Originally Posted by
tomme boy
The reports I was seeing with the 41 primers popping was with some of the new wiz bang cartridges using small rifle primers. Part of what was found out was the brass was soft and less internal capacity than previous batches. At least with one guy anyway. Several other I seen were using 223 and popping primers. One was blanking, the other was blowing pockets. The one with the pockets posted and never came back to update.
My take on this is everything made in the last 2 years is suspect. QC no matter who it is get compromised when mad $ is to be made in big corporations.
As an example. I just got a bag of starline 556 brass to try. Local place had them. Got them home and they all measure 1.742"-1.746". I have not weighed them as I have them loaded up already for testing. This is the first time I have ever bought 223/556 brass. I normally use range brass for everything.
Another example, I have had 2 BA barrels and 2 Wilson Arms barrels I have sent back as they have bad chambers, bores with voids in the rifling. These were in the last year.
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