Primer Pocket Go-No Go gauge

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Gopher season is upon us and I need to sort my brass. I have quite a few FC 5.56 brass that appear to have oversized primer pockets. I am searching for a Primer Pocket Go-No Go gauge from a Canadian retailer that has them in stock ASAP. Can anyone help?
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WiserFool said:
Gopher season is upon us and I need to sort my brass. I have quite a few FC 5.56 brass that appear to have oversized primer pockets. I am searching for a Primer Pocket Go-No Go gauge from a Canadian retailer that has them in stock ASAP. Can anyone help?
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I can't help you with a primer pocket go / no-go gauge (in all honesty, this thread is my first time seeing this item).

But I will add that Federal primer pockets stretching out to unusable is a fairly well known issue, and I cull them even if once fired (Not sure if you are aware of that or not).

Could you use a primer pocket reamer as a no-go gauge?
 
beltfed - in perhaps 1980's I bought a .338 Win Mag - about all I bought for ammo, then, was Federal - I actually got two elk with two rounds of that factory stuff. I have reloaded that brass at least 4 or 5 times - is probably a hundred still here in my stash - can not say that I noticed a primer pocket issue - but you are not the first, at all, to post that today's Federal brass is pretty soft - although I am on second reload for some Federal Premium bulk brass (that I bought in 2020) for my grandson's 243 Win - not seeing those oversize pockets yet, with CCI 200 and Fed 210 primers. But last bag of red-labeled W-W 22-250 was really grim - about half dozen had folds in shoulder or necks - about 30 out of 100 would not even chamber into my rifle because the case mouth looked like a water pitcher pour spout - as if tilted off a forming tool before fully withdrawn from it - as if Federal and W-W in "race to the bottom" for "quality" and hoping nobody can remember what "good" used to be like.
 
This seems a bit gimmicky to me. Why not just take an inside measurement if you’re looking for that kind of precision? Most of us, I’d suspect, just go by look and feel.
 
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This seems a bit gimmicky to me. Why not just take an inside measurement if you’re looking for that kind of precision? Most of us, I’d suspect, just go by look and feel.
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When you have hundreds to thousands of cases and need to know if they are crimped or not, in order to run through a progressive press, this would be the perfect tool.
 
For mixed brass I de-prime and size on a 650 with just that station in the tool head, then run through the Giraud for trim and chamfer, and then a cutter head with a cordless drill and one of those rubber sprayed fabric work gloves. I used to use a Dillon swagger, but the cutter in the drill is much faster and cleans to pockets at the same time as removing the crimp.

I check head stamp, sort and if the cutter is loose, the brass is tossed.
 
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