About a year ago my shooting buddy drove up to Prescott and during the trip stopped into a nice local gun shop. I was needing primers and buy Federal 210 LRs, which they were out of. However, they did have one box of Winchester LR primers so I bought them. They were old judging by the box as the box they came in looked like they could have been made 20 years ago (box of 100).
Anyway, back to the loading bench I was using these and priming some once fired Hornady brass in 6.5mm CM. The first few, and a few others throughout the session, went into the primer pockets in a fashion that I would characterize as normal. All my primer pockets were cleaned with wire brush and the brass cleaned via ultrasonic.
Then some of the primers took an extraordinary amount of force on the press (my buddy's RCBS Rock Chucker) I was using to get them seated, but seated they were and not proud. Now here is the reason I am posting. Probably a fourth to a third of the primers extruded a small sliver or thin strand of shiney metal that appeared to be coming off of the sides of the primers, during the seating process. Kind of akin to the fine strands of metal that come off a piece of metal from being worked on a lathe. I have never had this happen before or since, nor have I read anywhere about it happening.
Anyway, I finished priming and went ahead and charged the cases and seated the bullets but did not have occasion to shoot any of these last year. The charge weights are all a couple grains under max per the book.
So, my question is are these going to be dangerous if I shoot them? I've got a press style bullet puller and can disassemble these rounds if the majority opinion here thinks that is best.
I was new to reloading and still am, so I figure if I use these at all it would be for cold-bore and foulers. As I said, they are loaded light and I've since got much better loaded cartridges to shoot on hand. Thoughts/advice/counseling are appreciated. lg
Anyway, back to the loading bench I was using these and priming some once fired Hornady brass in 6.5mm CM. The first few, and a few others throughout the session, went into the primer pockets in a fashion that I would characterize as normal. All my primer pockets were cleaned with wire brush and the brass cleaned via ultrasonic.
Then some of the primers took an extraordinary amount of force on the press (my buddy's RCBS Rock Chucker) I was using to get them seated, but seated they were and not proud. Now here is the reason I am posting. Probably a fourth to a third of the primers extruded a small sliver or thin strand of shiney metal that appeared to be coming off of the sides of the primers, during the seating process. Kind of akin to the fine strands of metal that come off a piece of metal from being worked on a lathe. I have never had this happen before or since, nor have I read anywhere about it happening.
Anyway, I finished priming and went ahead and charged the cases and seated the bullets but did not have occasion to shoot any of these last year. The charge weights are all a couple grains under max per the book.
So, my question is are these going to be dangerous if I shoot them? I've got a press style bullet puller and can disassemble these rounds if the majority opinion here thinks that is best.
I was new to reloading and still am, so I figure if I use these at all it would be for cold-bore and foulers. As I said, they are loaded light and I've since got much better loaded cartridges to shoot on hand. Thoughts/advice/counseling are appreciated. lg
