My day to break things

What a morning I'm having.

Since I finally have primers I decided it was time to go ahead and process the bucket of 5.56 brass I have. I'm rolling along nicely when I hit a piece of military crimped brass and snapped the decapping pin in my die.

I have RCBS so I'm usually pretty careful about the initial decapping pressure but this time I swear the pin just shattered. So I look around for my replacement pins and all I have are spare straight ones, none that have a "head".

Darn

Okay, I move over to using my Lee "unbreakable" decapper and, you guessed it, on the fourth piece of brass...PING the tip breaks off.
:banghead:

So much for getting a bunch of 5.56 processed today.

The "bucket" is a 5 gal pail that is a combination of once fired from a buddy and myself, as well as a LOT of range-pickup gathered over about 2 years. I'm guessing about 6,000 pcs.

I think it would take me the rest of my life to process 23,000 cases (I have a single stage press)