.38 S&B Brass......I know what they S&B stand for now

[Buckshot Bear]

Son of a B#$%@    ........ you can't get primers back in unprimed brass.

 

I have a Dillon primer pocket swager, I haven't had to use it for over 15 years, its set up for 9mm crimped rounds and I don't want to use it.

 

Anyone else found this with S&B brass?

[Assassin]

It goes into the recycle can. 

[Badlands Bob #61228]

Yep, in the recycle can along with any of that Americ junk.

[Hendo]

And here I thought it was just me.

[Frederick Jackson Turner]

It gets better; there is some SoB brass which is Berdan primed...

 

No Cheers,

FJT

[Hendo]

6 minutes ago, Frederick Jackson Turner said:

It gets better; there is some SoB brass which is Berdan primed...

 

No Cheers,

FJT

Well of course, how else would you make a reloading session exciting? 

[Garrison Joe, SASS #60708]

Very common problem with Sellier and Belloit brass.  For many years we have talked about the small pockets.  I have used my Dillon primer pocket swager to knock the pocket up to standard diameter, and the brass runs well after doing that,    Federals go in easier than any other American primer, I found, too.   It's actually  usable brass once the pocket is right.

 

But if you toss it for scrap, won't hurt my feelings.

 

BTW - S&B .45 auto brass also has smallish pockets.

 

good luck, GJ

[Buckshot Bear]

Had my 11 year old grandson for the last couple of hours using the Dillon swager, he made a game out of it, hitting the lever up that holds the shell and sailing them through the air into a bucket a fair way away.....he was getting a good hit rate into the bucket. He'll be back after school tomorrow to keep going with them  

[Kid Rich]

Not that hard to make them easy to use.  If you really don't like them use them at a lost brass match.

kR

 

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

A friend of my in the Air Force once gave me 5 shotbags full of once fired .38 Special military brass.  For free.

Yes, you gotta swage the pockets.   But it was free brass, and it works just fine.   I wouldn't throw the S&B away.  If you don't want it, I am sure someone would be willing to make use of it.

[Krazy Kajun]

10 hours ago, Frederick Jackson Turner said:

It gets better; there is some SoB brass which is Berdan primed...

 

No Cheers,

FJT

Yeah I just put those in the “melt down for accordion parts” bin 

 

Kajun

[Jackson Haller]

Found an RCBS bench primer handles priming those S&B shells just fine.

[Wallaby Damned]

You’ll run into this with some

military manufactured 5.56 and 308 brass as well. As previously pointed out, it’s nothing a swaging die won’t cure.   

[Bull Skinner]

I prime with a Lee handheld priming tool. S&B and military brass are no problem for it.

[Southpaw Gringo, SASS # 74217]

Those and Herters brass have the tightest pockets around. I can always tell when its one of those in the priming position. I always still manage to set a primer in then though.

[Lassy LaRock]

Sellier & Bellot .38sp. brass has killed the carrier from my Lee pro 1000.