Thread: Defective Winchester LR primers

Hi, there is a well known problem where there was a bad batch of Winchester LR primers that blow out a pinhole in the corner of the primer cup even on starting loads.

A couple of threads talking about this problem:
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...er-fail-10441/
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...o-again-21006/

It's fairly well known as if you do a google there are a lot of reports on US forums about the problem as well.

Sadly I brought 1k of these before the problem was well known. I have tried to take them back but the local retailer is reluctant because the NZ distributor changed recently and the new distributor doesn't want any of the warrenty claims from the old distributor (love NZ customer service).

They suggested that I contact Winchester Australia which I have done. Winchester Australia has denied there was ever a problem which I find quite hard to believe.

So I am reaching out to this forum for more proof that this problem exists:
Does anybody know of a recall that was issued for this problem?
Does anybody know what the bad batch numbers are? Mine may be fine but I have no way of knowing without Winchester giving me the info.
Has anybody had this problem?

thanks in advance