.223 de-priming, swaging, and sizing in a dillon 550?

[45Badger]

I reload on a Dillon 550. I have a BIG pile of military .223 with crimped primer pockets. I own a Dillon super swager. For the first 1000 brass with crimped primer pockets, I de-primed on a rockchucker, swaged the prmer pockets, and then ran them through the 550. I picked up an extra tool head and want to know if the following process will work-

1) tumble brass until clean and shiny
2) on the Dillon press with spare tool head deprime on hole "1", resize on hole "2" (usually the powder die hole), spin through last two holes and dump in cath bin.
3) swage the primer pocket

When the pile is done, reload on press with Hole "1" empty.

Question I have is, is it OK to swage primer pockets after re-sizing or will that screw up the neck? I would prefer to do it this way because I could lube case before the de-priming/re-sizing, and clean them after the swaging.

If it's not Ok, I'll just de-prime on the extra toolhead, swage, and then load as normal.

Thoughts, opinions, insight and experience appreciated! Thanks!

 

[loadedround]

I also load military 223 and 308's on a Dillon 550B. If they are once fired with crimped primers, I usually tumble them clean and then deprime them with a universal depriming die either on the Dillon or a single station press and decrimp, chamfer, check case length, etc before lubing and loading them normally on the Dillon. I do not like loading deprimed tumbled brass since I have found media stuck in the flash hole more than several times, especially on the 223 brass.

 

[45Badger]

I'm most concerned about the crimp swaging on the super-swager after the resizing. Is it OK to do this? Will it screw up the neck sizing? Thanks!

 

[arizona98tj]

It will be OK. It should slip over the rod without any problems.

 

[lgbloader]

I'm most concerned about the crimp swaging on the super-swager after the resizing. Is it OK to do this? Will it screw up the neck sizing? Thanks!

It will be OK.

Yup.

LGB

 

[Valkman]

The process you described is how I do it on my 550, and it's weird loading with the #1 hole empty but it works!