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This is kind of bizarre, but it's got me stumped, so if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Just got reacquainted this past year with reloading after a 25-year hiatus. I'm using a dillon 650 and mostly doing pistol calibers along with 5.56. I get free brass at my range, and a lot of it is military crimped, so I swage it out (thanks to advice from fellow reloaders, here). The weird thing is, I'm losing my decapping pins, and I can't figure out where the [email protected]@!$$ they're going. Happened twice last night. I'm chugging along, go to seat the primer, and get a kind of "clunk." Pull the case, and the old primer is still in place. Look at the sizing die, and "voila" the decapping pin has magically disappeared. OK, it's got to be somewhere, right? I'm told that they can't be pushed up the shaft of the chuck on the decapping rod. They're not falling into the cup for the used primers, they're not stuck under the rotating shell plate. Aha, I think, must have popped out into the previous case. Dump that case, nothing but powder. Dump the case before that one, nothing but powder.
BTW, I'm using a Redding die set, and make sure that the pins are in as tight as I can get them by hand (and I've got strong hands).
tk
Just got reacquainted this past year with reloading after a 25-year hiatus. I'm using a dillon 650 and mostly doing pistol calibers along with 5.56. I get free brass at my range, and a lot of it is military crimped, so I swage it out (thanks to advice from fellow reloaders, here). The weird thing is, I'm losing my decapping pins, and I can't figure out where the [email protected]@!$$ they're going. Happened twice last night. I'm chugging along, go to seat the primer, and get a kind of "clunk." Pull the case, and the old primer is still in place. Look at the sizing die, and "voila" the decapping pin has magically disappeared. OK, it's got to be somewhere, right? I'm told that they can't be pushed up the shaft of the chuck on the decapping rod. They're not falling into the cup for the used primers, they're not stuck under the rotating shell plate. Aha, I think, must have popped out into the previous case. Dump that case, nothing but powder. Dump the case before that one, nothing but powder.
BTW, I'm using a Redding die set, and make sure that the pins are in as tight as I can get them by hand (and I've got strong hands).
tk