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Reloading
Is it me or the brass?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pharmseller" data-source="post: 1291013" data-attributes="member: 93917"><p>I recently bought a thousand fully processed military .223/5.56 cases. The pockets were swaged, they claimed, to remove the crimp.</p><p></p><p>So I go to prime the cases with CCI 400 primers but the primers were really hard to seat. It felt like a two-step process, as if the primer had to get past an obstruction before seating. When I examined the seater, I found these:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w84/pharmseller/IMG_0302_zps3ql7orbp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Little crescents of brass shaved from the primer pockets.</p><p></p><p>I have no experience with military cases, but it seems to me the primer pockets haven't been swaged properly. I'm willing to accept that I'm doing something wrong, but when I swapped out the military cases for some of my prior brass the primers seated smoothly.</p><p></p><p>So is it me or the brass?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>P</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pharmseller, post: 1291013, member: 93917"] I recently bought a thousand fully processed military .223/5.56 cases. The pockets were swaged, they claimed, to remove the crimp. So I go to prime the cases with CCI 400 primers but the primers were really hard to seat. It felt like a two-step process, as if the primer had to get past an obstruction before seating. When I examined the seater, I found these: [IMG]http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w84/pharmseller/IMG_0302_zps3ql7orbp.jpg[/IMG] Little crescents of brass shaved from the primer pockets. I have no experience with military cases, but it seems to me the primer pockets haven't been swaged properly. I'm willing to accept that I'm doing something wrong, but when I swapped out the military cases for some of my prior brass the primers seated smoothly. So is it me or the brass? P [/QUOTE]
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