louis f
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Just got back from a prairie dog shoot. If you are like me you shoot many rounds. Had 3 pierced primers that etched my bolt face. The pierce is on the radius of the cup not a firing pin pierce. Called Federal Ammunition and told them about their FED 205 M primers. There answer was that the primers were old, 10 years old to be exact. I for one buy primers by the sleeve do to availability. They told me that there is no way to tell when the primers got contaminated. With that said, a friend had the same thing happen with Winchester primers and they said there that it was not a common problem, So he just let it go. I was on this forum a few months later and people started saying they had the same problem with Winchester primers. My friend called Winchester back at that time and the story had changed. Winchester replaced his primers and offered to pay for any gunsmithing work. Like I said I buy components when you can find them. So I buy large quantities. Because you never know who is going to be in the White House. Things can dry up pretty fast if you know what I mean. Just thought I would put this out there maybe others have had the same problem. Update: After many phone calls to federal talking about all the variables. Their answer, it was caused by stress corrosion cracking.
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