Depriming/Resizing Technique
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I have found my reloading is a lot better if I clean in these steps: | |
Tumble | |
Deprime/Resize | |
Ultrasonic Clean | |
Fan dry | |
I deprime/resize after the cases are tumbled and before they are ultrasonically cleaned. Tumbling the still primed case cleans it's outside without clogging the flash hole with corn cob. Also, tumbling before sizing eliminates a lot of dirt and grit that will scratch and wear the resizer die. Ultrasonic cleaning after depriming, cleans the inside of the case and the inside of the primer pocket. I use this same technique on all the handgun and M1 carbine brass I reload. Pictured here are 357Sig being deprimed/resized. |
When depriming/resizing cases I set things up to reduce the number of times I handle brass and my hand motion on each case as much as possible. I found that a lot of time is wasted while I "fumble" for a case so I tried to overlap the "fumble" time with the time spent depriming the case. I use the loading shelf on my loading bench to hold a large plastic "catch" bowl for the deprimed/resized cases. I place the cases to be deprimed/resized in a small clear plastic "catch" bowl or cup as close to the press as possible. I found that using a small clear cup reduced my "fumbling around" for another case. I use the same cup to hold bullets while I'm loading.
While the ram starts to travel upward into the die on the deprime stroke, I move my left hand to the cup of tumbled cases, pick up another case holding it between my middle finger and thumb.
I remove the just deprimed/resized case from the shellholder using my forefinger and thumb.
Then, holding both cases in my left hand, move to the left, just above the "catch" bowl.
I drop the just deprimed case by releasing my forfinger, move back to the shellholder, and place the new case in the shellholder using my middle finger and thumb.
I use this same technique with everything from 9mm to .45ACP to 30 Carbine and .308 Winchester.