One of those Doh moments.

Yes, a 22lr case manage to get in there.

Have 5 cats left. was up to 8 when we had to take deceased mother-in-law cats. We had four and she had 4.

Only one is overweight. Others are hyperactive.

The Temptation containers are handy for batches and separating head-stamps.
 
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I have had the same thing with 9mm cases stuck in .40, .44, and .45 brass. If it gets picked up at the range, and nests in a larger case in your range bag or brass bag, when it is dumped in the tumbler it will stay nested inside the larger case. And the dry tumbling media will get around the smaller case and hold it there. I have to look at each case mouth to make sure there isn't a surprise.
 
Especially with pistol ammo on a progressive, de-capping crud is a pain to clean from shell plate and primer slide. don't need the agony of stopping every 100 rounds for a cleanup.
 
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Especially with pistol ammo on a progressive, de-capping crud is a pain to clean from shell plate and primer slide. don't need the agony of stopping every 100 rounds for a cleanup.
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That's the worst. I thought about keeping my Breech lock pro, just to use for depriming/sizing, and use my pro 1000 to load. In order to keep it cleaner, since the Breech lock is easier to take apart.
 
My Decapping press is an OLD CH by Roddy c-press. Post #1
Belong to a deceased friend. Bought the primer trap from CH4D(still had some in stock NIB(dusty).
Then bought an Inline Fabrication Ergo Handle for an RCBS jr press to replace the straight metal stick with a red bicycle grip it came with. Have to use a bungee to hold the handle up to the die when not in use so don't bruise my leg as I pass by it. Many presses of that era were like that.
 
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I used to decap rifle brass on my single stage (RockChucker) prior to cleaning. For the actual reloading of rifle rounds, I only use the single stage press.

BUT, I got tired of one-at-a-time decapping and the extra time it took, so when I bought my progressive Hornady AP, I also bought shell plates for every rifle caliber I reload. As noted, I don't actually reload rifle ammo on the progressive, but when I twist out the handgun sizing/seating dies from the AP, install the proper shell plate and drop in the decapping die in station #1, I can feed about 1 case (rifle or handgun) every few seconds - after the decap, it just does the circuit and drops into the catch bin, where the cases get dumped into the tumbler barrel when the catch bin fills up.

I also do decap all my handgun brass on the AP as well to tumble, separate from the reloading steps, since I agree that decapped brass gets the primer pockets cleaner and doesn't load up the dies with residues from my shooting sessions.

O.N.G.
 
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