Maybe some of you guys have had this issue in the past as well, but I haven't seen much if any posts about it so I thought I'd share my problem and the way I fixed it.
I have an RCBS hand primer and although I seem to get along just fine with it, and I like the "feel" of it (I've loaded and fired several hundred rounds of ammo using it) I seemed to get a LOT of primers seated in my brass with this look to them .............
Notice the half moon indentation on the left side of the primer left by the rod in the center of the hand primer pushing the primer in with just a tad too much pressure. I have been seating most of my primers with just a tad bit too much pressure I believe and have been getting the primers "flattened" a little bit to where it leaves that half moon mark in the primer. I could get a lot of the primers not having that mark in them just going by "feel" but I got a lot of them with the slight mark in them that way too.
I finally decided that there must be a way to prevent this from happening and searched in some reloading forums and ran across a few guys that had drilled and tapped the handle of their RCBS hand primer and put a screw through it to build a "stop" at just the right depth and decided I needed to try this.
So I went out to my buddy's place and we drilled and tapped the handle and after getting just the right amount of washers in place, I ended up with the hand primer like this.........
So now when I seat the primers into the brass (and all my brass have the primer pockets uniformed, other than the Lapua brass I use) they all turn out like this .......
It took a couple of different tries to get just the exact amount of washers in place, a couple of them are extremely thin that you can't really see by the picture, but I'm very pleased with the results I'm getting now. The primers are seated just below the face of the bottom of the brass w/o any indentation marks in them anymore. I wanted to put this out there just in case someone else was having the same issues and was looking for a way to fix it. 8)
I have an RCBS hand primer and although I seem to get along just fine with it, and I like the "feel" of it (I've loaded and fired several hundred rounds of ammo using it) I seemed to get a LOT of primers seated in my brass with this look to them .............
Notice the half moon indentation on the left side of the primer left by the rod in the center of the hand primer pushing the primer in with just a tad too much pressure. I have been seating most of my primers with just a tad bit too much pressure I believe and have been getting the primers "flattened" a little bit to where it leaves that half moon mark in the primer. I could get a lot of the primers not having that mark in them just going by "feel" but I got a lot of them with the slight mark in them that way too.
I finally decided that there must be a way to prevent this from happening and searched in some reloading forums and ran across a few guys that had drilled and tapped the handle of their RCBS hand primer and put a screw through it to build a "stop" at just the right depth and decided I needed to try this.
So I went out to my buddy's place and we drilled and tapped the handle and after getting just the right amount of washers in place, I ended up with the hand primer like this.........
So now when I seat the primers into the brass (and all my brass have the primer pockets uniformed, other than the Lapua brass I use) they all turn out like this .......
It took a couple of different tries to get just the exact amount of washers in place, a couple of them are extremely thin that you can't really see by the picture, but I'm very pleased with the results I'm getting now. The primers are seated just below the face of the bottom of the brass w/o any indentation marks in them anymore. I wanted to put this out there just in case someone else was having the same issues and was looking for a way to fix it. 8)
