Leaking Primers

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Muley Hunter said:

You don't put any fault on the primers Ron?

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Hey Pete,

Note what Scott wrote previously in this thread.

GM54-120 said:

.....My best guess was the STS battery cup was weaker than some 209 primers.....

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And.... recall the photo of the primers fired in the Optima using the same load, posted previously in this thread.












And.... recall what Scott wrote on the other forum.

GM54-120 said:

....Primer pocket is slightly over sized or simply not supporting the area near the rim of the primer enough.....

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Remember what Omega218er wrote on the other forum...

I use STS primers in an Omega with 80 grains of Blackhorn and 300 grain XTP's and they have never leaked.

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Pete, What is the answer? What do you think?


:mrgreen:

I am going to say the STS primers are at fault...cant handle the load or just a bad batch....the other primers you shown seem to look fine...

like said the battery cup looks weaker since they expanded into the bushing so much..and leaked

To be honest I didn't read this whole thread, because you have one on HN too. I had said to use Fed primers, and when you did they didn't have the same problem. I thought it was settled that it was the primers, and didn't read much after that.

Al-53 said:

I am going to say the STS primers are at fault...cant handle the load or just a bad batch....the other primers you shown seem to look fine...

like said the battery cup looks weaker since they expanded into the bushing so much..and leaked

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Supposedly, the photo contains 1000 words of data. Do you think it is possible you are ignoring the data indicating the primers from that batch work just fine?