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I need a swager

shoff14shoff14 Member Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭
edited June 2009 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
Can someone recommend one? The Dillon is nice, but I don't want to spend that much money. I would also assume that the RCBS ones will not work with my press.

I tried to get away with just chamfering, but it was a no go. Any pistol brass that I have had I have been able to chamfer and primers go in nice and smooth. Not so with this bunch of rifle brass I have.
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hornady makes a primer pocket reamer cutter that goes in a drill chuck. Or they have a swager made by R W Hart. Or a RCBS military crimp remover to go in a drill chuck.
    I use the RCBS swager combo in a Lee single stage I bought used to do mine.
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  • shoff14shoff14 Member Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dcs shooters

    I use the RCBS swager combo in a Lee single stage I bought used to do mine.


    I have a forester press, which as nice as it is, is * backwards to everything else on the market.

    How well will a reamer work?
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  • PA ShootistPA Shootist Member Posts: 691 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have used an RCBS primer pocket swaging tool in both a Lyman and a Pacific press for a long time with no problems. I do use a steel ring to assist in "ejecting" the case from the swage form, which sometimes tends to stick in the primer pocket in the base of the case.
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have Lyman hand reamers also. They work very good, but if you have a bunch to do your hands get tired fast. With the Lymans I've pulled the pin and took the cutter out and put it in my drill press at low speed. Worked good!!
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  • flyingtorpedoflyingtorpedo Member Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I stick my hornady reamer in a drill as well. I don't have a drill press but a cordless drill going slow works well, although I do have to touch some of them up later on. I have a crap load (several thousand) to do now so I'm thinking about the RCBS press one or the dillon. Seems like the used dillon's sell for about or the same amount as a new one.
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  • wild bunch guywild bunch guy Member Posts: 142 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    get the Dillon. everything else is a waste of time, as in sloooow!



    WBG
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