I reloaded a bunch of brass with 47 gr 4895 and 150 gr bullet . Some of my primers wound up with holes in them , i was told you should use hard primers for m1 ammo . Can anyone varify this ?
I reloaded a bunch of brass with 47 gr 4895 and 150 gr bullet . Some of my primers wound up with holes in them , i was told you should use hard primers for m1 ammo . Can anyone varify this ?
Yes, I have heard this too. The M1 has a floating firing pin. If you slam the bolt on a round, and then extract the round from the chamber, you will see a slight indentation in the primer where the firing pin hit it.
If the primer is too soft, a slam fire could result. Not good.
I have always used Winchester large rifle primers with no problems.
Look closely at your firing pin nose. If it is eroded and causes an un-uniform primer indent, that can lead to primer piercing. (leading to more erosion, etc.) Otherwise, Winchester, Remington and CCI primers are adequate for M1 loads.
I mostly use CCI and have never had any problems or a slam fire.
Where are the holes? If in the firing pin indent then you may have, as noted above, excessive protuberance of the fp nose or a badly shaped nose. There have been recent batches of Winchester primers that will develop holes in the edge of the primer cup as a defect in the primer and not a fault of the firing pin or from excessive pressure.
Jerry Liles
I have just used standard WLR primmers for years. Never have a problem. But your mileage may very.
I have some of the faulty winchester primers. It's not a rumor.
Phillip McGregor (OFC)
"I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur
What brand are you using? Any standard large rifle primer will do.
Slam fires are caused by improperly loaded ammo, not the rifle.
CCI's so-called "milspec" primers are just magnum primers.
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Do both Win and CCI primers pierce, or just one type? That would be important to note. Can you post some pics?
I believe all LR primers have same cup thickness and probably material & similar hardness. I think that CCI 34 primer sensitivity is adjusted by gap from the anvil. So not sure those will help.