What did you do in the reloading room recently?

[38ExtraSpecial]

You ain’t kidding lol.
I considered getting one of the new Lee quick trimmers as it trims and deburs at the same time. I dunno.

Lee Deluxe Quick Trim Case Trimmer

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I’ve bought them. Not impressed. They blades easily bend and can jam up with chips and then the spring loaded mechanism doesn’t work and next thing you know your precious 45-70 brass is way too short.
I have a couple you can have. Just need to call Lee for replacement blades. I think I have .308 45-70 and maybe another one.

 

[xtry51]

Someone just posted a bunch of Varget in WTS at what I would consider reasonable prices given there's 12lbs of if available.

 

[Quite_Exasperated]

I miss the “anyone know where to find primers” thread...

 

[pastera]

Those Lee cutters do a great job but damn the shell holder set up needs an improvement.
I always figure if you would drill and tap the side of the shell holder for a nice little 2” long or so handle so you could use the damn thing it would be great.

Then I picked up a Lyman lathe style trimmer and I never looked back.

Now that has me thinking. I wonder if you would retrofit the Lyman to use Lee arbors.

@pastera could probably make that work.

I've found the arbor raises a burr that pushes the case forward and shortens the trim length
A quick swipe on 600 grit to flatten the face of the thumbscrew clamp fixes the issue.

As far as modding the Lyman - As long as the shell holder on the Lyman has a flat surface for the arbor to register against it should work.
Adding a handle to the Lee case holder should be pretty easy too

 

[Tallahassee]

I miss the “anyone know where to find primers” thread...

+1
The banter was enjoyable. @andrew1220 start another one.

 

[Tallahassee]

Deprimed and removed the crimps of 792 pieces of brass yesterday. Super fun times. Actually, I find it relaxing. The woman leaves me alone, got the stove cranking, and had a nice cigar.

 

[bigblue]

You ain’t kidding lol.
I considered getting one of the new Lee quick trimmers as it trims and deburs at the same time. I dunno.

Lee Deluxe Quick Trim Case Trimmer

Lee Precision has been producing some of the highest quality reloading equipment for over 50 years. The Lee Deluxe Quick Trim Case Trimmer is the next...

www.midwayusa.com

Happy to lend you my Lyman for a weekend of case prep.

Why do so much work with straight wall cases though? Are they that bad?

 

[Queen Bee]

I had thought about offering my xpress trim but when i saw it was 30 carbine i didnt because they do not work on non bottleneck cartridges

 

[Klal]

I bought some dies for .45aarp. No idea why since I've never even shot one before.

 

[bigblue]

He can screw the heads he already uses into the Lyman and hold the cases with a leather glove. Pretty straight forward (and better than a drill).

 

[DW357]

Happy to lend you my Lyman for a weekend of case prep.

Why do so much work with straight wall cases though? Are they that bad?

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They were way over max case length. I figured I should ensure they below max length since 30 carbine headspaces on the case mouth.

 

[DW357]

He can screw the heads he already uses into the Lyman and hold the cases with a leather glove. Pretty straight forward (and better than a drill).

I don't know if it will save me much time as I'll still need to insert the cases into the lock stud. Otherwise there's no way the cutter knows when to stop trimming. If I insert the cutter into the lyman station and then insert a case onto it (just by holding it with my hand), it will keep trimming until the pin bottoms out in the flash hole. By then the case will be REALLY short
The lock stud prevents the cutter/pin from going into the case too far and trimming the case too much.

I'll try to take some photos to explain what I mean.

 

[Queen Bee]

@andrew1220 if you buy the straight wall cartridge adapter you could borrow my xpress trim

Straight Wall Adapter Lyman Xpress Case Trimmer Prep Station Custom Made | eBay

This is forCHOICE OF 1 EACH custom machined and built (choice of caliber). Also make them for Frankford Arsenal Case Prep Center. I custom make them too. You can find my video on YouTube search, 350 Legend other Straight Wall.

www.ebay.com

 

[p..]

