Thread: My first load development

@Remmodel7, welcome to the wonderful world of reloading.

Your primers look fine, the outer edges are still nice and round.

Primers are not really a very good indication of pressure. Quite often due to poor headspace, the bottom of the case slams back into the bolt face, resulting in what looks like flat primers, but there is no real pressure issue with the load.

The other thing that catches people out is that guys will see "cratered firing pin strike" when in fact it is nothing more than an oversized firing pin hole in the bolt face.

The thing I use that is a real indicator of pressure is heavy/sticky bolt lift.