Primer pockets
by Art 
, Littleton, Colorado, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 19:09 (4295 days ago)
I hate cleaning primer pockets. I always tumble my empties in media then resize and deprime. Then use one of the hand tools to clean out the primer pockets. I have often wondered how necessary this is. Today after after tumbling some empties and then depriming while resizeing I threw them back into the tumbler for awhile and the pockets cleaned up pretty well. I think I will do this from here on out.
I do not resize empties before they are cleaned. Years ago I had a die start spliting cases and I believe that I damaged the carbid ring by resizeing dirty empties. Of course RCBS replaced that die no charge.
How do you guys handel this chore?
Art
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- Primer pockets -
Art,
2012-07-31, 19:09
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- I clean, size & deprime, clean primer pocket. There are - Cherokee, 2012-07-31, 19:43
- I used to then I stopped...haven't looked back. - Rob Leahy, 2012-07-31, 20:28
- Primer pockets -
bob,
2012-07-31, 20:51
- Primer pockets - bob, 2012-07-31, 20:53
- Primer pockets - Charles, 2012-07-31, 21:15
- Slovenly reloading. -
JLF,
2012-07-31, 23:40
- +1 JLF - Bob Hatfield, 2012-08-01, 04:50
- Slovenly reloading. -
Art,
2012-08-01, 06:34
- Details. - JLF, 2012-08-01, 11:57
- Slovenly reloading. -
pokynojoe,
2012-08-01, 07:57
- Slovenly reloading. - Bud, 2012-08-01, 09:08
- ...and you can't draw either! Actually, I was going to ask -
Rob Leahy,
2012-08-01, 12:52
- I'll give it a "whirl"... -
pokynojoe,
2012-08-01, 19:55
- A S&W Da revolr would be great - Rob Leahy, 2012-08-01, 23:29
- I'll give it a "whirl"... -
pokynojoe,
2012-08-01, 19:55
- No special primer pocket efforts -
Kentucky,
2012-08-01, 09:16
- No special primer pocket efforts -
Art,
2012-08-01, 18:56
- Nope, one size fits all. -
Kentucky,
2012-08-01, 20:06
- This is the press I use for decapping - Kentucky, 2012-08-01, 20:16
- Nope, one size fits all. -
Kentucky,
2012-08-01, 20:06
- No special primer pocket efforts -
Art,
2012-08-01, 18:56
- Primer pockets - Mark, 2012-08-01, 14:56
- Little of this a little of that........... - Byron, 2012-08-01, 19:34
- I have not cleaned them in 30 years - Bj2, 2012-08-01, 19:36
- Primer pockets - Catoosa, 2012-08-01, 19:44