Do you clean your primer pockets?

[spleify]

I am gonna ask some questions here as I have been doing things the same way for over 10 years now and I'm wondering how others are doing things or if things have changed any.

I have always cleaned all of my primer pockets on all of my different cases. Pistol and rifle. I have heard rumblings of folks not cleaning there primer pockets and I was wondering what folks are doing, or not doing.

Thanks

 

[zxcvbob]

Only if they have a bit of tumbling media lodged in them.

 

[snuffy]

NO! Almost all go uncleaned. The exception is hunting rounds or maybe some long range target loads get cleaned.

The primer residue just doesn't pose a problem.

 

[Steve in PA]

The only primer pockets I clean is on my hunting ammo.

Handgun ammo? Plinking rifle ammo? Never.

 

[lightman]

I clean them in almost all of my rifle ammo,but hardly ever clean them in pistol cases.Thats just me! Lightman

 

[bluetopper]

Cleaning primer pockets kind of defeats the purpose of my new progressive press that I thoroughly enjoy using.

 

[kk0g]

Nope

 

[Afy]

Only for 6 BR

 

[Walkalong]

6 PPC for a Bench gun? I use a PP unformer every time.

Other Rifle? I just use an RCBS wire PP cleaner.

Pistol? Hardly ever.

 

[Tomcat47]

I also do all my hunting ammo!

Parasite - Cleaning primer pockets kind of defeats the purpose of my new progressive press that I thoroughly enjoy using.

I am with you on this with the progressive....however here lately I have run in to a problem....not a huge amount mind you but really puts a kink in the progress on "progressive" ....

On my .45 ACP here lately the depriming die pops the end off the primer but leaves a ring in the pocket so progression stops at the priming station!
Anyone else run into this....The brass it happens to is Remington.

I have been singling them out and depriming in single stage press and cleaning the pockets seperately now. I am thinking bad primers myself, not that they didnt go bang but thin???

 

[Slamfire]

Pistol: I don't.

Rifle: I ream the primer pockets to depth on my gas gun ammo. I do that each time I size the cases to ensure that I do not have any high primers.

Bolt rifles: I ream if I am in the mood, if not, I clean the pockets about 90% of the time.

I long range champion that I shot with, he never cleaned his rifle primer pockets. He had a couple of National Records and won some big ones at Camp Perry.

 

[bluetopper]

Tomcat 47-----I am running in to the problem you mention from time to time of the top of the old primers coming off but leaving the rings/sides of the primers in only in 44 Magnums. I've saved the brass but really don't know how to get the sides of the primers out.

 

[kennedy]

.308 and 65X55 only, no pistol or .223

 

[armoredman]

Rifle, yes, pistol, no.

 

[Tim the student]

It depends. I usually do, but sometimes I don't. Not sure how much it helps, but it makes me feel better. I figure it can't hurt anything.

 

[Hondo 60]

nope. As long as the new primers seat OK, I don't think it makes any difference when it comes to accuracy.

 

[blarby]

Yes.

I uniform them first case prep.

Every prep thereafter the uniformer makes a great pocket cleaner in one rotation.

 

[trapper500]

Do You Clean Your Primers Pockets

I clean all of the primer pockets on all of my brass just been doing this so long don't want to change i guess it if it works it doesn't need fixing IMHO

 

[GLOOB]

This should be a poll. My vote is no, I don't clean.

 

[spleify]

Ok, I started another thread, which can be found here, http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=593759 but I decided I wanted to add a poll so here it is. Its multiple choice so you can choose for rifle, and pistol.

Mods if you could merge these two threads that would be great!

 

[spleify]

Mods I started a thread with a poll, could you please merge the two threads.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=593817

Thanks

 

[rikman]

Pistol sometimes on my turret press while I load in batches ...on my dillon for pistol never....rifle always

 

[northark147]

I only clean for my bolt action rifles. One of these days I might try developing some extremely precise rounds for hunting for my 6.8 AR, but it holds close to 1.5 MOA with just progressive loaded slap together so I really see no reason to bother.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Pistol brass - Never
Rifle brass - Sometimes (hunting ammo)

 

[oldreloader]

yes