Grumulkin
Member
Well gentlemen, I really don't care if you size, trim and otherwise play with your new brass. If it makes you happy do it. Having started reloading as on unsupervised teenager back around 1967 with a Lee Loader on the kitchen table for a sporterized 7X57 Mauser I'll pretty soon be at the stage I can be classed with the "old guys."
Over the years I've sized, uniformed primer pockets, turned necks, etc. but with the exception of loading for one cartridge have NEVER trimmed or sized new brass though I have deburred flash holes and chamfered the case mouths. I guess there would be one other exception and that would be for the very few new cases where the mouths were grossly out of round or the case bodies dented.
If doing all those things helped, then the ammo I make from resized, trimmed and otherwise screwed around with brass should be more accurate and work better than ammo made from new brass I haven't messed with but that has never been the case. In fact, the opposite is sometimes true.
But, as I said, if doing those things makes you happy, go ahead and do it.
Over the years I've sized, uniformed primer pockets, turned necks, etc. but with the exception of loading for one cartridge have NEVER trimmed or sized new brass though I have deburred flash holes and chamfered the case mouths. I guess there would be one other exception and that would be for the very few new cases where the mouths were grossly out of round or the case bodies dented.
If doing all those things helped, then the ammo I make from resized, trimmed and otherwise screwed around with brass should be more accurate and work better than ammo made from new brass I haven't messed with but that has never been the case. In fact, the opposite is sometimes true.
But, as I said, if doing those things makes you happy, go ahead and do it.