Looking for some opinions about these primers strikes

[Havicman]

I'm in the proccess of working up a load and noticed the primer srikes seem to be a little off. I don't believe this will be a problem but wanted to get some input. For me it looks like the firing pin is longer than what I'm used to and causing a deep impact. This is for a Winchester High Wall and I would like to keep the pressures down. The load is for a 25 Krag based on the 30 Army/30-40 Krag brass so I don't have any "formal" load data. I do have some notes that have some load data that I am using. The primer strikes didn't seem to change very much between the lower charges and the higher charges.

 

[Walkalong]

Looks like an oversized firing pin hole

 

[243winxb]

The primer flow into the firing pin channel, may make the action hard to open.

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[entropy]

Walk along nailed it. That why the strikes aren't centered and you have cup material flowing back into the hole.

 

[AJC1]

The fix is to have the bolt bushed. Carlsbad on accurate shooter does a bunch of them. Seems like a pile of savages need it done.

 

[Havicman]

Good information. I'm going to see about taking it apart and looking at the breech block to see what it looks like. As far as I can tell the action is from 1902. The barrel has been replaced, I'm guessing sometime in the 1940s.