Thread: Winchester primer fail

Bugger indeed.

Originally Posted by Toby

@Steveh054

Be careful mate

All good, I will just use someone else' rifle. Nah she's good,
I have a couple of old rifles to test with

Originally Posted by Neckshot

got a shyte camera

Your camera looks fine, it is just focused on the background rather than the bolt face.

Originally Posted by Neckshot

Gutting mate, I love my rifle and this has really annoyed me. Lesson learnt im moving on and going back to Fed primers.

@Neckshot - are they the primers I sold you mate? That is the reason I got rid of them and switched to Fed 210's.

My bolt face took a hiding and as I was only learning to reload, I knew no better. Luckily Abe has cleaned it up my bolt face a lot compared to what it was.

If the bolt still functions then don't bother replacing it, there is an old fella at our local NRA range that has a perfect ring on his bolt face from it happening so much and his rifle is a fricken laser beam.

Anyone had problems with WinSR?

Originally Posted by Pop Shot

@Neckshot - are they the primers I sold you mate? That is the reason I got rid of them and switched to Fed 210's.

My bolt face took a hiding and as I was only learning to reload, I knew no better. Luckily Abe has cleaned it up my bolt face a lot compared to what it was.

Yea they are mate,It was when it was hard to get easy access to fed LR primers but all good.Better to happen in the comp environment than during a hunt.

Originally Posted by Neckshot

How did I miss this thread!!!.Bought some winny primers a while ago they were cheap(first mistake) had been using fed lr primers no dramas then finally ran out swithched to winny for Hihitahi shoot and found out the hardway poped primers blown primers stuck case the list goes on.They are bloddy messy and totally unreliable and after only a few shots my bolt faced was scared up now pitted( I continued shooting as im stubburn and will now end up buying another bolt....second mistake).Ive tken some pics not good as ive got a shyte camera(third mistake).
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That's dumb mate

Originally Posted by gimp

Anyone had problems with WinSR?

I've had no problems with the the SR only the LR.

Have had exactly the same problem with Murom primers, rifle owners not amused!

Maybe this should be a sticky at the top.
After so many threads you guys shouldn't be using them.

Originally Posted by killroy

Have had exactly the same problem with Murom primers, rifle owners not amused!

Large or small rifle primers ? I've found some aren't seating properly in some brass for small rifle, but CCI's work just fine.

Originally Posted by killroy

Have had exactly the same problem with Murom primers, rifle owners not amused!

I'm using Murom small rifle primers, no problems.
I heard it was their pistol primers that had the issue, hence Reloaders in Auckland won't sell the pistol primers, only small and large rifle.

Murom - initially LR in a 25/06, then SR in my own .223. Strong loads in both cases but no problems with Federal or Fiocchi. Not tried Winchester lately, gave them away when it appeared that the brass-coloured generation was relatively under-sized, around .0008" according to me. Not much, but enough to cause loose fit in pockets prematurely.

All Winchester primers? I have Lot No. TEL287G. Any one can check if any failure out of this batch? So far I have no problem. Thanks for helping.