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Have a few thousand 45ACP brass but unfortunately there are small primer and large primer mixed together. The plan is to single stage through them all, clean them in the stainless steel tumbler and then use a primer pocket scraper to determine and sort the large primer from small primer. Oh... did I mention there must be some berdan primed cases in there too. Last night, popping primers with my handy dandy Lee Universal Decapper.... oops.

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So I get home from work today and get the wonderful idea that I can use the decapper/primer from my RCBS set for the 500 S&W to keep going on the depriming... you guessed it, another berdan case. This one hurts...

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OK screw this... let's knock some primers out of some really nice Winchester 223 left at the range for me courtesy of the local constabulary... what could possibly go wrong?

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And there goes my little depriming press.

I think I will call it a night and start window shopping for when I win the Lotto Max.
 
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Drop everything. Attempt no more. Pour three finger of single malt Scotch, relax in your favourite chair and call it a night...
 
^^^ Thats some good advice right there. Tomorrow call Lee or whoever made that press and with any luck they will send you a new one.
 
Going over to the neighbours for a couple of smokes and a drink now. Must resist the urge to see what more I can break tonight. Maybe I should go try and fix a toilet in the house, that should work out real well haha.
 
Well that's bad. I'm having trouble with 308. First set of die was too tight and a brass got stuck in. I bought another set of die, it was working until the expander ball decided to strip and get stuck inside the neck.
I think I'll go back to 30-30 lol
 
Holy frack. I've had bad days but you sir are the lotttery winner. Lee will replace the decapping pin, just fill out the online warranty claim form along with a pic. You need to not tighten down that decapping pin so much. It's supposed to pop free when there's a bit of resistance.

You can try with RCBS as well. I'm pretty sure they'll send you a pack of pins like they did for me a while back.

As for the press. Is that a Lee Breech Lock? Contact Lee, they'll most likely replace it under warranty. Hopefully they won't ask you to ship them the broken one.
 
Are you saying that you have found berdan primed .45ACP?

You don't need a tool to look for small primered brass.
The short list is Federal NT, Win NT, CCI, Blazer.
 
thump_rrr said:
Are you saying that you have found berdan primed .45ACP?

You don't need a tool to look for small primered brass.
The short list is Federal NT, Win NT, CCI, Blazer.
Click to expand...

I'm playing the better safe than sorry game here. I want to know 110% sure that my 45 is all large primer before I rip it through the 650. I would rather take days to verify 100% that they are sorted than chance a small primer case trying to take a large primer.
 
Your Lee decapper must have been too tight, the rod should slide up and prevent the pin from bending if you run into a berdan case or ram one off center.
Still....it would have taken a lot of force the on that little C press to bend it that bad.....go slower, stop if something doesn't feel right.
Breaking 3 tools on the same problem though..... Is pretty funny lol
 
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