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Posted on 12/27/2017 10:38:37 AM PST by fella
Richard Brown spends hours in his Shepherd basement most days, pulling the lever on his loading press over and over at a steady pace. Each movement drops a brass pistol or rifle casing with a fresh primer onto an assembly line, fills another casing with powder and seats a bullet on a casing already filled with powder to complete the cartridge.
The assembly line rotates. The completed cartridge drops into a bin with other finished rounds. Another pull of the lever advances each of the casings to the next stage. It’s a simple procedure and a source of relaxation for Brown.
His hobby-turned-business pumps out thousands of rounds of ammunition every week, completing orders from across the country and occasionally bulk purchases from local law enforcement agencies.
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Don’t know about that, but when I reload, I put the powder charge in a group of cases, then inspect every one with a flashlight to confirm they’ve all got the same level of powder in them, before seating the bullets.
Sobriety also strongly recommended.
Definitely!
Some guns won’t fire reloads. Beretta 9000 9mm is one.
Ed
I did that with a very lightly loaded set of cases with a Lee powder through charger. What isn’t readily apparent is that .5 grains of powder looks remarkably like 2.5 grains of powder in the bottom of a 38 case, apparently because of some flaw in the charger I was using. I’m to the point that I hate reloading because every time I turn around I seem to have another issue just like this.
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Our daughter and son-in-law gave us some deer jerky at Christmas; he shot the deer with a cartridges that he reloaded. I also reload cartridges and cast bullets. We both had to admit that with the cost of our equipment and supplies that neither of us was sure whether we had recouped our capital expenses.
I have a number of presses including hand held, single stage, turrets and full progressives. I find assembling cartridges to be an enjoyable pastime and it enhances the enjoyment I get shooting also. Any time that I purchase a new gun I always also get the dies necessary to reload the cartridges.
I have a Dillon 650. It cranks it out.
But I’d hate to have to make a living that way.
With that machine you could probably make 500 rifle rounds per day...with a +/- 1.5 grain variance in the load. But it would be a full, 10 hour day.
Fine for everything but precision shooting. For that you must construct each round individually.
Doesn’t say if they’re Berdan- or Boxer-primed.
But a set of their dies is only $87.
I use a single stage RCBS. And I’m really psycho for safety. 100 round lots, tops. Each charge double checked. Cases weighed, etc.
My buddy has a Dillon progressive and when I need 500 rounds quickly for 5.56 or .45 we work together each checking the other.
Never had a problem. Something really satisfying about shooting ammo you loaded yourself.
I made a sweet load for Mrs. L’s 629. 210 grain JHP over about 9 grains of Bullseye. Accurate, moves about 1,200 fps or so by my chrono, and it’s real controllable out of a 4 Inch gun. She loves it.
L
> “We both had to admit that with the cost of our equipment and supplies that neither of us was sure whether we had recouped our capital expenses.”
I don’t worry about having recouped the cost of tools. I shoot a number of odd (in other words, expensive) calibers. Just because I can. Here are a few of them:
41 Long Colt — I shoot them in CAS, so $100 per shoot (for 60 commercial cartridges) would not do.
9.5 x 57 M-S — They cost about $10-$15 each cartridge when you can find them. Kynoch only makes them once in a while.
.32 Long Colt — Not the .32 S&W, .32 S&W Long, or .32 Colt New Police. Boxes of NOS go for $150 to $200 each.
32-20, 38-40, 44-40 — All of which are costly.
All the others I shoot are somewhat easier to get and less costly than the above (except right after Sandy Hook), but there is still a cost savings for them.
A few years ago, I rented a Rhino handgun at the local gun range, just to try it out. Glad I did. The trigger pull on it was terrible. Anyway, I had to buy factory new ammunition from the range in order to shoot it. The cost for a box of factory .357 Magnum ammunition just about gave me a heart attack. I had probably not bought any factory .357 Magnum for 35-40 years. I have 2 or 3 .50cal ammo boxes of handloads, but they would not allow to use them.
I blew up a perfectly good Glock that way. Nearly blew off my thumb.
Focus is essential.
I weigh every cartridge and do a visual. I use a single press and it pumps out enough to keep me shooting.
I would NEVER give any of my loads to anyone else.
I don’t believe they sell any berdan primed brass.
If you’re real adventurous, you can roll your own.
“I use a single stage RCBS”
That’s what I do for precision rounds.
With pistol it doesn’t matter much if the powder is fine and you through out a few hundred on the Dillon.
+/- 100fps is not significant to me and they all hit about the same spot.
But for hunting and bunch rounds I use the RCBS, weigh every charge and measure OAL on every single round.
Ever hear of an over charge on a .22?
Noticed more smoke after a shot from
My RUGER Revolver and checking spent
casings One was VERY distorted,
bulged at
the rim.
A couple of Fail to Fire rounds and back to CCI MINI-MAGS,IIRC.
Put 50 or so rounds thru it
And No issues at all.
Weird.
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