Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles How Many Mis-Fires--Hand Loads/Factory ?

I had a bad run with WSP's this past summer. Had a bunch of dud primers, saw it in different rounds in different guns, so cant blame one gun. Finally noticed that the primers looked more rounded off than flat. I finally got to where I could tell which ones were gonna be duds. They must have all come from the same brick, since I havent had a dud since about Sep.

Had two .444Marlin factory rounds fail to fire in a cold and greasy H&R Handi-Rifle. Wasn't the ammo's fault. Only had one handload fail to fire. It turned out that a brass shaving had made its way into the bolt body of my 700 223AI and got itself stuck to the back of the boltface, overlapping the firing pin hole a bit. The shaving was slowing down the pin as it fell.