wildcatter wrote:Siringo wrote:I don't think they like Lil'Gun. Anyone else try them with that powder? 30.5 grs is not a heavy charge. I could hear the click of the hammer -- then boom and the action cycled slowly. It was like 3 separate events.
I sure hope I don't insult Siringo with the following questions as he's been around the horn a long time now and is no Chechako (look it up) by any stretch, so really these questions are for the more novice of us.. Were the primer pockets cleaned. If one doesn't clean them of the fouling from the previous reload the primer is seated by the firing pin striking it and thus absorbing much of the transfered hammer energy? Or really, I'm thinking about something I learned many Moons ago. I do not keep primers any where near the area I have spray oils, like the various guns oils in a spray can. I ruined a ton of primers this way and they were all in the original packaging. Seems that the oils carried in the spray medium have great penetrative ability and we all know that oils are the tools of trade if you want to deactivate either powder or primers. Any chance this could be the root cause or maybe defective primers??..
Insult???? Hardly -- excellent questions and I was hoping that I would get some inquires.
1. My case preparation is:
a. Tumble after firing and before sizing to remove sand/ect.
b. Size (I use Imperial sizing wax on my fingers) -- cases are not deprimed at this stage
c. Tumble again to remove sizing lube
d. Deprime and clean primer pockets (with a hand held tool that I have). Also at this stage, any tumbling media is removed from the flash hole.
e. Brush clean necks
f. Expand necks
g. Clean necks with Alcholol swab (to assist in bullet tension)
I do extra steps with the necks only on the 450 for bullet tension.
Note on the primer pocket cleaning is I use a small tool from Sinclair to make sure all the pockets as the same depth -- so they are very clean.
The Wolf primers where fresh out of a sealed box. I googled "Wolf Primer Quality" and came up with complaints and well as praise. One thing that was mentioned that the primers are a little harder to insert and the possiblity exists that the primer is not fully seated. I check all of this to make sure the primer is not above the case head, but maybe from the tightness, they are not deep enough. I will check this out again.
Wildcatter -- I remember you mentioning the lube issue before -- did someone else have this same problem?