So what happems when you do this to 223 brass?

[Nimitz]

Since I'm way too lazy to sort through my many thousands of 223 brass and all of my cats refuse to learn how to do it for me I'm considering just running everything though the Dillon Swage and be done with it. My question is: if you swage non mil brass which do not have a crimp does it do anything to the case?

I'll probably do a sample sorting just to check that I do have a lot of mil brass. I'd hate to swage 5,000+ pieces only to find out that there were actually only 200 pieces of mil brass ....

[zmanktm]

I use a non-military brass to help set up my swaging tool so I don’t believe it does anything to non-crimped brass. I too have thousands of pieces of brass but I take a different approach. This is on a 550B so it may not work on other machines. When seating a primer slowly, if I feel resistance I stop and throw it in a bucket and move on. These will of course will need to be swaged.

[GuildSF4]

If the swager is set up properly it will not affect the non-crimped brass. (You will feel the difference on the Super swager between crimped and non-crimped primer pockets. As in no real resistance on the non-crimped brass.)

[Nimitz]

thx, that is what I was assuming. We'll see what my little sample looks like ...