New reloader here.  I scored 800 cases from my gun club gratis.  Please help ID'ing these.  I don't have a swager, as I intended to only use uncrimped brass.  Now I see it may pay for itself soon.

I want to know if it is crimped, and is it notable in any way (poor/great quality)

WCC

FC - I hear this is sketchy (web thickness)

Winchester

PPU - Prvi Partisan

R-P

IK or 1K

S+B

LC

Thanks for helping a noob.  I have blue everything, should I get their swager, or is there a cheaper option?

My reloading class is on 1/31/9.  I tried depriming a couple cases and already busted my die.  Didn't take much force at all!  Dillion 550B.

Thanks for the help.

Does a swager also remove the spent crimped primer?  If not, how do you remove it?

Run the case through a "size" die first, the "de-cap" pin  in the die body will push the old primer out,  then you can service the pocket as needed.

That is what I tried to do, and I bent the sizing die's depriming pin all to hell.  Good thing big blue gave me 2.  If it is crimped, I thought I taught myself that it will not be pushed out the regular way.

Wot am I doing wrong?

When I am resizing range pickups for 223 I lube them all and go to work.

I go slower then normal so I can feel if there is pressure on the decapping pin.

If there is more pressure then normal I slow down the stroke and gently push the ram all the way up.

I use RCBS dies so I am not sure what you are using but I set my decapping pin to be a decent depth to get 90% of the crimped primers out.

I hand check the brass as it passes the 3-4 station on my Dillon 650 and check to see if it deprimed.

If the first pass did not get the primer out I keep it aside.  When I am done with a batch I go back to the crimped primers that did not get deprimed.  If the primers are not half way out I just run them through the casefeeder again.  This time when I deprime I listen for the primer to drop.  If it doesn't drop I lower the ram just alittle and rais it up again.  This gets rid of most crimped in primers.

If I have cases where the primers are more then halfway out I need to load them manually in the resizing station as they will fall sideways or get jammed on the Dillon if I use the casefeeder.  The trick is to remove the station 1 piece and manually put the case in the shellholder so you can deprime it all the way.

If it deprimed I check to see if it was previously swaged or has a visible crimp with sealant.  I toss those on one bin.

I toss the obvious reamed brass into another bin and save that for blasting ammo.

I don't want to touch each piece of brass 20 times.

I am sure everyone has their own process but this is mine until I figure out a more efficient way.

Crimped primers can be decapped with a standard resizing die.

2 cautions,

1. Have to be sure you are working with Boxer primed cases, not Berdan.

Boxer on left, Berdan on right.

2. Those IK cases DO have a small flashole.

If you tried to deprime those with a standard FL sizing die, you broke something.

They will decap with a Lee Universal Decapper Die.

Tighten the collet very snug.

The flasholes will be swaged larger as you decap.

Put a little case lube on the decapping pin, every 3 or 4 cases. Will keep decapping pin from pulling out.


So which cases broke the decapping pin/stem?

Decapping stem can be adjusted wrong causing problems.

Need more info.

Do .223 Berdan primed cases exist?  I had not considered that.  It is awful hard to see into the case to figure that out.  Now I am concerned about any case that may be commie.

The die broke by bending the pin, not leaving pin in case.  Not sure how lubing pin would help, but I will do it.

The case that broke the pin was in fact a IK case.  If I am adjusting die wrong, I better just wait until my reloading class this weekend before I mess around anymore.