I always de-prime dirty brass before I tumble it for this reason, plus I love me some super clean primer pockets. It adds a step and takes longer overall, but time spent in the gun room is all quality time to me anyway.
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I always de-prime dirty brass before I tumble it for this reason, plus I love me some super clean primer pockets. It adds a step and takes longer overall, but time spent in the gun room is all quality time to me anyway.
After a few test runs, I finally perfected my wet-tumbling recipe with the new FA tumbler, this stuff hurts to look at after it comes out.
2 tablespoons of ArmorAll Wash & Wax and 1/2 teaspoon of Lemi-Shine in hot water for 90 minutes. It's glorious.
This was 200 rounds of old, tarnished, dirt-encrusted .223 range brass straight from the ground, and it turned out perfectly. De-primed and swaged dirty, then tumbled.
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Spent some time at the bench this past week. Loaded about 1,000 rounds of 243 with H-1000 and DTAC 115s. I didnt realize I had that much brass.
Just keep walking by the bench and looking at all the stuff I need to do. Got a national match in 2 weeks and haven't even screwed the barrel on my gun or loaded one round. I suck.
Suck could be an impetus.
Go haze yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delfuego
Spent some time this past week processing a 5 gallon bucket of LC 223 brass for a friend.
Trimmed, de-primed and removed primer crimp. Easy peasy.
Got my new Amp-Mate set up for the AMP Annealer, then ran 800 pieces of BRX through it yesterday. Also set up the Auto-Throw upgrade for the Auto-Trickler and built another floating die tool head for the 650 and used it to load 100 rounds of BRX to start break in on my 2 new match rifle barrels.
Now to Load up another hundred or so to finish breaking in both rifles so I can start load development. 3 weeks from now is my first National match for the season and I gotta have at least one if not both of these rifles tuned up and ready to roll for it.
I am soooo close to getting an AmpMate. I even have a new Dillon casefeeder in the garage I can use.
But I am also weary of "flying the A model." I might wait to see if version 1.5 comes out.
Amp Mate. I need one.
I loaded up 300 rds of Dasher with my new AutoTrickler. Neat piece of gear. It requires a bit of fiddling to get it running properly, but once that's done it throws charges to plus or minus a single kernel. Best part is that it's fast. I load precision ammo on a 550, and it has a charge ready and waiting for me by the time I cycle the press.
I also did some loading to transfer my precision .223 load from Prime brass to LC.