Winchester large rifle primers, are they super soft?

[Sako man]

Ok so after a few reloads on my Lapua .260 brass I had to switch primers and only had a box of Winchesters around. I had never tried them before. So I seated them and most were loose, I thought that perhaps my brass had seen it's end on it's third load? Was I blowing my brass out? So after firing that brass loaded with the Win primers I tried the cases out again with some Federal and all was good. Primers fit nice and tight. It's possible that Win primers are super soft?

 

[George63]

no, just small - they are great for after crimped primers when others can be a pain in the dick

 

[Niles Coyote]

Winchester Large Rifle primers are on the smaller side compared to CCI and Federal.

While its unrelated...

Watch for blow outs on the radius. I have three different lots that are bad, about 3800 worth of unusable WLR's, purchased from 2008-2012. If it happens to you, you may think at first you had a hot load... but it’s been tracked down to factures in the cup at the radius that when pressurized form a nice bolt face scaring hole. Best case, you will have a scar on your bolt face, worse case it may lodge your ejector in the down position on a R700 making your repeater into a single shot... I have yet to figure out a way to free mine, BTW.

Educational reading
http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/snipers-hide-reloading/126966-primer-pin-whole.html

http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/snipers-hide-reloading/143977-leaking-primers.html

http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/snipers-hide-bolt-action-rifles/186015-pitted-bolt-face.html

 

[Sako man]

not good, thanks tho!