my bulk .223 reloading video

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wife informed me she would be working late yesterday so I had basically a whole day to kill, figured i'd make a video on how I load for my AR15 using some pretty basic equipment.
may do another video soon showing how I reload for my target rifle aswell.

anyway here it is, not the greatest but killed the day.

tools I use

-Lee Rifle-Pistol Reloader Press $35
-die set (mine has been parted out, and pieced together to be how I want it, all lee dies) $40-$50
-lee case length gauge (for trimming) will also need the cutter and lock stud, $6 and $6
-lee chamfer tool $4
-lee scale, I don't recommend a cheap digital scale, if you want to spend little money on a scale, a balance beam scale is the way to go $25
-lee auto prime $20, (will need shell holder for this as well $4)
-powder trickler/dribbler $20

this is the basics and will get you going for pretty well any caliber you want to load. total cost $170, not many people believe me when I say they could be reloading for $200, it can be done, is it top notch gear? no it's not, does it work I've loaded 1000's of rounds (precision and plinking) on it now, yes it works.

I didn't price the powder measure as it is not "required" for reloading, I use it for my bulk loading only. for my precision ammo I weigh each charge and trickle it up to spec

 
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Great video! I'm thinking of starting simply like this sometime in the near future.

...maybe add a 'tools list' to show all the necessary stuff you used to keep it this simple!
 
Armourall said:
Thinking about it in the future - how long did it actually take to load those 100 rounds anyway?
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About 3 hours, normally I have a lot of pre prepped and primed brass. I usually do it in small batches 1 step at a time and work at it in the evenings.

juanvaldez said:
Great video!! Do you not chamfer/deburr case mouth after trimming or did you skip showing on video?

Cheers
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I chamfer the case mouth only when a lot of material is cut off, if it just shaves a little off not much of a burr is left behind.
 
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thanks for the positive comments guys, I was really unsure about posting this video. fairly new to youtube videos, and talking in my youtube videos (normaly just upload a quick clip, but i'm trying to post better videos), I did trip up a couple times and used the wrong word a couple times aswell.

I will do a tool breakdown in the next day or so, and i'll break it down by price too, this is about as cheap a reloading setup as you can put together (without the lyman 55 powder measure it is even cheaper, and I used to do it without it)
I got the reloading setup used for cheap cheap and added a few things to it, I also did the video to show that larger quantities of ammo can be done without a progressive press (gotta love reloading though) and I plan to reload 9mm on this setup aswell.
 
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tools breakdown and price breakdown in the original post for those wanting to see it.
I recommend atleast 1 good reloading manual, borrow one if you have to and take pictures of the pages you need to get going. I don't personally trust going off of what someone said on a forum as a reliable loading data source.

fred0000 said:
tools I use

-Lee Rifle-Pistol Reloader Press $35
-die set (mine has been parted out, and pieced together to be how I want it, all lee dies) $40-$50
-lee case length gauge (for trimming) will also need the cutter and lock stud, $6 and $6
-lee chamfer tool $4
-lee scale, I don't recommend a cheap digital scale, if you want to spend little money on a scale, a balance beam scale is the way to go $25
-lee auto prime $20, (will need shell holder for this as well $4)
-powder trickler/dribbler $20

this is the basics and will get you going for pretty well any caliber you want to load. total cost $170, not many people believe me when I say they could be reloading for $200, it can be done, is it top notch gear? no it's not, does it work I've loaded 1000's of rounds (precision and plinking) on it now, yes it works.

I didn't price the powder measure as it is not "required" for reloading, I use it for my bulk loading only. for my precision ammo I weigh each charge and trickle it up to spec
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fred0000 said:
tools breakdown and price breakdown in the original post for those wanting to see it.
I recommend atleast 1 good reloading manual, borrow one if you have to and take pictures of the pages you need to get going. I don't personally trust going off of what someone said on a forum as a reliable loading data source.
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awesome, thanks for posting a list of stuff!

my fav part in your video -> "here we are in my kitchen, my wife is at work so we shouldn't have any problems" LOL
 
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