I have trouble seating primers in to 38 special brass I have. I am using small pistol primers from CCI . The brass is mixed head stamps and has not been loaded to anything close to max (3.1 gr. hp38 behind 148 wad cutters) . Priming works well with other calibers (9mm) I am considering running the brass through my pocket swager. Would this hurt anything or would it be a waste of time.

Jim: Are the primer pockets on your .38's crimped? It is rare that a .38 has a crimped primer but I have seen a few. I would buy some new brass or shoot some factory loads and see if my priming tool had difficulty with those after they had been deprimed. What priming tool are you using?

Jim81147,The CCI primer is the problem. Members of my pistol team all had problems with CCI primers back in the 70s. We stoped using cci because the were to fat, and hard to seat. I went to buy more primers last month, dealer was out of win., only had cci. This batch of cci 550 small pistol mag. primers (lot G19F) will not seat fully, the sit to high when seated. No more cci primers for me. This is when loading different head stamps in 38 and 357mag.