GW Staar
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No, it just proves you don't wear blinders. I have green presses, yes, but I have a red bullet feeder, yellow trimmer, black & orange dry tumbler, red wet tumbler. Lot less dull than just baby blue or workplace green.
I've always been of the opinion that you buy what best fits your personal need and comfort.....
I went back and forth on bench swagers....and that was the second round. The first round started many years ago with RCBS's press swager, the only game in town. Yeah, I'm old. I never liked it much, because though it worked, I felt it was hard on me and hard on my Rock Chucker casting. Then they came out with reamers. So round two I was trying to decide on which bench swager or whether to just go with a reamer.
Brand and color never had anything to do with it.
Now the rubberband trick is fun to watch, but I don't swage that way, and if you do then you have the right tool as long as you keep brass segregated and the tool adjusted for each batch.
What I like to do is grab a case, run it in the swager by feel (that means I adjust it so that it swages thick and thin heads with a "feel" stroke, never a complete one. You can feel when it hits bottom before the handle's 100%. Maybe that's was a natural discovery with the horizonal pull handle...idunno.
Why would I want to do that? Because I don't have to separate and batch brass (during case prep), or readjust the tool for each kind. And besides, I like to run a piece of brass through the Trim Mate gauntlet as part of the process......I swage, then I round the edge of the pocket slightly with a microsecond dip onto a military reamer, then uniform the pockets then ream the flash holes. So....handling the brass once its prepped. once more to trim.....but that I also have automated.......I only wish I'd set up my trimmer (which doesn't move) with the foresight to put it where I could have done it too with the other case prep........
Madness? Well if you consider that I prime on my Pro 2000, and I don't want any primer pocket "gotcha" to slow me down, then what I do is just about perfect to guarantee that I don't have any hiccups with priming during a progressive loading session.
So why do I still bump my brass on military reamer on the Trim Mate? Purely insurance that a new primer doesn't catch a sharp edge on the pocket and stop the progressive loading session. The swage removes the crimp, but the edge isn't as round & smooth as on factory brass. And maybe that's a result of the "feel" stroke......but I don't care it works great.....how many people don't prime on their progressives because its a trouble source?
And besides, it makes my demilitarized brass, LOOK demilitarized so I don't mix it up.
Sorry for the book....
I've always been of the opinion that you buy what best fits your personal need and comfort.....
I went back and forth on bench swagers....and that was the second round. The first round started many years ago with RCBS's press swager, the only game in town. Yeah, I'm old. I never liked it much, because though it worked, I felt it was hard on me and hard on my Rock Chucker casting. Then they came out with reamers. So round two I was trying to decide on which bench swager or whether to just go with a reamer.
Brand and color never had anything to do with it.
Now the rubberband trick is fun to watch, but I don't swage that way, and if you do then you have the right tool as long as you keep brass segregated and the tool adjusted for each batch.
What I like to do is grab a case, run it in the swager by feel (that means I adjust it so that it swages thick and thin heads with a "feel" stroke, never a complete one. You can feel when it hits bottom before the handle's 100%. Maybe that's was a natural discovery with the horizonal pull handle...idunno.
Why would I want to do that? Because I don't have to separate and batch brass (during case prep), or readjust the tool for each kind. And besides, I like to run a piece of brass through the Trim Mate gauntlet as part of the process......I swage, then I round the edge of the pocket slightly with a microsecond dip onto a military reamer, then uniform the pockets then ream the flash holes. So....handling the brass once its prepped. once more to trim.....but that I also have automated.......I only wish I'd set up my trimmer (which doesn't move) with the foresight to put it where I could have done it too with the other case prep........
Madness? Well if you consider that I prime on my Pro 2000, and I don't want any primer pocket "gotcha" to slow me down, then what I do is just about perfect to guarantee that I don't have any hiccups with priming during a progressive loading session.
So why do I still bump my brass on military reamer on the Trim Mate? Purely insurance that a new primer doesn't catch a sharp edge on the pocket and stop the progressive loading session. The swage removes the crimp, but the edge isn't as round & smooth as on factory brass. And maybe that's a result of the "feel" stroke......but I don't care it works great.....how many people don't prime on their progressives because its a trouble source?
And besides, it makes my demilitarized brass, LOOK demilitarized so I don't mix it up.
Sorry for the book....
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