Your least favorite step in reloading?

For me it's having to pack up my pistols & paperwork so I can legally transport them to the range just to test 5 to 10 handloads and go back to rework or load up a box of the ones that worked out.


No gripes about the handloading process at all. Those things I can control.
 
i was going to be a smart-ass and say "bending over to pick up the empties", but the paying for components is the least favourite part.
 
tootall said:
but the paying for components is the least favourite part.
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It is sad, but I haven't reloaded in a year and a half, I don't even have my bench set up.

But I also hate buying the components, I can have a list of what I want to buy, and the store won't have what I want so I come home with bullets they say "should work" but don't and more powder then I need to figure out that it also doesn't do what I want it too.

But for the most part I like reloading
 
Case prep is definately the most work. I'm also struggling with a pile of cases that need primer pockets swaged and cleaned. Its a drag doing hundreds of them.
 
I got a 200 piece batch of IVI 9mm Luger brass... with crimped primers. Every single one needed to have the primer pocket slightly reamed out to safely seat small pistol primers. Some are large enough you can squeak by... others not. Best not to play Russian Roulette
 
First place would have to be trimming/chamfering rifle brass. Mounting a drill on my Lyman trimmer and using a power screwdriver to chamfer speeds things up considerably, but I think that a Giraud trimmer is on the list of future purchases.

Second place is load development. I'm not too big on shooting for groups off of a bench.
 
Trimming, even though I use a drill press....

Been eyeballing the 10 litre bucket of 223 brass that needs the primer crimp removed. Even though I started a thread on the best tools for the job last year, I still haven't got the courage to attack the bucket yet. Been looking at the Dillion swager tool but it's pretty expensive for something I may only use this one time.:)
 
Gatehouse said:
Trimming, even though I use a drill press....

Been eyeballing the 10 litre bucket of 223 brass that needs the primer crimp removed. Even though I started a thread on the best tools for the job last year, I still haven't got the courage to attack the bucket yet. Been looking at the Dillion swager tool but it's pretty expensive for something I may only use this one time.:)
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I bought the RCBS swaging die to do 223 brass. It works, costs around $40, but its slow. Loading the brass into the top die, pressing, then levering the brass back off the swager base. I'm not enjoying this. Maybe you'd better spring for a Dillon super swage.
 
Cummins4x4 said:
Grizzlypeg, I just did 500 223 on the RCBS swager and was getting PO'd wrestling the brass off the pin. So I sprayed the bases of the brass with case lube and it worked like a hot damn, the cases pop off with no effort.
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Thanks, what kind of spray case lube do you recommend? Do you retumble afterwards to get it out of the primer pocket?
 
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