So there I am, merrily working over the first rifle rounds I've ever done. Got the brass cleaned & trimmed and started putting primers in with a RCBS hand primer. I get about 20 rounds done and then I could not press the primer into the shell - at all! Primer is sticking out too far to pull it out of the shell holder. I put on ear and eye-pro, take the hand primer apart so I'm left with a shell holder, a piece of brass and a protruding primer. I then found a little chunk of metal that would go through the shell holder and press on the primer on one jaw of my bench vise. The other jaw is just pushing on the mouth of the brass. The primer started out crooked. Started trying to press it in, just to get it out of my shell holder - no dice, merely mushed the brass.
I'm thinking about sawing the brass off with a hack saw so a little protrudes over the shell holder, getting a punch and a hammer and smushing the primer in far enough to get it out of the shell holder. With safety precautions of course. Anybody got a better idea?
I'm thinking about sawing the brass off with a hack saw so a little protrudes over the shell holder, getting a punch and a hammer and smushing the primer in far enough to get it out of the shell holder. With safety precautions of course. Anybody got a better idea?
