Small primer .45 -> BANG

[mantawolf]

Have crushed a few primers against the case but not had one go off yet. Sorting is the only method I know to filter out the wrong pocket. The last batch of brass I bought from the range, I sorted through once then cleaned and sorted while removing from the corncob again.

 

[stemoo01]

This happened to me last week. My left ear is still ringing

Yeah it is really rather loud.

I did find that realigning the shellplate & primer feed mechanism on my 550 makes it a little easier to get primers nice & centered before pushing them home.

I'm a whole bunch more careful with them now though. If in doubt, case comes out.

 

[A.Texas.Yankee]

Do you have a primer pocket reaming tool? You can use that to check small vs large or even ream small to large and be done with it.

 

[TxSoldier]

Someone posted it earlier, but I find when I sort brass my eyes I guess get tired and small and large primer holes start to look real similar and it gets hard to tell. The idea above about the reaming tool is a good quick idea.