Primer Mag Jam

[Mx556]

Something I’ve never seen before ,  A fellow competitor at the match today had several magazine related failures each time it was a primer from one of his reloads jamming the magazine .  Apparently he didn’t seat the primers well enough when he was reloading the ammo .

[JAK67429]

for the primer to fall completely out would have to be real lose primer pockets. 

[ChuckS]

This was quite common when all the open shooters were shooting 38 when the PF used to be 175. They basically reused their brass until the primers wouldn't stay in.  I knew of one guy who would tumble his loaded ammo just to find loose primers. He did! The OP may of found some brass that had lived as 9 major in a previous life...

Edited September 9, 2019 by ChuckS

[Powder Finger]

21 hours ago, ChuckS said:

This was quite common when all the open shooters were shooting 38 when the PF used to be 175. They basically reused their brass until the primers wouldn't stay in.  I knew of one guy who would tumble his loaded ammo just to find loose primers. He did! The OP may of found some brass that had lived as 9 major in a previous life...

I resemble that but never used that old of brass in a match i cared about.

[jcm]

I always chamber-check my loaded rounds and box them up in 100rnd boxes. This gives me TWO opportunities to visually inspect my ammo.