Durned if I ever saw such hard, tight primers!

[rwsmith]

I may have to get one of those. Or just use new brass. After the trouble I had I don't think any once shot brass would be worth messing with.

True. They are some that I shot and recovered, the only ones I have that are deprimed. I'll be able to examine others when I shoot them. They were all VERY tough to deprime.

Interesting. In these sort of cases I typically would use a primer pocket uniformer tool like the Franford primer pocket swager that would uniformly decrimp and correct the diameter of the pocket. I run all my military brass.through it. Works great.
I then follow up with a primer pocket depth cutter tool to uniform the seating depth. Surprisingly this alone improves some accuracy.

That sounds great. But I have to get the dang primers OUT first.

It sure seems that if there are any problems in reloading, I'm sure to find them!

BTW: I just got my Lee decapper rod in the mail. Only going to be used on PREPPED cases.