Lake City Brass

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HFV

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I have used L.C. brass for my 308 with great sucess and accuracy. My question is, in .223 Lake City brass, does this brass have crimped primer pockes. I would like to use in Rem LTR, but do not have any means of removing crimp from primer pocket, or do I have any ambition to do so. If anyone has answer to this ??, please provide. Thanks to all
HFV
 
I have the Dillon Swag tool that takes the crimp out.
It is around 100.00. I know there are other products out there that do the same thing for less money. Maybe someone else can post what they are.

Tim
 
I have two Dillon RL-1000 that do the operation as part of the cycle, I also have the separate Dillon de-swaging tool that I have not used for many years. RCBS used to have a slower version to remove swaged primer pockets.

All government contracted brass is going to have some type of crimed or tapered primer pocket. Even the lowly .38 special brass has a tapered primer pocket.

I know that Lyman used to make a hand reamer for this operation. Tools for this operation are not hard to find.
 
You can buy the LC brass new without the crimp.

The once fired LC brass from my Federal Power Shok bulk ammo is crimped.

I used the RCBS swage tool and it requires quite a bit of work and I had to run it through twice to get a decent fit. It is okay for small jobs.

The LC brass is very nice. The 06 lot has more capacity than Remington. 30.6 water capacity according to 6mmbr's site.

There are places that sell prepped once fired brass. There are also places you can send the brass, and they prep it to your specs.
 
the simplest way to remove crimps uniformly from mixed brass is with a lyman VLD inside neck reamer. this reamer has a very steep(or narrow, depending how one looks at it) angle. it has no cutter at the end of the tool(you cannot go too deep). it cost less than 15 bucks, can be used by hand, in a drill motor or press, or in a lathe. i did 550 plus lc 05 7.62x51 cases in about 40 min.
the steep angle removes little metal but feeds primers well.

all mil 5.56 brass has crimmped in primers, as does most commercial 223/5.56ammo today.

mike in co
 
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