Primers sticking out

[Sergeant Hartman]

Hmm potatoes, mate i bought a few boxes of the 60gr tap in 223 (i just rechecked to confirm) from shop. And mine has crimped primer pockets. If the pockets are crimped that would explain why its very hard to seat primers, why primers might be seating out and that will increase case length.

[Potatoes]

Hmm potatoes, mate i bought a few boxes of the 60gr tap in 223 (i just rechecked to confirm) from shop. And mine has crimped primer pockets. If the pockets are crimped that would explain why its very hard to seat primers, why primers might be seating out and that will increase case length.

Hey Ziad, after looking at a stack of pics of crimped primers from the web i think you might be right. Here’s a pick of mine

223 tap with 60gr vmax

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[Sergeant Hartman]

Easiest to tell is deprime one and run a pin on the walls. Try to use a case debur tool on the picket on one and try and seat a primer

[Potatoes]

Yeah the deburer did the trick some time ago after the primers were catching the edge. Primers go in ok now, just stick out a tiny bit on the majority of them.

[in2anity]

Yeah the deburer did the trick some time ago after the primers were catching the edge. Primers go in ok now, just stick out a tiny bit on the majority of them.

Treat yourself to a satchel of say, ADI brass. I bet your problems go away.

[bladeracer]

[quote="Ziad"Hmm potatoes, mate i bought a few boxes of the 60gr tap in 223 (i just rechecked to confirm) from shop. And mine has crimped primer pockets. If the pockets are crimped that would explain why its very hard to seat primers, why primers might be seating out and that will increase case length.[/quote

Hey Ziad, after looking at a stack of pics of crimped primers from the web i think you might be right. Here’s a pick of mine

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Yep, crimped primers.

[JimTom]

Treat yourself to a satchel of say, ADI brass. I bet your problems go away.

Couldn’t agree more mate. Reasonably priced and works.

[wanneroo]

That sure as heck looks like crimped brass to me. If it's the TAP rounds, those are used in law enforcement and perhaps military applications and often rounds that will be fired full auto will have crimped primer pockets.