What did you do in the reloading room recently?

ddeck said:
Frustrating day today trying to load 223.

My Hornady Case Activated Powder Drop started spilling H335 when the case came back down. I doublechecked that I had the correct funnel, ensured I had good contact with the funnel in the powder drop and it just kept happening. Whether I did it quickly, slowly, tapped it, nothing stopped it. The grains were sticking around the shoulder, so it looked like static. I've never had a problem with static before, but I took a dryer sheet and rubbed down everything. It didn't solve the issue. Every time the case would come down, some powder would fall out. I decided that there was obviously so much static around and nothing I was going to do was going to resolve the issue. Hopefully tomorrow with the weather the problem will go away. In 4 hours, I did 15 finished rounds, so it was a complete bust of a day.
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Give the outside of the powder drop a light spritz of IMG_7392.jpeg
 
CMEBoston said:
Sorting though some stuff I got from an elderly vet. He competitively shot an M1 Garand and his daughter is giving me everything but the guns.
This was the first batch of goodies as well as 400 rounds of Match 30-06 mostly in clips
Thought the vintage primer logo was neatView attachment 965980View attachment 965981
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Those large rifle primers are worth a lot nowadays. Nice
 
ddeck said:
I’m convinced that 95% of all reloading components ever sold are in people’s basements and haven’t been used in 10+ years.

Only slightly joking based on what I see. I think we all stock up and we may never get to all the components we have.
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Amen.
I have a lot of powder that was some old man’s treasure trove.
I’m sure someone will clean it out of my house some day too.
 
Just put some new rubber hose on the axels of my supersized wet tumbler. Have to deprime a shitload of brass, then ill clean a bunch up. I can do 10 lbs. of brass in each tube. I use 2 lbs. more pins than brass. So if ten lbs. of brass i go with 12 lbs. of pins. Then i add water, i think its about 3 gal. And my secret formula, ill give it up to all u guys on NES, is 8oz. of Simple Green concentrate, 1 Tbl. of Lemishine, and 2 Tbl. of armorall wash and wax. I run the tumbler for about 3 hrs. and they come out looking brand new. Hers a few pics......
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ddeck said:
I’m convinced that 95% of all reloading components ever sold are in people’s basements and haven’t been used in 10+ years.

Only slightly joking based on what I see. I think we all stock up and we may never get to all the components we have.
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It's the nature of being constantly under attack. Some day, it will be illegal or economically impractical to buy powder, primers, and bullets. And we're already getting close to the latter.
 
ddeck said:
I’m convinced that 95% of all reloading components ever sold are in people’s basements and haven’t been used in 10+ years.

Only slightly joking based on what I see. I think we all stock up and we may never get to all the components we have.
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Prob not wrong honestly. I still have a sealed 8 pound jug of IMR-4064 that’s got to be 10 years old at this point. Same with many of the large rifle primers I have. Definitely a lifetime supply of rifle components at the rate I shoot them. Still have factory ammo to burn through.
 
DW357 said:
Prob not wrong honestly. I still have a sealed 8 pound jug of IMR-4064 that’s got to be 10 years old at this point. Same with many of the large rifle primers I have. Definitely a lifetime supply of rifle components at the rate I shoot them. Still have factory ammo to burn through.
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Hopefully some kid will be sending my factory ammo into the side of a sand dune in 50 years.
 
peterk123 said:
Uggh. Loading 10MM and there was a pebble in the brass I was depriming. Broke the pin. Man that's annoying.
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The spring pin deprimers are pretty nice. I heard FW arms sold off their design to someone else. Might Armory also makes one. I swicthed recently to the Mighty Armory one and it works much better than my old Lee universal.
 
ddeck said:
I’m convinced that 95% of all reloading components ever sold are in people’s basements and haven’t been used in 10+ years.

Only slightly joking based on what I see. I think we all stock up and we may never get to all the components we have.
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No it’s true another buddy of mine owned a gun shop and supplied a local PD he’s sitting on totes and totes of 9mm and .45 components and half a dozen Dillion progressive presses
 
BTSDOG said:
Just put some new rubber hose on the axels of my supersized wet tumbler. Have to deprime a shitload of brass, then ill clean a bunch up. I can do 10 lbs. of brass in each tube. I use 2 lbs. more pins than brass. So if ten lbs. of brass i go with 12 lbs. of pins. Then i add water, i think its about 3 gal. And my secret formula, ill give it up to all u guys on NES, is 8oz. of Simple Green concentrate, 1 Tbl. of Lemishine, and 2 Tbl. of armorall wash and wax. I run the tumbler for about 3 hrs. and they come out looking brand new. Hers a few pics......
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That is "MacGyver" level stuff right there....nice.
 
Took a chance on an Amazon adjustable Shoulder reference trimmer for 5.56. I think it was $40
It works way better than the Lee trimmers I was using forever but I still have to deburr the mouth after.
I put a bit of tape on the relief slots to keep the shavings down B36DA01E-2032-4436-A486-C7F646F857E2.jpeg
 
CMEBoston said:
Took a chance on an Amazon adjustable Shoulder reference trimmer for 5.56. I think it was $40
It works way better than the Lee trimmers I was using forever but I still have to deburr the mouth after.
I put a bit of tape on the relief slots to keep the shavings down
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So you deprime and resize, then trim. How consistent is the length after? I would guess that depends a lot on how consistent your press and die combo are.

I've only trimmed using an RCBS manual case trimmer which works, but it's slow, and I also have to deburr after.
 
p.. said:
So you deprime and resize, then trim. How consistent is the length after? I would guess that depends a lot on how consistent your press and die combo are.

I've only trimmed using an RCBS manual case trimmer which works, but it's slow, and I also have to deburr after.
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Yeah I’m still a caveman on a single stage RCBS press.
So I resize and deprime
Trim
Prime
Load
It’s been consistent enough in the one batch of MKE brass I’ve been working through spot checking it’s been within .002 (I trim to 1.750)
J am going to Chuck it up in a 1/3 Hp drill press I have (and used with the lee system before)
 
CMEBoston said:
Yeah I’m still a caveman on a single stage RCBS press.
So I resize and deprime
Trim
Prime
Load
It’s been consistent enough in the one batch of MKE brass I’ve been working through spot checking it’s been within .002 (I trim to 1.750)
J am going to Chuck it up in a 1/3 Hp drill press I have (and used with the lee system before)
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That's about the level of accuracy I get with the RCBS manual trimmer, and your way looks a whole lot faster.
 
steve8140 said:
Swaged a couple thousand 223 cases over the past few nights. Need to tumble them and they’ll be ready to load.
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I really do hate people that come up with great ideas !!! 😁
That spring looks fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!! I got the same swager over 20 years ago because I was shooting a lot of military rounds. This is going to work great !!! Thanks for the pic !!!!!!
 

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