Primer Crimping

[FNARSHOOTER]

Anybody know who makes a tool to crimp primers in?I get much better results with crimped in primers (using 5.56 lc brass) which lets me run higher pressures which the 5.56 is made for.
And I swage my fired brass which leaves the materal there for it to be crimped agian.
Scot

 

[huntinggamo]

Re: Primer Crimping

i dont know about the tool but if you are going to be swaging and crimping you might want to look at annealing those case heads...lol (JK dont actualy do that, it would be a BAD idea)

 

[madd0c]

Re: Primer Crimping

I have seen this question before, and the consensus was leave the crimping of primers to the manufacturers. Evidently, they have special hydraulic machines that crimp when the primer is inserted.
I agree that hammering a crimp onto a seated primer even in an unloaded round would be a bit to much for my nerves.

You might try wolf primers and a primer sealant (nail polish or commercial sealant) to get a little tighter seating. Wolf seem to be slightly oversized and harder to seat.

madd0c

 

[Unsichtbar]

Re: Primer Crimping

I use RCBS pocket swedge die to make pockets tigh after multi firings, ajustment is a feel thing you can over do it and bend rod of the die or tighten the pockets too tight when using Russian primers, go slow.