Military brass problem

[plumber]

I love my Dillon super swage. One can process copious amounts of brass without finger fatigue.

[Ken O]

I use the RCBS swag, one thing that realy helps is to put a little lube on the button, I use the Imperial sizing wax. When the "up" stroke starts to grab, re-lube it.

One of these days I'll buy the Dillon Super Swag.....

[Lloyd Smale]

i use a dillon and it works great on every other type of brass i use it on but some lake citys are just loose.

[Patrick L]

For 20 years I used the Lyman reamers and they worked OK, but they can still leave "cutting lines" that will still catch on the sides of the primer cup and make things herky-jerky. This is more of an issue on progressive presses that single stage or hand priming tools. About 3 years ago I subsequently bought the RCBS swaging unit that goes on a single stage press. It works well, but is slow. Even brass that I had already reamed and loaded a few times were smoothed out nicely.

About a year ago I bit the bullet and bought a Dillon Super Swage, and I'll never look back. It is one sweet tool. The same smooth results of the RCBS tool, but much faster and much less elbow grease.

[Hip's Ax]

I have the Dillon but I have many thousands of LC cases in all calibers to deal with. It sure does make short work of swaging those primer pockets.

If I had one thousand LC cases and I did not expect to ever get any more I would get the RCBS.

I would think the cutters would be tedious for a thousand cases.

[JIMinPHX]

I just put a 3/8" chatterless 82 degree countersink tool (M.A. Ford brand) in a cordless drill & give each primer pocket a quick & gentle pass to remove the remnants of the crimp. I can do about 20 per minute that way. I get my countersinks from MSC.

[hydraulic]

I use a Schrade Old Timer pocket knife. The short clip point blade works best. It's much cheaper than other tools--my grandson gave it to me for Christmas ten years ago.