Did a quick 20 min tumble on about 3k worth of 9mm, then decap'd them all and then ran them thru the tumbler again for 1.5 hours with some dawn and lemi shine.

Sidenote, Ive had to switch over to a universal decapping die with a .057 decapping pin because Ive been running into a bunch of 9mm and 223/556 brass that have undersized flash holes, headstamps for 9mm are norma and ik 22, ik 21

Also have come across a decent amount of 9mm that the flash hole is not centered inside the primer pocket, so when I decap, the decap pin literally makes the hole almost obling or egg shaped. Have you dealt with this before?

And for the undersized flash holes, Is this something you guys have ran into? If so how have you handled it?

So now i decap them and swage them on my 750 then tumble them to get them nice and clean and get the primer pockets cleaned out. Then when it comes to actually loading them I just run my standard 9mm or 223 sizing/decapping die without the decapping pin to prevent the pin fron breaking on those undersized flas holes. The only alternative i have is to literally hand sort all the small flash hole cases out and that takes way too long. Its all just range brass pick up so that would be very time consuming. But im happy with this process for now. I will be adding a dillon rt 1500 electric trimmer for the 223/5.56 here in the future so i can decap, swage and trim all in one pass which should be a sweet setup. I like to do volume with the least amount of time while maintaining good quality so hopefully that setup works well!


Also just got me a double alpha magnetic powder check die, so I will be using that on my next run of 147gr Rn blue bullets and 135gr TC blue bullets that should be here tonight. Loading for an x5 legion for uspsa CO gonna load for 128-130 power factor.