Had a mis-fire/dud with my 357 today

[.455_Hunter]

I have had three factory ammo misfires- Two with WWB 130 gr FMJ .38 special (lots were years apart) and a Hornady Custom .380 XTP, which I found out was loaded with a Winchester primer after calling the factory to complain.

 

[Reefinmike]

I have found CCI primers with no anvil in the cup. Very rare but I use a lot of primers.

I once found a winchester factory 38 on the ground at the range. the primer was all mashed and blown out. upon inspection, it was a factory round, winchester bullet, brand new case. The powder was still all in there and there was a flash hole. The issue with that round is that it had TWO anvils that were overlapping eachother. I still have that primer somewhere.

 

[jeffforkliftguy]

80% of all misfires in revolvers are actually the gun, NOT the ammo/primer. Ruger(and i am.a big ruger fan), is known for misfires with sufficiently dented primers. The problem.actually lies in the hammer/strike plate. A gunsmith can easily take a few thousanths off and correct the problem. Also, a replacement of springs will fix the problem too. If your 357 is your choice for defense, id address this issue so that yoh dont run into that problem again when it actually counts! Do a little research on it and youll see.

 

[68lemans462]

Throw it in the garbage and forget about it. It happens. I'd refrain from taking a hammer to it.

 

[gonoles_1980]

I could stick in the sliding door and scare the hell out of my wife again. But then I might get banned. I'll check the Ruger, but considering it fires all the Charter Arm's misfires and this has been the only issue with it, I'm not sure it's the firing ping. I still have the primer, figuring out what I want to do with it in terms of experimentation. If it happens again, I'll start getting concerned about the gun. I will research if there have been any other issues.

 

[RainDodger]

Just as a point of interest... the CCI guy I talked to said that if the primer fails to ignite with the first strike, it very likely will never go off with repeated strikes. He said the priming mixture will break up and fail to detonate after that first strike. True or not... I have no idea.

 

[jeffforkliftguy]

Makes sense.to me....if youve ever accidently damaged a primer while seated it and.then looked at it, it does crumble.

 

[jeffforkliftguy]

Give this a read.
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_list&c=139

 

[gamestalker]

I've had a number of factory .357's and other wheel gun cartridges mis-fire, and on the second attempt they have always fired. I think it just depends on what was wrong, if it wasn't seated deep enough, or if the gun was at fault, needs heavier spring, or some tuning, who knows? Wheel guns can sometimes need a little tuning to get them reliably functioning, not at all unusual.

GS

 

[.455_Hunter]

I have seen S&B .32 ACP require multiple hits to fire- not duds, but hardcups.

 

[1KPerDay]

I think I've had one CCI SPP fail to pop in about 15K rounds. Maybe two. Good enough for me. Chuck it and move on.

Wolf must have put out a bad batch during the height of the obamascare because I had probably 10 or 15 failures in 5K rounds, both large and small pistol. I won't buy any more.

CCI or Winchester work for me.

 

[RainDodger]

After a recent problem with priming 9mm cases with CCI 500s, I've learned a few things - after talking with the tech at CCI. It's critical to bottom out the primer in the primer pocket so all 3 legs of the anvil end up flush with the primer cup... that's the most important. It is virtually impossible to damage the primer by "seating it too deeply"... of course you could physically crush the primer but that would be sort of obvious.

The tech told me one other thing - he said that generally after one hammer strike, the mixture is cracked and likely (50/50 chance) will not detonate no matter how many times you strike it again.

 

[Hondo 60]

Never had a problem with CCI primers.
But I get abt 1% duds with Tula primers.

Just in the past 2 years I've reloaded 24,000 rounds.
So I do use a few primers.