Rat shot

[feddoc]

The last couple of weeks have been spent processing brass, at least 8,000 rounds so far. Deprime, clean, check for case head separation (on my belteds), trim, de-bur, clean, size. And prime. I am about done with every caliber except 9mm and .223. I see that someone has made e swaging tool to fit into a station on Dillon presses. Gonna have to give that a try.

Then I ran across this:

And that gave me some ideas.

BTW, that orange handled tool works great for detecting pending case head departure. I used to just grab a wire coat hanger, but the boss got rid of them.

80 primer boxes emptied.

 

[Sallaberry]

There’s a lot of primers missing in that box.

 

[Zeke]

Rat shot looks cool! Never heard of them before but I don't shoot a 50 BMG.

Brass prep always takes me way longer than the actual loading ammo by at least 3x.

Well done!

Zeke

 

[yoteduster]

Yep..imo brass preparation is one of the most important things in reloading

 

[Bluehair]

The last couple of weeks have been spent processing brass, at least 8,000 rounds so far. Deprime, clean, check for case head separation (on my belteds), trim, de-bur, clean, size. And prime. I am about done with every caliber except 9mm and .223. I see that someone has made e swaging tool to fit into a station on Dillon presses. Gonna have to give that a try.

Then I ran across this: View attachment 103951

And that gave me some ideas.

BTW, that orange handled tool works great for detecting pending case head departure. I used to just grab a wire coat hanger, but the boss got rid of them.

80 primer boxes emptied.

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There hasn’t been much else to do with this weather. I’ve put together several thousand (by hand) in the last 2 months. Like you, running outa brass to fool around with. But 8000 is pretty impressive

Re rat shot, I think it’s interesting if impractical. Are you going to try to do something similar? If I had a Dillon I wouldn’t want any shot anywhere near the machine. I’ve spent way too many hours digging shot out of the nooks and crannies of my progressive shotshell loader.

I also wonder about the powder charge and the pattern, but those are kinda “so what”. I still have a few of those pistol snake shot shells hanging around as souvenirs, but found they don’t work any better than a solid hunk of lead. Kill something with one and give us a report

I saw that our Big-R had 50 BMG ammo when I was in there looking for 17’s. No 17’s so maybe I need a fiddy for the prairie dogs who started popping up on Tuesday.

 

[feddoc]

All that .223 and 9mm is going to the progressives. I gotta save my right arm for more important things.

 

[Cahunter805]

The last couple of weeks have been spent processing brass, at least 8,000 rounds so far. Deprime, clean, check for case head separation (on my belteds), trim, de-bur, clean, size. And prime. I am about done with every caliber except 9mm and .223. I see that someone has made e swaging tool to fit into a station on Dillon presses. Gonna have to give that a try.

Then I ran across this: View attachment 103951

And that gave me some ideas.

BTW, that orange handled tool works great for detecting pending case head departure. I used to just grab a wire coat hanger, but the boss got rid of them.

80 primer boxes emptied.

View attachment 103952

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That’s a lot of prep work for one guy!
A paper clip works well for the case head separation also.

 

[Bluehair]

All that .223 and 9mm is going to the progressives. I gotta save my right arm for more important things.

I think 9’s are the worst. I feel like I’m trying to reload a 22.