Primer Questions

[lttuna]

I am a newbee to this hobby so bear with me.

I purchased a Lee Breech lock Challenger kit. Sent it up, primer discharge tube connected and small metal plate screwed in the side. The problem is the primers are coming out the backside of the shaft. It looks like on the side that its suppose to discharge the primers it has a hole. The backside of the shat has a longer slit it in and this is where the primers seem to be coming out, not down the tube. Hope I explained it well enough.

Second issue- when using the resizing die, I put the die just far enough that it touches the top of the shaft. Secured the die. Ran some cleaned brass thru it and resized and de-primed. Question is some of the holes in the primer pocket look perfectly round while some seem to have a irregular shaped hole, sometimes looking like a star pattern. Something I am doing or is this ok?

Third- on 9mm pistol rounds do you always clean the primer pocket?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Jake in TX]

First issue: do you have a primer arm assembly in the ram? If not, many of the spent primers will come out the slot.

Second issue: you may have some brass with crimped in primers. You will need to remove the crimp before you can safely and reliably reprime those cases.

Third issue: I never clean primer pockets.

Jake in TX

 

[lttuna]

No I don't have the primer arm assembly in as I figured to do the priming with lee hand primer. That now that you say that, makes sense.

Thanks for the other responses alo, it will be a value as I continue.