DoneNOut
Well-Known Member
Thoughts?
I've been doing this since tbrice23 put it out in 2015. There have been commercial tools for this for years prior to his posting but this is just too simple.You'll learn more from this Thread, than from that video:
TIGHTEN PRIMER POCKETS, here's how.
First of all, this won't work on extremely over pressured brass! If your primer pockets are getting loose from multiple firings (general wear and tear) this will work. I have a 4H ( HARDENED ) hex head bolt of the appropriate length wrapped with tape at the cartrige neck area length, and...www.longrangehunting.com
I use a bigger hammer than the powder puff hammer shown in that video. Like Tim the Tool Man... In this case, bigger hammer is better. It still requires several hammer strikes.
Its 8AM but I think this one will be Irish coffee!I am NOT touching this one! Going to sit back, have a drink and watch for a change!
But you are RIGHT on!
But the boogeyman is always under the bedI'm not proving any theories. Just extending brass life. The sole purposes of the primer and primer pocket is to ignite powder and seal off combustion gas.
Don't be so skeered of the boogeyman man.
My favorite post on this forum in a long time. Thank you for that.Personally, I'm not losing primer pockets fast enough to worry about it, but if you are and it his works, rock on.
If it works well enough then eventually Lee will make a $15 tool that works in a press for this. Hornady will make the same thing but it costs $40 and is a 50 thousanths smaller than spec. AMP will release a $2,500 hydraulic press with a force gauge that produces a graph so we can see the exact point at which at which the brass yields to reform the cup. Novels will be written on the internet about how as long as you use a 16oz hammer and let gravity control the force via a 6" drop (calibrated for variations in your local gravitational field of course) that you'll size the pocket perfectly. People who shoot Weatherby's will insist it has to be a ball peen hammer because of the roundness of the peen. The Europeans will tell us stupid Yanks that they've been doing since the 1647 but it only works if you use the metric system. The Aussies are asleep right now, and besides they're probably too busy fighting off all the poisonous snakes to worry about primer pockets.