What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Not_A_Llama]

Yeah, that’s the issue: I am totally fine with Bayou and literally everybody else using Hitek. ACME, Hoosier, Missouri, Cheycast, Badman, and Bayou have had zero problems with leading in my guns and my friends’ guns. I have shot a metric fuckton of Hitek bullets. Only SNS’s lead up. Only SNS has these crazy stipulations around what powders you can use.

The learning-to-crimp thing is, to me, the very essence of good reloading practice (outside of revolver stuff). It’s not a “crimp” - it’s a debelling operation. Lead is inelastic, brass is elastic. Anyone thinking they can crimp brass into lead is chasing their tail. Likewise found great improvements in accuracy on jacketed bullets once I discovered that distinction.

From the perspective of setback reduction and neck tension preservation, I dislike the MBF funnel die, but I don’t have much choice now that I have the MBF.

[Great-Kazoo]

Yeah, that’s the issue: I am totally fine with Bayou and literally everybody else using Hitek. ACME, Hoosier, Missouri, Cheycast, Badman, and Bayou have had zero problems with leading in my guns and my friends’ guns. I have shot a metric fuckton of Hitek bullets. Only SNS’s lead up. Only SNS has these crazy stipulations around what powders you can use.

The learning-to-crimp thing is, to me, the very essence of good reloading practice (outside of revolver stuff). It’s not a “crimp” - it’s a debelling operation. Lead is inelastic, brass is elastic. Anyone thinking they can crimp brass into lead is chasing their tail. Likewise found great improvements in accuracy on jacketed bullets once I discovered that distinction.

From the perspective of setback reduction and neck tension preservation, I dislike the MBF funnel die, but I don’t have much choice now that I have the MBF.

I picked up a 3d printed case / bullet feeder from a guy on line. Works good, once i got the feed setting dialed in.