how do you progressive reload 223?

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how do you progressive reload 223?

I usually tumble brass to remove dirt and grime, then oil (light coat of engine oil) (deprime and resize), then tumble again, then manually prime

and then I do progressive powder, bullet and crimp.

How can it be done all in one step on a progressive? would require a lube that you do not need to remove, but I have tried hornady one shot and got 3 stuck cases in 20, so I stopped.... engine oil makes it super smooth.

How do you do it?
 
Kryogen said:
do you trim the cases after every firing?
which lube do you use
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The best way is to buy the Dillon 1200RT trim die.

It's a two toolhead operation but worth it.

1) tumble your cases.
2) spray lightly with Dillon spray lube, then allow to dry
3) Tool head #1 sizes, swages, trims
4) retumble your brass to remove lube and any burrs from the trimmer
5) Tool head #2 Universal decapper to clear flash hole, prime, powder, bullet, crimp.
 
notsorichguy said:
Resize and deprime on a single stage.

Trim, remove the crimp, de burr etc.

Prime with a hand primer tool.

Run it through a lee 1000 to dump powder, seat the bullet and crimp.

So far I've done 10K this way, no issues.......
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pretty well exactly as I do it. I use my Lee 1000 to prime, powder, seat the bullet and then I factory crimp on another press. The brass prep is 90% of the work.
 
If I have brass that doesn't need trimming and is clean enough, lube (am using Dillon right now), run through press in one run. Tumble loaded rounds for a short period afterwards to remove lube. Voila, more noise makers! If I have to trim then tumble,lube, resize, tumble, trim and run through press powdering and seating. And no, it does not cause problems tumbling loaded ammo. Just don't do it for 8 hours.
 
I did a bunch of 308 on my loadmaster. I sized and trimmed/deburred first. Then ran all the prepped cases through to load. It is a lot easier using a ball powder for this like Win 748

If you had trimmed the brass and didn't think it needed another trim after firing and resizing you could run it through in one pass lubed, to size, prime charge seat crimp. Then tumble the rounds after for 20-30min to remove the case lube.
 
Either RCBS Case Lube 2 on a RCBS lube pad or Redding Imperial Sizing Die Wax.

I should add that with the Lee I used the Perfect Powder measure and the Universal Charging die kit.
 
-Brass gets deprimed first.
-Tumbled in wet/stainless
-Sized using my homemade bootleg spray lube
-Primer pockets get swaged if required.
-Trimmed using a Giruad power trimmer.

Then once it's all ready... On to a Dillon 550 to be primed, charged, bullet seated and crimped.
 
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