Wolf small magnum primers

[alinwa]

When you fire form a case you want to seat the bullet into lands to eliminate any head space that is there. .

Seating bullets deep does little to prevent misfiring and eliminate headspace. Before you post stuff like this you'd be advised to test it.

-Kill some primers with Kroil. (Don't assume they're dead but most will be)
-make up some dummies, no powder.
-measure them for OAL
-pull the trigger
-re-measure


see??


You're exactly right about the headspace, but seating bullets long doesn't help.


al

 

[chino69]

What I'm posting is things that can happen to make a primer miss-fire and not saying that wolf is not miss-firing when everything is done properly.
When you fire form a case you want to seat the bullet into lands to eliminate any head space that is there. If you do not do this there may be enough head space that the firing pin is not reaching the primer as it should. It will also can cause inconsistent case blow-out and uniformity.
You want to also make sure that the cases are cleaned out properly to eliminate oil that was used when neck turning, etc. (This was previously mentioned)
Another reason would be that the case is over-sized (this is after having fire formed) creating head space (some may miss-fire and some may not).

These cases are all fireformed properly, shoulder bumped .001, cleaned with no oil in the primer pocket. I've still had misfires.

Chino69