primer piercing?

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Originally Posted by G.T.

On the barreled receiver that first exhibited the problem with S&B, I believe, suffered from the same situation as your shooter that we re-chambered and set back?.. did that pop holes in the primer or just fail to fire at all?...
... til...lat'r.....GT....

My barreled receiver that you "rescued" would fail to fire with all factory ammo except the PMC brand. The PMC brass is a bit thicker, and it would still headspace on that mangled chamber ridge that the "bubba gunsmith" produced. Never any pierced primers with it, but large firing pin depressions.