Do Y'all Seat Your Primers Like This?
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speerchucker
.40 S&W
ID say that it would speed up wear and tear on the firing pin but it would save a hell of a lot of barrel life
Over forty years of hand loading. I have lost count of how many upside down primers I have encountered in my cases. Dozens, for sure. It happens.
Happens every now and then on my progressive press.View attachment 194053
Saves wear and tear on the firing pin.
Neat trick, didn't even know the primer feed could manage that.
kev74
20×102mm Vulcan
It happens.
Once I notice more than one in a few hundred rounds, I know it's time to clean the press.
Once I notice more than one in a few hundred rounds, I know it's time to clean the press.
Deplorable Me
.700 Nitro Express
Silly boys. The primer is correct.
The bullet and case are backward.
The bullet and case are backward.
Boberg XR9
dwa12479
.338 Win Mag
One of the reasons right there that I drop every round in a case gauge and run a marker across them. It also helps me identify my own brass when it ends up a pile on the floor.
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
View attachment 194053
Saves wear and tear on the firing pin.
Neat trick, didn't even know the primer feed could manage that.
i think that is the butterfly effect LOL
repete
.338 Win Mag
After about 40 years of reloading, I have a large shoebox size plastic bin FULL of rejected rounds. It has upside down primers, sideways primers (yes, with enough force it can be done) proud primers, cases without powder, crimped cases you name it, it's in there. I've thought about pulling them down but really is it worth it? I'd post some pic's but some of them are rather embarrassing.
tpmcman
22lr
Thats a good idea. I do something a bit different, I save old 9mm boxes with the plastic inserts. When dropping them in the plastic insert you get primer side up.... Also when at the range I know exactly how many rounds I go thru. When Im loading up the inserts I check a few rounds out of a hundred with case gauge and a few for C.O.L.
meketrefe
.450/400 Nitro Ex
View attachment 194053
Saves wear and tear on the firing pin.
Neat trick, didn't even know the primer feed could manage that.
Dont use Australian primers!
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
the only primer i have never screw up .. LOL ..
shotgun shells .. LOL ..
shotgun shells .. LOL ..
kev74
20×102mm Vulcan
If one goes in sideways, I'll pop it out and reset it in the single stage press. #cheapskate
repete
.338 Win Mag
Not the ones I've done! By the time I realize somethings wrong it's to late to back out, at that point it's full speed ahead!
gun_slinger_boy
.338 Win Mag
I found a silverbear 9mm round come out of the box like that once. Done it myself including crushed sideways plenty of times. It hurts losing primers nowadays.
repete
.338 Win Mag
Xae289
.223 Rem
When I was getting used to the Lyman EZEE priming tool, I ended up crushing a couple primers sideways into .44 Special cases and almosted messed up a few more. So yea, if you messed it up with a progressive press, know that some of us out there have messed up primers doing them all as an individual process.