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Offline drags

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Blanking primers
« on: April 12, 2005, 03:52:17 AM »
What is blanking primers, can someone explain what they look like?
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Blanking primers
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2005, 06:10:36 AM »
Drags,

A blanked primer has a hole in the middle the same diameter as the firing-pin hole in the bolt-face.  The pressure in the case forces the primer metal though the firing-pin hole producing a little disk of primer metal that often lodges in the bolt and can keep the firing-pin from working properly.  Blanked primers are usually a result of too large of a firing-pin hole and too soft of a primer.
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Dan Theodore