After I prep my brass and then tumble, I always have corn cob media pieces in the flash hole of the primer pocket. I normally remove these by hand or run them thru the press again with a decapping die. What is the downside to leaving these media bits in place? I would think that the primer would blow these out when it ignites, without any issue. Does anyone have any experience or real knowledge on this?
I had one that made it through and into gun I ended up with a hang fire. Over pressured the primer but still sent the round wouldn’t advise I got lucky could have been a lot worse
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Rub some dirt on it and get back in the fight
I always clean the media out with compressed air.Originally Posted by eagle-man
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I had the same issue before. I ran a few through with no issues that I could see but decided on cleaning the rest out as I went to be safe. My opinion is why chance it.
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I tumble my brass before I de-prime. Don't have that issue. And I've never had issues with dirty primer pockets either. But ALL my brass is tumbled clean before the process begins.
I dry tumble after unloading...then decap....the wet tumble with pins dawn and lemishine...
Put a universal recapping die in the first station. Pops it right out.
I noticed that problem with corn cob media, so I'd use a small dental pick to clean them out. Eventually, I stopped doing that, and never had a problem with the primer blowing it out for me. Never had a round not go off. Once I ran out of corn cob media, I switched to a finer-grain walnut media and have never had to worry about it since.
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