Sometimes it's just not your day...

[ipscgraz]

Another reminder to do a visual inspection, especially on foundling or range pick up brass. I use a spark plug viewer to look inside each case before I pull it out of the "found" bucket and put it into service.

And yeah, I have spare decapping pins because nothing is ever 100 % fool proof...

 

[cr5]

I always tumble then inspect before running them through the press. The Norinco brass goes in a giveaway bag, the small primer brass goes in a different giveaway bag, and the berdan, cracked, or badly tarnished/corroded ones go in the trash. What's left goes through the press and into a box where it's next step is the hand priming tool where it is inspected again prior to going through the progressive for powder and projectiles.

After blowing up a new HK USP tactical a few years ago my pistol loading has slowed down and multiple inspection stages have been added to the procedure.

As was mentioned earlier take your time, you should feel a problem when you stroke the press, it should be easy to stop before anything is damaged.

May the force be with you.

 

[jethunter]

Problem is that Berdan cases got mixed in with your brass. Range pickup brass saves money... yup.

 

[Scatter Gun]

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.

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...

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?

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.

Taylor's comment on "Murphy's law" ; If anything can go wrong it WILL-------Murphy was an optimist!

 

[thump_rrr]

I always tumble then inspect before running them through the press. The Norinco brass goes in a giveaway bag, the small primer brass goes in a different giveaway bag, and the berdan, cracked, or badly tarnished/corroded ones go in the trash. What's left goes through the press and into a box where it's next step is the hand priming tool where it is inspected again prior to going through the progressive for powder and projectiles.

After blowing up a new HK USP tactical a few years ago my pistol loading has slowed down and multiple inspection stages have been added to the procedure.

As was mentioned earlier take your time, you should feel a problem when you stroke the press, it should be easy to stop before anything is damaged.

May the force be with you.

I use a slightly different approach.
I first separate calibers using the sorting trays.
I then decap using a Lee Universal Decapping Die in my Hornady LnL AP Progressive.
For .45ACP i then hand sort small and large primers into separate buckets. The small primer is loaded to slightly above major power factor for use at courses or competitions where I don't pick up my brass.
The brass is then put through the wet tumbler to look brand new so it can be easily inspected once loaded.
Once the brass has beed loaded it gets a visual inspection and it must also pass the case gauge which is tighter than my tightest .45ACP chamber.