Another question!

[spartan55]

I am priming .223 Hornady, Winchester, and some lake city brass. I am using RCBS hand primer, Win. small rifle primers (WSR). All is good with the Hornady and Winchester brass until I come to the lake city. The primers are not going into the LC brass, and I do not want to force it.
The LC brass has a ring around the primer chamber:banghead:
Do I need to punch out the ring somehow,
or just buy smaller primers?

P.S. Thanks to all of you that helped out on the last question.

 

[ocabj]

You need to remove the primer crimp. Most military brass has crimped primer pockets. The best way is to use a swaging tool. Some use a reaming tool.

Having owned the RCBS primer crimp swaging combo kit, I highly suggest the Dillon Super Swage 600 if you ever plan on doing a lot of reloading of any brass where military cartridges may be a source of fired brass.

My personal review: http://www.inlandshooters.net/index.php?contentid=80

 

[JonB]

Those are military crimps common on LC brass.

There are tools you can buy to specifically address that.

But what I do is to take the chamfer tool I have (Lee version) and use it to ream out the primer pocket until the primer fits it. Takes a bit of elbow grease, but since I only have a dozen or so, it's not that big of a deal. If you have a bunch of them to do, I would maybe look at something different or you will be at it for a while.

 

[Shoney]

The LC brass has a crimp on the primer pocket that must be removed. Two ways to remove a crimp:
primer pocet reamer
primer pocket swaging tool

which one you get depends on the numbers of brass that needs to be done. If you are only doing 100's. the reamer will do. If doing 1000's a swaging tool is in order.

 

[rcmodel]

All military brass will have crimped primers.
You have to either ream, or swage them out before you can reprime them.


rcmodel

 

[spartan55]

got it thanks

I appreciate all your help once again.......

At this time I have only 12 rds of LC Brass and 1500 of all the other. I think I will just put away the LC brass till I get more and it becomes worth the cost of a new tool. Thanks all

 

[JonB]

FYI - the Lee Chamfer tool I use was like 3 bucks. The RCBS brand is what most places locally sell and I think their version was around 5 or 6 dollars.