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Primer might not have been seated all the way to the bottom of the pocket. Might be a bit of grit in the firing pin channel.
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Did you pull the bullet to make sure it had powder in the case? Wouldnt primer ignition still make a bang? No. I did it once in a 308. Bullet never left the case. I've never pulled the trigger on a primed round with no powder. The primer doesn't make even an audible pop... like a cap going off? Not that i noticed. There really can't be a pop if the bullet doesn't move. It didn't. I had no idea what happened until I pulled the bullet. That was my wakeup call to always, always, check every single round in the block for powder level against it's neighbors.
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Could be a host of things which has been pretty well hashed over. Check em all to be sure.
As far as primer and no powder....it won't go bang. Seems like nothing happens...like a dry fire. Pull the bullet. If the base is sooty, the primer ignited and there was no powder. If powder is in there, the primer was bad, wasn't seated properly, case was oversized in the die and shoulder way too far back, mechanical issues etc etc.
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Did you pull the bullet to make sure it had powder in the case? Wouldnt primer ignition still make a bang? No. I did it once in a 308. Bullet never left the case. Got distracted loading 270Win one night and forgot to powder 4 rounds. Thankfully I found the error at the range not the stand. All I heard was click and bullet didn't move. Shaking the round with no sound confirmed suspicions.
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If not a bad primer, take bolt apart and clean firing pin. Colder temps could have slowed pin down due to excess lube/grease.
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I have had more than a few duds using Remington factory ammo. That said I also had a lot of Magtech primers that were unreliable bought during the Obama shortages. I have had exactly one CCI primer fail to pop.
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