gonoles_1980
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Since I have a snub nose Charter Arm 38, I might blame a couple of mis-fires on the gun. But this time, I had about 20 "hit" mis-fires out of 50 rounds, 75% of the first shots where mis-fires on the first "hit". Many went off on the second hit. I save the misfires and tried set of rounds with them (5ea), about 2 of 5 of those would go off. I ended up with a total of 7 of the 50 bullets that didn't fire, so I was able to get the other 13 to fire with a 2nd or 3rd firing pin "hit".
After firing that 50, I shot 30 rounds of factory wad-cutters, not one issue.
I'm using cci small pistol primers, 3.5 grains of W231 and Speer LRN's. I know the load is light, but it fires fine when it fires, though I probably will move up to 3.7 grains.
Could I have a bad batch of CCI's? Maybe I should switch to Winchester primers?
After firing that 50, I shot 30 rounds of factory wad-cutters, not one issue.
I'm using cci small pistol primers, 3.5 grains of W231 and Speer LRN's. I know the load is light, but it fires fine when it fires, though I probably will move up to 3.7 grains.
Could I have a bad batch of CCI's? Maybe I should switch to Winchester primers?
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