Worked as required
A very necessary item to de-prime before cleaning cases. No need to lube as the die only removes the primer.
Great Value
The Lee decapping die is well made, solid and has a nice polished metal finish. The purchase included the decapping pin. It has worked well de-priming crimped and uncrimped cases. It needs about 11 ft-lbs of torque to hold the decapping pin for crimped .223 Rem cases.
Great work Lee!
This is the first die I reach for when its time to prep a new batch of rounds. Well machined and great design its incredibly simple. The decapping pin uses a collet, which by design will slip and not snap off if the primer does not wish to budge. Unlike most combination resizing/decapping dies that use a threaded pin that will snap when faced with a stubborn primer. Personally my case prep goes as fallows. De-cap, uniform the primer pocket, remove crimp, de-bur the flash hole. Then on the tumbler. I do it this way so my re-sizing dies never see a dirty case and therefore extending the life of my resizing dies. Great work Lee. Five stars!
Cheap & Works
I use this to de-prime all of my brass at a high volume and fast rate for: .223, .270. 300 Blackout, .30-06, etc. I have used this thing a lot and have not broken it yet; even on crimped military brass. I ultrasonic clean my brass after de-priming and have not touched a primer pocket cleaner in years.
A must have
It makes so much sense to remove the primer before tumbling so the tumbling media can clean the primer pocket (if you use ground walnut). The previous reviewer ignored the fact that the die is not intended for calibers that are smaller than .22. Buy it and de-prime before you tumble. The price is great and replacement pins are cheap and easy to find.
well design
nice set up easy to use
Works Well for most Calibers
The diameter of the decapping rod, which holds the decapping pin, is 0.202". Just small enough to enter a 20 caliber case mouth. Feed it slowly into a 20 caliber case though, because the end of the rod is not tapered enough to avoid possible contact with the case mouth. The diameter of the decapping pin is 0.062" and it is permanently attached to the rod. I'd like to see Lee also make a decapping rod with a 0.059" diameter pin for smaller flash holes like the 6mm BR. Also, if the pin breaks you have to throw away the rod too.
