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 Post subject: .223 Vs 5.56
PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:24 am 
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I know theses two cal. Differ in pressure head spacing and the chamber throats but why do I have so much trouble pressing in a primer even though I chamfered the primer pockets? Do they have different size pockets so there are more than one size small rifle primers?
Any help appreciated!


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 Post subject: Re: .223 Vs 5.56
PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:10 am 
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The primer pockets should be the same size. There may be slight differences in each companies tolerances or the reamer may not quite remove all of the crimp. I have not noticed a difference in pressing in primers. You can always get a chucking reamer to uniform the pockets. A half thousandths can make all the difference.


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 Post subject: Re: .223 Vs 5.56
PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:40 am 
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I have a pocket cleaner and I ream a small chamfer but they seam to want to crush at starting to press them in, so I assumed the 5.56 used a different primer. So I'm sorting out the .223 from the 5.56 cases.
All my cases are one I picked up the shooting range because it looks like very few who shoot them reload because I've picked up hundreds of these cases.
I figured some day I would like to get a .223 rifle years ago so I collected the most prominent rifle round I found at the range and a couple years ago I bought a bolt action savage in .223 and that's my story.


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 Post subject: Re: .223 Vs 5.56
PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:14 am 
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Small rifle primers are supposed to range from 0.1745-0.1765" in diameter. The interference fit is about one to three ten thousandths of an inch.

You might need a primer pocket swager or a 0.1735" chucking reamer.

Small rifle primers are supposed to range from 0.1745-0.1765".

Or you can make a gauge if you have an electric drill and bolt with a smooth shank on it so you can turn it down to those dimensions and use a 223 case as a template.


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 Post subject: Re: .223 Vs 5.56
PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:19 pm 
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Thank you I've got lake city and some other 5.56 they seem to run about .001 smaller in the primer pockets I'll look into that


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 Post subject: Re: .223 Vs 5.56
PostPosted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 11:21 pm 
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Thanks ! The reamer worked!! Seeing almost all the cases I have picked up are 5.56, now I can load both5.56 not just .223, thanks again.


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