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Posted: 1/15/2011 5:17:03 AM EDT
| So I bought about 1500 mixed head stamp 9mm brass. Well abut 25% are lake city with crimped primers. I need a primer pocket tool to get these ready. What is a decent inexpensive primer pocket tool? |
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A de-burr tool will work, and it is cheap.
However - In my experience it works so poorly as to be useless for this purpose. I don't know why; it seems like it would work great. The best crimp remover that I know of is Dillon's swage tool. The downside is that it's ~$100 from them. Perhaps you could borrow from someone in your area? |
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So I bought about 1500 mixed head stamp 9mm brass. Well abut 25% are lake city with crimped primers. I need a primer pocket tool to get these ready. What is a decent inexpensive primer pocket tool? Hornady primer pocket reamer. http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?productnumber=501588. IMHO it's the best and fastest way to remove a crimp. The naysayers will tell you that the Dillon Super Swage is better, because it doesnt remove brass, but the amount of brass that's removed by the hornady reamer is almost nil. Just enough to remove the ridge. The reamer blade can be chucked into a drill, and going with this method, you can ream brass at a rate of about 3 seconds a piece. I'm not dogging dillon by any means, I just feel that for someone like me, who's reloading on the cheap... 10 dollars versus 100 dollars to do the same job.... I'll take the Hornady. |
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I have found that a new, #2 Phillips bit in my cordless does a great job in my .223 brass that have crimped primer pockets. I think I pay about $.30 for one when I buy a 10 pack. Is that cheap enough? I have a few different deburring tools but I will have to try that one. Does it work on large rifle crimped primers? |
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I have found that a new, #2 Phillips bit in my cordless does a great job in my .223 brass that have crimped primer pockets. I think I pay about $.30 for one when I buy a 10 pack. Is that cheap enough? I have a few different deburring tools but I will have to try that one. Does it work on large rifle crimped primers? This sounds like a train wreck in progress but I could be wrong. Curious enough to see pictures of brass done with Phillips bit. I can't envision how that would work while maintaining consistancy from case to case. RCBS Primer Pocket Swager Combo is what I use. |
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