Rez Exelon
AH enthusiast
Couple years ago when I was buying every rifle I ran into with a caliber starting with a "4" I picked up a super cool Ruger No 1 for an absolute sweetheart deal. Like, enough of a deal I thought the Effa Bee Eyes might come tell me I robbed the dude, but I just paid what he asked. Anyways, I was excited and whipped up 20 rounds for it. Only problem came when I went to the range to test, and got a "click" instead of the resounding "boom" of a 416 Rem going off.
Gave it second love tap of the trigger annnnd "click" again. Hrmmmm. Moved to the next round.... "click". After saying some choice words and muttering under my breath about not bringing factory rounds to try in case this happened, I went home and the project got tabled for something like the last two years because life happens and it wasn't high priority.
The last two days I've been running on a bit of a motivation bender and got a lot of my piles of odd brass sorted, bench cleaned, and started looking at old projects. And there was the box of rounds waiting to be disassembled and dealt with.
Now, in the meantime (like the day I got home from the range) I did some investigating as to what could be the cause of my FTF. The top culprits were maybe weak firing pin spring, and the fact that I used CCI250's which are a rather hard primer cup. So my thought was before ordering springs in what I think was a perfectly working rifle when I got it, I had decided to rebuild the rounds with different primers. And today was the day.
But life being cruel, I came upon a twist. I pulled the bullets, emptied the powder, and was staring at a row of primed and empty cases and I thought "hrmmmm....I wonder if I try to fire some". And wouldn't you know, EVERY DUMB ONE WENT OFF.
So color me frustrated. Why on earth would they not fire two years ago at the range (with atmospherics almost the same as my garage was today IIRC) but they would light off now? I dunno. I decided to just re-prep the brass, and do 10 with fresh CCI250's and 10 with Federal GM215Ms. I guess maybe I'll know more when I get to test those (and have some factory loads on hand this time).
Gave it second love tap of the trigger annnnd "click" again. Hrmmmm. Moved to the next round.... "click". After saying some choice words and muttering under my breath about not bringing factory rounds to try in case this happened, I went home and the project got tabled for something like the last two years because life happens and it wasn't high priority.
The last two days I've been running on a bit of a motivation bender and got a lot of my piles of odd brass sorted, bench cleaned, and started looking at old projects. And there was the box of rounds waiting to be disassembled and dealt with.
Now, in the meantime (like the day I got home from the range) I did some investigating as to what could be the cause of my FTF. The top culprits were maybe weak firing pin spring, and the fact that I used CCI250's which are a rather hard primer cup. So my thought was before ordering springs in what I think was a perfectly working rifle when I got it, I had decided to rebuild the rounds with different primers. And today was the day.
But life being cruel, I came upon a twist. I pulled the bullets, emptied the powder, and was staring at a row of primed and empty cases and I thought "hrmmmm....I wonder if I try to fire some". And wouldn't you know, EVERY DUMB ONE WENT OFF.
So color me frustrated. Why on earth would they not fire two years ago at the range (with atmospherics almost the same as my garage was today IIRC) but they would light off now? I dunno. I decided to just re-prep the brass, and do 10 with fresh CCI250's and 10 with Federal GM215Ms. I guess maybe I'll know more when I get to test those (and have some factory loads on hand this time).
