What causes a primer not to work
I do not know: I received a phone call from a range, they wanted to know what was wrong with R-P ammo. I asked them if the had a box of R-P ammo, they said yes so I tole them the number for Remington was on the box; call them.
That after noon 5 failed to fire 30/06 rounds show up here with 5 cases that did fire. Seems the shooter purchased a new rifle with 2 boxes of 30/06 Remington ammo.
He claimed he attempted to fire the 5 rounds that failed to fire at least three times and then he allowed ever shooter at the rang with 30/06 rifles to have a go at them. The minimum firing strikes on each of the 5 failed to fire rounds had to be at least 6 strikes.
I checked all of the 15 cases that fired, I thought they were magnificent cases.
And then I pulled the 5 failed to fire rounds down and measured/weighed the powder, bullets cases and primers.; again I was impressed. The measurments came out to be the same length from the shoulder to the case head as the fired cases.
When finished I installed the primers back into the same cases they were removed from and then chambered the cases into one of my M1917 one at a time and then pulled the trigger. All of the primers busted off even after all of the abuse from other attempts.
I believe my M1917s would have busted the primers at the range after 6 attempts at firing.
It is said everyone left the range bad mouthing R-P and their ammo.
F. Guffey