Need help with priming ( primers not going straight)

Put your chamfer tool in a drill press or hand drill and run 'em through that. Just takes a sec per case and it does the job just fine.
 
Dear Ernest II/Daryl P./ Et AL:

If you want to reload a .223 without problems, buy new unprimed brass and new factory loads with uncrimped primers...that will solve your problems!

Don't use range pick-up brass, or military brass as both are likely to have had original crimped in primers.

For the cost of a Dillon swager at $100.00, you can buy a lifetime of .223 brass for reloading. And, use the correct shellholder...

Good Luck
 
Just my opinion: put your money is some new brass or non crimped brass. I have a RCBS primer pocket swager and most of the crimped brass won't prime even after running through it. I end up still having to ream and camfer the pockets so they will prime. I just discard the stuff now cause it ends up being a lot of extra steps. Also if you have a Lee press the RCBS swager won't work on it because of the large diameter piston.
 
Originally Posted By: Ricky BobbyThis all sounds like another good reason to NOT own a 223

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Yeah, I don't know how anybody could own one of those damm things. Rumor is all manufacturers are going to discontinue producing rifles chambered in .223 starting in 2014. They just don't sell enough of them since the 17HMR came on the scene.
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Swagging dies are only $30. You can get tons of LC with crimped primers for way cheap. It's not rocket science. 1000 LC brass for like $60, swagger and a few hours.
 
FWIW, I just bought 200ct. Winchester 220 Swift brass that have unbelievable tight primer pockets.

Tight pockets are part of it sometimes, these days no matter what you shoot.
 
They primed, but did slightly crush a few anvils. The old Lee hand primer was at it's end of giving!

I just load them "warm" the first time, and they soften up ok.

To make chicken salad out of chicken poop, you have to do a little "cook'n"
 
I use the RCBS universal priming tool, I have had a few cases of primers going in crooked. In my experience it was a bad swage on the case after I removed the primer pocket crimps. You might check to make sure that the cases you are using have good primer pocket sizes.
 
Thankyou everyone. I just picked up some powder and new brass today. I came home and tried some of my once fired brass again.I ried the chamfer tool as someone suggested. Just a couple turns in the primer pocket and the primers went in fine. I ried to prime the brass before I used the chamfer tool and it would not let the primer go in. I used the same brass and chamfered it and good to go.
Thanks again for the help. The chamfer tool sure beats buying a primer pocket swager.
Daryl P.
 
Yep 223 are nasty worthless rifles so if any one of 17HMR guys have 223 rifles just holler at me and ill gladly take them off your hands no questions asked
 
Originally Posted By: jlindholm70Put your chamfer tool in a drill press or hand drill and run 'em through that. Just takes a sec per case and it does the job just fine.

This is exactly what I do to the brass I was telling you about
 
Between 3 farms I've killed 8 yotes since getting back from deployment in December. not really pushin it right now till I get new rifle set up then takin them to extinction.
 


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