sksshooter
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Ive had this little press since they came out. It seems like i paid very little maybe $40-50 and then bought the 4 tube case feeder and collator. I havent needed to replenish any of my pistol ammo so i really hadnt used it much more than to deprime a couple hundred pieces of 9mm just to try it out.
In 2016 we had a prety significant flood. I had quite a bit of brass that got wet. A lot of it was just left to dry and sat for some time while we dealt with bigger issues. Fast forward 2ish years and we are in a new house and i finally have a chance to set my stuff up. I started tumbling brass with less than satisfactory results. The brass wasnt corroded but had decent tarnish on it. I moved to a rotary tumbler with stainless pins and went at it with great results. I didnt work through all of it but made a dent.
Fast forward i need to start processing some brass last year and i had a few what i now know as ringers but didnt know why. I later found out the wet and letting them sit is a no no. So i took to working through all of my brass stockpile. I did all of my larger rifle sruff on my rock chucker but when it came time to start on the pistol calibers i pulled the app alout and started putting it to work.
Im currently sitting at 10-11k pieces of brass either deprimed with a universal decapper or sized and deprimed with a sizing die. After the first 4 or so k i decided it needed a roller handle and was pleased to find lee offers one for a whopping $22. Installed it and put it to work. Great improvment. Ive just been putting a little oil on the slide bar and 2 uprights every 1k or so rounds and keep on going. I just wrapped up 3k yesterday evening and another 1500ish this evening and its getting a bit sticky at this point so i shut it down. Ill take it out tomorrpw and clean the layer of crudd off of it add a couple drops of oil and knockout the last 2-3k pieces i have left.
Im all into this thing just under or right at $100 and it has turned out to be an excellent investment. If i somehow manage to break this thing at some point it will absolutely be replaced.
In 2016 we had a prety significant flood. I had quite a bit of brass that got wet. A lot of it was just left to dry and sat for some time while we dealt with bigger issues. Fast forward 2ish years and we are in a new house and i finally have a chance to set my stuff up. I started tumbling brass with less than satisfactory results. The brass wasnt corroded but had decent tarnish on it. I moved to a rotary tumbler with stainless pins and went at it with great results. I didnt work through all of it but made a dent.
Fast forward i need to start processing some brass last year and i had a few what i now know as ringers but didnt know why. I later found out the wet and letting them sit is a no no. So i took to working through all of my brass stockpile. I did all of my larger rifle sruff on my rock chucker but when it came time to start on the pistol calibers i pulled the app alout and started putting it to work.
Im currently sitting at 10-11k pieces of brass either deprimed with a universal decapper or sized and deprimed with a sizing die. After the first 4 or so k i decided it needed a roller handle and was pleased to find lee offers one for a whopping $22. Installed it and put it to work. Great improvment. Ive just been putting a little oil on the slide bar and 2 uprights every 1k or so rounds and keep on going. I just wrapped up 3k yesterday evening and another 1500ish this evening and its getting a bit sticky at this point so i shut it down. Ill take it out tomorrpw and clean the layer of crudd off of it add a couple drops of oil and knockout the last 2-3k pieces i have left.
Im all into this thing just under or right at $100 and it has turned out to be an excellent investment. If i somehow manage to break this thing at some point it will absolutely be replaced.