I'm almost finished setting up my RCBS pro2000. Here's another problem I ran into with the primer seating.
First of all, here's the components: .45acp S&B brass (also tried some Winchester), Winchester Large Pistol Primers, and I'm assembling on a RCBS pro2000
I made sure to clean out each primer pocket with an RCBS stainless steel primer pocket brush.
I've been trying my best to try to get the primers to sit .005 below flush, and it took me some hard pulling on the lever just to get it to sit flush. I'm pretty scared to try any deeper as I'm already putting quite a bit of force in seating to flush. I don't want to blow a primer. (how easy is it to do that anyway? I feel like I'm putting an excessive amount of force seating the primer)
I also tried the same thing with the Winchester brass. I've heard about how tight S&B primer pockets could be. I'm having the same problem there too, but not nearly as pronounced. I measured the depth of both primer pockets and they come out to the same. I also measure the height of the primers and they're quite a bit shorter. I don't see why it would be so hard to go deeper if I've already seated that far.
Anything wrong with just seating to flush, or should I really go for that .005?? If there's any recommendations/advice, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks all.
First of all, here's the components: .45acp S&B brass (also tried some Winchester), Winchester Large Pistol Primers, and I'm assembling on a RCBS pro2000
I made sure to clean out each primer pocket with an RCBS stainless steel primer pocket brush.
I've been trying my best to try to get the primers to sit .005 below flush, and it took me some hard pulling on the lever just to get it to sit flush. I'm pretty scared to try any deeper as I'm already putting quite a bit of force in seating to flush. I don't want to blow a primer. (how easy is it to do that anyway? I feel like I'm putting an excessive amount of force seating the primer)
I also tried the same thing with the Winchester brass. I've heard about how tight S&B primer pockets could be. I'm having the same problem there too, but not nearly as pronounced. I measured the depth of both primer pockets and they come out to the same. I also measure the height of the primers and they're quite a bit shorter. I don't see why it would be so hard to go deeper if I've already seated that far.
Anything wrong with just seating to flush, or should I really go for that .005?? If there's any recommendations/advice, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks all.
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