Hi Power light primer strikes solved! The firing pin

ChrisG
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Friday, April 05, 2019, 03:10 (2707 days ago)

bore was fouled with soot and brass particles. Went through 100 rounds of Winchester white box ammo last night with no issues. I'll start inspecting / cleaning that area more often. Crud I'm guessing from my dirtier handloads. Brass??? I'm guessing it's from using brass that had former crimped primers? Occasionally a piece of the old primer (or crimp?? not sure how the factory crimped primer works) is left around the outside of the primer pocket. I'm thinking this comes loose on firing and pieces end up in the firing pin bore? Only thing I can think of?

The HP can be tricky, any auto really

WB
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Friday, April 05, 2019, 18:00 (2706 days ago) @ ChrisG

The springs don’t last forever and need to replaced with fresh periodically. The firing pin “return” spring is often overlooked. A new one, good cleaning, and lubrication correctly without overdoing it is a good thing. Of course the recoil spring too.

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