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Offline corbanzo

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It has been a great day for primers.
« on: October 24, 2007, 06:19:40 PM »
I think primers are out to get me. 

First thing, I'm loading a bunch of 9mm, which was once fired brass from the LGS.  Turns out I didn't look close enough, because about 400 of them had marks from either a primer feeder... or it looks like someone tried to punch large pistrol primers in them...  But that made a ring around the primer pocket, so my primers kept catching in those rings.  Needless to say.. chamfering 400 primer pockets isn't the way I wanted to start my day.

If you are never going to do this in your life... don't do it. 
Had a casing move in the shell holder, when to move it with my finger.. of course I kept the ram moving like an idiot to size and decap, finger slipped on top of the case...  decapper pin right through my finger nail!!  I thought I was going to die.  Usually I'm really careful about this stuff... but everyone has to play the idiot sometime? 

Just after that, getting a new box of small pistol primers...  the plastic falls out of the sleeve... and I have to find 100 primers under the bench....

And now... run out of small pistol primers... have to wait till I go to anchorage to get more. 

I think I better quit while I'm behind for the day...
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Re: It has been a great day for primers.
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2007, 12:53:51 AM »
Ouch, that had to hurt. Hope it was not your trigger finger.
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Re: It has been a great day for primers.
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2007, 01:03:25 AM »
Sounds like you had military brass which has a crimp on the primer.  A few folks make a tool that removes the crimp.  I use one by RCBS that mounts on the press.  It's a one time fix, once done you don't have to do it again.
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Re: It has been a great day for primers.
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2007, 03:47:39 AM »
The RCBS primer pocket swager combo tool will take care of the crimped primer pockets.

Alcohol free beverages will help with the rest :D
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Re: It has been a great day for primers.
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2007, 10:32:46 PM »
Dang Corb you been experiencing some pain the last couple months.  Didn't you take a chain saw to your foot a little while back? I've not caught the decapper on my thumb but have been a little too quick with the ram a couple times - mostly loading 9mm like you - hate those teeny cases and I have small fingers.  If I loaded 9mm more often I WOULD get a progressive.

Hope you heal up ok that must have hurt a bunch!
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