Just curious if you folks uniform your PISTOL primer pockets or just clean. If you do, or don't, any reason why? I know it's an added step but only doing it once in the life of the brass isn't that big a deal if there's any value to it.
Uniform Pistol Primer Pockets or not
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I do not. I feel like that would rank up there with trimming 9 9MM brass for fun and a waste of time. The powder column is so shirt that I feel little can be done to improve the accuracy of the rounds. The tolerances if handguns in general induce a lot if variance that would negate any perceived improvement IMHO.
No , and I believe and could be completely wrong but the informers are for rifle depths not pistol on primers especially large.... I tryed it a long time ago and couldn't see any difference.... I would say instead of this just shooting more rounds down range in practice sessions will pay off better in the long run...
Working on grip , sight picture and trigger pull are the keys to shooting pistol well.... Learning not to flinch which in my opinion is impossible but you can work on it , is a huge factor....The only way to work on it is live fire... Notice there's not a lot of flinch shooting .22 compared to large caliber pistol even 9mm and such... This is why using something like dry fire or laser training isn't the end all , just a step because as soon as you go back to live fire you flinch again.... Practice , Practice , Practice is the answer your looking for...
Working on grip , sight picture and trigger pull are the keys to shooting pistol well.... Learning not to flinch which in my opinion is impossible but you can work on it , is a huge factor....The only way to work on it is live fire... Notice there's not a lot of flinch shooting .22 compared to large caliber pistol even 9mm and such... This is why using something like dry fire or laser training isn't the end all , just a step because as soon as you go back to live fire you flinch again.... Practice , Practice , Practice is the answer your looking for...
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Thank you for the input. Just to clarify , there are uniformers for pistol primers. Ie the sinclair kit comes with one for LR, one for SR/SP, and one for LP. I know there are seperate ones for BMG and I think BR type rifles too, but neither of those apply to me.
Thank you for the input.
No, unless this is some sort of LR rig. You'll never see the difference. If you're REAL OCD and have plenty of time, go for it. Huge waste of time to me, and as stated above, you'd be better off spending that time shooting or dry firing. Or loading ammo without uniforming the primer pockets....
From USPSA days, the 2 of us probably loaded and shot well north of 150k rounds, and that would be conservative. Never saw the need. Heck, never even thought about it!
From USPSA days, the 2 of us probably loaded and shot well north of 150k rounds, and that would be conservative. Never saw the need. Heck, never even thought about it!
I do not and I do not believe that it is necessary.
During the late 70's and early 80's we tested a bunch of pistol loads for "X" ring accuracy at 50 yards off a Ranson (machine) rest. None the primer pockets were uniformed, and we were able to develop 10 shot "X" ring accuracy loads.
In addition, none of the top competitors that reloaded that I shot with for 30 years uniformed primer pockets.
During the late 70's and early 80's we tested a bunch of pistol loads for "X" ring accuracy at 50 yards off a Ranson (machine) rest. None the primer pockets were uniformed, and we were able to develop 10 shot "X" ring accuracy loads.
In addition, none of the top competitors that reloaded that I shot with for 30 years uniformed primer pockets.
Thank you all for the feedback. I feel we have a consensus and I will not utilize that in my process for pistol.
I too do not think that it might be necessary, but I ended up doing so out of necessity. My uncle gave me what was a case of once fired PMC brass and I could not seat the primers, so I ended up buying the Sinclair primer pocket tools to reload that brass.
Sometimes I might do new revolver brass where I do not have a lot of cases to do, but I usually check and if they don't need it, I'm fine.
I have come across some cases where the primer pocket is already too deep.
Starline brass never seems to need to be uniformed.
Sometimes I might do new revolver brass where I do not have a lot of cases to do, but I usually check and if they don't need it, I'm fine.
I have come across some cases where the primer pocket is already too deep.
Starline brass never seems to need to be uniformed.
Well, I some times use the pocket uniformer on revolver cases. But not to uniform the pockets. After a bunch of reloads I have been known to use the pocket uniformer to clean the primer pockets. Yes, I have a "pocket cleaner" but the uniformer does a better and faster job. But would not even think about deburing the flash holes.
Confession: I did once uniform some new 41 mag brass! I used the uniformer that I used for 308 brass. OOPs. Had to use LR primers in that batch of brass for 100% ignition. Fortunately that M57 was only used single action.
Confession: I did once uniform some new 41 mag brass! I used the uniformer that I used for 308 brass. OOPs. Had to use LR primers in that batch of brass for 100% ignition. Fortunately that M57 was only used single action.
jepp2
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I uniform them all, every single one. If you uniform just a select bunch you will see how inconsistent they are as received. If you like high primers, don't uniform them. If you want all your primers at the same depth, uniform them.
But I've also read about lots of folks that don't bother to clean them. YMMV.
ronemus
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If you use a pocket cleaning tool then you may just as well use a "uniformer" to perform the same task. That's what I do with my rifle brass. Seems to make sense as long as you have the appropriate uniformer.
ronemus
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+1 - I find that the uniformer does a much better job than a brush. Primers also seat better when the junction at the bottom of the pocket is square; brass manufacturers radius the corner for a variety of reasons, but accuracy isn't one of them.
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