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Long night..
10 months ago
New music just discovered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQI.....EDkPz_4WkwIzjm
Spent all night cursing my busted auto prime hand press.
Had to prime 200 45 colt hulls by hand loading all the primers, one at a time.
Kind of defeats the purpose of an automatic feeding primer, you know?
Well...They are done now and and I can finally charge the cases and ram bullets.
All my reloading gear is single stage, simple press.
So it takes forever.
Which is why I usually only do 50 rounds at a time.
Well...
I'm going to go sleep before I do anymore crap with this.
But if I want to go test fire my new rifle, I got to have cartridges, right?
Got plenty of reloading components, slowly acquired over the course of literally years.
And not one damned round of loaded ammo in the house.
So I have to motivate my lazy ass and make some.
-Badger-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQI.....EDkPz_4WkwIzjm
Spent all night cursing my busted auto prime hand press.
Had to prime 200 45 colt hulls by hand loading all the primers, one at a time.
Kind of defeats the purpose of an automatic feeding primer, you know?
Well...They are done now and and I can finally charge the cases and ram bullets.
All my reloading gear is single stage, simple press.
So it takes forever.
Which is why I usually only do 50 rounds at a time.
Well...
I'm going to go sleep before I do anymore crap with this.
But if I want to go test fire my new rifle, I got to have cartridges, right?
Got plenty of reloading components, slowly acquired over the course of literally years.
And not one damned round of loaded ammo in the house.
So I have to motivate my lazy ass and make some.
-Badger-
Yeah, spencer brass is a damn unicorn these days.
Only source I ever knew of was Dixie gun works.
No idea if they still have any.
I just clamp my single stage press onto the corner of my drawing table and use it carefully.
Just got 100 rounds loaded last night- but I'm too pooped to do more for now.
I even got the seating die to crimp in one action for once.
I usually struggle to add the crimp.
This time, I just screwed it down till it seated deep enough, and used a solid aluminum snap cap to measure and lock the length.
Turned out that actually gave me the almost exact depth in one go.
I'll have to remember that trick.
-Badger-
I don't have a problem with crimps. I use a separate crimp dies on some cartridges, those work well. "Factory Crimp" I think they're called. Then, one of the cartridges I load is for a single shot so I don't really have to crimp those at all. I still always have, so far, but I may try without crimping for that one.