The absolute worst part of reloading is...
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warddc
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how about this?
i use a blue tarp to catch my brass which makes cleanup waaaay easier. i also buy once-fired brass from brassmanbrass.com cheap. that way i don't care if i lose too much.
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i use a blue tarp to catch my brass which makes cleanup waaaay easier. i also buy once-fired brass from brassmanbrass.com cheap. that way i don't care if i lose too much.
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Absolutely amazing how brass will find it's way to the bottom of a thick mat of grass.
ClarkEMyers
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lead poisoning
lead poisoning
lead poisoning
Mylhouse
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Match prepping brass...
sm
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Running out of a component.
Got caught in a ice storm years ago, I had intended to pick up the 10K primers, an emergency came up and I was unable to do so, the next day the ice storm hit. I was down to 500 primers. Used all them up....put these with the 30 K rds already loaded up and ...had to actually do something else to occupy my time.
*shudder* I don't ever want to go thru that again.
Got caught in a ice storm years ago, I had intended to pick up the 10K primers, an emergency came up and I was unable to do so, the next day the ice storm hit. I was down to 500 primers. Used all them up....put these with the 30 K rds already loaded up and ...had to actually do something else to occupy my time.
*shudder* I don't ever want to go thru that again.
Buck Snort
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Its REALLY tough...............
To make them little round thingies stick in the back. Sometimes I hit'm with a hammer and they make a REALLY loud noise.
Hey guys, juz kidd'n!!
To make them little round thingies stick in the back. Sometimes I hit'm with a hammer and they make a REALLY loud noise.
Hey guys, juz kidd'n!!
Don't much care for case trimming, including the trial and error of setting the trimmer length, then de-burring afterward. I put it off as long as possible; buy another 50 cases, shoot them until they need to be trimmed, then set them asside and buy another 50. Eventually, I'll measure, prep, trim, de-burr 250 or so at one time.
Jaywalker
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griz
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1. losing brass in the grass or leaves
2 sorting brass after cleaning
2 sorting brass after cleaning
mtnbkr
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Finding time.
The whole trial and error aspect of working up a new load.
Of course, both problems are related and having a place where I could walk out into the backyard and try my new handload immediately would fix the second problem.
I used to hate trimming brass until I got the drill attachment for my Lyman case trimmer. I was an idiot for thinking I could use the manually powered one... :banghead:
Chris
The whole trial and error aspect of working up a new load.
Of course, both problems are related and having a place where I could walk out into the backyard and try my new handload immediately would fix the second problem.
I used to hate trimming brass until I got the drill attachment for my Lyman case trimmer. I was an idiot for thinking I could use the manually powered one... :banghead:
Chris
Edward429451
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Brass prep has to be the funnest part.
Trimming with a cordless drill just don't cut it but it's the best way going for me at this time. I just got a batch of some guys reject reloads with once fired LC brass and I've begun pulling them down. I then get to trim them. 2670 pc's, joy. Think I'll be done by Christmas?
Good deal though, one cent each gave me new(ish) brass and bullets for the reloading season. Just need to apply 500 bucks in labor and look at all the money I saved...
Trimming with a cordless drill just don't cut it but it's the best way going for me at this time. I just got a batch of some guys reject reloads with once fired LC brass and I've begun pulling them down. I then get to trim them. 2670 pc's, joy. Think I'll be done by Christmas?
Good deal though, one cent each gave me new(ish) brass and bullets for the reloading season. Just need to apply 500 bucks in labor and look at all the money I saved...
I'm with sm.
The only thing worse than running out of a component is running out of a component while broke.
Groceries or gunpowder.... ?
pax
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. -- "Mr. Micawber" in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
The only thing worse than running out of a component is running out of a component while broke.
Groceries or gunpowder.... ?
pax
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. -- "Mr. Micawber" in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Poodleshooter
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Trimming cases, and lubing rifle cases with anything other than a spray lube.
Master Blaster
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Lubing rifle cases with wax lube, using spray lube on .223 got me my first two stuck cases ever. Redding had to get one of them out for me.
Deburring a large number of trimmed cases also sucks.
Deburring a large number of trimmed cases also sucks.
sm
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pax -
Agree - that being broke and the groceries or gunpowder deal is not good.
Now my ex-wfe would say the Storage of reloaded ammo AND empty hulls would be the "worst part". See I reloaded shotshells, all 4 gauges. Wives get a funny look seeing "all them boxes". Folks thought we were moving ( in or out), with the various Rubbermaid totes, boxes that reams of paper come in and such.
