Alaskan454 Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 I recently experimented with hand seated vs. Dillon seated primers to see how much difference it made in my 625. It turns out there wasn't much advantage so I stopped tinkering and kept loading as I always did. At the time I also hand seated some 38 specials to test in a different gun but never got around to actually trying them, see a problem coming? As luck would have it these are the rounds I decided to bring to a match last Saturday and the primers were seated too deep for the gun I shot. About 1/6 wouldn't go off in DA, so I ended up cocking every single shot just to finish the match. The gun ran 100% the day before with the same primers seated on my Dillon, but I had never tested any of the ammo I shot at the match. I won't be doing that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hi-Power Jack Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 Amazing that Murphy' Law was correct, again Hi-Power Jack's Law is that "Murphy is an optimist". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motosapiens Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 sounds like your actual mistake was shooting revolver. heh heh . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MemphisMechanic Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 This is the first time I've heard of an issue from primers that weren't too high! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig N Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Sounds like your hammer might be getting worn a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaster113 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Its always good to run some of the actual match ammo through the gun in practice before using it in a big match. I got bitten by '14 Nationals match ammo that wouldn't chamber. Had to borrow ammo to finish the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan454 Posted July 18, 2016 Author Share Posted July 18, 2016 I've checked a bunch of different things between the gun that wouldn't light em off and a longer barreled version of the same. It comes right down to firing pin protrusion and my primers being too deep in the pocket. If I were using Federals they probably would have gone off, but the ones I shot that day were Remington. They had a visible primer hit but just didn't go bang, virtually all of them went off when I tried a second time. I wondered if maybe I had contaminated the primers somehow so I randomly grabbed some ammo from the same batch that was Dillon seated and they all went off just fine. I also grabbed about 50 rounds of every 38 bullet/powder/primer combo I had on hand and none of those had problems either. I can honestly say I've never heard of deep seated being a problem, usually it helps with ignition reliability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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