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Primer Pocket Uniforming Question

Bill Norris

Bill Norris

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Watched Jack Neary in a video with Erik Cortina as he was explaining his steps in prepping new "right out of the box" .220 Lapua brass. As far as I could tell he is saying uniforming the primer pocket is one of the first steps he takes before fire forming. Checking my new .220 Lapua brass I find the primer pocket is too deep for uniforming. The Sinclair tool will not go anywhere close to touching the bottom of the pocket. Did I miss something in that conversation ?
 
Can’t speak for 220 Lapua brass but the 6 br Lapua @.126 is deeper than the pre set uniformers I’ve had so I went with the click adjustable and lightly clean the pockets at one depth after fire forming.
 
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Bill Norris said:
Watched Jack Neary in a video with Erik Cortina as he was explaining his steps in prepping new "right out of the box" .220 Lapua brass. As far as I could tell he is saying uniforming the primer pocket is one of the first steps he takes before fire forming. Checking my new .220 Lapua brass I find the primer pocket is too deep for uniforming. The Sinclair tool will not go anywhere close to touching the bottom of the pocket. Did I miss something in that conversation ?
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Use a K&M adjustable uniformer.
I personally don’t uniform brand new brass prior to making it a 6PPC, but after a couple of firings you can have it adjusted to have it start to clean up and at least flat sides for seating primer. Around 0.122 - 0.123 rings a bell for the setting.
It may take a half a dozen firings to have it all cleaned up, depending on what loads you are running.
 
Michael Huebner said:
Use a K&M adjustable uniformer.
I personally don’t uniform brand new brass prior to making it a 6PPC, but after a couple of firings you can have it adjusted to have it start to clean up and at least flat sides for seating primer. Around 0.122 - 0.123 rings a bell for the setting.
It may take a half a dozen firings to have it all cleaned up, depending on what loads you are running.
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Yea this Sinclair tool measures .121
 
+1 for the PMA tool. It’s made for the deeper Lapua cases. I use it on the 6BR and 6PPC. I played with the adjustable 21st century tool and sold it after using the PMA tool.
 
Michael Huebner said:

220 Russian Lapua brass - primer pocket depth

Just an observation... I had a 100ct box of the old stuff that comes in a gold cardboard box and used that all last year. I set my PMA primer pocket uniforming tool to cut .124" deep, per Tony Boyer's book. The older "gold box" Lapua brass measured pretty consistently .121" deep before...
forum.accurateshooter.com
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That’s good info, Thanks!
Would anyone also know the depth to set the tool to for Lapua large primer pockets?
 
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