Help - Fail to fire

[RSBrown]

So just when I was feeling good about my reloading adventure, I had something happen Saturday that has me scratching my head. When I started earlier this year and didn't know that 6.5 CM came in large and small rifle primers so ended up with both types of Lapua brass. My first loads were with the LRP and have had really good hunting success with them and IMR4350 so I stuck with that formula, but that left me with 200 Lapua SRP brass, so I loaded up some 130gr Bergers over Varget just to use up my stock, and used Wolf SRP magnum primers.

Saturday went to sight in my new Delta 5 and I had three fail to fires, clear and honestly good looking primer strike on all three and no "boom". Finished sighting in with other bullets and loads, but are Wolf SRP magnums problematic? Now thinking I need to pull 47 rounds, carefully decap live primers - any thoughts or recommendations?

 

[Hunterrs]

Before you do that I would load ten or so with Cci primers and see if they all fire. The experience I have had with wolf has been pretty good but not as good as with Cci.

 

[gyppo]

If you attempt to fire it again does it still fail?
Most primers will ignite on the second strike if they fail on the first unless the anvil is unsupported.

 

[RSBrown]

Tried the first and second one twice each, by the third I just used other bullets. Comparable primer strike depth on rounds that did fire

 

[1006]

Some guns just do not smack the primer hard enough. My Ruger American won’t function with Fiochhi Primers—too hard a primer.

 

[Paxdad]

Primer seating depth and pocket variation is my guess. You can pull the pills but don’t recommend trying to decap live primers. Check you seating depth first.

 

[bulletpaluza]

Wolf primer cups are extremely hard!

 

[benjamin]

No problem decapping live primers

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

I decap live primers with regularity. Always expect a bang, never had one after several hundred deprimes. Just be ready for it, no live powder around just in case.

 

[RSBrown]

Quick update, and all good cautions on depriming, I haven't decided yet if I am going to try or not.

I did pull all the bullets yesterday because I am cheap and Berger's are expensive, but good pills. One additional weird note, I pulled the three "fired" rounds first and the powder didn't pour out into my pan, it was caked in the brass and I had to use a bodkin to get it out. The unfired rounds, the powder just poured out loose and went back into the container. Does this help diagnose my problem?

Been reloading less than a year, have had some good success (deer), but it's always a new challenge apparently. Thanks for all the replies / help