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Offline qscale

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Brass Nuts!
« on: April 05, 2007, 06:33:12 AM »
I may be a little nuts when it comes to my brass. I true up the necks, tumble, anneal, chamfer case openings and flash holes. My question is do you do both inside and outside of the flash hole?

I hope this goes well, I normally stay in the shadows and just take in your wisdom!

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Re: Brass Nuts!
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2007, 07:41:23 AM »
  for TARGET work ,I  also uniform the inside of the primer hole. Weigh sort to ONE grain from heaviest to lightest.Trim to length within .004. For plinking loads ,I just make sure the necks are round and chamferred .The length is within acceptable limits. Hunting loads (deer or larger) ,some where between these 2 extremes.

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Re: Brass Nuts!
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2007, 11:53:13 AM »
For my varmint rifles I do the primer pockets and debur the flash hole. I also sort the brass by weight in aprox 25% of my brass ( used mostly when we are betting 6packs)

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Re: Brass Nuts!
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2007, 04:20:46 PM »
I would not say you are nuts.  I would say that you enjoy your time at the reloading bench as much as I do.  My bench is one of my favorite places to spend time.  Tom.
Tom Chase  Passed away at his home on Wed Nov 23

RIP Tom.

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Re: Brass Nuts!
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2007, 05:06:59 AM »
You have folks that reload to shoot and folks that shoot to reload. That is to say, some prefer range time and some prefer shop time. (there's room for us all and all the ones in the middle)
Most of my reloading is done after dark because if the sun is shining, I want to be shooting.  That said, life is too short to be looking for ubiquitous little trap doors around flash holes.  And weighing cases.  That said, I've never trimmed a flash hole nor weighed a case.  I "fire cull" my brass.  After the first firing, I trim to a uniform length, chamfer and load.  During my load work up or during my practice firing, if I get an unexplainable, errant round, I mark the case.  The next time around, if it isn't tightly in the group, its pitched. 
No matter how much anal stuff you do to a case, it still has to be fired to find the truth about it. 

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Re: Brass Nuts!
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2007, 06:54:29 PM »
I used to do a lot more prep work than I do now. The brass is kept at the maximum length, primer pockets are cleaned up and the flash holes are uniformed. I sort the cases by weight with the lightest ones in one small pile, the heavy ones in one more little pile and the middle bunch is my hunting and target brass. the other two piles are for plinking and varmint loads (heaviest for varmints and the light ones for plinking) I get about 80% in that middle batch and 10% in each of the other two.
My only reason for target shooting is to make sure that I know and trust my gun and ammo.
PaulS

Hodgdon, Lyman, Speer, Sierra, Hornady = reliable resources
so and so's pages on the internet = not reliable resources
Alway check loads you find on the internet against manuals.
NEVER exceed maximum listed loads.

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Re: Brass Nuts!
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2007, 03:18:30 AM »
   For all that have read, and to those who have replied thank you for your time!
I have found out that I am not alone or NUTS

   qscale