[Matt Dillon]

Folks, it has been a couple of years since I prepared new rifle brass, and I have changed my press out since then, so probably need to start from scratch with my sizing dies. I plan to prepare ~200 pieces of 7.5x55 Swiss and 200 pieces of 7.62x54 brass (from Graf's) in the very near future. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their secrets on the best way to set up the sizing die, and prepare, size, and make ready new rifle brass. Thanks so much in advance!

[USSR]

Matt,

I shoot Lapua brass which is very high quality, so all I do to new brass is chamfer, load, and shoot. Since you are not using Lapua, I would uniform the primer pocket, debur the flash hole, chamfer the neck, and load. After firing once, I would resize, trim to length, and chamfer.

Don

[grumbles_in_mi]

I reload for the 7.5 swiss using Frontier (Grafs) brass.
I prep as follows

1. Tumble clean the brass.
2. check fire hole
3.lube and full lenth size, setting dies as per mfgr's instuctions (these can be obtained from most mfgr's web site if you don't have the origenals)
4.trim to length, chamfer and deburr

I treat ALL new unprimed bulk brass this way.

enjoy that Schmidt-Rubin, I do mine:)

[snuffy]

More accurately, run it through a FL size die, or neck die, before you chamfer it. I've never seen ANY brand brass, including lapua and Norma that came with round necks. Failure to get it round before chamfering it will yield an uneven chamfer on the mouth. Some may measure for overall length, find the shortest one, and then trim to that length. Primer pocket uniforming and flash hole deburring can also be done first thing.