I agree but must have missed where he said he is shooting factory ammo. My bad.He should be able to shoot factory ammo.
What I read is Peterson brass and CCI BR4 primers. I don't conclude factory ammo from that.
I agree but must have missed where he said he is shooting factory ammo. My bad.He should be able to shoot factory ammo.
I was just trying to make the point it should shoot on new brass. LOLI agree but must have missed where he said he is shooting factory ammo. My bad.
What I read is Peterson brass and CCI BR4 primers. I don't conclude factory ammo from that.
If I follow you correctly, 5 of 90 rounds misfired, with what appeared to be a light primer strike. I'd be willing to bet $1.00 the primers in these cases we not seated into the primer pockets as deeply as the others that fired properly. This is not an unusual occurrence, especially with new brass with tight & pristine primer pockets. Personally, when seating primers, I ALWAYS rotate each case 1/4 turn after seating a primer, and then reapply the same pressure, in essence seating the primer a second time. I learned this trick many years ago, and while I can't say I've never had a misfire, there has only been a couple out of thousands of hand-loaded rounds. Probably the best reloading tip I've ever received! Good luck with your problem solving, and I hope this helps.Should've mentioned 6mm creed
Not factory. New Peterson brass.I agree but must have missed where he said he is shooting factory ammo. My bad.
What I read is Peterson brass and CCI BR4 primers. I don't conclude factory ammo from that.
Excellent point. Been there and done that also. My Lee hand primer wore out and was no longer fully seating primers. Pretty embarrassing when one's wife attempts a shot on a buck and it just goes click, instead of bang. Luckily for me the next one fired. Bought a Century 21 hand priming tool. Money well spent. I also uniform the primer pocket depth on all my brass.If I follow you correctly, 5 of 90 rounds misfired, with what appeared to be a light primer strike. I'd be willing to bet $1.00 the primers in these cases we not seated into the primer pockets as deeply as the others that fired properly. This is not an unusual occurrence, especially with new brass with tight & pristine primer pockets. Personally, when seating primers, I ALWAYS rotate each case 1/4 turn after seating a primer, and then reapply the same pressure, in essence seating the primer a second time. I learned this trick many years ago, and while I can't say I've never had a misfire, there has only been a couple out of thousands of hand-loaded rounds. Probably the best reloading tip I've ever received! Good luck with your problem solving, and I hope this helps.
It should show up when measuring a fired case. Were these handloads? Excessive moving of the shoulder rearward when full length resizing will result in your unfired cartridges exhibiting light primer strikes. Load and fire one case 3 times, measure the shoulder to base and set your FL die to "bump" the the shoulder back .001" - .002". If you don't have the equipment necessary to take the measurements, you can remove the firing pin assembly and the ejector and bump the shoulder back until the bolt just closes with a very light or minimal resistance. Back 50 years ago when I didn't fully understand the reloading processes, I had a rifle getting some FTF's which exhibited light primer strikes. I took the rifle to two different gunsmiths and they correctly said nothing wrong with the rifle. Frustrated, I sold the rifle. The whole ordeal was simply me not having my FL sizer die set correctly and shoving the cartridge shoulder rearward too far.
You sure you have the primers completely seated? My shooting partner had this issue when starting out, as near as we could figure the "light strike" finished seating the primer and the subsequent strike would actually crush the anvil.Sorry if wrong forum.
I've had 5 out of 90 what I'm assuming are light strikes with a new rifle.
After removing bullet and powder I chambered the primed empty brass and they all fired. Measured firing pin protrusion and best I can tell it's .046-.047 which from my understanding is what bighorn says it's supposed to be.
Big horn sr3 action
Proof steel barrel
Peterson brass
Cci br4 primers
Any ideas? Don't have headspace gauges but fired brass measures .003-.004 longer than new brass.