Thank You! Thank You! RE:Removing military Crimp

[DonT]

Ok before someone says it I know the easiest way is to buy brass without the crimp. But I have about 1,500 rounds with the crimp and I am looking for an easier way than what I am using to remove it.

Currently I am using a cutter designed to remove the crimp by lee or hornady. It has a tapered cutter that is adjustable for depth and you turn it in a drill or in my case in my lathe and you run the deprimed brass against it till it hits the stop. It works but after a few hunderd rounds last nite I can't feel the tip of my finger from holding onto the brass and pushing it against the cutter.

So I know there are some swaging tools out there like the one made by dillion and wanted to find out if anyone has used anything else that works well?? If you have the dillion tool do you like it, is it fairly fast????

Thanks for the input..

DonT

[MNIceMan]

RCBS makes a set for your single stage press to compress the crimp instead of removing it..

[Bessy]

This is THE best option....




http://www.dillonprecision.com/content/p/9/pid/25290/catid/8/Super_Swage_600_parts

I have one, easy fast effective... with any swager you need to sort brass by manufacturer some have deeper primer pockets and what not. I wouldn't waste my money on any other product.... especially if you are doing any kind of volume work.

[gyrfalcon]

Have you tried depriming all the cases and just tumbling them for a while in walnut media? The Dillon 1050 has a swaging rod built into it to get rid of the crimp... Other progressive presses can be modified similarly with a bit of ingenuity. RCBS sells a kit for single stage presses to swage it as well:

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?p ... ber=447022

[forcefed]

This is THE best option....




http://www.dillonprecision.com/content/p/9/pid/25290/catid/8/Super_Swage_600_parts

I have one, easy fast effective... with any swager you need to sort brass by manufacturer some have deeper primer pockets and what not. I wouldn't waste my money on any other product.... especially if you are doing any kind of volume work.

+eleventy billion. That is THE easiest way. I have one of the RCBS dies and have used the Dillon. This is the only way to go

[DonT]

Dillion it is.. I don't mind spending (choke choke) the money if it works and makes my life a little easier.....

Thanks for the input folks...

DonT

[gyrfalcon]

Dillion it is.. I don't mind spending (choke choke) the money if it works and makes my life a little easier.....

1050 would make life very easy if you're okay with spending the money.

[jac714]

Ok before someone says it I know the easiest way is to buy brass without the crimp. But I have about 1,500 rounds with the crimp and I am looking for an easier way than what I am using to remove it.

Currently I am using a cutter designed to remove the crimp by lee or hornady. It has a tapered cutter that is adjustable for depth and you turn it in a drill or in my case in my lathe and you run the deprimed brass against it till it hits the stop. It works but after a few hunderd rounds last nite I can't feel the tip of my finger from holding onto the brass and pushing it against the cutter.

So I know there are some swaging tools out there like the one made by dillion and wanted to find out if anyone has used anything else that works well?? If you have the dillion tool do you like it, is it fairly fast????

Thanks for the input..

DonT

I have a Dillon tool adn it is as fast as you want it to be, a single stroke of the handle per case and the crimp is gone for ever, I can swag cases faster than I can load them on my Dillon 550.

[Bessy]

I have a Dillon tool and it is as fast as you want it to be, a single stroke of the handle per case and the crimp is gone for ever, I can swag cases faster than I can load them on my Dillon 550.

The Dillon tool is one of those things you don't use that often (at least I don't), but you are happy as hell to have when you need it. Mine has paid for it's self in beer, since i have friends who reload.

"Hey Bessy can I borrow your swager for the weekend?"
"For a 4 pack of dragon's milk you can have it all week"

rinse and repeat.

[MNIceMan]

I have a small single stage that I keep my RCBS swage set in. Works as good as the Dillon.

[usnret]

The RCBS does not work as good as the Dillon. I had the RCBS and then I got the Dillon and the Dillon works 1000% better!

[gyrfalcon]

The RCBS does not work as good as the Dillon. I had the RCBS and then I got the Dillon and the Dillon works 1000% better!

Eh? They both swage the primer pocket of any crimps... The Dillon should work better or quicker considering it costs around 3x as much.

[forcefed]

Its a billion times quicker. I have used both

[45Badger]

Its a billion times quicker. I have used both

A gazillion times faster. And I have not found a way to break it (bent the bars on the RCBS)

[gyrfalcon]

It's not THAT much quicker It's easier and a lot harder to mess up, but both tools work fine.