primers got smashed a bit, still good?

[SaveMyGuns]

Hey Calgunners,

I'm a relative noob, and this was my first 100 of .223 that I primed today using my single stage press. I have primed 9mm using a Hornady hand primer which is what I originally wanted to do (long story). In any case, I'm pretty OCD, so I want to be sure these are okay to fire. Of the 100 I primed 6 came out slightly smashed on the side. When seating, these hung a bit, took a bit more force, and then seated rather abruptly (vs a smooth insert).

These cases were (in order): decapped, primer pocket cleaned, sonic cleaned, swaged, sized, trimmed, head space gauged using a LE Wilson, and finally length measured to 1.749 - 1.75.

Attached are the pic. Do you think these are still okay to fire?

Thanks

[NoNOS67]

I wouldn't, primers are cheap.

['ol shooter]

I dunno, they look pretty FUBAR'ed to me, I wouldn't run 'em, but that's just me.

[bruce381]

Probably Ok if at or below the case, but anything that looks funky PUT aside and if you shoot them you will know ahead that they may hang or misfire DO NOT put them with your good stuff.

[nimbus]

I've fired some that look like that and they fired like normal.

I'd like to know how they got that way in the first place though. Misaligned primer seating rod? Primer pocket not swaged enough?

[Enfield47]

My guess is the crimp wasn't completely removed. That was a similar problem I had too until I got rid of the crimp.

[Germz]

you're fine. I've primed upside down on accident (obviously) before. I ran them through a decapper and that put a generous dent in the primer...almost looked like a spent primer at that point; still fired fine.

[BajaJames83]

The brass needs to be swaged more. The primer crimp on some mil brass is worse than others. Ive had the same thing happen looks just like that

[mike.h]

yep, you need to remove the crimp

[rcschummers]

Remove projectile by shooting then remove crimp. I get that every once and a while, no problems.

[bohoki]

let me quote my third grade self


heck no mama joe

[Germz]

alternatively, you could deburr the primer pocket to cut the swage out.

in the future, BOLO for the (+) headstamp. will usually be accompanied with a primer pocket crimp.

[damndave]

Looks like you didn't remove enough of the crimp. Got a bunch like that myself mass producing in the progressive. Mine just felt like a tight primer pocket, so I rammed it in. But during final inspection found some like that.

[Dutch Henry]

If you have to ask the question then don't shoot them until you fix them.

[SaveMyGuns]

Calgunners,

Thanks for the response. Some came out like this because I made a noobie mistake. My Hornady single stage press came with both a large and small priming arm. Well, I didn't figure this out until AFTER I produced some of these bad ones. After thinking about it, the SRP were clearly too small for the priming arm ... which turns out was for LARGE primers. I confirmed that the small priming arm is in the box ... in a plastic bag!!!! This is why when I "swished" the primer around before lowering the ram, those went in a bit better.

Live and learn. Primers are relatively cheap and there are only 6 so I'll use this as a cheap lesson and move on. Thanks again for your input!!!