Ever have a hole that is too tight?UPDATE w/pic, please explain.

Kelly Timoffee

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Well, it was one of those nights where one thing happened after another but here is the reloading end of it.

Have some once fired Hornady brass(no not my favorite) that I picked up to load for a M88, just wanted to load for the thing.

The primer pockets were extremely tight.

How tight were they?

Take a look at these photos...







Seeing flat primers is one thing, making them flat by hand is another.

I don't have weak hands by any stretch of the imagination but there were some that I couldn't squeeze in with one hand.I was getting pissed off and wanted to see just how tight these things were so I aimed the case away from me and gave it a good one, the two pictured never did seat.You could feel them go in in two stages.

Anybody ever have that problem?

Hornady 1F brass, RCBS hand priming tool, 215M primers.

And, the bullets were too blunt to feed AND the new magazine I picked up for the rifle didn't allow the bolt to close.I picked up my ball and went home after that.
 
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Sask_Hunter said:
They look like they have crimped primers. give them a quick ream with a deburing tool and you should be in business.
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Yes, I had the same issue with that brass, trim off the crimp and you are good to go. Too easy to make a comment on the title of your post...
 


Sask_Hunter said:
They look like they have crimped primers. give them a quick ream with a deburing tool and you should be in business.
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Didn't help like one would think , was still too tight for my liking after reaming the hole. :mad: :redface:

Was only three that actually gave much resistance to the tool.

Might have to find a more appropriate tool.
 
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Yu need one of these:

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There were a lot of primer pocket issues with the early Hornady 17 Hornet cases, and they were not crimped. Thankfully Hornady corrected the issue.
 
...Kelly the subject line got my attention and had to look.:confused::d

I wrecked a large primer tray from a Lee Autoprime trying to seat some federal primers in factory fired Federal blue box issue cases. I have the same lyman tool and it fixed the problem. I still wonder today why I spent so much time on that stuff. Live, learn and listen to the reloading elders I guess.

...subject line...lmao.

Regards
Ronr
 
I flattened a couple like that and decided to try them out anyways. Worked just fine, I find S&B primers are quite soft and did this quite easily, then again I pound em in with a hammer and a Lee loader priming tool. It just feels right.
 
Nothing would indicate to me that they actually are crimped.

However, using my uniforming tool as a make shift gauge of sorts, it would seem that some pockets are considerably tighter than others.

Pockets measured at .204" - .205" diameter, tomorrow I will go through the whole batch and see what kind of numbers I get.

stubblejumper said:
There were a lot of primer pocket issues with the early Hornady 17 Hornet cases, and they were not crimped. Thankfully Hornady corrected the issue.
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Different brass and primers have different sizes. Found Lapua seems to work with any primers whereas the HDY, WIN, FC, REM will work with only certain brands.
Solution is go to all the work with primer pocket tool or find primers that fit. CCI, Fed, S&B, Rem primers are different sizes.
 
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