A question for the Old Guards in reloading.

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Navy Brat San Diego Balboa Hospital . Pop was still in Japan , Chief Gunnersmate USS Pensacola . Left Pearl Dec. 1 St. 1941 convoy to the Solomon Islands . Retired medical 1959, prior to enlisting in the navy in 1938 , he served #6 with USMC . He was born in Chandler ,AZ. a few years after it became a State . Granddad was Scottish and moved his family West from NYC . Family has a Royal Coat of Arms . My Mom was of German and English ancestry . Her mother's folks were Hess , Christian missionary's Kansas / Missouri 1860's . Don't recall who did the family tree but Granddads linage traced to 1152 I believe .
The Family was betrayed by the Bruce at the battle of Kilmarnock .

I'm the Last of MY immediate clan .
 
Had a great uncle was captured and went thru the Bataan Death March, He passed in the early 60s, and would never buy anything made in Japan. He hated em. We had a cousin married a Japanese girl about 1963, and he would never allow her in his house, and disowned the cousin.

But I guess if I went thru what he did , I would have felt the same way

I have met people served in Vietnam, and since Michelin had about 20 rubber plantations there, would never buy Michelin tires.
 
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A good 4th of July weekend. Shot rifles till my shoulder hurt. Made another iteration of .357 Magnum hunting rounds with my father.

And welded up this ugly but effective press riser. I’ll paint it up this week hopefully and get it mounted to the bench!
 
The 3 day weekend was nice. We weren’t nearly as rushed.

In the first picture you can see the cuts in the two tree lines. The first cut opens up to the 400 yard target which is currently missing due to crops in the field and the 800 yard target. The 2nd cut opens up to the 1000 yard target.
 
South Prairie Jim said:
You should not have to apply Gorilla force to simply resize a brass case’ even the larger cartridges while using good fitting dies should size smoothly.
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Depends on where the brass came from :)
Ive had some MG fired 7.62x51 LC that was an absolute bear to size. And that was after tumbling in SSTL media, annealing, and backing my Hornady sizer out a turn and double striking it while sizing. That involves one pass at a turn out, second and final pass at correct sizing, both without the expander ball in. I thought I was going to snap the handle off my my single stage Hornady. Was a ton of work to process, but is great now for my AR10.
 
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A good 4th of July weekend. Shot rifles till my shoulder hurt. Made another iteration of .357 Magnum hunting rounds with my father.

And welded up this ugly but effective press riser. I’ll paint it up this week hopefully and get it mounted to the bench!
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Might not be a weld good enough for a naval steam plant, but your press will never know the difference... my dad was an HT and said I needed to practice way more because I was more of a grinder than a welder...
 
In my defense. I haven’t had to run a bead in over a year. And I stitch welded it in an attempt not to warp the plates too bad so its not a nice continuous weld. City life will do that to yah.
 
A return to the OP. The simplest setup I've seen was a Lee press, dies, a balance, funnel and the powder scoops. The reloader modified scoops to whatever powder he used and just dropped them into the cases. I use RCBS. I would add a powder thrower and trickler. I like the Lee handprimer because I can sit in front of the TV or on the sofa and prime. Otherwise, I could prime using my press. I don't like the RCBS Case Trimmer. What you don't need is a COL gauge. I use the Sinclair Comparator and determine my COL with a felt pen.. If you want some electronics, I use a $10 Harbor Freight electronic scale ( probably more expensive now ) along with a Harbor Freight micrometer and caliper later. The micrometer is for measuring the lead slug you drove through your barrel to determine the barrel's bore diameter. I bought a Harbor Freight Tumbler and use crushed walnut shells from the Feed Store to clean my brass. How do you slug your bore? You find an old metal spoon and melt some split shots into a shallow hole drilled into a 2x4. The hole is about the size of your bore. Dig out the slug. Then, grease the slug up and drive it through the barrel with a wooden dowel. You use wood so you don't scratch your barrel or crown.
 
BJung said:
A return to the OP. The simplest setup I've seen was a Lee press, dies, a balance, funnel and the powder scoops. The reloader modified scoops to whatever powder he used and just dropped them into the cases.
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But did he/she have it mounted to a used bar stool? :cool:
 
KansasTrapper77 said:
Got the press mounted but as I’ve learned with the welds on the plates there are some critics on the thread :) so I’ll wait to post a pic of the bench till I have it cleaned and organized.
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Some of us are not critics but are reminded of fond times with Ole dad...
A dedicated reloading bench is something I know nothing about. A garage or counter is all I've ever known, and cleanliness is the only critical factor in most things. Carburendum powder is nasty and will destroy press rams and motorcycle fork tubes indiscriminately. It's also a lot harder to find dropped primers in chips and piles of slag.
 
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