Swifty Morgan
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Today I stuck Wolf primers, which are supposedly hard to seat, in old .45 ACP brass. I had several primers that did not want to seat.
Is it necessary to decap brass before cleaning it? It seems like a bummer, given that I paid good money for a press which is supposed to do 4 things in one cycle.
If I decap before cleaning, it will add considerable time to reloading, but I will save the time I spend wrestling with tight pockets. Maybe. It could be that the Wolf primers are just hanging up in brands of brass they don't like.
I found I could feel primers going in if I tried, and by paying attention, I was able to catch the problem quickly and make a special effort to seat stubborn primers. It was still kind of a pain in the butt.
I had a fascinating problem with my seating die. After fooling with a primer problem, I stuck a bullet in a case that had just been charged, and when I turned the handle, I saw that the bullet had been jammed all the way into the case. I thought maybe the seating die had hung up somehow, so I tried again, and the bullet went all the way in. It turned out I had a bullet stuck in the seating die. It must have gotten stuck in there by lube when I interrupted reloading to deal with the primer problem. I have made a lot of spectacular errors while reloading, but this was a new one on me.
Is it necessary to decap brass before cleaning it? It seems like a bummer, given that I paid good money for a press which is supposed to do 4 things in one cycle.
If I decap before cleaning, it will add considerable time to reloading, but I will save the time I spend wrestling with tight pockets. Maybe. It could be that the Wolf primers are just hanging up in brands of brass they don't like.
I found I could feel primers going in if I tried, and by paying attention, I was able to catch the problem quickly and make a special effort to seat stubborn primers. It was still kind of a pain in the butt.
I had a fascinating problem with my seating die. After fooling with a primer problem, I stuck a bullet in a case that had just been charged, and when I turned the handle, I saw that the bullet had been jammed all the way into the case. I thought maybe the seating die had hung up somehow, so I tried again, and the bullet went all the way in. It turned out I had a bullet stuck in the seating die. It must have gotten stuck in there by lube when I interrupted reloading to deal with the primer problem. I have made a lot of spectacular errors while reloading, but this was a new one on me.