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Posted: 5/31/2009 10:49:05 AM EDT
| Ok, once my case prep is done, I'm using a Dillon to prime, charge, seat, and crimp which goes very fast just like pistol ammo. My question is: How can I decrease my case prep time? Right now I am sizing, trimming, and chamfering/deburring one step at a time. Is there a faster way? I can't use an X-die yet because this is all once fired brass that has varying OAL's (about .020" worth). This is practice ammo only, I'm not deburring the flash hole or uniforming the priimer pocket, or anything else like that. I hesitate to use the term blasting ammo, but basically that's what it is. I just need ammo that is accurate enough to hit paper at 100 yards, safe, and reliable. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and I am swaging the primer pocket with a Dillon swager. |
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I'm considering a Dillon trimmer. Setting up an extra tool head just for case prep. I'm thinking about doing a decapping die, then the Dillon resizing die/trimmer, then a neck sizing die to smooth out the trim.
Then tumble the brass to remove lube. Then have a toolhead set up for loading. Decapping die to knock out any media in the flash holes, prime, charge, seat and crimp. |
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Ok, once my case prep is done, I'm using a Dillon to prime, charge, seat, and crimp which goes very fast just like pistol ammo. My question is: How can I decrease my case prep time? Right now I am sizing, trimming, and chamfering/deburring one step at a time. Is there a faster way? I can't use an X-die yet because this is all once fired brass that has varying OAL's (about .020" worth). This is practice ammo only, I'm not deburring the flash hole or uniforming the priimer pocket, or anything else like that. I hesitate to use the term blasting ammo, but basically that's what it is. I just need ammo that is accurate enough to hit paper at 100 yards, safe, and reliable. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and I am swaging the primer pocket with a Dillon swager. What type of Dillion do you have? I have a 550 so I am kind of limited...I tumble the used cases...then I decap, prime and resize. I then put them thru the Girard for trimming. I then throw the finished, primed cases in a box. I then reload them with the bullet/powder of my choice. The 1.5K of 62grs that I loaded last night... 
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You got a couple in there with no primer. Good eyes...there was actually six of them with out primers...I usually try to pay attention to the primer seat pressure. Funny thing is, the loose primer pockets were all FC commercial cases. All these cases are on their fifth reload...so they are just about at the end of their life... |
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Quoted: I'm considering a Dillon trimmer. Setting up an extra tool head just for case prep. I'm thinking about doing a decapping die, then the Dillon resizing die/trimmer, then a neck sizing die to smooth out the trim. Then tumble the brass to remove lube. Then have a toolhead set up for loading. Decapping die to knock out any media in the flash holes, prime, charge, seat and crimp. Look at the thread, 'Setup for Dillon's Rapid Trim 1200B Case Trimmer' in this forum. |
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Ok, once my case prep is done, I'm using a Dillon to prime, charge, seat, and crimp which goes very fast just like pistol ammo. My question is: How can I decrease my case prep time? Right now I am sizing, trimming, and chamfering/deburring one step at a time. Is there a faster way? I can't use an X-die yet because this is all once fired brass that has varying OAL's (about .020" worth). This is practice ammo only, I'm not deburring the flash hole or uniforming the priimer pocket, or anything else like that. I hesitate to use the term blasting ammo, but basically that's what it is. I just need ammo that is accurate enough to hit paper at 100 yards, safe, and reliable. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and I am swaging the primer pocket with a Dillon swager. What type of Dillion do you have? I have a 550 so I am kind of limited...I tumble the used cases...then I decap, prime and resize. I then put them thru the Girard for trimming. I then throw the finished, primed cases in a box. I then reload them with the bullet/powder of my choice. The 1.5K of 62grs that I loaded last night... http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww219/lares556/reload-1.jpg I'm Impressed, So your Girard can trim after you prime? WTF? Sorry OP, you seem to be doing everything right, why worry about how fast you can do it, just do it right! |
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Ok, once my case prep is done, I'm using a Dillon to prime, charge, seat, and crimp which goes very fast just like pistol ammo. My question is: How can I decrease my case prep time? Right now I am sizing, trimming, and chamfering/deburring one step at a time. Is there a faster way? I can't use an X-die yet because this is all once fired brass that has varying OAL's (about .020" worth). This is practice ammo only, I'm not deburring the flash hole or uniforming the priimer pocket, or anything else like that. I hesitate to use the term blasting ammo, but basically that's what it is. I just need ammo that is accurate enough to hit paper at 100 yards, safe, and reliable. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and I am swaging the primer pocket with a Dillon swager. What type of Dillion do you have? I have a 550 so I am kind of limited...I tumble the used cases...then I decap, prime and resize. I then put them thru the Girard for trimming. I then throw the finished, primed cases in a box. I then reload them with the bullet/powder of my choice. The 1.5K of 62grs that I loaded last night... http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww219/lares556/reload-1.jpg I'm Impressed, So your Girard can trim after you prime? WTF? Sorry OP, you seem to be doing everything right, why worry about how fast you can do it, just do it right! Yes, the Giraud works just like a powered pencil sharpener... |
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Sorry OP, you seem to be doing everything right, why worry about how fast you can do it, just do it right!
It works the way I'm doing it, but sizing, then swaging, then trimming, then deburring thousands of cases is quite tedious. I am going to look into the Giraud though. Thanks for the info. |
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Sorry OP, you seem to be doing everything right, why worry about how fast you can do it, just do it right!
It works the way I'm doing it, but sizing, then swaging, then trimming, then deburring thousands of cases is quite tedious. I am going to look into the Giraud though. Thanks for the info. Do you shoot thousands of rounds each range session? Here's how I keep case prep time to a minumum. I prep only the brass from each range trip and stay on top of it. I'm usually only processing a hundred or so rounds at a time. Unless someone dumps a thousand pieces of brass on me, I try to stay on top of what I shoot. |
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Wait a minute! There seem to be a few showing with little or no crimp into the cannelure.  Roger that....I see some variations in OAL, too! OP: The key is to do case prep in stations over a period of time...so when you are ready to load, you throw the powder, primer, and bullet in without worrying about the rest. |
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OP: The key is to do case prep in stations over a period of time...so when you are ready to load, you throw the powder, primer, and bullet in without worrying about the rest. I go ahead and PRIME my brass for bulk storage. I prefer watching the powder charge very closely, and not having to mess with priming during the actual loading. |
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OP: The key is to do case prep in stations over a period of time...so when you are ready to load, you throw the powder, primer, and bullet in without worrying about the rest. I go ahead and PRIME my brass for bulk storage. I prefer watching the powder charge very closely, and not having to mess with priming during the actual loading. Good idea....I do that when loading precision rounds on my RockChucker, but never on the progressive. |
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Wait a minute! There seem to be a few showing with little or no crimp into the cannelure. Roger that....I see some variations in OAL, too! OP: The key is to do case prep in stations over a period of time...so when you are ready to load, you throw the powder, primer, and bullet in without worrying about the rest. BUSTED!...:-) This was the second reload on the initial trim. So the OAL for the cases did vary. Every case that I checked was under MAX OAL. This is the fifth reload on these cases. I will check the OAL again when they are loaded for a sixth time. I only crimp the .357 and shotgun shells...:-) |
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