Loose Primer Pockets

[Mozella]

You nailed that one. Other than 223 brass from Top Brass, I have not. If I walk away from my brass at a range, it is for a reason.

Yeah, me too. I reload my brass countless times, annealing each time, until the primer pockets get loose. Then I discard that batch of brass and start over.

I used to just leave the cases on the ground until I saw some thrifty reloaders scrambling to pick up my worn out brass. Now I collect it and make sure it goes into the general scrap metal bucket at the range, not onto the ground where some beginner will grab it and possibly have a bad experience.

 

[C.E.Smith043]

I wouldn't try to use or recondition cases with loose primers. Cannot you judge the primer pocket fit by how hard it is to press the old primer out. I don't see a need fire pin gauges. The only way to get loose primers is hot charges.

This is exactly my point so what if the primer Pockets loose due to high pressure. People reload cases all the time that have been subjected to high pressure. They just resize the body the shoulder in the neck and shoot it again until the primer pocket enlarges so big that it won't hold the primer if you can resize the whole entire body and case except for the primer pocket why not resize the primer pocket

 

[savagedasher]

This is exactly my point so what if the primer Pockets loose due to high pressure. People reload cases all the time that have been subjected to high pressure. They just resize the body the shoulder in the neck and shoot it again until the primer pocket enlarges so big that it won't hold the primer if you can resize the whole entire body and case except for the primer pocket why not resize the primer pocket

I have a friend that reloads millions of Cases a year he made a machine the roles the base of the cases to close the primer size .
Primers is the last thing I want to be loose .
Larry

 

[XTR]

As I understand it a couple of attempts have been made to create a swager that would swage brass back at the extractor ring. The problem is that the force necessary to accomplish it requires a hydraulic press

 

[Brians356]

Factory ammo invariably has the case mouth crimped into a cannelure in the bullets.

No true. Even if you refer only to 223 Rem ammo, not true. Just a spot check, but MidwayUSA lists 19 different 223 Rem factory loads. I can spot 8 loads with no crimp at all. There are two or three with no cannelure but what appears to be a very slight roll crimp on a plain bullet. I can spot only one load with a cannelure on the bullet and a hard crimp. There are 2 loads with no photo of the loaded round (just the box) so if we assume (generously) that those are cannelure crimped, that's 3 loads out of 19 that make your case.
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