Store prepped brass primed?

[rickm]

The only time i check a flash hole is if for some reason it wont let me deprime and i will check it other than that they all get treated the same.

 

[Profreedomokie]

HA! You know I thought I'd blame you for my problems with this batch, but I cheated on your and got a couple of boxes from a member in KS when I was driving through a few years ago. Reason I thought to blame you was A) to give you a hard time and B) because I didn't quite want to go through 2500 pieces of brass today.

However, things being what they were I noticed a few thousand rounds into processing that some of the flash holes in the brass were cut off center. Now, technically they did make it through my sizing die, but I figure that might lead to inconsistency down the road, and if I ran them through again, maybe it wouldn't be as nice to my dies. So I had to go through every dang piece checking the flash holes again. Wound up culling about 60 pieces out of the 2500ish. Of those, 90% were Aguilla.

I noticed that the flash holes were off center in some Winchester brass I have.

 

[Rez Exelon]

The only time i check a flash hole is if for some reason it wont let me deprime and i will check it other than that they all get treated the same.

I've broken enough decap pins that I get slightly grumpy on off center holes. Especially when running on a progressive that will really mess up the flow if you encounter a piece that gets screwy like that. Granted in this case I didn't have any issues running them through the first time, but I don't wanna tempt fate. I've got so many oodles and oodles and oodles of cases as it is.

 

[Kev1Doggy]

Prime it when ready to load it...........

 

[rickm]

I have only ever broken one decapping pin and that was cause of my stupidity when i first started doing 223 and was flying thru it and came across a berdan primed case, it taught me 2 things one slow down and second what a berdan primed case looks like and has never broke another since if you feel resistance stop and look.
But everyone has their own way of doing something and as long as it works for you go with it.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

I prime right before charging majority of the time. Although I have pre-primed my prepped brass and stored it for a few months before. Put it in a ziplock with a desiccant packet. Was totally fine. Pretty nice to just pull out a handful of ready to go cases when you want to try out a new powder or a new charge or something

 

[Letfreedomring]

I wish stores stored their primers as good as some of you guys store yours!

 

[Shadowrider]

Nothing wrong with storing primed brass for as long as you want to. It just takes up a lot more room.

 

[Rez Exelon]

I mean I figure it's not really taking up more room... If anything it's one less box around for the primer since I already have the brass

 

[Shadowrider]

I mean I figure it's not really taking up more room... If anything it's one less box around for the primer since I already have the brass

Well when you put like that....