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Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:26 pm
by 1066
Here's a really excellent video showing some of those finer points of case preparation that often get overlooked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YUoOlOYXUI
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:48 am
by Triffid
That must be where Badger gets his ammo from.
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:37 am
by BRYAN3
Is that Radway Green?
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:19 pm
by amyjane
Probably the new GGG facility....
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 6:39 pm
by safetyfirst
Lol. Love the "overall length guy"
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:07 pm
by ovenpaa
Impressive speed from some of the workers, there was one stage near the end that I could not identify, two chaps sitting opposite each other.
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:12 pm
by mag41uk
I wonder where the primers come from?
Maybe used ones with match heads wedged in?
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:47 pm
by bradaz11
ovenpaa wrote:Impressive speed from some of the workers, there was one stage near the end that I could not identify, two chaps sitting opposite each other.
the bit where they are thumping a handle??
I assumed they were crimping.
it took me awhile to spot the powder loading stage, I saw them doing what looked like smoothing it out on a board, then i saw the guy taking cases out of what looked like a green dispenser. then it clicked, they were just filling the cases to the brim with a green powder and then compressing it with the bullet!
i know someone that used to reload 45lc like that
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:45 pm
by Charlie Muggins
bradaz11 wrote:ovenpaa wrote:Impressive speed from some of the workers, there was one stage near the end that I could not identify, two chaps sitting opposite each other.
the bit where they are thumping a handle??
I assumed they were crimping.
it took me awhile to spot the powder loading stage, I saw them doing what looked like smoothing it out on a board, then i saw the guy taking cases out of what looked like a green dispenser. then it clicked, they were just filling the cases to the brim with a green powder and then compressing it with the bullet!
i know someone that used to reload 45lc like that
If their powder is chopped-up film stock, they may need a compressed load to get the bullet out the barrel.
Re: Reloading - the finer points.
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:46 pm
by 1066
bradaz11 wrote:
they were just filling the cases to the brim with a green powder and then compressing it with the bullet!
I was amazed at how "organised" it was. If we had a major power melt down our world would grind to a halt within a day or so. These guys wouldn't even blink.
Filling the cases makes real sense - very consistent load with no chance of over/underloading. All you would need to do would be to cut your powder with some compressible inert material to give you 100% fill.
I think you would need something like granulated cork mixed in because you would never be able to compress powder enough to seat a bullet in those straight walled cases.