What have you done in the reloading room today

CQB45ACP said:
Me too as shown in my picture.

For 45acp, I lightly chamfer all cases once, thereafter as I shoot, I only size. No need to expand nor flare nor, obviously, crimp.

Did it first for .453” 230gr LRN to prevent scraping, now with everything.

Talk about NOT overworking brass.
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Here’s the kicker: I don’t bother picking up pistol brass. Revolvers I dump it into my hand. Rifle I collect what I can find without spending more time hunting brass than shooting. But pistol brass I just leave it laying on the floor for the range.

I like it to look nice before I lose it. 🤷‍♂️
 
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barnfrog said:
I wouldn't call it chamfering, but if a pistol case is over the trim-to length and I trim it back, I will lightly use the chamfer tool to just make sure there's no burr around the inside and outside of the case mouth.
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Okay. I call that— “deburring using a chamfering tool leaving a slight bevel on the inside of the case which appears to some to be a chamfer, but I’m telling you it’s not.”
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Here’s the kicker: I don’t bother picking up pistol brass. Revolvers I dump it into my hand. Rifle I collect what I can find without spending more time hunting brass than shooting. But pistol brass I just leave it laying on the floor for the range.

I like it to look nice before I lose it. 🤷‍♂️
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Yeah that’s not going to work in my scenario. But that’s why we all do our own thing.
 
Last night I charged and seated 50ct 357 mag for silhouette this Sunday. It was the second box so I'm ready with my 100rds for the practice, the match and in case there's a shoot-out for my class (still B... but I'm trying!). There's a chance for rain here Sunday, so either it will be canceled or it will be a wet and cold day. But either way I'm ready!

I timed myself, which I never really do, but it was important for me to know this time: using my Hornady pocket scale and Lee dippers, 50 rounds took me 1:20:20 to charge and seat, weighing as accurately as possible without a manual trickler. Not rushing but keeping a steady pace.

It's probably the last time I'll do it by hand because... I have an A&D FX-120i and V4 Autotrickler coming my way. I'm getting it 2nd hand but it looks like it's in good shape and has all the parts a brand new one would have, at around 20% off retail shipped. I'm hoping it will be here by mid next week, it doesn't have far to travel once it gets moving on shipping.

My goal with it is to take the "chore" feeling out of charging cases, increase the accuracy/consistency of the weights and decrease the time to charge a block of 50 dramatically.
 
Bearded Phil said:
Last night I charged and seated 50ct 357 mag for silhouette this Sunday. It was the second box so I'm ready with my 100rds for the practice, the match and in case there's a shoot-out for my class (still B... but I'm trying!). There's a chance for rain here Sunday, so either it will be canceled or it will be a wet and cold day. But either way I'm ready!

I timed myself, which I never really do, but it was important for me to know this time: using my Hornady pocket scale and Lee dippers, 50 rounds took me 1:20:20 to charge and seat, weighing as accurately as possible without a manual trickler. Not rushing but keeping a steady pace.

It's probably the last time I'll do it by hand because... I have an A&D FX-120i and V4 Autotrickler coming my way. I'm getting it 2nd hand but it looks like it's in good shape and has all the parts a brand new one would have, at around 20% off retail shipped. I'm hoping it will be here by mid next week, it doesn't have far to travel once it gets moving on shipping.

My goal with it is to take the "chore" feeling out of charging cases, increase the accuracy/consistency of the weights and decrease the time to charge a block of 50 dramatically.
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That’s how I load everything— dipper and an electronic scale. That did take you a looong time, no offense.
 
CQB45ACP said:
That’s how I load everything— dipper and an electronic scale. That did take you a looong time, no offense.
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None taken.

I've used the scale/dipper method since I started a few years ago and I've gotten pretty good at eye-balling the amount of a powder with my usual dippers for a specific charge weight so with a few exceptions the first dump into the pan is pretty close.

The part that takes the longest (and longer making rounds for a match because I'm more stringent) is getting the right amount of kernels to cause the scale to switch over to the charge I'm after.

I technically do a "trickle down" method, where if my charge goal is 12.9gr, I get 13.0gr into the pan and then remove juuust enough kernels of powder to get the scale to register 12.9gr.

My charges are therefore closer to 13.0gr than 12.9gr (which I will take into account going forward with the more precise scale), but I've done all my load development this way so it's fine, and I'm rarely near max, hardly ever actually.

This was probably not the fastest or most precise way of going about powder throwing but it worked for the time.
 
Bearded Phil said:
None taken.

I've used the scale/dipper method since I started a few years ago and I've gotten pretty good at eye-balling the amount of a powder with my usual dippers for a specific charge weight so with a few exceptions the first dump into the pan is pretty close.

The part that takes the longest (and longer making rounds for a match because I'm more stringent) is getting the right amount of kernels to cause the scale to switch over to the charge I'm after.

I technically do a "trickle down" method, where if my charge goal is 12.9gr, I get 13.0gr into the pan and then remove juuust enough kernels of powder to get the scale to register 12.9gr.

My charges are therefore closer to 13.0gr than 12.9gr (which I will take into account going forward with the more precise scale), but I've done all my load development this way so it's fine, and I'm rarely near max, hardly ever actually.

This was probably not the fastest or most precise way of going about powder throwing but it worked for the time.
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Well those weights make it way tougher than for my 4.5gr or 5.0gr drips.
 
I started tumbling last years range brass this morning. I just emptied out the 3rd load and put the 4th in. Two hours per load and I'll quit for today once this one is done.
 
Ok y'all are never gonna believe this but I think I just used up all my luck for 2024... I flipped 50 primers from a Fed 155 tray into my Hornady primer tool and had this happen!!
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Only one was the wrong way!! A few were sideways so I was able to just push them over the correct way.....
 
CQB45ACP said:
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Okay. I call that— “deburring using a chamfering tool leaving a slight bevel on the inside of the case which appears to some to be a chamfer, but I’m telling you it’s not.”
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:rofl:

Actually, I just call it deburring, and I think the tool is often referred to as a deburring/chamfering tool.
 
I know y'all are addicted to SHINY BRASS so here's two coffee cups of primed 45 Auto brass that I finished priming this evening!
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lightman said:
Not in the loading room, but the garage. I sorted a mostly full bucket of wheelweights that I scored yesterday. I don't bother to weigh them but this bucket seemed to have a higher lead to non-lead ratio than the last few buckets that I have sorted. And maybe more larger weights too.
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A garage should be dedicated to reloading, and motorcycles, and tools, lots of tools to tend to the loading stuff and motorcycles :)

All the local tire shops here have contracts with scrappers to sell their lead to :-(
 
gnappi said:
A garage should be dedicated to reloading, and motorcycles, and tools, lots of tools to tend to the loading stuff and motorcycles :)

All the local tire shops here have contracts with scrappers to sell their lead to :-(
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I agree! My new house has a 3 bay garage. I park my side-by-side in the smaller single side and my truck in 1/2 of the double side. My steel work bench sits between the 2 sides with my roll around tool box parked on one end and an aluminum truck toolbox on the other end full of lead ingots. The new house has 2 Master Bedrooms and I use the smaller of the two as my loading room.

I'm lucky that I still have one shop that I get weights from. I usually take the shop guys donuts on a regular basis.
 
But to stay on subject, I started tumbling brass again this morning. As a matter of fact I just heard the tumbler shut off. While it was tumbling I sorted yesterday's clean brass. Gotta go, I don't like to let brass sit in the tumbler very long after it shuts off. Later........
 
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