Tough to deprime hulls
I'm having a problem I've never encountered before. I am reloading some Cheddite .410 hulls that have been fired one time. They were bought new as primed hulls, loaded once, fired and now in the process of being reloaded.
Problem is, the spent primers are the hardest to punch out that I have ever encountered in 45 years of shotshell reloading. A MEC single stage press sounds like it's about to fly apart from the force needed to punch the old primer out.
I have a shell holder for my RCBS metallic press that fits the .410 heads, so I tried using it with a decapping die. The punch on it is so small in diameter that it punches the center out of the primer but leaves a "ring" stuck in place in the primer pocket.
Question: does anyone make a shotshell decapping die for a metallic cartridge press that has a decapping pin large enough to prevent the center from being punched out of the spent primers?
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