LostinTexas Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Went through 50 pieces. Deprimed, trimmed, chamfered, deburred. I do this by hand and my hands were cramping, co called it good. Tomorrow they will get annealed and resized, and when dry, dumped in the tumbler. I spend a lot of time with the stuff before I start loading. Great cold, drizzly day project. It is pretty depressing that primers and powder are so hard (impossible) to come by. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 18 hours ago, LostinTexas said: Went through 50 pieces. Deprimed, trimmed, chamfered, deburred. I do this by hand and my hands were cramping, co called it good. Tomorrow they will get annealed and resized, and when dry, dumped in the tumbler. I spend a lot of time with the stuff before I start loading. Great cold, drizzly day project. It is pretty depressing that primers and powder are so hard (impossible) to come by. Yeah, these winter days are perfect for reloading. I love sitting in my reloading room, listening to the radio or having a well known old movie playing in the background, and taking my time for case prep. I deprime first on a Redding UltraMag 700 (overkill), followed by tumbling in stainless steel media. While I own 2 progressive presses, I prefer to do all the case prep and relaoding manually on my Redding T7 turret. The process is all the fun. Glad I bought a ton of primers and powder after the last draught. Even https://reloadingunlimited.com/ is out of stock, they used to have stock back in 2015 while all other had empty shelves. That's indeed depressing! Feel free to post a few photos from your relaoding, if you feel like it and know how to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 I don't clean my brass the way that you guys do and all of my steps are done on my Dillon 550, but I do feel the effects of the hoarding. I'm down under 2,000 small pistol primers and I've stopped going to the range every week. When I was going, I switched over (from my Redhawk .357) to my Redhawk .44 (since I have about 5,000 large pistol primers). Shooting my pellet gun into a trap in my garage is a serious option at this point. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted December 4, 2020 Author Share Posted December 4, 2020 My pellet gun gets vermin duty around the homestead. Most of my neighbors don't have a problem with rimfire, and even center fire, the close ones and ones I care about anyway, but some Nancy's have moved into the area and I don't know all of them. The only thing they might do is hear, but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) Loaded 20 of my prepared brass today. Just 20 because no more primers. I would like to start loading the heavier CM that I have, but without primers and powder, that ain't happening. Will be starting from scratch on that one. Oh well. I have enough for a few hunting seasons, especially no more than I get to go. The loads I have will handle anything I am likely to run across in Texas, so I should be set. I still like to have more on hand though. A good couple of hours spent this afternoon and left me nice and relaxed. A fine cold rainy day to get it done too. Edited December 14, 2020 by LostinTexas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 3 hours ago, LostinTexas said: Loaded 20 of my prepared brass today. Just 20 because no more primers. I would like to start loading the heavier CM that I have, but without primers and powder, that ain't happening. Will be starting from scratch on that one. Oh well. I have enough for a few hunting seasons, especially no more than I get to go. The loads I have will handle anything I am likely to run across in Texas, so I should be set. I still like to have more on hand though. A good couple of hours spent this afternoon and left me nice and relaxed. A fine cold rainy day to get it done too. I'd give you some primers and powder, but can't ship without HAZMAT license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 LOL, thanks, but HazMat fees are stupid and even worse for an individual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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