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Posted: 9/5/2011 11:21:07 AM EDT
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How deep do you set the swage into the primer pocket? I set mine up and it seems to go about 3/4 of the way into the primer pocket. I have not tried to seat a primer yet. I am swaging 5.56.
Thanks! Dane |
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How deep do you set the swage into the primer pocket? I set mine up and it seems to go about 3/4 of the way into the primer pocket. I have not tried to seat a primer yet. I am swaging 5.56. Thanks! Dane Sir, perhaps my methods are a bit more empirical than others but it works. Mostly for .223 Rem. I'm using LC brass. I keep adjusting the rod length of the super swager until I can seat a primer, ie: I swage a piece of brass and try to seat a primer into it. If I can't seat a primer I adjust the rod length a bit more and so on until I can seat a primer. I don't know how deep the swaging tool goes into the primer pocket but my method works. Also this way I have confidence that I'm not swaging the brass any more than needed. HTH, 7zero1. |
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If uniforming primer pockets after swaging. I'd think 3/4 would be ideal. Then uniform primer pockets with RCBS Trim Mate.
I'll be damned if sorting assorted brass by the thousand for plinker brass. I've got OCD issues like everyone in this forum but sorting plinker brass so I can "save" time swaging isn't going to be one of them. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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If uniforming primer pockets after swaging. I'd think 3/4 would be ideal. Then uniform primer pockets with RCBS Trim Mate. I'll be damned if sorting assorted brass by the thousand for plinker brass. I've got OCD issues like everyone in this forum but sorting plinker brass so I can "save" time swaging isn't going to be one of them. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I agree. I got 2 five gallon paint buckets full of brass. 80% is LC and the rest is mostly PMC and I am not going to sort it. I collected the PMC back in the 80s while testing M16/AR15 uppers with Rhino Devices for Walt Langendorfer. Walt always bought PMC for testing and I saved the brass. I don't think there is a crimp on the PMC but I am going to run them through the dillon 600 any way. My oldest son just picked up sever K of LC. I think I will keep those cases seperate when we shoot them for more then just plinking. I may start reforming some 300 Blackout cases from my 556 cases when my son buys his 300 Blackout Upper. Thanks |
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If uniforming primer pockets after swaging. I'd think 3/4 would be ideal. Then uniform primer pockets with RCBS Trim Mate. I'll be damned if sorting assorted brass by the thousand for plinker brass. I've got OCD issues like everyone in this forum but sorting plinker brass so I can "save" time swaging isn't going to be one of them. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I agree. I got 2 five gallon paint buckets full of brass. 80% is LC and the rest is mostly PMC and I am not going to sort it. I collected the PMC back in the 80s while testing M16/AR15 uppers with Rhino Devices for Walt Langendorfer. Walt always bought PMC for testing and I saved the brass. I don't think there is a crimp on the PMC but I am going to run them through the dillon 600 any way. My oldest son just picked up sever K of LC. I think I will keep those cases seperate when we shoot them for more then just plinking. I may start reforming some 300 Blackout cases from my 556 cases when my son buys his 300 Blackout Upper. Thanks Sir, while I agree that sorting GP or plinker brass is largely a waste of time, crimped brass has to have the crimp removed before you can reprime regardless. My answer was more in the context of beginning the preparation of LC brass that I intend to load for use in across the course HP matches. For that purpose I normally sort the brass by head stamp and load only those with the same head stamp. Odd lots of brass with only a small population of a given head stamp get relegated to the GP bin for case prep that is done a bit differently. 7zero1, out. |
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