Matt Anthony
04-13-2013, 03:33
People have mixed feelings over Wolf and Tula primers. I have friends in competition, target shooting and hunting that either love them or hate them, some will use them the others say "no way"! I look at each individual and try to understand their position and think I have found the problem with these "no ways"!
Cleanliness in reloading is essential to consistant firing cartridges. The ones that have complained about the Wolf and Tula have horrible habits about keeping their bench clean, washing hands before priming, keeping tools in their proper place so they cannot become contaminated, chemicals stored on their reloading bench and the atmosphere in their reloading area.
Oil is a primer killer, either excessive human body oil, firearm lubricating oil, penetrating oil and engine and trans. oil all kill primers. I don't even trust any brand sizing lube, regardless of their claims. Clean cartridges and a clean work enviroment is the only way to insure zero contamination of your reloads. Primer storage is extremely important and moisture is a primer killer over time. Most reloaders fail in this category, storing their primers in their garages with no atmosphere control or high humidity basements. It doesn't take much time before a primer starts to deteriorate in the right conditions. A primer that is deteriorating can fire, but it isn't as strong as a non-deteriorating primer, and when this happens, most don't understand that it could be the primer, not the powder or rifle! Primer integrity is essential to performance.
Getting back to the "no ways"! The "no ways" do not have good cleanliness habits and to my disgust are hygenically challenged. I look at their cars and the inside interiors look like dumpsters in a fast food restaurant. I know these guys and their reloading area's are a disaster waiting to happen. How they can live that way is beyond me, but they get by! Do they also have misfires and problems with other brands of primers, well yes, generally speaking, they continue to have issue's and now I understand why! But instead of looking at the real reason they have problems, they lay the blame on those poor little primers. It isn't the primers in these cases, it's the human who failed in cleaning 101!
Wolf primers and Tula will give excellent performance, you must do your part also! I use Wolf and have never had a problem in the many many years I have used them.
Matt
Cleanliness in reloading is essential to consistant firing cartridges. The ones that have complained about the Wolf and Tula have horrible habits about keeping their bench clean, washing hands before priming, keeping tools in their proper place so they cannot become contaminated, chemicals stored on their reloading bench and the atmosphere in their reloading area.
Oil is a primer killer, either excessive human body oil, firearm lubricating oil, penetrating oil and engine and trans. oil all kill primers. I don't even trust any brand sizing lube, regardless of their claims. Clean cartridges and a clean work enviroment is the only way to insure zero contamination of your reloads. Primer storage is extremely important and moisture is a primer killer over time. Most reloaders fail in this category, storing their primers in their garages with no atmosphere control or high humidity basements. It doesn't take much time before a primer starts to deteriorate in the right conditions. A primer that is deteriorating can fire, but it isn't as strong as a non-deteriorating primer, and when this happens, most don't understand that it could be the primer, not the powder or rifle! Primer integrity is essential to performance.
Getting back to the "no ways"! The "no ways" do not have good cleanliness habits and to my disgust are hygenically challenged. I look at their cars and the inside interiors look like dumpsters in a fast food restaurant. I know these guys and their reloading area's are a disaster waiting to happen. How they can live that way is beyond me, but they get by! Do they also have misfires and problems with other brands of primers, well yes, generally speaking, they continue to have issue's and now I understand why! But instead of looking at the real reason they have problems, they lay the blame on those poor little primers. It isn't the primers in these cases, it's the human who failed in cleaning 101!
Wolf primers and Tula will give excellent performance, you must do your part also! I use Wolf and have never had a problem in the many many years I have used them.
Matt