Turret press and dirty primer pockets

[Seabreeze133]

How do u handle the dirty primer pockets? Size and pop the primers and then clean pockets and go back to the press?

Thanks

Don

 

[ReedG]

My understanding is that lots of reloaders do not clean primer pockets. I have been a fastidious primer pocket cleaner/uniformer since day one, but cannot prove that it matters.

There are top-rated benchrest shooters who have never cleaned a primer pocket or weighed a powder charge. Some have run tests under controlled conditions and cannot prove or disprove that cleaning primer pockets,or weighing powder charges) make any difference in accuracy.

Lots of people have loaded millions of rounds of pistol and cowboy ammo on progressive presses, not cleaning primer pockets, apparently without any problems.

Long answer to short question: cleaning primer pockets may just be one of those "psychological" things we do.

 

[mikecr]

When I get back from the range, I use a Neil Jones hand 'Decapper' to knock out the primers. Clean the pockets with a screwdriver,its not called that), wipe the carbon off the necks, run a brush through, and drop the brass in a vibratory cleaner.

Only clean brass goes into my dies.