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Primer dent depths

mowartmowart Member Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 2005 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
My .38 Webley MK IV puts a noticeably deeper dent in the primers than any of my other revolvers. Is this a random variation in firing pin length, deliberate design or what? Is there something about military primers having thicker metal?
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  • richbugrichbug Member Posts: 3,650
    edited November -1
    Military primers are notoriously hard, and the webley design uses a Big heavy spring as compared to colts and S&W's of its age. Webley was more concerned with the rounds going off than having a nice target trigger pull.

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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello one other thing to consider Is. A pistol like a 1911 with an inertia fireing pin will dent the primer but then the primer will push back with no resistance of the fireing pin I have seen some hot loads on both revolvers and semi auto push the primer back into the fireing pin hole . The dent on a fired case is not a valid indicator on how hard the fireing pin hit."PRAISE THE HARD-BALL GUN"
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