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Reloading sequence

sirgknightsirgknight Member Posts: 109 ✭✭
edited March 2008 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
I'm new to metallic reloading and need your opinion on my choice of sequence. After returning from the range I've been taking my brass and resizing and depriming the casings. I then reprime the dirty casings and throw them into the tumbler. From the tumbler I retrieve a clean, resized and reprimed casing ready to be reloaded. It seems to me that its easier to inspect a clean casing for hairline cracks, separation, etc. Should I find a casing that's damaged or unusable I simply knock out my good primer to save it and then throw away the bad casing. I'm always open-minded to learn. Is there perhaps a better sequence to follow? Thanks for yall's input.
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  • OdawgpOdawgp Member Posts: 5,380 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I tumble the case when I return from the range first.
    then inspect, resize, trim, prime, load

    the chemicals used in the tumble media could (not likely but possible) render the new primer inert or a piece of media may get stuck in the flash hole and block it.
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  • codenamepaulcodenamepaul Member Posts: 2,931 ✭
    edited November -1
    Cases are tumbled in corn cob after the range. Then they sit......

    Until I deprime/size. Then they go into the walnut overnight. After that they get primed. Then they sit......

    Until I get enough power and bullets to load them all.
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  • peppersacpeppersac Member Posts: 90 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    How long should you leave them in the walnut media? The walnut just polishes the brass right.
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  • sandwarriorsandwarrior Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    sirgknight,

    Why reprime if in case you have to throw away brass? If you tumble them do it before you resize them. The point is to resize a CLEAN case. Then you can clean the primer pocket and bevel the lip of the neck. I just blow out the case body after resizing. You can also inspect the cases that are cleaned, each one, as you are resizing them. You can't see a case that needs to be thrown away that is dirty.

    So, clean. Inspect and size. Trim(if necessary, I call it part of the sizing process) Finish cleaning(primer pocket) THEN reprime. Then figure out a load. Then put the right amount of powder in your case. Then stuff the bullets You can figure out your seating depth while the cases are tumbling.
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Always clean the cases first. A dirty case will wear out your sizer die even if it is carbide. Then when you resize if there is a piece on media in the primer hole it gets pushed out with the old primer.
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  • sirgknightsirgknight Member Posts: 109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    clean first. makes perfectly good sense to me. i knew there had to be something odd about my logic. i'm having a wonderful time with this new hobby/interest. probably not saving a great deal of money but there's no charge for the therapy it provides. not to mention the camaraderie on a forum. thanks.
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  • joe4570joe4570 Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It kind of works well to decap fired cases with a universal decapping tool and spare your dies the contamination. Then either liquid clean or tumble and clean the primer pockets before sizing and seating new primers.
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