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Question for the reloaders out there

Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Can you tell me what is wrong in this picture? Hint, it is a small rifle primer.
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  • gunphreakgunphreak Member Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I give up.

    I can't really see the picture, but the only thing I can say is that the primer should be .005" greater in diameter, but to me, that may not be the true problem.

    What the hell is that below the calipers, anyway???

    Death to Tyrants!!!

    -Gunphreak
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Below the calipers is a hole in the table and chipped generic finish,lol it looks nasty in the pic don't it? I don't know why the camera made it look like that.

    You guessed it right, now why is that primer so small? I went to reload some PMC brass today, after I sized and deprimed them I tried to reprime them but the primers wouldnt go in the hole, got to checking and PMC decided to be funny and used tiny primers and pockets. This is the first time I have run into that problem, I wound up taking the dremel tool and very carefully hog the pockets out to take new primers.

    Now, has anybody else ever run into that? And can anybody tell me why PMC did something that to me seems dumb? Do they not want anybody buying their cheap junk and reloading it?
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe they figured they could save $0.01 per box by using smaller primers . . . much as the Federal gov't formerly used paper slightly smaller than the standard 8.5x11? It would have to be pretty exotic brass before I spent all that time w/ a Dremel, though. I'd simply stop buying their ammo / brass & send them a note explaining why.
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The first thing that happens to my brass (after depriming) is to run a "primer pocket uniformer" into the them, this makes all the holes the same size and depth. But a Dremmel ?
    If I had a quanity of the stuff it, and the weights didn't vary much, I'd recut the pockets to fit standard primers.
    Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This was an emergancy run, nobody had any brass available today so I did the next best thing, bought a cheap box of PMC and dissasembled them. I had to use a dremel because I do not have a pocket tool, now that I finaly found a use for one I think I will get me one. I also guarentee that is the last box of PMC garbage I buy.
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  • bama55bama55 Member Posts: 6,389 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Okay, will mark PMC off my ammo list..............

    Don't send flowers when I die. Send money now, I can buy more ammo.
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  • gunphreakgunphreak Member Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    me too....

    Death to Tyrants!!!

    -Gunphreak
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