For 99.99% of my reloading life I never had to deal with a military crimp except for a few 45 cases every now and then. It was no big deal I simply dealt with the crimp using a Lyman hand held military primer pocket tool.
So now that I have finally moved into get around to reloading rifle ammunition up came my AR 15. It is funny how much 223 brass you can collect after 18 years. For the job I broke out the single stage press since over the past two weeks I was able to pick up probably enough 71/2 Rem BR primers to keep my busy for the rest of the year.
It didn't take me long to figure I was dealing with cases that had a military crimp. They deprimmed with no problems but I knew I would not be able to seat the primers. So yeas, I had to try one to find out for my self. I don't recommend do that. it took me awhile to figure out how to get the case out of the shell hold with a half way stuck and mangled primer. It was just one of those things that I knew what would result but you have to try it for yourself.
Yesterday I picked up another Lyman small primer hand held tool that will trim the crimp. My goal was just to get 30 cases ready so I could test some loads and feeding with the AR. Well this tools works great when you only have a few to do but after doing 30 I quickly decided I'm not doing the many thousands I have with this tool. Great tool but yet ready for mass production.
That leaves me with two choices that I know of; the press type similar to what RCBS has or get what some consider the Dillon Super Swage 600.
So for those of you that precess 223 rounds in the thousands which tool do you prefer?
Now I know why I only did handgun reloading for all of these year.
So now that I have finally moved into get around to reloading rifle ammunition up came my AR 15. It is funny how much 223 brass you can collect after 18 years. For the job I broke out the single stage press since over the past two weeks I was able to pick up probably enough 71/2 Rem BR primers to keep my busy for the rest of the year.
It didn't take me long to figure I was dealing with cases that had a military crimp. They deprimmed with no problems but I knew I would not be able to seat the primers. So yeas, I had to try one to find out for my self. I don't recommend do that. it took me awhile to figure out how to get the case out of the shell hold with a half way stuck and mangled primer. It was just one of those things that I knew what would result but you have to try it for yourself.
Yesterday I picked up another Lyman small primer hand held tool that will trim the crimp. My goal was just to get 30 cases ready so I could test some loads and feeding with the AR. Well this tools works great when you only have a few to do but after doing 30 I quickly decided I'm not doing the many thousands I have with this tool. Great tool but yet ready for mass production.
That leaves me with two choices that I know of; the press type similar to what RCBS has or get what some consider the Dillon Super Swage 600.
So for those of you that precess 223 rounds in the thousands which tool do you prefer?
Now I know why I only did handgun reloading for all of these year.