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    What other hobbies occupy your loading bench?

    I don't have a dedicated reloading bench, as I use a Lee stand and a nice table to the side. The overall space is my man cave, so fishing stuff (including fly tying), gun cleaning, and my computer are in the same room.
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    300BLK resizing?

    I just pulled my Lee die sized ones out and looked with a magnifying glass; they look good. I think Blue68f100 is on the right track, FWIW.
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    300BLK resizing?

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    They all went BANG!!

    When you have a "family" that big and they eat something that's not cheap like 9mm, reloading is the best way to feed 'em.
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    Metric primers?

    There's a decent amount of dimensional variation in primers made here in the States, too. Don't sweat the small stuff.
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    Vibrating Primer Tube fFllers?

    I got the FA Vibra Prime on closeout a few years back. I had to to open the large primer hole a bit. I also found that shaking it a little if it hangs up helps. It's faster than hunting and pecking for me.
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    Trimming .30 Carbine brass

    Not really, as it's "identifying", ID being an abbreviation for Identification (or identity) Document(s), like show me your ID. But it works and everyone knows what you mean.
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    BE-86

    Unique was out of stock a few years back and I asked the vendor for what they had in stock along the same lines; he sold me my first pound of BE-86. It meters well and works well in a lot of pistol rounds. A solid thumbs up.
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    ProMag Issues

    Pro Mags are for practicing... ...clearing jams and dealing with failures to feed.
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    discrepancy of axes

    He means that if the bullet is made of mostly lead and not jacketed, it is soft and thus it can catch on things, like sharp edges, as it moves into the chamber and deform; become not properly shaped. This may or would create mechanical problems inside the gun, especially in self-loading types of...
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    Do you weigh your bullets?

    A couple of times for giggles, that's it.
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    Bullet weight question.

    Add another agreement with the idea of pushing whatever weight bullet as fast as can be safely done. +1 on the 124-gr, too
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    Tracking Number of Loadings on Brass

    It goes into bags or buckets, sorted by caliber and labelled by the number firings and current state (resized, trimmed, annealed, etc.) if it's not in obvious need of cleaning. Only brass with the same number of firings goes into the FART together.
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    best 380 under 300$

    Hi Points are butt ugly, heavy enough that a truck to haul them around helps, which seems appropriate, and just work. My kid bought a .380 one for sh*ts and giggles - we were both surprised at how well it ran.
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    Manuals

    Another vote for Lyman, 49th in my case. Also in printed form: Sierra & Lee, I forget the editions. I also download any company's pdf versions I can. I use Hodgdon's website, too.
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