I am wondering if this is dumb luck or an issue with a gun style for reloaded shells?

I reload both 20 and 12 gauge hulls. It seems that all the reloads that I put in three different guns fire without issue (2 are remington 870's one 20G and 1 -12G, and one stoeger O/U 20G) but I see some occasional FTF or weak firings (some still break clays even though they go off with a thud rather than a bang) in my browning cynergy O/U.

Is this just some strange coincidence that I happen to grab shells that are not properly reloaded when using the cynergy (the lot of reloads would be somewhat randomized the way I do it and grab them) or should I be looking at the difference in the guns? What have others seen?

Chuck

Are the primers indented the same amount on the duds in the cynergy as they are in the other guns?
Perhaps you're firing pin springs are weak in the Browning.
Just thinking out loud here...

Intertesting thought! I will have to go shoot some (good excuse to shoot) and compare that. I guess my first thought would have been that if the primer fired, it did it's job and not to measure how much of a job that was. All of these guns are reasonably new (less than 6 months old) so I would hope that they are all functioning but one never knows.....

I thought I had your answer until your wrote "cynergy". The bottom barrel on the Citori's are notorious for light firing pin strikes.

That said, top or bottom barrel (or both)? Are the firing pin strikes light (slight dimple?). If they are, you might have your loader set up to seat the primer a little to deep. Especially if you use a AA hull, or a Fiocchi primer, or a P/W loader.

Let us know your setup, and we might could make a better guess...... FWIW, Dutch.

Well, I went out last night and I had no misfires on the cynergy but the 870 12G had 4 in 25 so it is the luck of the way they were picked. That means it is me and my reloading on that batch and not the gun (probably a good thing). Must have had a powder drop issue.

Set up are MEC 9000G loaders (both 12 and 20) on AUTO-MATE (I change them when I reload) using AA, ESTATE, and STS hulls, Federal 209A primers, 700X powder, Claybuster wads. These misfires have all been on AA gray hulls but that was what I loaded predominately on that reload session.

I had a powder baffle on but took it off on that session as I have had issues with the baffle not releasing powder so figured it would be no worse without it.

Thanks for the responses.

700x meters pretty well, but a baffle is always good.

Double check the travel on your charge bar (both directions. If the bar doesn't return all the way, all the time, you'll have this sort of problem. HTH, Dutch.