FitchHall
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THR,
I'm having light primer strikes with a Sig P220 shooting reloads.
The P220 fires flawlessly with factory ammo (S&B, Federal, American), but has light primer strikes (1 out of every 10-15) with my handloads.
I have loaded tens of thousands of hand-loads on my dillon SDB using Winchester Large Pistol primers. My Les Baer, Para, and all of my Kimbers have had no problem firing these hand-loads and never had a light primer strike out of these guns.
In my last batch of hand-loads, I took extra time to ensure that I wasn't seating the primer too deep into the pocket. I still had the same rate of light primer strikes in the P220.
I believed that it was the gun that was malfunctioning. My smith took a look at the Sig, cleaned up the firing pin and the notches that secure it, but was certain that it wasn't the gun since it fired factory ammo without fail.
He told me that I should switch to a "softer" primer if I wanted to practice with the Sig P220 using handloads.
Here are my questions:
(1) is it possible that it is the Sig that is the problem here and that I need to take it to another smith to work out the light primer strikes
(2) What primers are "softer" than Winchester Large Pistol?
Thank you for your time.
I'm having light primer strikes with a Sig P220 shooting reloads.
The P220 fires flawlessly with factory ammo (S&B, Federal, American), but has light primer strikes (1 out of every 10-15) with my handloads.
I have loaded tens of thousands of hand-loads on my dillon SDB using Winchester Large Pistol primers. My Les Baer, Para, and all of my Kimbers have had no problem firing these hand-loads and never had a light primer strike out of these guns.
In my last batch of hand-loads, I took extra time to ensure that I wasn't seating the primer too deep into the pocket. I still had the same rate of light primer strikes in the P220.
I believed that it was the gun that was malfunctioning. My smith took a look at the Sig, cleaned up the firing pin and the notches that secure it, but was certain that it wasn't the gun since it fired factory ammo without fail.
He told me that I should switch to a "softer" primer if I wanted to practice with the Sig P220 using handloads.
Here are my questions:
(1) is it possible that it is the Sig that is the problem here and that I need to take it to another smith to work out the light primer strikes
(2) What primers are "softer" than Winchester Large Pistol?
Thank you for your time.