Okay, gotta question that I can't answer so I need some help. I've got a few hundred rounds of Lithouanian 7.62 brass that I'm going to reload. I noticed that is has a crimp ring around the primer. Do I need to swage this out? Can I just a primer pocket uniformer?
SD, I've not had much luck with the uniformer removing the crimps. An actual reamer would do it though. My RCBS doesn't cut on the sides. I'd swage them out if it were me.
You could do either. I like swaging because i'm afraid of taking out too much metal and ruining the brass.
Reamer will do it, just don't over do it. Crimps are a pain.
I have that too. That's what I have the uniformer tool on and if you don't have the crimp removed it grabs the case something awful. The crimp remover tool is just a chamfer tool. And it looks like (to me) that it removes about twice as much as needed so I just do it the slow way with the RCBS swage die on my single stage press. If that crimp tool is adjustable so that you can set it for less of a bevel it might be the way to go. But I already had the die so that's the route I go.
The best crimp removal tool i've found so far is made by Lyman.
IIRC dillon has a tool to take the crimp off.
Dillon has a swaging tool for the crimp. I don't remember seeing a crimp removal tool in their catalog.
