Small Rifle Primer sizes
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:55 pm
Ran into a major issue last night. I have had 3500 rds of WCC 11 brass for 223/5.56 for quite some time now just sitting. Well broke everything out last night to start loading some up and ran into a huge issue with primer pockets. This brass was once fired and I processed it all some time back when I first got it. But for some reason the primer pockets are just ever so slightly over sized now. CCI and 7 1/2 Remington bench rest just fit little too loose for my liking. First thought was RCBS swage kit was not right in dimension, cause that's what I used to remove crimp. But them pulled some range pick up brass and knocked out the primers and swaged it with the RCBS and primers fit perfect. So just lost as too what happened, unless something was on the swage button and I didn't notice or what the heck happened. It seems that out of the 3500, 2500 of them are slightly loose and maybe 1000 are okay. So to make a long story short are there any small rifle primers just slightly larger or made for a tight fit? Heard Wolf and TulAmmo were just slightly large than CCI and others but I'm not sure. I hate to bite the bullet (so to say) and scrap the brass as I don't really have any other 223/5.56 brass right now. I sold everything else and kept this batch cause being once fired and all WCC.