problem depriming .223

[kennedy]

trying to deprime brass with head stamp IK 03 and 5.56x45, but the depriming pin of my lee die stuck in the flash hole and pulled out of the die, I had to knock it out of the flash hole with a punch, and reinstall in the die. tried a second time and same thing happened, the flash hole is much smaller then my lake city brass. what happened?

 

[kelbro]

Had the same problem with some Asian brass. Broke a couple of pins. IK is Yugoslavian brass. May be the same situation with the small holes. I switched to an RCBS universal decapping die and after working through the batch and shooting them, the second round was fine.

 

[Encoreman]

These are military or military style brass that have crimped primer pockets. I don't know where it came from, but I got a set of .223 rcbs dies used and it had a punch made to decap these, just fits into the case and has an indestructible pin. I have punched out several with this. Then they need to be swaged to take out the crimp so it can be primed. Mac

 

[RugerNiner]

I broke a pin on a 223 brass cartridge and found out it was Beridan Primed.

 

[cdrt]

Lee makes a decapper pin and base for crimped primers, that is guaranteed not to break. It's a little slow, but a great way to decap either 5.56 or 7.62 rounds. They make one for each caliber. All you need then is a hammer. http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=297408&t=11082005

And they do stick by their guarantee. I just broke the .30 caliber decapper that I bought way back in 1987. I sent it in and had a replacement in the mail the following week.

 

[RugerNiner]

Buy a Universal Decapper Die, it's the easieast way to go.
I deprime all my 223/5.56 brass this way before putting it in my Blue Kool-Aid Machine.

 

[coloradokevin]

Hmmm...

I'm the newbie to this side of the sport, so I generally don't hand out much advice.

But, not knowing the difference when I started, I deprimed at least 400 .223 cases with crimped primers, using the standard Lee size/decap die for this caliber.

I had no problems at all, so I imagine that the problem might be more involved than just crimped primers? (at least based on my limited experience)

 

[MinnMooney]

Some brass have much smaller flash holes. The de-primer pin can't fit htru the flash hole. They make smaller pins for these casings.