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Boy, this can get out of hand in a hurry, can't it!? I tend to want to separate my brass by caliber, of course but also by preparation (is it clean, primed, etc), by how many times it has been reloaded (I've about given up on this because of space issues and I just watch for loose pockets and...

Don't you guys find that the nice polishing goes to heck after you lube and de-prime/ size/ prime? I've thought that maybe I should size in one operation and deprime/ prime after the cleaning. What do you folks do?

I jsut bought an old but serviceable Lyman #450 bullet sizer/ lubricator - my first experience with this process. I had no idea that the lube for these things was this stiff! I haven't gotten it bolted down to the bench yet but I had to put the thing close to the wood stove to get the ram to...

tding got me thinking about headspace gauges - sorry tding, I don't have an answer for you. I have a machine lathe that I seldom use and that thread got me thinking about gauges. Why wouldn't that be a good 'learner' project for the lathe, given that the lengths are critical? When I see...

Well, you don't hear from me for a year and now you can't shut me up! Since I'm considering abandoning the priming function of the Piggyback I got my hand priming tool out and checked out what I recalled as being a not-so-great tool. I haven' been reloading in a year or so but this thing's...

I bought the PB II on closeout when they were introducing the model III so it has been a few years. I don't use it very much because I have frequent problems with the primer not seating and I don't discover it until the powder drop station. Have any of you sorted out the issue with this? I...

I have just finished depriming, decrimping, sizing and trimming to length 500 rounds of 5.56 and noticed that it doesn't appear taht the case is sized down to the web. I've noticed this in other hunting rounds in the past but a friend stopped by and said that I should have used a special die...

I'm cleaning up some military brass which had been stored in a dry basement for 10 or 15 years. I/ve noticed that a lot of the cases have some light corrosion, some black smears and an occassional fingerprint. I used a dental pick and tried the edges of the corrosion but I don't feel any depth...

Man, I've been reading posts for the last 1.5 hours on using this tool and even the one asking how swagging works fell back to post after post of, "It's easy", and "Buy the Dillon, if you canafford it". If I could get someone to just explain what the device is trying to do maybe I'd understand...