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Posted: 9/4/2006 8:10:25 PM EDT
| I haven't had this happen to me but I've read here of primers being popped (and coming out) and having the primer fall in and lock up the trigger assembly. Also, I believe someone's kB was attributed to a piece of popped primer acting like a firing pin by setting off a round before the action was locked. The piece was stuck to the face of the bolt IIRC. |
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If you ever have the experience of having a primer pop out and become lodged between the bolt carrier and the inside of your upper, you'll never wonder why it's a bad thing again. As you sit there pondering how to clear that particular jam, given that you can't separate the upper from the lower because the bolt carrier is 3/4 of the way back and immobile. It's a pain in the ass. Also, having a primer drop down into the trigger area is a bad thing. You pull the trigger, nothing happens. Then as you're wondering what happened, and you take the rifle off your shoulder, it suddenly discharges.  Sure enough, take it apart and shake it out, and there's the primer. Those little suckers wreak havoc when they don't leave the rifle in the spent case.
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eswanson wrote:
+10!!! |
There are a few causes for this. one can be a sign of over pressure. Poor head spacing a fouled rifle (causing excesive pressure) in reloads sometimes the primer pockets are reamed too much and are just too big |
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