Cleaning flash holes.

I'm another that deburrs the flash hole on rifles but not pistols. I can't provide any proof that it helps anything but doing it makes me feel warm and fuzzy! I use a tool from K&M chucked up in a cordless drill. And yeah, you get a surprising pile of chips from 100 cases!
 
A few decades back I got fairly serious about it: I had a custom five-shot Ruger in .45 Colt and was trying to duplicate Seyfried's "MOA" revolver. Mine wasn't quite as accurate as his - and I probably didn't shoot it as well - but I still ended up with a collection of two-to-three inch 100 yard groups. I tried several different approaches to "match prepped" cases (I was also competing in benchrest at the time, with a 6PPC on a Stolle action, so had all the tools) and found that none of them helped at all. My opinion since then is that revolvers - even the best revolvers made - simply have too much slop/tolerance/whatever for things like flash hole burrs to stand out from the noise.
 
Long line ammo I do all sorts of things which I think COULD make a difference and the primer inside deburr/hole uniformer is one of the things. Honestly I have no data to prove/disprove efficacy but do it anyhow.
 
Long line ammo I do all sorts of things which I think COULD make a difference and the primer inside deburr/hole uniformer is one of the things. Honestly I have no data to prove/disprove efficacy but do it anyhow.
One thing I've learned shooting matches: if you think it helps then it does.
 
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