Trimming Brass

Rally

NC Minnesota
I might get a chance to get it out of the box this week. Temps are way below zero this week but i need to catch up with snare orders first. I bought 1000 Rio 16 ga. Hulls to build some pheasant loads and am real impressed with the BP Z16 wad so far. This work stuff just gets in the way!!
 

fiver

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hope they were primed, you of course know your now gonna need 1,000-5,000 Rio primers.
once you use them it's a permanent switch over.
I use them all the time and like them, even in the cold they do well.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
They were new primed and I have 2000 Rio primers. Just wanted to get some new 16 gauge hulls from a single source. BP just put out the “Rio Manual” and it is limited. Enough I can get where I want to be with a fast one ounce load for pheasant. Helps the hulls are red also, and makes them easier to find in the cattails. Longshot will go over 1500 FPS with pressure around 10700. Little more speed and recoil than I want. Herco is working fine with the Z16 at 1370 and 1 ounce of mag 5’s. Pheasant didn’t like it at all my first trip.
Did you have to extend the length of your primer seating die with you Riohulls? My Mec 600 required a washer spacer to completely seat a new primer. The Rio’s are slightly concave, and a lot of room inside. intend to build a 1 1/4 oz #4 buck load for night time beaver also.
 
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fiver

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I prime them from the bottom on the Ponsess or seat them in the 366 when I am pre-sizing them.
it's similar to the MEC priming set up but is just a rod that is easily adjustable for depth from the top, the bottom is just an outer ring that presses down to the same depth each time with the case rim, it has a steel rod in the center to hold the primer.
 

fiver

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I had to add a spacer to the bottom of the rod on one of my old MEC's to raise that end up to make things work.
airc I used the handle off an old zebco 200 closed face reel.
 

Pistolero

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And Rick - what can you do in the movie industry for that long and not learn about movies?
Inquiring minds want to know. I figured all the Hollywood folks were all movie experts.:embarrassed:
Guess not. SW apparently built custom stuff for them, so I guess that means not necessarily being
around the actual filming. I guess there is a whole lot more going on behind the scenes
that us "watchers" don't know much about.

Bill
 
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Rick

Moderator
Staff member
That's the problem Bill, I did learn about the movies and how they are made AND more importantly who makes them. 34 years of that is plenty to turn ya off. Add to that the fact that very little that comes out of Hollywood is worth the time it takes to watch it or even the electricity to run the TV. The last thing I am is star struck, a great many of them a**holes of the highest order and dumber than a rock. There's exceptions to that of course but the exceptions are rare.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Rick, my mother used to work for the government, she was the person that got the pricing info from the local stockyards and made the news broadcasts with livestock prices on the local radio news media. She got to tour several meat processing facilities. She stopped eating most meat for a long time after that. Something like the same revelation you had about what was made and who and how it was made.

I will say that while many modern movies don't interest me I do greatly enjoy most of the Marvel stuff - but then I still have my Marvel comic books from the early '60s stored safely away. My guns will go before they go.
 

Pistolero

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Yeah, I can see that if the people are unpleasant, it can be a real turnoff. We see the glitz that they
want us to see - not what really goes on. I occasionally hear that some actor was really a jerk, and
mean, when they play a really super nice person on their movies or TV show. That's a bit jarring
and disappointing. But, you also hear that some are really nice folks, like Gary Sinise and Denzel
Washington.

I actually haven't seen a lot of movies in the last 20 years, love watching westerns from the 50s, 60s
and 70s. Currently working our way through all the 'Gunsmokes'. I remember them but was a bit too young
to pay a lot of attention. Amazingly hard stories with really vicious unrepentent bad folks in many of
them. Perhaps good to appreciate that not everyone is a nice guy. And, living in KS and driving through
the Dodge City area many times - boy those guys could RIDE! Be in Dodge one day and just ride over
to Great Bend.......in a day. It is 85 miles today, must have been closer back then. ;) I have to laugh, having
ridden a horse 40 miles in a day, which is a hard, long day in the saddle for me. TV makes it all easier.


Bill
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
Fired up that case trimmer last night. Trimmed a gallon bucket of .30-06 in a couple hours, and that was doing the initial adjustment also. I think I'm in love!! LOL