.223 swager, anyone have one?

I'm looking at ordering the Dillon Swager. I may order it tomorrow depending on how well this lyman setup I bought for my case trimmer works. Turns it into a reamer for them. If it seems like I can do them well enough without having to go back over them with a uniformer, then I will use it. If it still takes to long, I'm going to get the swager.

The Lyman reamer sucks. It takes me longer to do it than I would like. There is no real good way of holding onto the case.

I'll probably order the swager tonight

Will do. I'd question if it is worth getting one, but then, I realize I have 700 more rounds of this crap to ream. I've already done 300 rounds of my 1000 rounds by hand. I did 5 rounds using this Lyman, and realized it was taking me longer than doing it by hand, just because it does not hold the case well, and it is hard to get your hands in there to hold the case and keep it from turning...

But regardless, its ordered. Hopefully it is in stock and they ship tomorrow. They are in AZ, and everything I've had shipped out of scottsdale/phoenix/gilbert area has only taken 2 days to get here.

Next time there is a shoot up north or if you make your way down this direction, I can bring this along or you can stop by, whatever. From the looks of it, and from what I have read, it is a quick and painless operation of using it. Stick it in, push the lever, pull the lever, out it goes. If you get in rhythm you could probably do a thousand rounds or so in a couple hours. Not sure how much you have that is crimped.

im thinking about doing .223 soon i may need to borrow that bad boy

Jesus at this rate, I better slap a wig on it, and charge by the hour :lol:

let me borrow your 223 dies too!

Damn, that was quick. Showed up today!

Talk about a HUGE difference in time. What used to take me about 30 seconds to a minute to do 1 case by hand, now takes me about 3 seconds. Grab, put in, pull the lever, put back, and repeat. Soooooo Much nicer.

Here's a picture of the Swaged case.

It's a very large picture, so I am including it as a link, so it doesn't **** up the forum view of this page.

http://mic.phrozen-phaze.com/Misc/stuff/swaged-case.jpg

Left to Right: Swaged PMC Case (Formally Crimped), A Crimped PMC Case, and a brand new Winchester Case (to give a comparison to the newly swaged case)

I ******* love this thing!

show me a non swaged pic

The link above has it. A Swaged Case, next to a crimped case, next to a piece of new brass.

Swaging is used to remove the crimp

I know next to nothing about reloading so correct me if I'm wrong, but it's the crimp that makes it non-reloadable?

Jakey poo said:

I know next to nothing about reloading so correct me if I'm wrong, but it's the crimp that makes it non-reloadable?

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Correct, without removing the crimp, you cannot put a new primer in.

You can seat a new primer, just that it may not seat properly... crumpled. That's a technical term: crumpled.

Coug91 said:

You can seat a new primer, just that it may not seat properly... crumpled. That's a technical term: crumpled.

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I tell you what... I'll give you a crimped case and a fresh primer and watch you attempt to get it seated, even if "crimped".

Why won't it work?

What happens when a primer gets compressed? Oh yeah... it goes "poof". :damnmate: