Yes Sir....Another "WTF" moment. It drives your knowledge base.
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But, but, but its only .003" too large!
Get a universal decapper from Lee. A great $13 investment. I keep one on a Lee “C” press.
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[QUOTE=Stumpkiller;510971]Get a universal decapper from Lee. A great $13 investment. I keep one on a Lee “C” press./QUOTE]
But the Lee pins are too big for the smaller flash holes. I've only got 3 or 4 of them and none fit in my 6BR.
Just measured my Lee Universal pin at 0.068". So if your Lapua has a 1.5mm vent, yeah, you will need to find a small pin decapper.
Sucks to get all fancy. ;-)
Perhaps Redding in their infinite wisdom has discovered the need for small decapping pins and have them available for their customers, and if not I would next contact Harrel’s precision and get the correct die.
https://www.harrellsprecision.com/pr...ull-length-die
FYI Peterson small rifle primer brass in the Creedmoore calibers takes small decapping pin also.
Redding states their decapping pin is 0.060". That's 1.5mm. That's 2/1000 of a mm fat. Shouldn't upset the vent as much as shown in the first image.
https://www.redding-reloading.com/on...decapping-dies
Mine is .057, I measured it.
https://www.amazon.com/01059-Undersi.../dp/B00P73QSL0
I ordered the Master Hunter set and it came with two pins that size.
It may seem like symantics but the flash hole is 1.5mm that works out to be .05905. Therefore it would need to be smaller than that dimension to not interfear with the walls of th flashhole...if the european holds their diminsions true ie... manufacturing tolerences. Half my BR brass has had a .0625 pin pushed through it. I am sure many of us had to learn the hard way. It still works the way it is supposed to.
The recommendation is that you do not. This is because cases are held by the top of the rim, so all depth is based on that surface. Uniforming makes things less uniform because it is not based on a machined surface. People who have measured off the rim, find pocket depth to be uniform on best quality brass. That is not me and I forget who told me, but my uniformng tools basically sit idol!
EXACT-A-MUNDO! Especially when it’s being sold by a dude that talks the way the Primal guy does & spends the money he does (while making certain he lets us LOWLY Savage bottom-dwellers know how much better of a person he is because of the money he can spend on shooting/reloading equipment), yet has NO big wins backing up his name. Soooo, yeah! I wouldn’t buy a thing from him!
+1!! Definitely a good buy! I have one usually permanently installed in my old Lee Challenger press. And the other dies in my Dillon.
As for oversize de-capping pins. Why not just chuck it up in a drill and hand turn it down enough to fit? Use backed sandpaper or maybe a Diamond stone against it a bit. No biggie.
Here's a video of the pin in my Redding full length sizing die sliding into a new Lapua 6.5 CM case with SRP pocket. By the time I bought this die, I'd already unknowingly buggered up the flash holes in my brass.
<a data-cke-saved-href="https://youtu.be/U3qGfZzTz1I" href="https://youtu.be/U3qGfZzTz1I">https://youtu.be/U3qGfZzTz1I
For those that don't know.....This is from the public domain.
Apologies to Ernest T for a slight misdirection of the topic. Attachment 9328
Im not affected by Brand Loyalty or Disloyalty. I grew up in the days of the verbal Ford Chevy dodge truck wars. We talked plenty of Chit. In the end we were all still good friends. In the grand scheme of things....whatever makes you happy.
David,
As for the GIF, That was Orkans moniker on several forums going way back.
What is a good primer pocket reamer that will remove that ring? I have tried to do it with the Lee Case Conditioning tool, but all it seems to do is shine it a little.