How to Determine Proper Amount of Swage - Super Swage 600
Quote from Reloader on October 7, 2013, 6:55 pmI don't know about anybody else, maybe my eyes are bad or something but I have a really hard time noticing the difference between a military 5.56 crimped primer pocket and an already swaged 5.56 crimped primer pocket. It almost seems the non-crimped/already swaged pockets are more rounded whereas the crimped pockets have more of a sharp edge to em. So how much tension should you feel on the lever when swaging a 5.56 Lake City mil-spec primer crimped case? Currently, I have it setup where there is a pretty good amount of tension, like not where it's going to brake either the case or the swager, but once the crimped case has been run through, I don't notice it more rounded like other non-crimped cases. Do I need more swage, less swage?
I don't know about anybody else, maybe my eyes are bad or something but I have a really hard time noticing the difference between a military 5.56 crimped primer pocket and an already swaged 5.56 crimped primer pocket. It almost seems the non-crimped/already swaged pockets are more rounded whereas the crimped pockets have more of a sharp edge to em. So how much tension should you feel on the lever when swaging a 5.56 Lake City mil-spec primer crimped case? Currently, I have it setup where there is a pretty good amount of tension, like not where it's going to brake either the case or the swager, but once the crimped case has been run through, I don't notice it more rounded like other non-crimped cases. Do I need more swage, less swage?
Quote from Reloader on October 7, 2013, 7:20 pmIt looks like the answer to this question is pretty much to give just a light swage, but just enough to seat a primer smoothly. Will be playing with it this weekend again...
It looks like the answer to this question is pretty much to give just a light swage, but just enough to seat a primer smoothly. Will be playing with it this weekend again...