smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
mikld, I too keep it simple. Been seating my primers on the Hollywood single stage for nearly 60 years.
I guess I'm in the wrong forum. I reload because I like to and my "rudimentary" reloading methods don't fit with the general population here. I'm a "black and white", common sense, K.I.S.S. reloader and I keep things basic which works for my shooting style (my best 308 load gave me 7/8" at 200. My Garand will occasionally give me 3 1/2"-4" on a good eye day, and I have loads for my Dan Wesson 44 Mag. that keeps them all around 2" @ 50'). Thanks for the time the members took to help with (correct) my posts...
None of my posts are meant to tell anyone else how they should be doing things. My posts are how I do it and why, if anyone picks up a tip they would like to try great, if not they are content with what they have been doing.
Thanks fellers, but most of my K.I.S.S. responses have been corrected by long term members. I have been safely and successfully reloading for 30+ years (this time, I actually started in '69) and am a lifelong machinist/mechanic well versed in hand tool use. No I'm not offended, but each time my posts are corrected with advanced theory on reloading and alloying...
Prolly won't be back...
I don't have a bench vise or a drill press, if something needs to be made smaller or a different shape I file it by hand.
heck I cut at least half of my fire wood with a Bow saw.
Looks like a nice tool, but what is the advantage over the priming arms the press is equipped with? I do prime on the press, prefer it to a hand tool.
Ric......... Along with priming with the press; what do you think of the RCBS Summit press??? Its design has had a 'luring' affect on me since I saw it...Plus one, used on my RCBS Summit press.
there is some side to side slop in the design.
the primer catcher cup suxks donkey nuts, someone out there makes a replacement which is marginally better, but it still hangs out over the front of the bench asking to be broken [like you'd notice it not catching primers]
I still like mine and mostly use it for bullet seating it doesn't jar the bench like an 0-frame does, but you don't want to just drop the handle either.
even with the little side wiggle it does turn out some pretty straight ammo.
it has grease fittings.... I don't know if this is good or bad.
on one hand I like things to work smooth, and on the other I don't want a 3" ram covered in grease where I'm trying to reach back and forth past it.
would I buy another one?
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This is a good idea. I've used this technique for many years..... One of the RCBS 'field specialists' I know several years ago started doing this as well after he questioning it. While not a perfect fix.... it does seem to help concentric run-out with dies having 'racing clearance' as the modern world thinks as a requirement to be included in just about everything......I also seat in 3 or 4 steps rolling the case as I go.
WOW! I loaded my first shells in 1950 under the close eye of my father. .45-70 they were.... I was using his Lyman 310 tool.... My Dad called it a "Nutcracker"......The old Ideal Handbooks in the 1890 recommended rotating the case during seating both primer and bullet. It was a requirement with the hand plier type tools that worked at an angle rather than in line. .