What do have waiting for you in the reloading room?

[2ndtimer]

Brass to wet tumble, tumbled brass to process, processed primed brass to load. And that’s just .223/5.56. Grateful that I have the necessary components on hand to get to it all, some day. Even being retired, seems hard to find the time. Hmmm, maybe less time on the tablet on forums like this?

 

[Goofball84]

Brass processing. Have to size, deprime, and tumble 10k 45acp, 8k 40 S&W, 4k 9mm, 500 308, 1k 223/5.56, 500 30-06. Just finished about 7k 38 spl.

 

[MakBaba]

200 once fired LC 556 brass waiting on my EP 2.0 annealer to show up.
Also need to catch up on 9mm

 

[Buzznrose]

Brass processing. Have to size, deprime, and tumble 10k 45acp, 8k 40 S&W, 4k 9mm, 500 308, 1k 223/5.56, 500 30-06. Just finished about 7k 38 spl.

Do you work at a range? Seems like a heck of a lot of brass...24K pieces?

 

[tominboise]

I have a 3lb coffee can full of 45ACP brass, that needs to go into the tumbler and then be loaded. I also have a few thousand 223 Rem and 5.56 brass that I've been collecting, that need to be processed, but they will likely sit in the box they are in for awhile. I don't shoot that much 223 and I have another few thousand loaded up and a few thousand beyond that that are ready to go. Ridiculous, really.

 

[stillquietvoice]

Need to finish processing 556 brass 5 to 600 pieces, but first I need to load some up for 2 range trips this coming weekend. Also have 243 win, 7mm08 to load up about 150 cases each, as well as 2 new calibers 7x57 mauser and 6.5x55 sweede. Before I can load for the sweede I need to procure some 140 gr projectiles.

So a lot to do and a short time to do it.

 

[Goofball84]

Do you work at a range? Seems like a heck of a lot of brass...24K pieces?

No. I caught them at an auction. They were going cheap so I couldn't pass them up.

 

[bdb242]

Have 181 pieces of 6MM Remington brass from Winchester that I bought in the early 90's for a rifle that is no longer chambered for that caliber. It has been wet tumbled, resized, annealed and trimmed. It is ready to load. Anybody looking for some brass? Or should I start looking for another 6MM rifle?

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Or should I start looking for another 6MM rifle?

You do know that a lot of the members here are enablers, doncha?

 

[bdb242]

You do know that a lot of the members here are enablers, doncha?

Why yes I do.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Have 181 pieces of 6MM Remington brass from Winchester that I bought in the early 90's for a rifle that is no longer chambered for that caliber. It has been wet tumbled, resized, annealed and trimmed. It is ready to load. Anybody looking for some brass? Or should I start looking for another 6MM rifle?

If you have to ask, you already know the answer.

 

[splattergun]

What's waiting for me is a mess. Health issues have kept me sidelined for over a year. When I get back in there I'm going to rent a D8 Cat and front end loader to clean things up.

Yessir, I feel the same way.

 

[SingleActionAndrew]

230gr Nosler JHP waiting for me

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I still have those 308 cases Geo Dude Florida sent me waiting for me to get a small base die for them. I tried to resize them for my 760 Remmy and they still won't chamber.
Ordering the die today, Midway USA has them on sale for half price. Then I need to quit procrastinating.

 

[HOWARD J]

150 +/- 223 TO BE PROCESSED
400 NEW BRASS 357 TO BE LOADED
450 NEW BRASS 380 TO BE LOADED
400 NEW BRASS 762 X 39 TO BE LOADED
100 NEW BRASS 243 TO BE LOADED
150 NEW BRASS 45 ACP TO BE LOADED.

 

[rdinga]

2000 pcs of Wolf Gold factory primed brass from way back when they dirt cheap, 2000 RMR 69 HP and an 8 pound jug of Ramshot Tac. Time to Celebrate the 4th with some quality time on the Dillon.

 

[IALoder]

Added 25 pcs LC .308 brass and 15pcs .243 brass both ready for primers and loading to the 2 loads of brass that need wet tumbled....

 

[Barbaroja]

Just moved, combining my reloading room with my dads existing reloading room. Need to build a new bench that will accommodate my presses. I’m going to be shooting a lot more rifle rounds and what I have loaded up will not suffice for very much longer.

 

[stonecutter2]

I have a box of 50 45ACP that I got at some point and need to disassemble because I just don't trust them...first, because I didn't load them. Second, the primers on many seem distorted/dented and that means someone wasn't paying attention. They are all lead cast bullets, and I tried using my hammer puller but it took so much effort just to get one bullet to pop out of the 50. I may resort to just yanking the bullets off with a wrench or something.

Anyone have suggestions for how to pull bullets easier than with a hammer type puller - i smack away with that thing in general and make no progress. Hard surfaces, wood, a hockey puck. Bullets take forever to remove - good workout though

 

[stonecutter2]

I've hardly done any reloading in the past two years and the reloading room has become a catch all. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what is waiting for me.

I was in this same situation until about a month ago. I got stuff out of the way, organized a little and eventually I got back to building the stash Good luck!

 

[Soonerpesek]

Anyone have suggestions for how to pull bullets easier than with a hammer type puller

There have been many on this forum that advocate using your press and wire cutters to grab the bullet...I can't remember the thread title, but I bet a quick search would bring it up...
I have not tried that method, but quite a few folks say it saves time and energy.....makes a lot of sense.....

 

[Y-T71]

Yeah, remove any die you might have in your press, place the offending ammo in the appropriate shell holder and run the ram up and out of the top of the press, grab the bullet with, side cutters, pliers, dykes whatever you can get a good grip on it and lower the ram, bingo.

I have to say that I've never had any problems using the hammer type pullers with big, 'ol heavy pistol bullet; the extra weight seems to aid kinetic energy in getting them to pop free.

Seems like you have good neck tension and possibly a healthy crimp.

Jus wonder if they weren't treated with some mouth sealant as well...

 

[cfullgraf]

Anyone have suggestions for how to pull bullets easier than with a hammer type puller - i smack away with that thing in general and make no progress. Hard surfaces, wood, a hockey puck. Bullets take forever to remove - good workout though

Wood and a hockey puck have too much give in them to efficiently remove bullets with a kinetic bullet puller. Too much energy is lost deforming the striking surface.

I use a farrier anvil as the striking surface. A few good whacks and the bullet is out.

I happen to have the anvil but a hunk of steel plate would work well or the anvil portion of a bench vice.

Do not strike against concrete. It will spall and throw bits of concrete around.

 

[Bush Pilot]

Do you work at a range? Seems like a heck of a lot of brass...24K pieces?

24k is a good start.

 

[Walkalong]

I have those T&B .32 Cal 64 Gr SWCs waiting for me, I really need to get them loaded tonight or in the morning and go shoot them tomorrow.