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Thread: Crimped Primer Pockets on Commercial Brass?

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    Yep, I’ve found a fair amount of Winchester brass with crimped pockets.

    At least Federal is nice enough to put the NT stamp of their crimped brass for easy ID for us reloaders.


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    Dillon 1050 For The Win, bitches.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clusterfrack View Post
    Dillon 1050 For The Win, bitches.
    Main reason for me.

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    When I first started reloading in 1970, I used military brass in 38 Spl, 45 ACP, and 7.62 Nato. All had crimped primer pockets which I had to process one at a time. I used a sharp pocket knife blade to remove the crimp. Not all 38 brass had crimped pockets. National Match .45 and 7.62 brass did not have crimped primer pockets.

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    I experienced crimped primer pockets with some .308 Federal Gold Medal Match. Swaging didn't work well for me. Reaming worked better. I recall that the headstamps on the crimped cases were distinguishable from the usual commercial stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wyoming Shooter View Post
    I experienced crimped primer pockets with some .308 Federal Gold Medal Match. Swaging didn't work well for me. Reaming worked better. I recall that the headstamps on the crimped cases were distinguishable from the usual commercial stuff.
    1050 = no headstamp sorting :-D

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wayne Dobbs View Post
    I've found a DFW area commercial reloading guy (my long time guy passed away a couple years ago) that will fully process my brass for me. Includes leak/crack check, deprime, size, roll size the base, ream and clean/polish for $15.00/thousand. He's about to get about 15K of once fired from me.
    Does he require you sort by caliber and remove the steel/aluminum stuff? Or does he do that as well?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SeriousStudent View Post
    Does he require you sort by caliber and remove the steel/aluminum stuff? Or does he do that as well?
    Don't know that, but will find out.
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    Thanks Wayne, I appreciate it. I have a few buckets for him as well.

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