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Originally Posted by MT930
Same Here in 20+ Years of hand loading.
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In my fourth decade and second hundred thousand rounds of reloads, and I have never had one either.
Craig, I believe there was something else amiss, and it just happened to occur when you changed primers.
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Originally Posted by MT930
I'm leery of old primers 5 years or more.
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I've used primers (and powder) that I know for a fact are older than me. If stored properly, these things don't go bad.
I used to shoot a number of disciplines of rifle and pistol matches (hence the seemingly large quantity of reloads, which really aren't compared to others who compete). The peak of my activities was probably 10-15 years ago (I've been pursuing other interests since). I am still going through the last bit of some match ammo I was loading in those years. Never a problem, and much of that was loaded with what were, even at that time, very old components.
Several of my buddies and I have actually fired original Frankford Arsenal .45-70 loads dating from the late 1800's (I know, I know - how could we do such a thing?). No problems whatsoever.