I have to wonder why your smith was saying your Remington slugs were to blame? I know for a fact there were some lots of Remington " Sluggers" that had the primers set a bit too deeply I had some, after I discovered this I shot them all off. There was a bit of a fuss about it on several sites a two (three?) years ago. Maybe you got some of them.

I encountered this at sight-in at the District 5 State Police Range near Joliet. When I had these " misfires" we discovered that the primers just had a slight indentation. When we looked at other spent shells the primers were dented just fine. I thought to myself, " Oh no, a couple of weeks till shotgun season and I got a PROBLEM!"

The range and weapons officer took a look and noted with his nail gauge (fingernail) that the problem rounds indeed had their primers set too deeply.

I know some may say " You get what you pay for..." , but as inexpensive as these " Sluggers" are, they usually shoot just fine. I can' t begin to try and recall how many I' ve shot in my lifetime and I only had this problem in one bunch of ammo I bought.

Let us know if indeed you were using those " Sluggers" .

Uncle Matt (in IL)