- Location
- Peace River, Alberta
Anyone have any issues reloading once fired Federal American Eagle 223 cases? I cannot seem to get the primers to seat easily with a Dillion 550.
Greg
Greg
Relaoding American Eagle
- Thread starter albertacoyotecaller
- Start date
Sounds like crimped primers to me.
You may have to swage or chamfer the primer pocket if they were crimped primers.
If it looks like the brass was pressed around the original primer, you can use a couple of turns of a chamfer tool to remove the crimp before seating the new primer.
You may have to swage or chamfer the primer pocket if they were crimped primers.
If it looks like the brass was pressed around the original primer, you can use a couple of turns of a chamfer tool to remove the crimp before seating the new primer.
INTIMIDATOR
Regular
- Location
- Southern Ontario
ditto, I really had to give them a good chamfer to get them to seat. The brass is a little shorter than Winchester or Remington too.
- Location
- Peace River, Alberta
Crimped
This is what I am thinking, however I never thought that American Eagle had crimped primers? Can anyone confirm this?
Greg
This is what I am thinking, however I never thought that American Eagle had crimped primers? Can anyone confirm this?
Greg
Yep, you have crimped primers. All the suggestions on how to remove the crimp are already stated above. I had a 550 at one time and had a primers go off while seating them a couple times. When I called Dillon about it they told me not to use Federal primers. I stopped using the 550 to prime and never had a problem after that.
