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Posted: 3/24/2013 4:39:08 PM EDT
 While loading some .223 earlier I caught this bad boy trying to slip into my loads. The anvil was seated upside down and could have caused the pellet to discharge if I had tried to seat it... Bad bad Leonid Brown.
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| Good catch. Usually I find Wolf with the primer missing if there is a problem. Likewise I can't run Remington primers on one of my 650's because it rips the anvil out of 20% of the primers. Likely it would have just been a nasty jam in the press but good catch either way. |
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Quoted: The anvil was seated upside down and could have caused the pellet to discharge if I had tried to seat it... Bad bad Leonid Brown. I thought about this and just speculating, but I don't think it could cause the primer (not pellet) to discharge if you tried to seat it. If the anvil is upside down the center of the anvil far removed from the inside bottom of the primer cup, won't make contact at all. The only thing touching the priming compound would be the legs of the cup. But this is not that much different from the center anvil of a right side up anvil touching the bottom of the primer cup as it should be. A primer strike whacks on the primer cup on the outside causing the center of the anvil on the inside to make contact with the inside base of the primer, detonating the priming compound. A primer strike on a primer with an upside down anvil wouldn't make the bottom of the primer cup smack against anything (the center of the anvil) and thus wouldn't detonate the primer. Just my armchair analysis |
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