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Primer pocket depth
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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1564898" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>First off it looks like you are being a bit hard on yourself. I have been reloading for fifty-seven years, and.......still asking questions and getting answers because there's always something to learn. I think that you are a pretty smart guy to realize that you have a problem, or may be having a problem, and that you are reaching out searching answers. No one, and I mean <u><em>NO ONE</em></u> has all the answers about any one subject!!! And anyone who thinks they know everything on any given topic is a fool!! I started out with a pretty smart mentor who taught me a lot about reloading, casting bullets and accurizing my rifles to make them shoot better. He was a member of the Army pistol and rifle team during the Viet Nam era. He brought stuff to the table that I still use today; and......sometimes I am fortunate enough to have him, and still call him on occasion. I recently had a "primer" problem and couldn't for the life of me figure out what was going on. My son and I have two primary rifles that we shoot/use (Ruger 77s tang safety), however we couldn't figure out what was going on with primers, was told that the primers had hard anvils and I needed to get a different primer. While in the midst of this dilemma, I read on this forum that Ruger 77s have problems with firing pin springs. Two Blitzschnell 28# striker springs later, problem solved. Simple and I ought to have thought of it and would have, "IF" it had not happened to both rifles. Who would have thought that is was the striker springs. Both rifles were made in the same year and the firing pin springs were old. I've now replaced the striker springs in all of my Ruger 77s</p><p></p><p>I've done hundreds if not thousands of primer pockets using the Hornady tool. I removed the cutter and chucked it into the electric drill. Never a problem. I agree with "newmexkid", might want to try seating a few primers and then shooting a couple of the cases. Or.....you could have gotten a bad cutter. Did you actually measure the depth from the front of the cutter to the shoulder of the cutting tool. It ought to be easy enough to measure with a micrometer or with a dial caliper. The cutting tool unscrews easily out of the plastic handle. There are a number of extraneous variables at play here. Did you measure your brass to make sure that you don't have a bad batch of brass. When I first started using the primer uniforming cutter, I could not believe how crooked the primer pockets were drilled in the brass. I don't know what the dimension/height of the primer ought to be, however again another variable. One of the most important rules that was instilled in me when I first stated reloading, <em>"The only consistent thing with reloading components is that there is no guarantee that everything will be consistent". </em>You're a smart "young guy" and you will figure it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1564898, member: 69192"] First off it looks like you are being a bit hard on yourself. I have been reloading for fifty-seven years, and.......still asking questions and getting answers because there's always something to learn. I think that you are a pretty smart guy to realize that you have a problem, or may be having a problem, and that you are reaching out searching answers. No one, and I mean [U][I]NO ONE[/I][/U] has all the answers about any one subject!!! And anyone who thinks they know everything on any given topic is a fool!! I started out with a pretty smart mentor who taught me a lot about reloading, casting bullets and accurizing my rifles to make them shoot better. He was a member of the Army pistol and rifle team during the Viet Nam era. He brought stuff to the table that I still use today; and......sometimes I am fortunate enough to have him, and still call him on occasion. I recently had a "primer" problem and couldn't for the life of me figure out what was going on. My son and I have two primary rifles that we shoot/use (Ruger 77s tang safety), however we couldn't figure out what was going on with primers, was told that the primers had hard anvils and I needed to get a different primer. While in the midst of this dilemma, I read on this forum that Ruger 77s have problems with firing pin springs. Two Blitzschnell 28# striker springs later, problem solved. Simple and I ought to have thought of it and would have, "IF" it had not happened to both rifles. Who would have thought that is was the striker springs. Both rifles were made in the same year and the firing pin springs were old. I've now replaced the striker springs in all of my Ruger 77s I've done hundreds if not thousands of primer pockets using the Hornady tool. I removed the cutter and chucked it into the electric drill. Never a problem. I agree with "newmexkid", might want to try seating a few primers and then shooting a couple of the cases. Or.....you could have gotten a bad cutter. Did you actually measure the depth from the front of the cutter to the shoulder of the cutting tool. It ought to be easy enough to measure with a micrometer or with a dial caliper. The cutting tool unscrews easily out of the plastic handle. There are a number of extraneous variables at play here. Did you measure your brass to make sure that you don't have a bad batch of brass. When I first started using the primer uniforming cutter, I could not believe how crooked the primer pockets were drilled in the brass. I don't know what the dimension/height of the primer ought to be, however again another variable. One of the most important rules that was instilled in me when I first stated reloading, [I]"The only consistent thing with reloading components is that there is no guarantee that everything will be consistent". [/I]You're a smart "young guy" and you will figure it out. [/QUOTE]
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