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**canebreaker** · 01-22-2014, 03:12 PM

I got a few bags of rifle brass, mixed headstamps all the same cal. I dry tumbled it in Lizard litter desert blend first then decapped, sized and trimmed before going into the wet tumbler to make it shiny. Then sat down to prime them. About 10% of the cases are to large to fit the shell holder on the priming tool. I try another shell holder and get a few more primed. I emailed the brand of the priming tool and was told to mail it and a few cases and they would make adjusts to it.
I entered info on a reloading page and got a few answers. One was to resize the brass and then prime. I set the die up in the press and put the first case in. The case needs about 1/8" to bottom out in the die. So I press a little more. Snap, I break the pivot. I email the company again. Return the broken part and we will replace it.
I'm out of service until parts are delivered.

**fishingpox** · 01-22-2014, 09:02 PM

That sucks.
I reload mixed brass as well on the 9mm. I have a problem with one particular brand....I can't remember but, it has a 10 embossed on it. It's not 10mm brass. I can't decapped the suckers, actually broke my decapper pin. Then I took a closer look and noticed that the primer pocket had some type of crimp around it, I guess they are crimping the new primer in its pocket. They dang sure don't want to come out. One thing I have learned, the least little resistance, stop and check it out. I guess that's the price we pay for using mixed brass.

Dadgum powder is still hard to find

**canebreaker** · 01-23-2014, 02:03 AM

All of the 9m brass I have has been decapped, so I can't help you there. You sure it's not berdan primed?
I'm hoping that a reloading dealer will be at the next memphis gun show with some deals. Suppose to get a call about it.
I'll call and let you know.

**fishingpox** · 01-23-2014, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by canebreaker

All of the 9m brass I have has been decapped, so I can't help you there. You sure it's not berdan primed?
I'm hoping that a reloading dealer will be at the next memphis gun show with some deals. Suppose to get a call about it.
I'll call and let you know.

I have no idea. Please do, Cabelas sent me the wrong powder .

**canebreaker** · 01-24-2014, 12:42 AM

Sit under a good light or use a small (Bore) light to inspect inside of all cases before decapping. Boxer 1 flash hole in center, Berdan 2 flash holes, good for making buttons or scrap. What powder did you get?

**fishingpox** · 01-24-2014, 11:52 AM

Win AA, I sold it to a guy at work , I ate the 20 dollar hazmat fee.....dadgumit

**canebreaker** · 01-28-2014, 09:38 AM

I'll call Avery's today to see if they have a Wilson case gage in .223. I hope that it will remove the bulge so I can get these cases back in shape before scraping them.

**RHB** · 01-29-2014, 08:08 AM

Canebreaker the Wilson gage will not remove anything it's just a drop-in gage to check for head space and overall length. Any bulges will need to be removed with your full length resize die, I assume that this brass that you using is range pick-up so might have been fired in some semi auto which probably had a over size chamber. If so you may have to sized carefully and make several passes to get down to a useable size again if you can sometimes they are past the stage of being useable. A real good case lube is highly recommended too. Imperial sizing lube is about as good as you can get. Another thought that if this brass is military it probably has a crimped in primer which is really difficult to remove with regular reloading equipment you really need to use a separate punch to remove the primer and then remove the crimp with another tool. PM me if you like I have been reloading this stuff for a long time and learned a lot of this stuff the hard way.

RHB

**canebreaker** · 01-29-2014, 09:36 AM

RHB, you got me thinking about something. I need to find the next 2 decapping/sizing dies up from a .223/5.56. Not in cal. but diameter of the case. Run all of this brass through the largest first. Then through the next size smaller before pressing them through the .223 die again.
All of the pockets were reamed after sizing.

**RHB** · 01-29-2014, 09:59 AM

You have kind of lost me on that one. If the case mouths are really dented badly you could buy a taper punch from the local hardware store and flare them by hand. You can also run the full length die up in the press and then run the de-capping rod and expander down as far as possible and then expand the case necks that way. Also you can buy different diameter expanding plugs for your dies I have had a few custom sizes made for cast bullets.

RHB

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