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  • avvidclif

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    The good news is that we put in an offer on a house that has a garage with a little cubby/room big enough to have a dedicated reloading area. Crossing my fingers.

    The bad news is that Fedex has been holding some of our packages (including my Hand Press). One of the people at Fedex doesn't seem to realize that we are Essential/Open for Business.

    They're supposed to be checking on it. So, hopefully Tuesday we'll be getting a bunch of packages that have been missing.

    Why are they holding them??? Didn't they get paid to deliver them, not store them?
     

    Mills

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    So today I dug up my 25 yr old square deal Dillon 45acp , it was in retirement.
    Basically rebuilt it and put it back on the production line.
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    dee

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    Kiddo and I loaded some 223 up so she can fireform it into 223 Ackley.
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    Deavis

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    @Deavis what is your preferred method for cleaning large quantities of brass?

    I am still trying to pick between wet and dry tumbling and the issue of brass being too clean never occurred to me but it makes sense.

    When you say large volume, I think cleaning a barrel at a time. Assuming you are considering dry, I'm going to assume you could fit everything into a big dillon cleaner. I'd that is true then I want to point out that if you wet clean, you still need to dry your brass. There are lots of ways to do it but the easiest one is to throw it in corncob. It beats most solutions guys with way too much time on thier hands use for ease and speed.

    So, you could end up with a dry cleaning method anyhow and what about when you want to just rough clean a few pieces or even loaded ammo for polishing? Having both is almost inevitable and having both is really effective.

    At the industrial level, it is part on part with a drying bowl.
     

    Deavis

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    Everytime I process 223 brass I'm thinking more and more about driving up to Deavis and paying him to run it through his machine

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    Just make sure it is clean and we can run it in no time! You have to post clean to remove the lube but nothing like the ease just hitting run and watching the brass pile up.
     

    rp-

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    The barrel is made by Mossberg on this one and if I remember right it was 308 or 309. I have a thousand rounds of steel case so I'm not worried yet but when I load for it again I'll have to slug the barrel and see what it comes out to.

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    TheMailMan

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    The barrel is made by Mossberg on this one and if I remember right it was 308 or 309. I have a thousand rounds of steel case so I'm not worried yet but when I load for it again I'll have to slug the barrel and see what it comes out to.

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    If that's the case then they'll work.
     

    rp-

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    Did prep on another 150 or so 223 brass. Somehow managed to pull a muscle in my shoulder so might wait and do the rest this weekend.

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    xdmikey

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    While not exactly reloading it pertains to it:

    Are y’all finding ranges open or closed the days?

    while I’m happy to be cleaning up the cave it’d be good to know I’m doing it with an eye to the future.
     
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