45 ACP and Loadmaster

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Re: 45 ACP and Loadmaster

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Thanks everyone for your replies!
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Re: 45 ACP and Loadmaster

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Man, think I better order that swage kit. Although things have been going just fine on my LM I may just run all the acp brass through it just for "insurance". I do have a large box of fired 9mm that Larryw sent me I should get to one of these days and they will DEFINITELY need to be swaged.
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Re: 45 ACP and Loadmaster

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IIRC, a while back I had some European 45 ACP brass (S&B?) that had sharp corners on the mouth of the primer pocket. I only had one or two primers that tried to go in crooked, because of the non chamfered pocket, so I just used my trusty countersink to chamfer the pocket mouths. Since I inspect all my brass it was no big deal to just drop the "bad" cases in a different pile. Worked for me...
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Re: 45 ACP and Loadmaster

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BrianT wrote: I decapped and swaged the Herters on my APP press, and no further issues, at least with the last 20 or so Herters brass I had left, and no issues at all with the 40 or so Remingtons.

Good for you, finding and working through the "problem" and solving it. A good lesson for us all.
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