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Registered User Joined: Jun 2004 From: Canadian Badlands Posts: 9,380 |
Had a buddy over last week who was looking for powder for .30-06, he cleaned me out of about 9 pounds of odds and sods that I will never use and left me with 8 lbs of Unique, which I will use. Gun show this weekend picked up 5,000 primers some Red Dot to load .45 LC and a couple of thousand .22. Dropped into another friends place and gave him 1,000 6.5mm gas checks, so I should be good for shooting lots of 6.5x55mm next year. Busy week
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Registered User Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 932 | Quote:
I always police my brass after shooting, even when it is in the THOUSANDS of rounds. Last outing, took 5 rifles and friends, We shot about 3k rounds, and policed up afterwards, including brass others had left. We were shooting in the desert. I almost always found I have brass for guns I don't own... for some reason, someone is shooting a lot of 30-40 Krag where we go to the desert to shoot, because I have a couple hundred rounds of brass for it. | |
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Registered User Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 932 | Quote:
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Registered User Joined: Jun 2004 From: Canadian Badlands Posts: 9,380 |
Why wait until you have 5,000 pieces of brass until your start cleaning, depriming and belling them? My brass goes into the tumbler as soon as I get back from the range, then they are prepped for storage until my annual 4 months worth of reloading starts after shooting season is over.
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Registered User Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 932 | Quote:
Hunting ammo or special use ammo is cleaned and prepped fairly promptly. I tend to do loading in batches any way. I''l clean a bunch of cases, throw em in a container, and then later de-prime and size them. then eventually I'll prime them. and later still, I''l throw powder (hand weigh each charge) and seat bullets. for most plinking and practice, I can buy it cheaper than I can load it. | |
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Registered User Joined: Jun 2015 From: North Posts: 1,871 |
38spl, 9mm an 45acp are cleaned then ran thru Star presses by the buckets full. all other calibers are loaded on Lee turrets. Looked at a 1050 Dillon today set up for 223, used but in great shape, all the goodies with it. Lot of money that I don't want to spend. |