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Funny you should have a .41 misfire, Crawfish.
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<br>While using Federal Large Pistol primers and shooting my Smithie 57 about a month ago, I experienced a misfire...the first in a couple of years. Well, this is my deer hunting/bear protection gun (okay, it's a someday fantasy).
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<br>But I was just plain alarmed.
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<br>I recalled dropping some of my primers on the basement concrete floor during my last reloading session, picking them up (Heavens! Don't waste a single one, rooster!) and loading them without a second thought.
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<br>So, after hitting the primer several more times with the firing pin, I went home.
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<br>Using an inertia bullet puller, and gently de-priming the case, I discovered what I sort of suspected.
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<br>No anvil.
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<br>After looking at my floor for five minutes, I did indeed find a shiny, in-carbonized anvil.
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<br>My point here is, you may have gotten a lousy primer, but...you may have also done something as subtle as I did.
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<br>Good grief! Keep shootin'! Your record on misfires in 36 years sure beats mine for the same time frame...and I've had at least a dozen in the last 34 years of reloading. My confidence in my primers remains intact.
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<br>rooster
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I don't know rooster. Afterall we are talking 36 years and he has had a misfire!!!
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<br>Misfiring that often I would think his whole reloading operation should be suspect. Perhaps he should get rid of all his reloading equipment .... I'll take it ... but since it is defective I think Crawfish should pay shipping Buy all new stuff and read a manual or two before trying it again!!!
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<br>Crawfish I'm obviously joking, That is a record that Remington, Winchester, CCI or anyone else would be proud to obtain!!!!!
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<br>Keep up the good work ... Hell with the round that misfired ... I'd mount the bullet back into the brass and make a keychain out of it
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<br>George
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It was such a surprise sort of like hearing Sister Mary Cathern say sh*t thought my ears would burn off or that I would go deaf.