Crimped 308 primers

[Highflyer]

I have about 100 FC 308 brass that have crimped primers. I can remove them but need to know if
their is any way to open the primer whole enough to accept an new primer?

 

[SnkBit]

Dillon primer pocket swage.

 

[agbm]

Contact tlee_20 Did a great job on my LC and FC M1A crimped brass:
http://www.snipershide.com/shooting...nealing-wet-tumbling-giraud-trimming-etc.html

 

[mtrmn]

If you only have 100 rounds you can trim around the crimped area with a pocketknife and have them all done in less than an hour. No waiting or extra money spent on swagers/reamers. OR chuck a #2 Phillips bit into a drill and use that to ream them.
OR use the pointy end of your deburring tool.
(I keep thinking of other ways of doing this while typing.)
You don't have to remove much material.

 

[Morale_Gear]

When I first started reloading I took a large diameter drill bit in a press at work, wrapped it with electrical tape to get a good snug fit on the Lee chamfer tool and would leave the bit on while I chamfered the crimp off. I must've done a couple thousand pieces of our range 556 brass that way over the course of a couple years.

I don't reload our unit's range pickups anymore, but I would be buying a swaging tool if I did.

 

[FLIGHT762]

A couple of threads on it.

http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/snipers-hide-reloading/168314-decrimping-disaster.html

http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/snipers-hide-reloading/104916-decrimp-tool.html

 

[Highflyer]

Thanks for the info. I'm just going to give them away.