" Honey - how many loaded shells do you have?"
About 20k
" 20 K !!!"
Yes dear, but that is in 12 gauge alone
" I was afraid of that....why don't you take up a sport that shoots rim - fire? "
Well Honey we have rim- fire, see that over there? There is about 15K rds of rimfire
" Honey - please don't take up another sport , or start metallic reloading - we don't have another "spare bedroom" to lose.
What if we sold the kid and used his room for storage, we'd have more room and the money saved on groceries, clothes, the upcoming idea of him learning to drive ( car insurance a car...etc)
" You know....you might have something there?"
Yeah I'm single now....nobody had answered my ad ....the one where I put myself up to be adopted by a good home, with backyard range and hunting out back.
Agree - that being broke and the groceries or gunpowder deal is not good.
Now my ex-wfe would say the Storage of reloaded ammo AND empty hulls would be the "worst part". See I reloaded shotshells, all 4 gauges. Wives get a funny look seeing "all them boxes". Folks thought we were moving ( in or out), with the various Rubbermaid totes, boxes that reams of paper come in and such.
" Honey - how many loaded shells do you have?"
About 20k
" 20 K !!!"
Yes dear, but that is in 12 gauge alone
" I was afraid of that....why don't you take up a sport that shoots rim - fire? "
Well Honey we have rim- fire, see that over there? There is about 15K rds of rimfire
" Honey - please don't take up another sport , or start metallic reloading - we don't have another "spare bedroom" to lose.
What if we sold the kid and used his room for storage, we'd have more room and the money saved on groceries, clothes, the upcoming idea of him learning to drive ( car insurance a car...etc)
" You know....you might have something there?"
Yeah I'm single now....nobody had answered my ad ....the one where I put myself up to be adopted by a good home, with backyard range and hunting out back.
JuniorG
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I have an RCBS power trimmer and I still hate trimming brass.
The only thing I hate worse is dropping a piece of brass after it has been fully prepped and ready to load, I will gaureeeentee it will land and dent the case mouth EVERY time :banghead:
The only thing I hate worse is dropping a piece of brass after it has been fully prepped and ready to load, I will gaureeeentee it will land and dent the case mouth EVERY time :banghead:
No one mentioned what I consider the worst: maybe I am the only one worried about it.
Wiping the dust off the cases when they come out of the tumbing media. I just can't let it go. It seems to me that it is going to wear my sizing die. With rifle cases, I take each case and wipe it clean after tumbing. With handgun cases I just kind of wipe them around as a group with a paper towel.
I am sort of a Novice at loading rifle cartridges. Over the years, about the only time I shot rifles was when big game hunting and about a month prior to going hunting. I might load 100 rifle cartridges a year. Over the last year or two, I have started shooting a LOT more rifle. In fact my interest at present is slanted way more to the rifle side of things where for the last 20 years it was primarily handgun shooting.
I started casually shooting a vintage bolt action rifle match at our local club, which then made me want to start practicing for it. Now, I am going to get into NRA Highpower matches within the next month or so. I would be shooting a couple hundred rounds of rifle ammo a week if loading it wasn't so tedius and time consuming. I know I am doing something wrong but I am inexperienced in it.
Wiping the dust off the cases when they come out of the tumbing media. I just can't let it go. It seems to me that it is going to wear my sizing die. With rifle cases, I take each case and wipe it clean after tumbing. With handgun cases I just kind of wipe them around as a group with a paper towel.
I am sort of a Novice at loading rifle cartridges. Over the years, about the only time I shot rifles was when big game hunting and about a month prior to going hunting. I might load 100 rifle cartridges a year. Over the last year or two, I have started shooting a LOT more rifle. In fact my interest at present is slanted way more to the rifle side of things where for the last 20 years it was primarily handgun shooting.
I started casually shooting a vintage bolt action rifle match at our local club, which then made me want to start practicing for it. Now, I am going to get into NRA Highpower matches within the next month or so. I would be shooting a couple hundred rounds of rifle ammo a week if loading it wasn't so tedius and time consuming. I know I am doing something wrong but I am inexperienced in it.
...forgetting to properly label the rounds you just loaded, particularly a with a variety of different charges for working up a load.
I intended to go shoot right after loading. Something came up.
A week later--which of these have 25gr? Which are 25.5gr?
Had to start all over.
I intended to go shoot right after loading. Something came up.
A week later--which of these have 25gr? Which are 25.5gr?
Had to start all over.
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