First bad primer I've ever had

[JMayo]

Touched off trigger, it dropped dead.
I extracted round expecting bullet to be stuck, it wasn't.
I put it in my box upside down, not saying a word, i was embarrassed i had missed powder obviously. ..

Got home took it apart, amazingly it was full of powder. I was shocked.
I punched out the primer and this is what it looked like.


I've shot a half a million and never had a problem like this with center-fire.

 

[JackT]

I had three primer failure on Thursday. I thought maybe it was a bolt/firing pin issue. Because both of the rifles I was using were Kelby Atlas actions, I switched bolts and tried to fire them a second time and they failed with the second bolt as well. Took them home and pulled the bullets and it was not the lack of powder. What else should I consider?

 

[6bra1k]

poor primer burn/explosion..did not lite the powder

 

[Cbashooter]

I had an entire brick of bad CCI primers.
More to the story....Had I read the faded red stamp on the carton and individual boxes I should have noted the word "INERT"
I called CCI and they were dumbfounded those made it out to the public.They were made for reloading displays in adds and the such.
I bought them at a garage sale in Walla Walla that's not too far from their plant.
They figure an employee must have gotten hold of them.

 

[D-4297]

Had that problem with some CCI primers a couple years ago . But they would detonate after re-cocking the bolt . Thats why I shoot Rem or S&B now . Know they are "THE" primer for many , but I'm not one of them .

 

[fkimble@charter.net]

Typically, when a primer fires on the second try, it is because the first try completed the seating. Sounds like you had an issue with primer seating, not with primers themselves.

Frank

 

[jepp2]

I had a CCI 200 that didn't fire when I was shooting the deer in my avatar. Brought it home and took it apart. It contained no priming compound. I check them all now before I seat them for hunting.

 

[46and2]

Touched off trigger, it dropped dead.
I extracted round expecting bullet to be stuck, it wasn't.
I put it in my box upside down, not saying a word, i was embarrassed i had missed powder obviously. ..

Got home took it apart, amazingly it was full of powder. I was shocked.
I punched out the primer and this is what it looked like.
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I've shot a half a million and never had a problem like this with center-fire.

Yep, had one like this a year or so ago. Gm215m

I superglued it to the lid to my priming tool so I'll remember to check all of them from now on.

 

[DGP4]

I too had 3 bad primers for the first time in my life. However, they were Remington small rifle primers. I suspect that in the rush to get primers out to the public some QC was ignored.

 

[utron5]

I too had 3 bad primers for the first time in my life. However, they were Remington small rifle primers. I suspect that in the rush to get primers out to the public some QC was ignored.

 

[utron5]

Atlas action, Federal 205m (R) my rifle wont fire them. Went back to 205m everthing back to normal. The 205m(R) works in my Panda,dont know why they dont in the Atlas???

 

[HandgunHTR]

I am fighting through a brick of CCI41s right now. If it try to use them with my Remage 7TCU about 30% of them don’t fire. If I use them in my 6.8SPC AR that number drops to about 5%. Still annoying. They are about 10 years old and have been moved a few times, but I am still chalking it up to hard primers as others that have traveled with them are fine.

 

[C_Ackley]

Had a CCI No34 not fire yesterday. First I've ever had, the gun fires all the others, strike on the primer was no different visually.
Update: Upon inspection, looks like the anvil separated somehow during seating, it's off-kilter. I'll have to watch that more closely, may have started at an angle in the hand primer.

 

[RustyInBend]

Been through many bricks of Primers (both CCI and Federal), and had my first "dud" ever last week as well. It was a Fed 215 LRMP that just went "click". Left it in the "Dud Box" at the range. If it happens again, I'll bring it home and take it apart. I know it wasn't a lack of powder, because I flashlight-check every case before seating bullets.

 

[NorCalMikie]

NEVER has an issue with CCI primers. Lost count on how many I've loaded and fired.
Mil spec and BR primers in the thousands. Any FTF is usually a seating problem.
Primers are facing up in my Lee hand primer tray so I see the inside of every one.
Did have one round FTF when it got left out over night when I ejected it checking round fit. Got damp laying in the grass over night and fizzled when I tried to fire it.
Couple of FTF from not being seated all the way into the pocked. That's how you learn.

 

[K22]

In fifty + years of shooting factory and reloads I only ever had one primer failure that I could attribute to a defective primer. It was a Federal 205M, small rifle match primer.

I carefully removed the bullet, dumped the powder, and with protective eye wear on and leather gloves, carefully and slowing de-primed the case. There was no priming component in the primer.

 

[762willdo]

I had a bunch of cci450’s that were crap, I shitcanned the whole brick

 

[M-61]

Lots of decades of reloading. Mostly CCI
Had a FTF. Reason? FTP. Failure to prime.
Other than that, zero problems.

 

[Hudge76]

I had a sleeve of CCI 200’s last fall that had about a 15% failure rate. I’ve only had a failure to fires with CCI 200’s, to date. I tried firing them again with no luck.

 

[Rope2horns]

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