Reloading Automation
 

RogerN wrote:
Tuesday I received my Lee LoadMaster progressive press for .223 Remington.
Adjusted and tested, weighed several powder charges, etc. I reloaded a few
cartridges last night and ran a small batch tonight, now I have 126 reloaded
cartridges plus 80 purchased. The 126 was the number of brass I had ready
to reload...

Some of my brass has crimped primers, I need to ream or swage them to the
correct shape. I have some other brass that has the Berdan sp primers. I
saw some info on the internet about drilling Berdan primers out to accept
regular primers.

Good luck with that. Berdan primed cases get sold as scrap by me. Just not worth the time
and effort to do all the work to convert them. It's FAR more work than just drilling them out.


Potential for further automation includes an escapement for case feeding and
a bullet feeder.

RogerN




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Reloading Automation
 

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 01:30:52 -0500
"RogerN" wrote:

Tuesday I received my Lee LoadMaster progressive press for .223 Remington.
Adjusted and tested, weighed several powder charges, etc. I reloaded a few
cartridges last night and ran a small batch tonight, now I have 126 reloaded
cartridges plus 80 purchased. The 126 was the number of brass I had ready
to reload...
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You should try running some of your reloads through your semi-auto
before going any farther. Story...

Years ago when I was ambitious I loaded up some .223 ammo with a
recommended recipe. They didn't work so well in a Mini-14. You would
get off one shot and then a jam. What was happening was the shell was
being extracted while the powder was still burning, leaving powder
debris in the chamber. The next shell would jam in this debris. I'm
sure that same recipe would work okay in anything but an auto-loader but
I learned this the hard way...

Auto-loaders can be pretty picky on what you feed them :(

Watch your crimps too, auto-loaders really man-handle their ammo...

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Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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Reloading Automation
 

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 01:30:52 -0500, "RogerN" wrote:

Tuesday I received my Lee LoadMaster progressive press for .223 Remington.
Adjusted and tested, weighed several powder charges, etc. I reloaded a few
cartridges last night and ran a small batch tonight, now I have 126 reloaded
cartridges plus 80 purchased. The 126 was the number of brass I had ready
to reload...

Some of my brass has crimped primers, I need to ream or swage them to the
correct shape. I have some other brass that has the Berdan sp primers. I
saw some info on the internet about drilling Berdan primers out to accept
regular primers.

Potential for further automation includes an escapement for case feeding and
a bullet feeder.

RogerN


Id STRONGLY suggest you do NOT drill berdan primers and attempt to
reform them unless its a "last resort". There are some issues that
can cause a weapon to frankly..blow up ...when doing this.

I you need .223 brass...its available on the net cheap enough (still)
or I could send you several hundred.

As for crimped primer pockets..there are two methods that work well
enough. The first is simply using a case mouth deburring tool and with
a turn or 3..cut off the burrs. The best way..is to buy a
RCBS/hornady/wlson etc "primer pocket swage" and use that.

Or make your own out of 7/8-14 all thread and machine one as an
exercise.

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/235...swager-combo-2

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/501...mer-tool-small

etc etc

Ive used the reamers on drill press..and have used industrial cutting
tools with better results on the drill press.