Primers seating TOO easy

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I've got a bunch of 223 brass, deprimed and cleaned a few hundred pieces... primed a handful and the primers go in really easy. They dont fall out, but they go in A LOT easier than on my 6.5 bolt gun brass.

Safe to load and shoot?
 
I have a very unscientific method for these situations. I use a loose decapping pin, and if i can't push the primer out by hand I roll with it.
 
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I toss ones that prime too easily, are they all the same headstamp?
 
I've got a bunch of 223 brass, deprimed and cleaned a few hundred pieces... primed a handful and the primers go in really easy. They dont fall out, but they go in A LOT easier than on my 6.5 bolt gun brass.

Safe to load and shoot?
I have heard that Winchester primers are softer and have a wider variation in their diameter measurement. I will also use a small pin punch to test suspect primers to see if I can push them out or not.
 
I know from experience Federal Large Pistol Primers are much softer than the CCI primers and seem to go in a little too easy.
 
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I would ditch them if they go in TOO easily. Easy may be OK, but TOO easy is not. It is up to you to decide whether they are easy or TOO easy. I would err on the side of caution.

Do you know the history of those cases?
 
Think maybe a brass prep problem? Too much swaging or uniformity of the primer pocket?

I can look to see if I have some Winchester brass in the shop, something to compare to anyway.
 
Think maybe a brass prep problem? Too much swaging or uniformity of the primer pocket?

I can look to see if I have some Winchester brass in the shop, something to compare to anyway.

Did they have crimped primers? If so, how did you remove the crimp?

Basically these questions

If you decrimped them, you may have removed too much material
 
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