I had just about caught up on reloading 9 mm. I went to the local range and shot a bit and picked up my brass, along with some range brass that had been left. (It was new, never reloaded stuff.) I cleaned the brass and put it in the bucket with the other 9 mm. While reloading, I suddenly hit a case that didn't want to go through the sizer/decapper die. My first thought was that maybe a Berdan primed case had slipped in, but no it was a Boxer primed Norma case. I had a Lee universal decapper set up in the press next to the Dillon, so I put it in there figuring that it must just be a tight crimp. Well, it destroyed the decapping pin. I eventually managed to decap the brass and what I found was that the flash hole was too small. When the primer popped out, I could see that the brass around the flash hole had pushed into the primer pocket. I went back through my brass and found about a dozen of the Norma cases and scrapped them.
Has anyone come across this issue with Norma brass before?
Has anyone come across this issue with Norma brass before?