okay guys, I think I'm ready for the next stage in reloading .223. I recently purchased 2k of 223 brass. All range brass and mostly military brass. I've just finished resizing/depriming them all and wet tumbled them.
With my last purchase of the lee classic turret press kit, I decided to give the lee cutter a try. It was rather cheap and I already have the cutter so I just bought the shell holder and length gauge. It works rather well, just painfully long to trim one case. The drill makes it nice. Very consistent at 1.75 until I debur it with the lee debur tool which sometimes brings it down to 1.748 or 1.745. Speaking of that, I need to buy a better debur tool too. I do realize I also need to remove the military crimps too. We'll save that for another day.
I was at a reloading shop yesterday and one of the items I was looking for was a lathe style trimmer. They had the Lyman kit, RCBS Pro Trim 2 kit, Hornady, and a fourth one I forgot. Which one do you guys have and which one do you guys like? They were all around $100 except the Hornady was a bit cheaper.
I was leaning more towards the RCBS one. A drill attachment mod would be nice. I remember the lyman one comes with the chamfer/debur cutting head...
With my last purchase of the lee classic turret press kit, I decided to give the lee cutter a try. It was rather cheap and I already have the cutter so I just bought the shell holder and length gauge. It works rather well, just painfully long to trim one case. The drill makes it nice. Very consistent at 1.75 until I debur it with the lee debur tool which sometimes brings it down to 1.748 or 1.745. Speaking of that, I need to buy a better debur tool too. I do realize I also need to remove the military crimps too. We'll save that for another day.
I was at a reloading shop yesterday and one of the items I was looking for was a lathe style trimmer. They had the Lyman kit, RCBS Pro Trim 2 kit, Hornady, and a fourth one I forgot. Which one do you guys have and which one do you guys like? They were all around $100 except the Hornady was a bit cheaper.
I was leaning more towards the RCBS one. A drill attachment mod would be nice. I remember the lyman one comes with the chamfer/debur cutting head...