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Posted: 10/7/2012 6:50:19 AM EDT
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My wife has a Taurus PT732 pistol. Her pistol is extremely reliable with store bought ammo but the 32 ACP ammo is really freaking expensive. I have started reloading to lower the cost per box of ammo. I'm loading them with 71 grain round nose bullets to give her something to shoot and play with. I'm having problems with primers. I started using CCI small pistol primers. I loaded about 100 rounds and when I went to test the loads they were getting light strikes very consistently. I would have to shoot them twice to get them to fire. The first strike makes a small dimple but not enough to ignite the primer. I am currently trying out some other primers in the hopes that they are softer. I found some federal small pistol primers that are brass instead the nickel plated primers that most other brands use. I hope these are softer and work. Does anyone have any recommendations? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I have also thoroughly cleaned her pistol after every range session, to include the striker assembly. The pistol shoots very nicely with store bought, but I hope I can get the reloads to work as the price of ammo would be a quarter of the price per box. |
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Make sure primers are seated to the bottom of the primer pocket. Firing on second strike is the give away to a high seated primer. First strike seats primer, second strike fires round. If you double space between sentences, it makes your post easier to read.  eta, forgot to welcome you to the Reloading Forum and Arfcom. |
I seat the primers pretty hard when I am reloading to make sure they are seated fully. The loads seem to be really accurate once actually firing. If I can figure out this primer thing I should be good to go!!! I've loaded some with federal primers and winchester primers.  I'll go to the range next weekend, and tell you guys if my issue is fixed. |
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