SDB high primers?

[ormondopen]

I have about 10000 or so rounds thru my SDB with only a handfull of high primers and I knew they would be because of the way it felt seating the primer.

in the past few weeks I have had 10 times that amount and the seating felt normal. I changed out all the parts relating to that station of the loader and I am still getting them.

I only load 9mm with either winchester small pistol or small rifle primers and once fired winchester and RP brass.

[goneracin]

its the win small pistol primers. I have had the same results, and its the primers being out of round or inconsistent O.D. or something. I swappd them out and used federal, no problem, cci, no problem, magtech no problem. Back to the win, problems. I have been reseating them with my sdb. I will seat it, relax the pressure, and seat it again (carefully, dont bang it up in) and ive been having good luck doing that, it has fixed all the high primer problems.

[BrianATL]

Are you using a strong mount? When I was using a SDB I was having same issues, swapped press onto the dillon mount and problem went away.

[ormondopen]

I am using the strong mount and 2 layers of 3/4" plywood as my loader bench top.

[BrianATL]

I am using the strong mount and 2 layers of 3/4" plywood as my loader bench top.

Guess that's not your problem then

Good luck

[Harmon]

i had that problem too.

I just switched to federal primers ONLY and the problem may still be there, but the rounds still go bang.

harmon

[D. Manley]

I have about 10000 or so rounds thru my SDB with only a handfull of high primers and I knew they would be because of the way it felt seating the primer.

in the past few weeks I have had 10 times that amount and the seating felt normal. I changed out all the parts relating to that station of the loader and I am still getting them.

I only load 9mm with either winchester small pistol or small rifle primers and once fired winchester and RP brass.

Have a look through the DILLON HELP GUIDE just to eliminate anything mechanical. I also got a bad lot of WSPP that drove me nuts for a while...often, they would hang up in the primer pickup tubes. I'd normally suggest buying a box or two of primers from a known different batch but with the present shortage, good luck with that. One other thing comes to mind about the Winchester brass. I have no idea if it's true but I've seen it noted in a couple of places that Winchester has "subbed out" some brass production to S&B. If true, S&B has notoriously tight primer pockets.

[SoonerPast]

Interesting. I am pretty new to loading, load 45 on a SDB. Winchester primers are more difficult to deal with for me too. They turn sideways, or upside down or just don't flow through the mechanism. Remington's, not one problem. I certainly can't see any difference, other than the color, but the Remington have presented no problems.