So one of the local shops had a coffee can full of cast 158(ish) grain 38 semi wadcutters from an estate sale for a nice price that I couldn't resist. I don't have bullet lube. But I do have automatic transmission assembly lube. This is fine, right?
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Finally had a chance to run these last night. Indoor range, so didn't try setting up the chronograph. Ran them through my 586, 38 special, CCI500, 3.8 grains of Titegroup. Put them on a paper target at 50 feet. Bullets all seemed to go where I was pointing the gun when I pulled the trigger. Very nice! Not much smoke, but the cool thing is cleanup was super easy. Just a couple swipes with a patch of the cylinder and bore, no leading at all. Sold!

 

[DW357]

The "go-to" reloading vendor has various Hodgdon powders in stock. Titegroup, H110, Lil Gun, HP-38, HS-6 to name a few....

 

[ProGun]

The "go-to" reloading vendor has various Hodgdon powders in stock. Titegroup, H110, Lil Gun, HP-38, HS-6 to name a few....

Saw that, of course I missed the SPP drop earlier.

 

[DW357]

Saw that, of course I missed the SPP drop earlier.

Same. I had them in my cart but lost them during checkout.

 

[pastera]

@andrew1220 if you buy the straight wall cartridge adapter you could borrow my xpress trim

Straight Wall Adapter Lyman Xpress Case Trimmer Prep Station Custom Made | eBay

This is forCHOICE OF 1 EACH custom machined and built (choice of caliber). Also make them for Frankford Arsenal Case Prep Center. I custom make them too. You can find my video on YouTube search, 350 Legend other Straight Wall.

www.ebay.com

Looks like something really easy to 3d print

 

[ProGun]

Same. I had them in my cart but lost them during checkout.

Maybe I'm just not seeing them, but seems no one else is dropping primers.

 

[Quite_Exasperated]

I bought some dies for .45aarp. No idea why since I've never even shot one before.

Going to try gunning with the big dogs?

 

[DPR]

The "go-to" reloading vendor has various Hodgdon powders in stock. Titegroup, H110, Lil Gun, HP-38, HS-6 to name a few....

Is that the vendor that sells them 1k at a time?

 

[gerrycaruso]

My son just found 30,000 spp and a shitload of bullets in the basement. He forgot he ordered them. I guess I'm all set for a while.

 

[PL-52]

CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DW357]

Is that the vendor that sells them 1k at a time?

They upped it to 2k!!

 

[DW357]

My son just found 30,000 spp and a shitload of bullets in the basement. He forgot he ordered them. I guess I'm all set for a while.

 

[Klal]

An uncle of my wife knows I am starting in reloading and asked me for primers. "Can you spare five".

I handed him 500 LRP and he opened a sleeve, took five individual primers and handed it back to me with a smile. What kind of psychopath am I related to.

I had him take the rest of the 100 pack. I guess he has been Lee Loading the same deer rounds for the past 50 years and loads and shoots 5 a year.

 

[Mudflap621]

Prepped around 100 or so 223. Full length sized, trimmed and chamfered. Tumbling the lube off and maybe if I get lucky I’ll be able to run em through the mandrel.

 

[PL-52]

I asked the question about .45 small and large primer taking the same load factors. been told lots of times it's the same . At least now I have it in writing straight from Lee, not that I doubted anyones info. .......... Lee Precision, Inc. - 45 ACP large primer load data vs. small primer load data. Damn, I must have crushed and tossed couple hundred anyway DOH!!

 

[jpm]

I asked the question about .45 small and large primer taking the same load factors. been told lots of times it's the same . At least now I have it in writing straight from Lee, not that I doubted anyones info. .......... Lee Precision, Inc. - 45 ACP large primer load data vs. small primer load data. Damn, I must have crushed and tossed couple hundred anyway DOH!!

That has not been my experience. I found the same load that worked just fine in my 1911 with large primers would NOT cycle the action when using small primer brass. I stopped using small primer brass at that point. I wonder though if it would work better with SPM primers, but I'm not wasting them to find out.

 

[PL-52]

I guess It won't hurt to load a dozen or so, and see if they cycle my Colt 1911 or the M&P Shield .45, if not then no harm done and I go back to tossing them in a jar for someone else.