Posted: 6/30/2013 5:32:03 AM EDT
Decided that between a wife and 2 kids,wrenching on one of 3 Power Wagons,restoring a 67 convertible, remodeling a 130 year old house, shooting, blacksmithing, etc. I just have too much free time .So,my latest time and tool intensive hobby (at least till I get my milling machine)...reloading.
Took some time to get the Co-ax.I had it on backorder for months. Luckily I picked up 2000 7.62 Nato cases before everything went pear shaped.Along with all the cases ive scrounged over the last few years I'm going to be busy awhile. Going to get a Giraud case trimmer next.Looks like I'll be spending some time on the reloading forum. Can't wait to crank out my first complete round. |
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You're in for it now. It's more addicting than crack.
Sure, right now you are going to load one caliber, and it might satisfy you for a while. Then one day you will say to yourself, "Sel, what if I reloaded for x caliber too?" And you will get all the stuff for that one. It will go on til you run out of your own calibers. Then you will get a caliber that isn't common, since you reload you will make your own cartridges. My one reloading tip is to get a case length gauge for every caliber you reload. Have fun, I know I do. |
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I see you have the right tumbler for stainless steel pin tumbling too.... Yes,yes it is  . Along with an upcoming build (yet another hobby) a Noveske Gen 2,Vltor Mur and BCM bcg.
I picked up the light kit as well as mount from Inline fabrication.Pure sex... 
I have a Lee universal decapping die,still need to buy die sets for the calibers I'll be loading. Then the hunt is on for components .
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I see you have the right tumbler for stainless steel pin tumbling too.... Is there a wrong tumbler? Reason I ask, I have two old school 70's Sears & Roebuck rock tumblers sitting in the closet. Made in america, pretty hefty. Been thinking of getting into pin tumbling. |
First load of brass.Did have afew pieces of brass that the pins were stuck in the flash hole but easy enough to pull them out.I see that they make slightly larger pins to keep that from happening but havn't heard if they work as well.Most of the brass was deprimed by my 7 year old.He got a Kindle for his birthday but has to earn time on it for anything but educational games.50 deprimed cases= 10 minutes Definitely need to get a media separator of some type.I just rinsed them out right in the tumbler under running water then threw the cases into a roasting pan to dry in the oven.
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| I tumble my brass before de-capping. That way nothing gets stuck in the flash hole. The primer pocket doesn't get cleaned very good in tumbling anyway... at least not with corn-cob media. I use a small primer pocket cleaning tool by Lee to clean the real dirty ones before I re-prime them. |
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I tumble my brass before de-capping. That way nothing gets stuck in the flash hole. The primer pocket doesn't get cleaned very good in tumbling anyway... at least not with corn-cob media. I use a small primer pocket cleaning tool by Lee to clean the real dirty ones before I re-prime them. Just make sure you don't forget about the brass and let it sit for a while with wet primer pockets. Causes the primers to fracture when they are deprimed. |
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I tumble my brass before de-capping. That way nothing gets stuck in the flash hole. The primer pocket doesn't get cleaned very good in tumbling anyway... at least not with corn-cob media. I use a small primer pocket cleaning tool by Lee to clean the real dirty ones before I re-prime them. Just make sure you don't forget about the brass and let it sit for a while with wet primer pockets. Causes the primers to fracture when they are deprimed. Didn't know that. Doesn't matter much for me, as mine don't get wet. But good info for those who do it differantly. 
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A media seperator is essential for SS tumbling. I use the dillon one,others use the franklin (I think it is) that sits on a 5 gallon bucket. That gets your pins out of the primer pockets and cases. I'm not wasting my pins, no sirree!
Pin tumbling gets those primer pockets as clean as the case. I deprime and resize before tumbling. That way, if I'm using rifle brass, I get rid of the case lube too. |