Comments on: How to Ream Military Primer Pocket Crimps with Wilson Tool

By: Clayton R Hollowell

Clayton R Hollowell — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:10:42 +0000

Wilson tools work great, but the ones without a crank are made by a sadist who delights in the physical agony of shooters. Using one of these tools on any reasonable number of cartridges will make you feel like you burned your fingertips on molten metal.

By: David Joe

David Joe — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 17:24:26 +0000

Since lose primer pockets spell the end of my otherwise-useful brass, one vote here that the military once again got it right on small arms. May actually need to hunt for a crimp inserter, lol.

By: PracticalTactical

PracticalTactical — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:24:56 +0000

I’ve been making poor mans match brass out of once fired military ammo like Lake City or IVI.

I like military brass because it’s good heavy cases… much like Lapua, but over the lot.. not as consistent and Lapua, but 1/10 the price.

I start with 2,000 to 3,000 rounds.

So I resize, anneal and remove crimp then with a sharpie I weigh every case and write the weight on it.

Later I sort them into lots of 100 according to closes weight.

Out of 3000 rounds I get about 8 lots of 100 that are within 1/10 of a grain and about 10 more that are within 2/10s of a grain.

The rest degrade from there.

Anyway, it takes some time but it’s a nice way to save money and end up with very consistent cases.