Cosmoline
Member
I'm in the process of working through a 300 round backlog of 7.62x54R brass that accumulated in the dirty brass box. I am once again amazed by how time consuming the process is.
--Sort the brass (Win/Privi from Lapua/Norma)
--Lube the brass
--Resize and deprime it
--Tumble the brass
--Sort the brass out again and clean the crud out of the primer pockets
--Trim the brass
--Chamfer the brass
--Prime the brass
--Load the powder
--Seat the bullet
--Crimp the bullet
--Seal the primer or otherwise mark the round (only on my "keepers")
I understand that a multi-stage press will speed up the loading process, but for me loading is by far the easiest and fastest part of this. The laborious and messy part comes before that stage.
Is there some machine that will do the pre-loading steps? And if not, how on Earth do some of you go through thousands of these things a month? Then there's the added steps such as annealing which have to take ages.
--Sort the brass (Win/Privi from Lapua/Norma)
--Lube the brass
--Resize and deprime it
--Tumble the brass
--Sort the brass out again and clean the crud out of the primer pockets
--Trim the brass
--Chamfer the brass
--Prime the brass
--Load the powder
--Seat the bullet
--Crimp the bullet
--Seal the primer or otherwise mark the round (only on my "keepers")
I understand that a multi-stage press will speed up the loading process, but for me loading is by far the easiest and fastest part of this. The laborious and messy part comes before that stage.
Is there some machine that will do the pre-loading steps? And if not, how on Earth do some of you go through thousands of these things a month? Then there's the added steps such as annealing which have to take ages.