I have a fair amount of LC69 brass (30-06) that I want to reload for my M1icon. I'm having a lot of trouble with the primer pockets. I cannot get primers to seat without shaving brass off the cups, or just plain mashing or deforming the primers. I've run the brass over my RCBS primer pocket swager to remove the crimp, and that's not enough. I've run a little of it over that swager again, and it's still not enough. I even took my chamfer tool and cut JUST A LITTLE of a chamfer on the mouth of the primer pocket, to make SURE it's not a ridge of metal left over from the crimp. Didn't work.

Has anyone else had this kind of trouble with LC69 brass? What did you do to correct the issue?

P.S. I use Wolf primers, and have no trouble with them in my 308, Creedmoor, or other brass, either military or commercial. The only alternative I have on hand is some CCI 250s, and they're not significantly better at addressing this issue.

Thanks for any help.
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