What did you do in the reloading room today?

[whitewalrus]

I turned a bunch (~2,500 pcs) of small flash hole Norma 9mm brass into regular sized flash hole brass. Now it wont break decapping pins.

Curious as to how you do this in bulk since you always have the cool toys for things. Or do you just use a flash hole uniformer and handle each case by itself?


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[Hoser]

Curious as to how you do this in bulk since you always have the cool toys for things. Or do you just use a flash hole uniformer and handle each case by itself?

The FW Arms decapper just blows right through the small flash hole swaging it to a normal size. I have to adjust the torque settings up a bit so my autodrive doesent shut off.

[whitewalrus]

The FW Arms decapper just blows right through the small flash hole swaging it to a normal size. I have to adjust the torque settings up a bit so my autodrive doesent shut off.

Have been looking at that decapper when processing large amounts myself. Knowing it will also smash thru the flash hole is a huge plus.


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[Hoser]

Have been looking at that decapper when processing large amounts myself. Knowing it will also smash thru the flash hole is a huge plus.

FW Arms makes two sized pins. Large and small. The small fits fine in Norma brass and the large swages them up to normal spec.

However the small pin will sometime puncture the primer if the brass is tightly crimped in place.

[O2HeN2]

The FW Arms decapper just blows right through the small flash hole swaging it to a normal size.

So, it can "fix" Berdan cases?

O2

[Hoser]

So, it can "fix" Berdan cases?

They do punch through, but I just toss that junk in the scrap heap.

[Hoser]

This past couple weeks I processed a ton of 9 and 223 brass.

Roll sized two buckets of 223.

Roll sized and fully processed (deprime, swage primer crimp, bump shoulder back and trim to min length) two more buckets of 223. About 3,500 pcs of 223 in a 5 gallon bucket.

Roll sized and fully processed (deprime, swage primer crimp, FL resize) three buckets of 9mm brass. About 9,000 pcs of 9mm in a 5 gallon bucket.

Loading pistol ammo that has already been fully processed is so nice compared to just tumbled clean brass.

[eddiememphis]

Primed 93 rounds of .45 Colt.

I bought 100 wet tumbled cases from Maverick reloading. Received 103. Seven were too short. Three are S&B that measure at .206 in the primer pocket so I am guessing they were crimped? They did not accept the primers as easily as the others, so I set them aside.

[Linkless]

Primed 93 rounds of .45 Colt.

I bought 100 wet tumbled cases from Maverick reloading. Received 103. Seven were too short. Three are S&B that measure at .206 in the primer pocket so I am guessing they were crimped? They did not accept the primers as easily as the others, so I set them aside.

I would guess the short ones were likely Hornady and started life as FTX rounds as they require shorter brass for those loads. If the S&B need swaging, I have a Dillon Swager that will clean them up quick.

[eddiememphis]

Thanks for the offer. It's only three cases so not a big deal.

The short ones aren't FTX short. They are 1.270ish, I trimmed all to 1.275. The shorties I will turn into snap caps. The Ruger manual says it's fine to dry fire the Blackhawk but some hot glue or silicone will make me feel better about the firing pin.