Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles removing crimp primer on 223

swag or reamer? i have several thousand to remove whats the best way to remove the crimp.

There are some great Utube videos on the different methods.

For several thousand, use the Dillon swager. For a couple of hundred, the RCBS swager will do the same thing, but much cheaper.

Or if you are cheap like me a deburring tool works just fine!!!
Cheers

IO prefer the RCBS pocket swagging set up...

I had several thousand to do not long ago.. I just would go out and do 50 to 100 at a time, in my spare time...took a month or so, but I wasn't in any hurry anyway...

my arm would fall off... it hurts after doing 10 to 15...

I chuck my deburring tool up in my cordless drill and go to it. Just remove a little and go slow at first till you kind of get the idea and feel for it & then go to it. You can do 6 to 10 a minute.

I ordered a Dillon Super Swage 600 a couple of months ago for removing the crimp from the 5.56 Nato that I reload. I am very pleased with the product, easy to use and is much faster than using the RCBS crimp remover on my RCBS case prep. I bought the RCBS swage tool as well and by far the Dillon is 100x better. I should have saved the money that I spent on all the other components and gone with the Dillon in the first place. That's my opinion for what it's worth.

Dillon.

The primer pocket is one area where I don't want to be removing material from the sides/top.

Sweet Jesus, chuck up a VLD in a drill and I can go through a bucket of brass in no time.

I bought some mil-surp brass years ago that had been prepped with a deburring tool. Some of the primer pockets looked like kitchen funnels.

There is much out there that many shouldn't do. If you lean towards the idiot side then it's probably not for you.

And that wasn't a shot at you Scott, just that some likely shouldn't be doing it. There is also a deference betwixt a 'standard' chamfer and a VLD.

Wilson primer pocket uniformer is what I use now...

Before Wilson, it was the deburring tool that removed thousands of primer crimps for me also

VLD or deburring tool in the desktop drill press for me as well. Grab a chair and run through them in no time.

"...prepped with a deburring tool. Some of the primer pockets looked like kitchen funnels."

Yep. Debur/chamfer tools, counter sinks, drill bits all have the wrong angle to totally remove primer crimps without cutting much deeper and removing far more case metal than I'm comfortable with losing. Proper shaped pocket reamers doesn't cost much and they're easy to find; chuck a reamer in a slow speed drill and it will work fast and easy too.

I go the vld tool route. I've yet to make one look half as bad as the grade 1 stuff I bought from midway years ago. Talk about a funnel. BTW the midway stuff still shot fine.

Bb

"BTW the midway stuff still shot fine."

It's not a question of "will it shoot", the question is what will happen if a primer cup ever happens to have a thin wall in that excessively large unsupported pocket area.