Wondered why the shotshell de-primed kinda hard..

[2152hq]

Everything was running smoothly on the MEC 9000G 12ga reloader machine.
Then this one Remington greenie hull was reeealy hard to deprime.
I've had some that were stubborn in the past, usually the spent primer gets a little rust started in there and freezes the primer to the metal (steel) head.

This one was a bit more than that, but it went through and I heard the spent primer drop into the tray beneath.
When I lifted the handle, the deprimed hull rotated to the next station and this is what was what I saw.




I've had a lot of odd stuff stuck in hulls that I've picked up at the range. Especially the SC course.
But never an empty 22 case.

Pretty good leverage on the MEC to be able to punch the blunt end decapper pin through it like that.

I usually have a good habit of giving each hull a shake before placing it on the first station, just to rid it of anything foreign inside.
Guess I kicked the habit on this one.

 

[Pig Hunter]

The worst I've had was a dime in an old compression formed AA. Still have it wondering which is worth more the dime or the hull????

 

[Nevada Ed]

Glad to see that your unit held up to the extra pressures put on it and that
none of the working parts broke due to all that added stress, that it had to handle.

I have been lucky so far on my visual checks for "Added mater" inside my hulls.

Got to love it, when things turn out, ok.

 

[toad67]

Back when I started on a grabber, I had one of those frozen in primers. I gave it a little extra and bent the handle. If I feel any extra resistance, I just toss the hull.