Lee breech lock press

[mmchambers06]

Who's got one? I decapped a few hundred .308 brass tonight and it throws the old primers. I mean...I find them 10 feet away sometimes.

Out of 200 pieces of brass, 18 went down the tube where they were supposed to.

Any ideas?

 

[Shadowrider]

Crimped? I use an RCBS decapping die on military cases. Most of them come flying out, hit the primer tray, bounce, and go flying into never never land. I just put my thumb over the slot in the ram (RCBS press). Don't know if your Lee has this but it works for my setup.

 

[mmchambers06]

Crimped?

Yep -- Lake City XM80. That probably has something to do with it, eh?

I'm using the Lee universal decapping die...

 

[sabot_round]

Who's got one? I decapped a few hundred .308 brass tonight and it throws the old primers. I mean...I find them 10 feet away sometimes.

Out of 200 pieces of brass, 18 went down the tube where they were supposed to.

Any ideas?

A friend of mine had one. He said that as long that you keep the primer feed arm on, your spent primers will go down the tube. I hope that this helps you!

 

[NikatKimber]

My Lee Turret does that, half end up on the floor, and it's not consistent in how they miss the spent primer funnel, or I would attach something to block them.

 

[Bobrob]

I bought a lee breechlock, and noticed the same thing. Since I have to swedge the primer (remove the crimp) I didn't need the primer arm in the ram, I put a thin strip of oak inside the groove, such that the spent primers most fall through the hole into the tube. The other thing is the tube was too short to set the bucket on the floor, so I replaced it with a 3' piece of 1/2" clear tubing so it would reach.

Now I'm about 1k into that 3k of 7.62 Lake City Once Fired Brass I got from he who is never to be named, and now I'm kinda wishin I would have gotten a rock chucker.

regards

 

[Josh-L]

You threw away those little arms that were in the box didn't you....

 

[mmchambers06]

You threw away those little arms that were in the box didn't you....

Who the hell would actually do that??

 

[Josh-L]

I left them off when I got mine too. lol

 

[mmchambers06]

Hahah...that's what happens when you get too excited, I guess.

It never struck me to leave the primer arms in. I guess I need to go shoot up some more .308 now and see if it helps.