Poll- do you clean primer pockets?
 

I'm running a poll to continue the endless debate on whether or not cleaning primer pockets is worthwhile... Feel free to participate if you want. :)

http://ultimatereloader.com/2011/10/...rimer-pockets/

Depends.

Personal ammunition: Unless it's for a match where I could win money, hell no.

Commercial ammunition: Always.

Pistol? No.

Rifle? Yes.

Rifle yes clean and uniform. Pistol, never.

Nyet.

Nope.

deprime before tumbling, if that qualifies as cleaning primer pockets, then yes on all brass.

sig357fan

Rifle yes....pistol no

Yes on rifle, no on handgun

No but I have never seen one of mine as dirty as the one on the left.

Nope .

pistol no, rifle sometimes.

Used to clean um all ! Now I don't !!

This for me as well.

Not usually. Unless I'm having a hard time seating a primer.

Hunting rifle yes, Plinking rifle no.
Pistol No.

pistol no

have not starting loading for rifle yet, but I will once I start.
Greg

Rifle=Yes

Pistol= No

Yes to both! I'm not a high volume reloader usually 20 to 50 rounds per loading period so I clean all pockets! Is it a PITA yes, but it does mkes for better rounds. Never had a dud round because of it!:supergrin:

.45 ACP = yes, because of the different primer sizes that have been showing up in my brass.

I use a large primer pocket cleaner to catch the SPP cases, because they really all look the same after a while, especially during sorting just after tumbling.

Depends on what you mean by clean. Since rifle brass gets lubed before decapping/sizing, and then tumbled again (to remove the lube), the pockets might get cleaned a little...but I don't do any specific pocket cleaning.

In fact, I'm considering removing the decapping pin from my rifle sizing dies (I have a universal decapper in my loading tool head) so I don't have to worry about the possibility of tumbling media getting stuck in the pockets. Anyone do that? If the primers are properly seated, they shouldn't interfere with trimming on a trimmer that trims based on brass OAL, should they?

Like most, rifle rounds yes, handgun rounds no.

^This^

I'm loading 200 rounds every two weeks. 100 9mm's. 100 .45ACP's. I'm still new to reloading, but I do clean all primer pockets. Sometimes, I get a lot of residue out, so I think it's worth.

The butler absolutely refuses to clean pistol primer pockets, says it's a waste of time since the man who can hold steady enough to to tell the difference isn't born yet and his mother is dead... my butler is an uppity bastard. :fist:


Jack