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John Lawson · October 20, 1999, 02:46 AM

I had my first primer failure on a Winchester large pistol primer yesterday. Imagine my surprise. It was struck uniformly, had a n indent as deep as all the others, but was dud. And, I switched to Winchesters years ago to avoid the misfires I was getting from CCI's.
I would like to send in leftovers, but I do not leave leftovers since I installed my Dillon 1050 press. And, I do not know which ones may fail, if any, in the future. So now I have a large lot of loaded ammo with a huge question mark floating over them. There may not be other failures. Is it at all possible that case lubricant is the problem?
Do those of you who have had failures use a spray lube? I use Dillon's, and I switched to it just before loading this lot of ammo.

October 20, 1999, 02:46 AM	#4
John Lawson Senior Member Join Date: August 28, 1999 Posts: 281	I had my first primer failure on a Winchester large pistol primer yesterday. Imagine my surprise. It was struck uniformly, had a n indent as deep as all the others, but was dud. And, I switched to Winchesters years ago to avoid the misfires I was getting from CCI's. I would like to send in leftovers, but I do not leave leftovers since I installed my Dillon 1050 press. And, I do not know which ones may fail, if any, in the future. So now I have a large lot of loaded ammo with a huge question mark floating over them. There may not be other failures. Is it at all possible that case lubricant is the problem? Do those of you who have had failures use a spray lube? I use Dillon's, and I switched to it just before loading this lot of ammo.