I worked up a few loads of 308Win recently to stockpile. Yesterday I went and shot them in my other rifles of the same cartridge to be sure they function and are safe.
All these cases were fired in different rifles than the one I worked the load up with. I'll add the three cases on right are fired in a different rifle than the ones on the left.
The cases with red marks are the same different rifle as above.
Not sure if you can see it but the primers in red or the three on the right above have waves in them as if there was metal flow but no cratering. The others look OK but have a crater here and there. These primers are new-ish to me and I don't have a good idea to there hardness. I've loaded for years and rarely see cratering but I've almost exclusively used Win LR primers. I'm seeing cratering with these CCI's much more often than the Win. To be fair to each, I don't think I've overlapped loads, meaning all my Win primer loads are different than my CCI primer loads so it could just be I'm loading the CCI's too hot ???
All these cases were fired in different rifles than the one I worked the load up with. I'll add the three cases on right are fired in a different rifle than the ones on the left.
The cases with red marks are the same different rifle as above.
Not sure if you can see it but the primers in red or the three on the right above have waves in them as if there was metal flow but no cratering. The others look OK but have a crater here and there. These primers are new-ish to me and I don't have a good idea to there hardness. I've loaded for years and rarely see cratering but I've almost exclusively used Win LR primers. I'm seeing cratering with these CCI's much more often than the Win. To be fair to each, I don't think I've overlapped loads, meaning all my Win primer loads are different than my CCI primer loads so it could just be I'm loading the CCI's too hot ???
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