05-03-2018, 12:17 PM
The Wolf ammo has HARD primers and it takes a good lick to set them off. That is the reason that many have to go to stronger hammer springs in 7.62x39 and I have seen notifications in the past from companies that state that the use of Wolf or any steel case ammo may not fire in their rifles.
I have a friend that has been a gunsmith for 40+ years that I went to for advice when I was having some fail to fire problems with an older Ruger 77 bolt rifle. The first thing he told me was change the spring in the bolt. These older Ruger rifles he said had springs that would weaken over time and cause fail to fire problems even though it would leave a pretty good dent in the primer. He just happened to have a spring in stock because he was seeing this problem a lot. I got the spring and installed it and never had another fail to fire. So even with a heavy hammer you can get it going too slow and it will not fire and you can get a light hammer going fast but if it does not have enough weight to provide a hard enough blow it will not fire.
"You can't swing a rolled up piece of paper fast enough to drive a nail..."
I love this, simple but true.
I have a friend that has been a gunsmith for 40+ years that I went to for advice when I was having some fail to fire problems with an older Ruger 77 bolt rifle. The first thing he told me was change the spring in the bolt. These older Ruger rifles he said had springs that would weaken over time and cause fail to fire problems even though it would leave a pretty good dent in the primer. He just happened to have a spring in stock because he was seeing this problem a lot. I got the spring and installed it and never had another fail to fire. So even with a heavy hammer you can get it going too slow and it will not fire and you can get a light hammer going fast but if it does not have enough weight to provide a hard enough blow it will not fire.
"You can't swing a rolled up piece of paper fast enough to drive a nail..."
I love this, simple but true.