Sellier Bellot Primers

[crackers]

I bought these a year ago and emailed S&B about what looks and acts like oil in the tray. It doesn't cause any harm but if they were intended to be lubed they would have been made with a grease fitting. Each one has to be picked free by hooking under the anvil - I wiped them after flipping. S&B never cared to get back to me.

 

[Brad]

Wow, oil on new primers. Sounds like a manufacturing issue to me.

 

[Cherokee]

I've used lots of S&B primers...never seen that before. Now I have to go check the last brick.

 

[Spindrift]

I’ve also used many primers from s&b- but none with oil...

 

[Rick]

I gotta admit, I much prefer my primers without oil.

 

[Spindrift]

I hope this doesn’t turn into another variable we need to control and experiment with- primer lube! More gray hair...

 

[Brad]

Hmmm, does oiling the primer eliminate need for lubing the bullet?

 

[KHornet]

Someplace along the line it is obvious that that
box at least got oil contaminated. Hard telling
just where, but most likely the factory. I have
Loaded and shot probably 5-6 S&B primers of
all different sizes in the past couple of years. I
have had no problems, and no duds that I can
remember.

Paul

 

[crackers]

This is the brick number. I like the things, especially when Cabela's sold them for $19 - which is another story in the post-BassPro era. Their shooting shelves look like 2013.

 

[Creeker]

That sure is strange. I have several small pistol but all are very clean.

 

[Cherokee]

I checked the 5K I have left...no oil. had to be a factory snafu.

 

[Rally]

Appears the tray is cracked in several places also. Maybe contaminated in transport.