Reloading Thread (TGIF Edition)

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Where do y'all get your stuff from?
Gunpowder, bullets, casings, primers, etc.

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>>35175455
Describe the process you do for primer pocket cleaning, I am interest.

>>35176400
The store

>>35175455
I know this basement....

>>35175455
I use a little lee turret press to load 303 British, 30-40, 7.7 Jap, .308 Win, .223 Rem, 45 Colt, and 38 special.
Titegroup is probably my #1 pistol powder and IMR 4064 is my #1 Rifle. I need to do more work with Varget though.

>>35176400
I get my brass and bullets from sagesreloadingsupply.com
He's got a facebook group that he drops specials on too.

>>35176599
Not OP. I wet tumble for about an hour with stainless steel pins. Then, swap water. Tumble for about 20 minutes. Change water. I do this until the water comes out clean. Usually around 3 1/2 hours of tumbling. Then I place headstamps up and blow through the primer pocket. Then allow them to dry overnight.

one shot broke a decapping die for me. back to layman bottle and pad.

The rcbs spray looks like it might be better, anyone ever use it?

>>35177954
What do you mean by broke decapping die? I have a lee universal decapping die and the only reason I broke it is I had it WAY too tight with a non boxer primer.

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>>35178082

the lee ez-epander became deformed at the top when I removed it from the die. 7.5x55 swiss. layman lube and pad the case moves easy very time. one shot every third shell was tight. one was so tight I had to use a wrench to unscrew the whole die with tthe shell sill in the holder. shell head bhroke off and it got really bad from there.

I realize this makes me retarded, but I just can't get one shot to work.

>>35176599
>Describe the process you do for primer pocket cleaning, I am interest.

I wet tumble with cold water, ss pins, a half envelope of Koolaid, a squirt of Dawn detergent for an hour.
Primer pockets are clean and shiny.

1/2 hour in a vibratory tumbler with corn cob and a dash of Midway brass polish or New Finish. They come out dry and ready to reload. They look like unfired brass.

>>35177954
When I was a poor uni student I used STP.

Fast forward to now. I use sizing wax. There are several good manufacturers of it. A wipe from my finger tip to erry 3rd piece of brass keeps the die lubed with no muss, fuss or slimy mess.
It is good enough for me to make .243 out of Commercial (not GI) .308 brass, and 9 X 25 Dillon out of 10mm.

>>35177954
>broke a decapping die

Next time buy LEE. You will never have a broken decap pin ever.

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>>35179505
it was lee
see >35179064

Ordered 500 peices of LC 308 brass from midway
I got a box of like 850
Deprimed and swaged the primer pockets today
Phew
I need another jug of powder i think

>>35176599
Not OP.

I don't clean primer pockets. I used to, til a very well respected reloader in my area did a 5000 round test. 2500 rounds of 6mmBR with cleaned pockets, 2500 rounds of 6mmBR with dirty pockets. 250, 10-shot groups with each. Average group size was pretty much identical (2 thousandths off), tightest group was shot with dirty pockets.

He also did a similar test to check how much bullet runout effects accuracy, and the conclusion was anything under 15 thousandths doesn't.

>>35179505
Found someone who doesn't reload.

I've bent or broken the decapping stem on their """unbreakable""" universal decapping die 17 times in the last 5 years. Yes, they always replace it under warranty. Yes, they literally slow-boat-from-China it to me, it takes 6 weeks to get here from the time they give me shipping confirmation. I now have 3 of them that I rotate through (only bought 2, they gave me a third) while one or two are down from bent decapping stems.

Buying two and rotating through them while Lee ships you a new stem is still cheaper than buying 1 Lyman universal decapper and a 50pk of pins.

>>35179888
Stupid question, you do know they are only for boxer primers right?

>>35175455
I use those tinfoil trays also. Dump tumbler into it and use cat litter scoop to pick up brass.

>>35179953
Yes, I know that.

When you reload tens of thousands of rounds and a lot of the brass has military crimped primers, it's hard on the depriming assembly.

>>35179847
>Average group size was pretty much identical (2 thousandths off)
You would probably get the same story with flash hole deburring. These things only matter when you're chasing thousandths.

>>35180006
That's just it--he is chasing thousandths. 6mmBR through a Stolle Panda actioned, Krieger barreled competition benchrest gun with a regionally competitive shooter behind the trigger, and the average across 250 fucking groups differed by 0.002". That's so small it's within measurement error for that many groups.

Someone load me some 7.63x25 please.