Billy, I'm speechless. Til now, I have not found a process that is darn near exactly like my own. The only two differences are that I wet tumble twice and one or two dies are not the same. But I use Alph 6.5CM and I have the same Area 419 (I love it!). Thank you for sharing this process. I think its a really great one!
Well done with the video presentation. It was not only interesting but it was free from having a slow & hesitant delivery (not easy to avoid) which too many reloading related videos have.
SD and ES both in single digits is almost unobtainable, especially without neck turning and not using a mandrel, so if your getting that then your really doing something right. 🧐
SD and ES both in single digits is almost unobtainable, especially without neck turning and not using a mandrel, so if your getting that then your really doing something right. 🧐
Thanks for sharing your process. Awesome to see others share. A few accomplished PRS shooters in my area shared with me this tid bit of info, Spend the least time behind the reloading bench and more time at the range practicing your positional shot placement. Most people can't hold MOA in positional shots
The first step was to deprime the case. This allows the primer pockets to be cleaned as well as the entire case. The second cleaning was to remove the lubricant off the case when used to full length resize.
I suggest: rotating 180 degrees between each resizing, trimming all cases to same length, since you're using a power tool I suggest deburring inside and out in REVERSE so as not to remove a lot of brass and just knock the burr off, brush cases after deburring, rotate round after seating 180 and seat again a second time.
Is that just practice ammo? All that nice equipment and your shoulder bump is all over the place you should purchase an annealer your accuracy will greatly improve. Oh and get rid of that Hornady brass. Lol. Over all great video tho keep up the good work.
I use it for practice and competition. This brass has definitely been fire hardened. I recently made an annealer, so it's something to work on over the winter.
The 1200 press and the $10 trimmer makes no sense lol. It's your stuff but a Redding t7 and a giruad trimmer would have been a great combo and cheaper. But hey it's your setup.
The Giruad is under the bench, I just don't have a 6.5 pilot for it yet. I intended the video to be more of a process breakdown than a gear overview. I think I made that clear in the video. Reloading is more about the steps than the gear.
When/how do you anneal? Seems like the 3 times you touch the case's a Lyman Case Prep Center with Chamfer/Debur/brush might be a worthwhile investment. Nice video.
I don't have enough experience on annealing to speak authoritatively on it. However, annealing is done before sizing. I have a home made induction annealer I just finished up. I should have some tests done with it in the next week or so. Still playing with it.
I never use to anneal but found that I was getting about 8 firings for each case before neck cracking. I then started annealing about every 5 reloads and found the brass getting about 20+ reloads. I now anneal on every reload and my groups have tightened up significantly (from 1.25 MOA to 0.25 MOA). I started with a Bench Source annealer ($500) and about 6 months ago bought an AMP 2 annealer ($1300 but worth it).
When measuring brass, i like to have my Hornady bullet comparator on my calipers so I have a huge flat bass to measure the brass off of. Nice process overall though
