heavydluxe
Member
I have started with my little reloading adventure, and everything has been going well until I started priming cases tonight. Had two problems, and now I'm going to presume on the kindness of you THR reloading ninjas to help me out.
Up front, I'm using the Lee Hand Priming tool.
1) I'm positive all the primers were anvil up in the tray, but it appears one flipped as it moved to the loading position and I didn't catch it. So, now I have one case with a backwards primer. I hate to sacrifice the case... Is the right step to just carefully decap the case again?
2) More disturbingly, I had one primer go into a case that must've been crimped and it bound up about halfway in. The problem is that I can't get the case out of the shellholder because the primer protrudes too far down to allow clearance. I emptied the tray (to avoid compressing two primers) and decided to try some slow, steady pressure to see if it would seat. It did, sorta. But now it's mangled/bent and still stuck in the shellholder. Any thoughts?
FWIW, I definitely have found I'm not really good at recognizing crimped brass and, upon seeing it, doing enough to remove the crimp. I had a half-dozen cases that were immediately clear they weren't going to accept a primer. I've set them aside to go back and will go back and try to trim the crimp again.
I don't have a swage at this point, so any tips on improving how I remove the crimp would also be helpful.
No doubt there will be more posts to come. In the meantime, thanks for all you do to help those of us learning.
Up front, I'm using the Lee Hand Priming tool.
1) I'm positive all the primers were anvil up in the tray, but it appears one flipped as it moved to the loading position and I didn't catch it. So, now I have one case with a backwards primer. I hate to sacrifice the case... Is the right step to just carefully decap the case again?
2) More disturbingly, I had one primer go into a case that must've been crimped and it bound up about halfway in. The problem is that I can't get the case out of the shellholder because the primer protrudes too far down to allow clearance. I emptied the tray (to avoid compressing two primers) and decided to try some slow, steady pressure to see if it would seat. It did, sorta. But now it's mangled/bent and still stuck in the shellholder. Any thoughts?
FWIW, I definitely have found I'm not really good at recognizing crimped brass and, upon seeing it, doing enough to remove the crimp. I had a half-dozen cases that were immediately clear they weren't going to accept a primer. I've set them aside to go back and will go back and try to trim the crimp again.
I don't have a swage at this point, so any tips on improving how I remove the crimp would also be helpful.
No doubt there will be more posts to come. In the meantime, thanks for all you do to help those of us learning.