My way of depriming....

[DeathF.above]

Built myself a little system for depriming my 45 acp brass. Check it out....

Didn't take me long at all to decap nearly 500 casings. All ready to get cleaned.

 

[JohnHL]

Very resourceful!

John

 

[fredj338]

I guess I just have to ask why?

 

[venomballistics]

I guess I just have to ask why?

Same here.
I suppose that it avoids shoving dirty brass into a die prior to cleaning.

 

[Clovishound]

I do that with .223 that have stubborn crimped primers. I put them in the shell holder, put the spare decapping rod in and whack it with a mallet. It's better than pushing the rod up through the collet, and having to get the wrenches out.

 

[Lt.cap'nadmiral jeeves]

Check out the Harvey deprimer.

 

[fredj338]

Same here.
I suppose that it avoids shoving dirty brass into a die prior to cleaning.

Lee univ decapping die, $10? If you want to sit & watch the tube, a Lee hand press.

 

[DeathF.above]

Well it probably looks unnecessary and slow but I did almost 500 in a half hour. I'm getting a new wet tumbler and wanted to decap them but not resize. Thought about the universal decapper but I like to do things a bit different!

 

[MichiganScott]

Kinda reminds me of the Lee Loader I bought for my .30 Carbine in 1972.

 

[2tall79]

Home made whack-a-mole

 

[ggibson511960]

Good Idea!

There is a very good reason for doing this. I do it myself with the de-capping/re-sizing die, with the de-capping pin lowered so as not to re-size the case. I like for my vibration cleaner to get at the primer pocket. Scraping primer residue from pistol cases is not too terribly necessary, but it's nice to run totally clean cases through the re-sizing step without manually scraping the pockets. This slows things down with the extra de-capping step, but it's easy in a press. Only drawback is the occasional corncob media granule that lodges in the flash hole.

 

[rwsmith]

If all i want to do...

If all I want to do is deprime a bunch of cases, the old Lee Handloader tool does great. I don't have your nice jig for batches though.

 

[fredj338]

There is a very good reason for doing this. I do it myself with the de-capping/re-sizing die, with the de-capping pin lowered so as not to re-size the case. I like for my vibration cleaner to get at the primer pocket. Scraping primer residue from pistol cases is not too terribly necessary, but it's nice to run totally clean cases through the re-sizing step without manually scraping the pockets. This slows things down with the extra de-capping step, but it's easy in a press. Only drawback is the occasional corncob media granule that lodges in the flash hole.

Cleaning primer pockets is just a waste of time IMO. They only get so dirty & then I stops. I've reloaded 45acp 15+ times, never cleaned a primer pocket. I you must, a univ decapping die beats readjusting your sizing die. If you decap a bunch of diff calibers, worth the $18-$20.

 

[ageingstudent]

Cleaning primer pockets is just a waste of time IMO. They only get so dirty & then I stops. I've reloaded 45acp 15+ times, never cleaned a primer pocket. I you must, a univ decapping die beats readjusting your sizing die. If you decap a bunch of diff calibers, worth the $18-$20.

I decap my brass with a homemade pin chucked in my drill press. I have a small vice with the shell holder clamped there. It's like having a single stage right there just for decapping.

The reason I do this is I get lots of free dirty brass from an outdoor range and I just don't want the grit in my press. Also, i prime on the press and I get a more positive feel when seating primers in clean pockets on the press. The stainless pin tumbling really works well for this. I feel like the overall quality of my loads is better now that dirt and crud aren't being passed back and fourth from bench to brass to tools to me and back again. My press and bench hardly ever need cleaning any more and I notice less scratching on my brass. Especially my bottleneck stuff. Goes through the dies much easier.

I have so much prepped 45acp, 9mm, and 40s&w brass I could probably go a yearwithout prepping anymore. I should probably sell some.

I think prepping the brass is my favorite part. It's kind of cathartic.

 

[Engineer1911]

Step #1 for "Surgically Clean" brass.

Reloader's Prayer of Thanksgiving: "Thank You Lord that I am not a perfectionist."

 

[hardluk1]

Buy a lee universal deprimer die for 13 bucks and got on with it in a cleaner more controlled way. I do this with rifle brass and hot 357 and 44mag load but for normal practice ammo or range brass I tumble brass over night , 5 hours for me is over night, in corn husk with primers in and run thru the progressive . If I loaded fancy 45 bullseye load I would deprime first but I don't .

 

[Krogen]

It's nice to see someone thinking "out of the box."

For every person "out side" it always seems there are 10+ people stuck "inside the box." Those outside are the innovators. Although innovations don't always work, doing things the same old way means, well, doing things the same old way.

Here's to life "outside the box."

 

[flyguy958]

Cool, looks fast. Thanks for sharing.

 

[DWalt]

If anyone reloads .45-70, the .45-70 sizing die makes a great tool for depriming .45 ACP without resizing. In fact, I have used the same die for resizing only with many necked rifle calibers also

 

[MasterTech1960]

Whats not to like , You get to hit some thing with a hammer.