I have had a couple of punctured primers with a hammer gun of mine. I just worked the pins some until it stopped happening. But other than a little black on the primer from the puncture, I never noticed any gasses blowing out of the firing pin bushings or no damage. Hard to imagine that just a blown out primer would damage the head of a stock like that.
To the other extreme, I had a few misfires with Fiocchi primers the other day. Been using them a lot and not had these issues before with light hits or misfires. One of the guns it happened on was my 1874 lifter. The pin imprint was like an impact crater and the shell didn't go off! It did the second time though.
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B. Dudley
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