Primers not seating in hornady brass

[SquarePizza]

I have a handful of hornady 243 winchester brass and for the life of me, my primers do NOT want to go in. This is the first time I have experienced this problem. Its almost like that had a military crimp. =/

So I am wondering, I have never had to uniform primer pockets before, does anyone have a cheap tool that they have used in the past and liked? I don't want to go too crazy because I only have 30 or so...

 

[arnie19]

If you cant get them to start ,then a chamfer tool for chamfering the inside and outside of the case mouth will work . If there not going down far enough you will need a pocket uniformer .

 

[SquarePizza]

Starting but not seating all the way. Thank you very much for helping me towards the proper tool. =)

 

[CEL317]

The Hornady .243 brass I just purchased is the same way. I crushed a few primers before I decided to run my reamer on them.

 

[SpeedyR]

as others mention if you are just doing a couple of cases and they don't seem to be feeding well, hit it with a twist or two of a chamfer tool.

if you want the actual tool but cheap here's one option:

Lee Primer Pocket Cleaner

that is just a cleaner but works well if you just have something in the bottom of the pocket that's preventing the primer from seating. IMHO you are ahead to just order something like this as it does reaming and cleaning for not much more money.

Lyman Case Prep Multi Tool

unless you are doing a lot of military (crimped) this will help you a lot with the odd lot of brass that seems to be a bit on the snug side.

 

[djskit]

I noticed the same thing on some once fired factory 223 superformance brass. I assumed they used a crimp to compensate for the "superformance" pressure.

I have tons of new 6.5 Creedmore brass that has no such issues.

 

[moparguy]

I had the same problem with Hornaday 308 brass. I have also had 6.5 CM brass that had loose primer pockets after one firing. I am not real high on Hornaday brass.

 

[stoney15]

Some of the hornady match brass is crimped.