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Do you clean primer pocket on .556 reloads
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<blockquote data-quote="Owlcreekok" data-source="post: 2898689" data-attributes="member: 30378"><p>Yes. Always have (on all calibers) and always will, with ONE exception. When I first began reloading, many winters ago, I only loaded .38/.357 & .45 acp. I knew no better on so many things it now gives me the willies to think of some of the things I did in my ignorance (as if I am fully over that,,,,not). I would load .38 cases until the split was so far down the wall it would not hold a bullet. The primer pockets would get so cruddy the flash hole would block and the primer would not seat flush. I cannot prove it, but I strongly suspect that some pocket crud retained enough moisture to spoil a fair amount of loads for me during those early days. Either that or I had a large lot of CCI primers that were bad. I swore off CCI primers for a couple decades because of that.</p><p></p><p>Case prep is something I happen to be strange enough to actually enjoy. That bit about me is why all but one attempt to use and like a progressive loading machine has failed. I had a Lee 1000, a Dillon RL 550B and an RCBS Green Machine. Still half owner of the last one, threw the first one in a dumpster after five years of fighting it and sold the Dillon almost as fast as I got it set up. Hated that blue thing. I can't use a progressive because I am too anal retentive about case prep and primer installation. Furthermore, I do not trust ME, much less a machine. I wish all this were not so about me, but it is, so I plug merrily along. <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Owlcreekok, post: 2898689, member: 30378"] Yes. Always have (on all calibers) and always will, with ONE exception. When I first began reloading, many winters ago, I only loaded .38/.357 & .45 acp. I knew no better on so many things it now gives me the willies to think of some of the things I did in my ignorance (as if I am fully over that,,,,not). I would load .38 cases until the split was so far down the wall it would not hold a bullet. The primer pockets would get so cruddy the flash hole would block and the primer would not seat flush. I cannot prove it, but I strongly suspect that some pocket crud retained enough moisture to spoil a fair amount of loads for me during those early days. Either that or I had a large lot of CCI primers that were bad. I swore off CCI primers for a couple decades because of that. Case prep is something I happen to be strange enough to actually enjoy. That bit about me is why all but one attempt to use and like a progressive loading machine has failed. I had a Lee 1000, a Dillon RL 550B and an RCBS Green Machine. Still half owner of the last one, threw the first one in a dumpster after five years of fighting it and sold the Dillon almost as fast as I got it set up. Hated that blue thing. I can't use a progressive because I am too anal retentive about case prep and primer installation. Furthermore, I do not trust ME, much less a machine. I wish all this were not so about me, but it is, so I plug merrily along. :) [/QUOTE]
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