Crimped primer question 45 ACP

[mark501w]

I don't know what the deal is I gave up, switched cases started loading.

[pennstater]

mark501w: I still like that avatar of yours! WWH. Friggin' awesome!

['ol shooter]

Did you use the rifle set or a pistol set? I have the RCBS rifle primer pocket swager but I've yet to see a pistol set.

Swager Combo Set # 094181. Catalog pg. 20.

[mark501w]

My favorite Super Hero WW.

['ol shooter]

My favorite Super Hero WW.

What, that's not a selfie? Mr. Natural was always my muse, especially when he and Angelfood Mc ***** got together. So twisted it's funny. I saw a documentary on R. Crumb recently, that is one troubled soul, and he is sane compared to some of his friends and family.

[bruss01]

I am processing a batch of .40 range brass that I am told came from a Sheriff's office training range. They are nice nickled brass.

What I experienced in running them through the press was that the press would jam up. Which meant it threw off the whole progressive operation, a huge PITA. I believe I have finally zeroed in on the primer pocket being part of the trouble. Some of the primers are hard to get out... pin pending or pin-breaking hard. And even if the primer did come out, some were so tight that the new primer wouldn't go in.

So I decided to manually de-prime them all on the single stage. I have the RCBS primer pocket swager so I have been running them through this process as well. Some of the primer pockets the swage slides right in with no resistance. And on some, it is very very tight. On these I cycle the ram two or three times. They usually loosen up some - but not a lot. I will probably also run them through a primer pocket reamer after I finish swaging this batch. I just don't want to create primer pockets so loose that the primers tend to work their way out in a gun that is being fired.

[mark501w]

sage advice

I don't think you can get into trouble by swedging or reaming.

['ol shooter]

LOL! Thanks for posting that. I'm going to print it, and hang it in my reloading room.

[HighLander51]

It's called a swaging tool, about $30 from RCBS. Mount it on your single stage. Beats the hell out of a chamfer tool because this is centered on the case

[mark501w]

the only RCBS tool I was sorry I ever bought.

[HighLander51]

the only RCBS tool I was sorry I ever bought.

Really, why? I usually wait until I have a few hundred crimped cases, then deprime on the progressive and swage them one at a time. Works good for me, short of getting a Dillon 1050 with a built in swager station.

[MR_X]

I found this to be interesting

http://squibloads.wordpress.com/reloading/get-the-crimp-out/

[mark501w]

I still have my CH set up the set up was cumbersome for me ,the Lyman reamer cuts the pocket all the way down the sides it's easy to use .It's what ever a guy likes to use.