Winchester primer fail

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Originally Posted by BRADS

As for the primers before yet another person destroys a bolt stick em in the offal hole mate best place for them:)


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Or contact the importer and return them. They might even replace them with something other than Winchesters. Like I previously mentioned they were only too happy to replace my unused primers with CCI (pretty much all they had in stock at the time). My batch came from Steves Wholesalers and were replaced through my local store after I contacted the importer direct.

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Originally Posted by Neckshot

I don't clean my primer pockets never have.I think the size was the issue but like I said ill see what the expurt people say





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Have you changed your load at all?



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I bet he haas shot his load more than he has changed it BRADS

Seems I can forget about cleaning the primer pocket for now - eliminates one more thing haha.

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Originally Posted by Pop Shot

Seems I can forget about cleaning the primer pocket for now - eliminates one more thing haha.

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As long as you can still get them to seat flush.

Put ten rounds thru with fed primers this arvo everything is back to normal end of episode for me.

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Originally Posted by Neckshot

Put ten rounds thru with fed primers this arvo everything is back to normal end of episode for me.

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Did you get a new bolt head?

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Originally Posted by BRADS

Did you get a new bolt head?

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Nope dosnt seam to bother anything really .I'm just happy to be back to were I was before i head bush :D

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Originally Posted by Neckshot

Nope dosnt seam to bother anything really. I'm just happy to be back to were I was before i head bush :D

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+1

It's only cosmetic damage eh. Luckily Abe cleaned most of my mess up!

Out of 20 + years of reloading and many thousands of rifle and pistol rounds I have had no problems with Winchester primers but I have with federal

Bugger........................ now i know whats been causing the pitting.......................... pissed

had zero problems with winchester in lapua brass
switched to norma 5 out of first ten blew

I have done a lot of reloading for pistol revolver shotgun and rifle using Winchester primers and have never had any trouble with any of them

I think some of the problem can be hot loads or old brass also. I have a gas ring on the bolt face of my 280AI using nosler brass and Federal primers.

mine was brand new norma brass, you can feel the seating pressure change
not as good as lapua they great even with hot loads and multi firings

Federal primers
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Originally Posted by Tahr-Bound

Federal primers
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Is there anything wrong with that bolt face ?

I couldn't see any pitting either.

Just a nice clean ring mark. Looks the same as my 308 bolt face, failure free.

It has a cut ring. It can be felt and seen easily.

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Originally Posted by Tahr-Bound

It has a cut ring. It can be felt and seen easily.

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Is it the darker looking ring? It looks almost perfectly cut. We have a dude at our FTR range with a bolt face looking very similar.

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Originally Posted by Tahr-Bound

It has a cut ring. It can be felt and seen easily.

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Bugger!

Yes, the dark ring where gas has been slowly cutting the face. I'm not too worried, it still shoots fine.