Thread: Prepping new brass ?

Originally Posted by shananah

Fwiw, I reckon @Oldbloke is on the money, push the primers out with a depriming die, there was a thread on this quite recently, well a wee while ago anyway. Very doable & the primers should be able to be reloaded if you aren't too heavy handed, softly softly catchee primer as it were. I loaded for a Hornet for a few years, gave it away as too much hassle but by neck annealing before firing them & then no more than neck sizing while reloading, you have a better chance of getting some case life from them.

Yes, that what I would do. Trim as well.

Cases are often a bit long (or short for that matter) from new. But there is a safety margin built in to the system. In this case you would get away with not bothering, but personally I would trim before loading.

Plenty of primers around

Originally Posted by charliehorse

Plenty of primers around

But at 3x the price.