Seafire, I have the Dillon primer pocket swager.

Good to know about that "hangnail" deal... hope I don't have to deal with it. I don't like using soft primers in my .223 brass, as it could end up in one AR or another, and I've heard of slam-fires with WW primers. Never had one with CCI primers, though.

And yeah, it sounds like you've become an expert in this area, by the usual method. "An expert is someone who has already made every possible mistake". I'm not sure who said that first, but it gets quoted in lab research circles every now and then, usually to someone who is well along the road to becoming an expert. BTDT.


"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars