military primer pockets
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In a moment of stupidity (looking to get out of a scummy neighbourhood) I sold off my origional Super1050 and tooling to a board member. I recently replaced it with another Super1050.
I went all out initially, buying the RT1200b trimmer. I had a prep only toolhead, and one just for loading. Later I occationally set up a priming only toolhead. (Loading by the 5 gallon pail leads to large batch mentality)
AFAIK, there is nothing the Super 1050 can do that you can't also do with the older 1050 with .223Rem. The longer stoke may accomodate longer cases, but offers no other improvements.
Fail.
Much of the commercial Winchester brass while they had the Lake City contract, and most of the current Federal .223Rem brass (who currently operate Lake City) comes with crimped primers.
The current trend with all ATK manufactured small primer ammo seems to be crimped primers. (I wonder if it's a function of the NT primers often having a larger flash hole.)
So far, PMC and LC brass have crimped primer pocket. If you have tons of these, the proper way to remove that crimp is with the Dillon Super Swager. Ask me how I know.
Alex, I'll take, "Making the wife #### herself with primer detonations.", for $1000.
I have a little gizmo that goes on an electric drill. the shank goes into the pocket and the shoulder has a cutter that trims the crimp. I lock my electric drill in the vice and then de-burr buckets of brass quickly.
or i can use the Dillon pocket swage that is bolted to my bench.
I go electric if there are a lot, and the Dillon if there is a few.
or i can use the Dillon pocket swage that is bolted to my bench.
I go electric if there are a lot, and the Dillon if there is a few.
I have an RCBS primer pocket swage die but don't use it much. If I have a small number of cases to do I just use an RCBS de-burring tool to cut the crimp out. If I have a lot to do I chuck up a 5 flute HSS countersink in my drill press, run it at lowest speed and simply hold the primer pocket against the countersink for a couple revolutions and the job is done quickly and easily.
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It works like a charm ajax. I've done hundreds of crimped .223 brass with the Lee tool and my cordless drill. It's cheap and effective.
gushulak
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Dillon Super Swage makes reaming the primer pockets of military ammo easy. I have swaged about 10K of 5.56mm with it and about 2K of 7.62mm and it works like a dream!
One of the best tools on my bench, next to a Giuard Case Trimmer, which almost makes me want to trim brass it is so quick and precise!
One of the best tools on my bench, next to a Giuard Case Trimmer, which almost makes me want to trim brass it is so quick and precise!
