44 rem magnum S&B tight primer pockets

[hatman1793]

Three case systems contaminants: Winchester 38spl nickel+P brass, WCC 9mm brass, & all S&B cases. All not worth the extra effort to rehabilitate.
Most reloaders are afflicted with the brass saving Gene and find it difficult to discard brass. Even unsuitable brass. Even brass that requires over-and-above effort to so-call rehabilitate. Even I have some of this bad gene.
So, if you must, & at your peril, save these three case contaminants and pass along to others more afflicted.

 

[BlackSheepBrass]

If demand is great enough I will begin offering the 44 Magnum resized / deprimed / swaged primer pockets. I have most of the tooling to do it. Again though time = Money

 

[pacobillie]

The pockets on S&B brass are indeed tight. About 1 out of 10 primers goes in crooked with the Lee hand primer. My own solution is to prime on a single stage press (Lee Challenger), on the downward stroke. It is a little slower than with the hand primer, but if you factor in the time wasted getting the stuck primers out of the brass, it actually saves time.

 

[Mark-II]

Three case systems contaminants: Winchester 38spl nickel+P brass, WCC 9mm brass, & all S&B cases. All not worth the extra effort to rehabilitate.
Most reloaders are afflicted with the brass saving Gene and find it difficult to discard brass. Even unsuitable brass. Even brass that requires over-and-above effort to so-call rehabilitate. Even I have some of this bad gene.
So, if you must, & at your peril, save these three case contaminants and pass along to others more afflicted.

I'm the same, but I've managed to rid myself of the urge to collect 9mm military and other crimped cases, and I sell any small primer 45 auto.

I've chamfered S&B 45 auto before. It's never NOT primed for me if I don't, but seeing deformed primers coming off the press is slightly unnerving

 

[Trinimon]

The pockets on S&B brass are indeed tight. About 1 out of 10 primers goes in crooked with the Lee hand primer. My own solution is to prime on a single stage press (Lee Challenger), on the downward stroke. It is a little slower than with the hand primer, but if you factor in the time wasted getting the stuck primers out of the brass, it actually saves time.

This is what I do as well. All my 44Mag and 45LC are preprimed during sizing. Might have to start doing that with my 9mm.

 

[Seagull]

If demand is great enough I will begin offering the 44 Magnum resized / deprimed / swaged primer pockets. I have most of the tooling to do it. Again though time = Money

I think it is a good idea. I was ticked when 70% of the brass I got was S&B and needed to be swaged. It is great brass but the extra step is a PITA unless you have a Dillon 1050.

 

[bigedp51]

I just finished sizing and prepping 500 once fired Winchester military 9mm cases with crimped primer pockets.

I have many hand held primer pocket reamers but found the fastest method was to use the RCBS press mounted swager.

I was using my Hornady case prep trio as pictured below. I would hit the mouth of the primer pocket with VLD reamer and then use the RCBS crimp remover for the final crimp removal.

The Lyman primer pocket reamer was just used as a GO NO-GO gauge to see if the primer pocket had been reamed enough.

After measuring the RCBS swager the lower diameter is minimum primer pocket diameter and the flared end will bevel the pocket mouth.

And this was the fastest method with one pull of the press handle.

 

[roadcarver]

I usually cringe thinking I dodged a detonation, but usually a detonation of a primer will involve a hard and fast strike of the anvil to cause a detonation, from what I understand.

Once I see the mangled primer, I proceed to curse cause I've just wasted a good primer.

I'm the same, but I've managed to rid myself of the urge to collect 9mm military and other crimped cases, and I sell any small primer 45 auto.

I've chamfered S&B 45 auto before. It's never NOT primed for me if I don't, but seeing deformed primers coming off the press is slightly unnerving

 

[bigedp51]

Below is the RCBS crimp remover for their case prep station, it is tapered and removes the crimp and bevels the mouth of the primer pocket.

The advantage of this reamer is it doesn't touch the primer pocket side walls and the reaming stops when the case hits the face of the reamer.

The end result is a case with a primer pocket shaped and beveled like a non-crimped primer pocket and easy seating primers.

The reamer at the top of the photo below is the same reamer as above. The problem with these type reamers is sore fingers and hands when doing large batches of cases.