ran into a small kine problem de-priming some 44mag brass with Lee die
i guess the primer was stuck in the brass and hard time to push it out, so the decapping pin would get pushed out the backside of the die. its a safety measure in the Lee die that prevents the decapping pin from getting damaged it just gets pushed out before it gets bent or broken
never had this happen before. only had 4 rounds that this happened out of 50 rounds that i was reloading
i stopped after the first 2 primers got stuck and pushed out the depriming pin. did some research about what to do next. only thing i found, short of ordering a new die, was to superglue the decapping pin inside the screw inside the die
so i did that with gorilla glue, let it dry for 6 hours, tried it on those rounds, and same thing, stuck. but it did get the primers to move slightly but not completely removed
so i tightened down the pin screw again, this time it worked
i now have replacement decapping pins so if it happens again I'll try replace the pin. if that fails, i'll just order a new decapping die
could be my universal RCBS hand primer, bc it doesn't use any specific brass holder, its a spring loaded brass holder so it clamps to any caliber brass and sometimes it's not perfectly centered. that might be the culprit, i'll have to take a closer look next time. but i've used this hand primer several hundreds of times and never had a problem
could be Menehunes too. who knows?
