Accidentally primed lake city brass

I've primed quite a few LC circle crimp cases with no issues other than a bit of 'ka-chunk' when seating. It was more of an experiment really, as I usually buzz off the ring with a chamfer bit.

The four crimp design is a definite no-go without buzzing. Just doesn't go in.
 
The three and four point crimps are easily removed with a couple of light twists with your rocket ship, but I recommend swaging.
 
I've seen people remove too much, damaging the primer pocket, removing too much brass and weakening the friction fit of the primers to the pocket. My brother had a bunch of primers pop out into the action of his rifle during ejection, we threw away a ton of his brass because I felt they were too badly damaged to be 100% safe. A person who uses a lot of crimped stuff should go ahead and buy a swager. A person who uses a chamfer tool should be very diligent about not cutting into the pocket, and just reaming off the crimp material itself.
 
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CH4D Swage tool. Best money I have ever spent.

We all do things from time to time that we wonder about later. I have done that before. It took a lot of effort and ruined them. I'd deprime and get the crimp out. Re prime and shoot. God Bless
 
We all do things from time to time that we wonder about later. I have done that before. It took a lot of effort and ruined them. I'd deprime and get the crimp out. Re prime and shoot. God Bless
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Just loaded my first box of 9mm for my glock, lead TC rounds. Seated the rounds about where I would have for my other pistols. I can't be absolutely certain, but I believe that the lead bullet is actually touching on the rifling. either that, or the crimp isn't right. No matter how carefully I looked, I couldn't find any evidence of what was actually happening. Marker, graphite, nothing I tried could indicate where the rubbing was. I got a specimen cartridge made now to set up new rounds.

Then I tried some older rounds that were for my older gun. They bound up too. near a thousand of them in storage. :mad: Guess I'll give them to my nephew.

Don't know what is wrong, but heck, I thought they would work because they worked before.
 
CH4D Swage tool. Best money I have ever spent.
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Yep.

But use it in conjunction with a quality shell holder.

Lee shell holders do not qualify. They're too sloppy, and designed to work with too many cartridges of "similar" rim dimensions - but not similar enough to be ideal for any one of those cartridges.

Lee shell holders allow most cases to tip substantially when used on the CH4D primer pocket swage tool, resulting in an incomplete or completely ineffective crimp removal. And one of the worst shell holders in the bunch just happens to be the Lee #4 (.223/5.56), because it is designed to also work for .32 revolver cartridges which have thicker rims, larger diameter rims, and larger case bodies.

Just use a quality shell holder.
My preference is for Hornady, if I have one for that rim size (Hornady shell holders are the most consistent that I have measured, with closer tolerances than most). If there isn't a Hornady, then I reach for whatever else there is from Redding, RCBS, Lyman, Wilson, Forster, CH4D, Pacific, Bair, and on down the line...
Bottom line: not Lee.
 
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I've noticed that a few lee dies would be all that i'd ever need to load anything from 8 bore pinfires to .22 velo dog. yes, very sloppy.
 
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