Today at the Bench.....

[JeffreyDeGraff]

I chamfered, deburred, and uniformed the flash holes in the 308 brass I sized a couple weeks ago. Sized, trimmed, and did the works on some more 308 brass I found, it'll go in the tumbler with the 150ish pieces of 300aac brass I sized today.

I have about 400-500 pieces of 223 to size and trim next weekend. Maybe more than that if I actually make it to the range before I get to the brass.

How do you do all of your prep work? Do you use hand tools or use a prep station?


JTD

[Mbaker78]

How do you do all of your prep work? Do you use hand tools or use a prep station?


JTD

I size the 308 on a single stage, everything else goes through the loadmaster with just a size die in the turret.

Trim, chamfer, deburr, and flash hole uniforming gets done on the FA trim and prep center. 300aac gets trimmed on a Lyman lathe trimmer with a cordless drill though, because it’s too short to hold on to with the other one.

Its definitely the most tedious part of the process, and my hands still hurt a bit after the marathon the other day, but now that it’s done I can get down to the more fun part of actually loading them up.

After tumbling what needs tumbled, I’ll prime them with an RCBS APS bench tool (amazing tool, by the way). 300aac and 223 will go to the loadmaster for charge, seat, and final crimp. 308 gets done fully on a single stage. I’m still trying to decide if I like the automatic Hornady powder measure or not, it seems to consistently drop 0.1gr high for me, but it’s easier than trickling each round.