think its the primers. I also loaded some in my 10mm and see exactly the same thing. On the 10mm, my first loads were with the Winchester SPP (yes small, I know but I only use SPP). I did not see the cratering with the W brand, just the Argentinian primers. Again, gona load up the same load with other brands to compare. Thanks in advance for ANY input.
  7. I had this exact thing happen. Traced it down to wet primer pockets. I also air dried my brass and thought that a week in the Texas heat on a screen should do it. Well even though its hot here the humidity can be too high and after reading about it here, I went out and punched the old primers out of a few cases and sure enough there was a significant amount of moisture in some of the pockets, even after days of sitting. Now I never air dry. Everything goes into a heated dehumidifier for a few hours . Never had it happen again. Give it a try. NG
  8. I went out and looked at the machine again and I see that the pads wearing should not change the relationship with how far the pin travels into the shell to deprime the case. But, the darn thing works. Did another 100 rounds out there just now and not one shell failed to deprime and like I said I would get a half dozen every 100 that would not punch out all the way. The primer would almost be out of the pocket, but not quite. Just enough to be a pain to remove from the powder stage. I had a bunch of cases there with the primers already out, that I would splice in to keep me rolling. But now, its back to normal. I stared at the machine to try to imagine why simply replacing the friction plate would solve my problem but I don't know. I am using the same batch of processed mixed brass. I dono, but I m happy:)
  9. Interesting. I will have to look at that. I did replace the friction plate as I found a spare in a box I had when I bought this thing used years ago. Dillon did get back to me in ONE DAY and has another on the way. Last night I loaded 600 rounds of 9mm 147 blues, and did not have one single primer fail to decap. I was getting one out of 20 before. Didn't change anything else so that is a mystery to me. Maybe something else was going on, but the plate did something good anyway. Also noticed that the cases are being resized a little better/deeper now. Thanks for the info.
  10. Just had this exact problem after about 50K rounds on my square deal. It is the friction plate. Removed mine and saw this (pictures) Dillon actually has a video on youtube regarding this under the topic "cleaning the dillon precision square deal B". They show these little pads that seat when the handle is down for the first stage. If they are worn, with the step as in my pictures, the shell does not go down as far. Mine was off the lower plate by about 1/16". The primer pin does not go in as far and the shell does not get sized quite all the way. I was not having sizing problems, but many primers would hang in the pocket and get hung up on the next stage. It took a few years to get this worn. Wrote them a message and I am hoping to see a new one asap. but even their website says they won't answer emails for 7 days. Fingers crossed. Great little machine!
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