I've got a lot of once fired S&B .38 Special range brass. Originally I tried loading it on my progressive, but I was having too much trouble with crushed primers. Well, I tried again this morning, but hand priming with an RCBS universal priming tool this time. I can easily feel the primer lining up with the primer pocket and I seat the primer, with the results you can see in the picture below. I did try reaming the primer pocket on the cartridge second from the left. It made no difference. Not the first time I had tried reaming the primer pockets, but it was the first time using this priming tool.
Oh, by the way, yes, I've tried different primers. I actually was finally able to acquire some S&B primers and I thought that would certainly be the solution, but no joy. The primers in the picture are S&B.
I'm ready to scrap this brass. I'm tired of wasting primers and time on it. And I really don't want one going 'bang' while I'm hand priming.
This is a lot of brass. Has to be more than 1,000 pieces.
Any suggestions?
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