Defective TULA Primers

[Pauliedad]

Been through about 10,000 Winchester spp and 8,000 Winchester lpp with ZERO duds.
Reading this and other posts tells me I won't be looking into Tula anytime soon.
Does that make me a primer snob?

[uhlan1]

I have shot thousands of rounds with Tula primers and had very, very few problems. With their price point I am well ahead.

[XDRoX]

Been through about 10,000 Winchester spp and 8,000 Winchester lpp with ZERO duds.
Reading this and other posts tells me I won't be looking into Tula anytime soon.
Does that make me a primer snob?

I have also. But I've also been through 5k+ of Wolf/Tula SPP and never had an issue.

Every issue I've ever heard about or seen was the result of non fully seated primers or a Glock modified for women.

I'd be happy to buy any of these faulty primers from anyone.

[The War Wagon]

FRIENDS, don't LET "FRIENDS," OWN Tula... much less, shoot it!

[bruce381]

Me 5000 large pistol and 1 FTF ever after a few hits, I load on a dillion and do have to push harder to seat them. After the last few boxes are gone back to winchester which is like 20,000 and maybe 1 FTF

[drifter2be]

Thanks for the replies. Before I bought the TULA primers I read the comments on them here in the forum. Because a number of folks mentioned the need to seat them sufficiently, I was very careful in the seating of all of the primers. According to my micrometer, there is NO difference in depth between the rounds in which the primers did or did not detonate. All of the strikes are deep and well-defined. In my opinion, someone buying TULA primers is paying 100% for something like 90% of product--and is buying all of the concerns about safety and the trouble involved in pulling the dud rounds.

I would not advise anyone to buy TULA SPPs.

Reading through your past posts it is quite obvious that you have limited/no experience in reloading, save for maybe a few months. So I think I will not listen to your advice on Tula SPPs. I have loaded THOUSANDS of rounds with Tula SPPs along with Wolf SPPs, and they have about the same failure/dud rate as Winchester, CCI and Remington in my experience.

My guess is you are not seating the primers all the way. I had the same problem when I was first starting out, and based upon the failure rate described that would be my best guess. Sorry, but with 9 posts, being a 5 month forum noob, who based upon your own posts has only been loading for less than 5 months, I really don't think you are in a position to condemn the quality of a brand of components when so many others have success with them.

[Syntax Error]

I'm having ftf with wolf srp @ 4-5 every hundred. I'd get a funky yellowish ball of un burned powder.

Did the bullet get lodged in the barrel, causing a squib situation? I've had this happen with large rifle primers and loads with multiple cartridges. From what I've read, this is a combination of chamber pressure and insufficient powder charge causing unreliable ignition.

Also, generally speaking, it's recommended to use magnum primers with ball powders, and regular primers with extruded primers. What load were you using, and for what cartridge? I'm assuming .223, since it's SRP?

[unclejesse]

15k srp tula/wolf primers all went they are GTG and price cant be beat

[mjmagee67]

So far with Tula SPP I've been getting about 1 FTF per 100 and it's not a seating issue. I've shot thousands and thousands of Winchester, CCI & Remington primers and I can't recall 1 FTF. The weird thing is I have had no issues so far with Tula SRP & LRP's I've fired a few hundred of both and they go boom! I did send a complaint to Tula USA about the FTF's and they never got back to me. Great customer service!

[Munny$hot]

Did the bullet get lodged in the barrel, causing a squib situation? I've had this happen with large rifle primers and loads with multiple cartridges. From what I've read, this is a combination of chamber pressure and insufficient powder charge causing unreliable ignition.

Also, generally speaking, it's recommended to use magnum primers with ball powders, and regular primers with extruded primers. What load were you using, and for what cartridge? I'm assuming .223, since it's SRP?

I used 24.3 grns of H335 with remington 55 grn BT. I only got a click and nothing more even after multiple tries.

[GUNNTZ]

Like everyone else has said, they are not seated deep enough or the firearms used are not striking the primer hard enough. Tula/Wolf primers are known to be a little harder material than the rest. Try another batch with a good seat. I've used their srp and spp before without any issues, they all went bang.

[A and O]

Bad batch? Has happened before. As for me? I love them and 20k more in the pipeline to boot. I've not noticed any variation in failure rates that I don't see in military ofb. By that I mean I get on average 1 live round with a struck primer in it per thousand in my bulk 5.56 brass purchases. That is about what the average is for me no matter the manufacturer so I'm a happy camper.

[darkbloom]

[johnny1290]

I hear you, when I was buying them for $14? a box it was a lot easier to forgive any difficulties there may be with them. At a comparable price to CCI etc, then I'd be a lot more frustrated with non-performance.

[bender152]

I've run into the same problem with Wolf small rifle primers. Roughly 8% were failing to ignite the powder. I tried re-firing the round and even firing it in a different gun, still no go.

I read up on it and people mentioned seating depth, so with my next batch, I made sure to seat the primers as far as the Dillon could go. Unfortunately I'm still running into the same problem.

It's not a huge deal as I've only got 500 or so primers left. They're plinking rounds, so I'll just use them up. I won't be buying them again, though. I'll stick to CCI and Winchester primers, both of which have never given me any problems.