I hate 9mm Military Crimps!

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What a pain. Seems like more and more once fired ends up having crimped primers. Such a bummer to deal with. Seems like it won't be long and we will have to swage every piece just like .223 just to be sure to catch it all.
 
I catch them during initial case sorting and inspection before they ever get close to reloading them.

Not that hard to see and segregate for later attitude adjustment once you finger out the head stamps that are crimped.

rc
 
Some are easy to spot, others not so much. WIN for example, some crimped some not. FC is easy to spot. Some nato easy to spot. RP not so easy, etc.
 
It's good heavy brass. When the Coast Guard was carrying M9's, I used to be able to get a lot of it, but now they carry .40 S&W Sigs. Love the military 9mm brass! I've got a couple of 5 gallon buckets full of mixed headstamp 9mm brass, and wish it was all WCC military.

Hope this helps.

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Well send it to me then! I'll take care of the hassle for you!

No seriously, I feel your pain. It's quite a hassle and sometimes really is hard to see, I jammed a few up not too long ago
 
I expect primer crimps in 9mm, 5.7, and .223 so I take care of those before they get close to being loaded. But the other day I was loading some .40 S&W. I had no <deleted> clue that any .40 brass had primer crimps. At first I thought I was just running into brass with tight primer pockets, like S&B, but nope!! Ran into a bunch of WIN headstamps with crimped pockets. WINCHESTER headstamp didn't have crimps though. Also a few other random pieces of .40 with crimps, it was nickel plated stuff but I don't remember the headstamp, just remember it was a common brand.
 
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Crimped brass only has to be swaged once and you're good forever after that. It's probably heavier and better brass than most commercial brass.
 
Its funny, I just finished a bunch of 9mm reloads and thought I would have an issue with there being crimped primers as they were all range pickups. I looked at a few and they were definitely Mil type brass and didn't look to have been reloads. Primers set in just fine on most of them. No swaging needed? I was starting to think they stopped crimping them in at some point?

WB
 
With CCI small pistol primers I am able to seat them just fine without having to wage them.
 
If you have buckets of them, get a 1050 or send them out to someone that does to be processed.
 
I just bought a Super Swage 600. Hoping that will make things easier.
 
With CCI small pistol primers I am able to seat them just fine without having to wage them.
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usually same here... though about 2 out of 10 I can't smash them past the crimp even with the LCT. :D

I've munched quite a few primers stuffing them into crimped 9mm and S&B (tight) .38 special pockets... I haven't had one that didn't go off yet when struck by the firing pin. I usually cull them right as soon as I notice and pop them empty in a gun, and reload. But I've tried letting a few go just for range loads. They all went off.

For extra fun, try Wolf or Tula primers in crimped or S&B .38 special pockets. :uhoh:

Once I go full progressive I'm going to have to start swaging/reaming those 9mm crimps out.
 
The only crimped cases I've encountered have been WCC headstamps. I've reloaded probably 500 of them and have only had 1 not accept a primer. No swaging.
 
you did right buying a super swage. Its what i was going to recomend. but be aware its still a job to do a few thousand of them. What some guys do is even pick one up used and do all there brass and then sell it again.
 
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