vanfunk
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Hi Everyone:
I am not new to reloading but I am relatively new to reloading for rifles. About six months ago I started reloading for .308 and a friend gifted me some Starline and Remington brass, which has been easy to reload. A few days ago I came into possession of about a thousand cases of .308 commercial brass, cleaned but still with spent primers in place. To my consternation, I have found that Federal, Hornady and Aguila cases seem to have primer pockets that are smaller than Starline and Remington and will not accept a standard large rifle primer (CCI and Fiocchi in my case). My feeble Lyman primer pocket hand uniformer tool is no match for these cases, so I have a few hundred cases I can’t use ‘til I figure out a fix. So please enlighten me if you can - these are commercial .308 cases and not crimped military 7.62 brass so I don’t get what’s going on here. Help!
Thanks!
I am not new to reloading but I am relatively new to reloading for rifles. About six months ago I started reloading for .308 and a friend gifted me some Starline and Remington brass, which has been easy to reload. A few days ago I came into possession of about a thousand cases of .308 commercial brass, cleaned but still with spent primers in place. To my consternation, I have found that Federal, Hornady and Aguila cases seem to have primer pockets that are smaller than Starline and Remington and will not accept a standard large rifle primer (CCI and Fiocchi in my case). My feeble Lyman primer pocket hand uniformer tool is no match for these cases, so I have a few hundred cases I can’t use ‘til I figure out a fix. So please enlighten me if you can - these are commercial .308 cases and not crimped military 7.62 brass so I don’t get what’s going on here. Help!
Thanks!