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    Quote Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo View Post
    There's some tough crimped primer pockets. For this RG mil crimp , i have to use my dillon decapper instead of the lee. The dillon punches them out, where as the lee just rises up in the die.
    These pins did just that too, they slid up in the collets but for some reason, they slid up AFTER they were already damaged. And I wasn't even having to apply an abnormal amount of force to the press, it was very normal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alpha2 View Post
    As to the decapping pins, are you sure the case was centered in the shellplate/holder? I've gotten crud in the way before which held out the case slightly off center.
    Yup, they were centered, I always push them into the shellholder while raising the ram to ensure that.

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    Gives a sh!t; pretends he doesn't HoneyBadger's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alpha2 View Post
    I made the final adjustments to newly received parts for the LNL AP. It's back in business! So I celebrated by loading up a bunch of .223 53gr V-Max.
    Then, I had to go to work, and the good times were definitely OVER. Hours of slogging from Ft. Collins, to Greeley, to south Lakewood, back to Ft. Collins...what a crappy day to be driving the Front Range!

    As an aside, the pilots on this forum (you know who you are!) will appreciate this, over 20 years ago when I knew I'd be moving to the Front Range, I bought a sectional of this area, and Front Range airport was actually spelled "Front Ranch" airport. Unbelievable.

    Brian, I can spot you a couple of pounds of W231...you'll need to pay it back when you get some, though!
    Ha! I've seen some funny things on sectionals, and that's a good one. There are some private airstrips with really funny names...
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    Getting an old Lyman press ready to go back into service as a Swager.

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    De-primed, Swaged and cleaned 800 pieces of 5.56 Damn I hate swaging. But ya only have to do it once, right.

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    <---- sniffed some Varget.

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    The "Godfather" of COAR Great-Kazoo's Avatar
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    supervised more Feng Shui of the dillon reproductive area. Gotta tell ya. Without the help of fellow board members this project, even the first one , would have never got off the ground.
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    I loaded 50 rounds of .308 yesterday. I was trying two things out:


    1. Seeing if my new awesome crimp die will work for .308 also. I only crimped 25, so I've got a little pool to get a decent average with. The crimp is also really light compared to what I've seen on factory ammo.


    2. Seeing if the 175 SMK 2nds I got are worth a darn. I picked them up for 22ยข per, so 1k was easy. Even if they are nothing but training rounds for the next month, that'll be worth it.


    i crimped 30 rds of my .260 match ammo to see if that will help calm down some of the SD and ES I was seeing.
    Just doing what I can to stay on this side of the dirt.

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    Was offered this reception desk, if I want to bother dismantling it and somehow getting it into my basement. It's pretty big, but I was thinking of using it both as a computer desk and a reloading desk. I don't use the computer in the basement much, but it's where my media and file server, etc. is. On one hand, I think it'd be perfect, but on the other it's huge and would be a major PITA for me to move...

    I'd also probably have to add something stronger to bolt the press to, since I'm pretty sure this wouldn't hold up alone.






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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian View Post
    Was offered this reception desk, if I want to bother dismantling it and somehow getting it into my basement. It's pretty big, but I was thinking of using it both as a computer desk and a reloading desk. I don't use the computer in the basement much, but it's where my media and file server, etc. is. On one hand, I think it'd be perfect, but on the other it's huge and would be a major PITA for me to move...

    I'd also probably have to add something stronger to bolt the press to, since I'm pretty sure this wouldn't hold up alone.





    Pretty biog footprint there. Then again, nothing is impossible.
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