TwoEyedJack
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I started loading a bunch of .223 for the upcoming ground squirrel shoot. Had a big bucket of what I thought was fully processed LC brass, a few pounds of H335, a 500 round box of Midway Dogtown 50 gr. hollow points, and my trusty Dillon 550.
After the first few rounds, I feel something kind of "off" in the decapping, and the primer won't seat. What the heck? I wrest the case out of the shell plate and the primer is smashed. Dang. Another few rounds and it does it again, but this time I don't push the handle down hard enough to get it seated. I pull the casing out, and sure enough, there is a ridge around the primer pocket.
Somehow, a bunch of unprocessed casings got mixed in. Normally, this would not be a huge problem. The military primers are always brass, and I normally use CCI primers which are silver. But in the crunch, not being able to find CCI, I loaded a few thousand rounds with Remington primers, which are brass colored. So I can't tell the processed from the un-processed.
I ended up putting the sizing die in the rock chucker, then running the casing through my dillon swager, then into the dillon for priming, charging, and seating. Something that should have taken an hour took two.
At least I am getting good accuracy
After the first few rounds, I feel something kind of "off" in the decapping, and the primer won't seat. What the heck? I wrest the case out of the shell plate and the primer is smashed. Dang. Another few rounds and it does it again, but this time I don't push the handle down hard enough to get it seated. I pull the casing out, and sure enough, there is a ridge around the primer pocket.
Somehow, a bunch of unprocessed casings got mixed in. Normally, this would not be a huge problem. The military primers are always brass, and I normally use CCI primers which are silver. But in the crunch, not being able to find CCI, I loaded a few thousand rounds with Remington primers, which are brass colored. So I can't tell the processed from the un-processed.
I ended up putting the sizing die in the rock chucker, then running the casing through my dillon swager, then into the dillon for priming, charging, and seating. Something that should have taken an hour took two.
At least I am getting good accuracy