Prepping .223 brass OR how to eat an elephant?

[Hotwheels81]

Not as impressive as some folks setups around here but she gets the job done...













Question is... Aside from a 1050, does anybody make a brass prep press that can swage resize and trim all in one go?

 

[dan belisle]

Try Corbin. - dan

 

[maynard]

You only need to swage the primer pockets once and only need to trim once maybe every 4th or 5th time. You could always use better commercial brass that doesn't have a crimped primer pocket, but you will still need to trim once in a while.

 

[digitalblue]

The gracey or giraud style trimmers will make short work of trimming.

I use a primer pocket reamer chucked in a drill press to remove crimps.

Don't know of any system that does both.

 

[Hotwheels81]

Try Corbin. - dan

Will do!

You only need to swage the primer pockets once and only need to trim once maybe every 4th or 5th time. You could always use better commercial brass that doesn't have a crimped primer pocket, but you will still need to trim once in a while.

That above picture is 2000ish IVI 1f brass, I love the stuff and get good deals on it... When I setup for .223 I do several thousand cases for myself and several times that for friends and if there is any left over it hits the EE around gopher season for trade on other rifle brass that I need... I deal with everything from LC and IVI to federal/Winchester/PPU... That small batch took me 6hrs to FL size, trim, swage... I'd like to bump it up to 10,000pcs in a day so I could run 2 batches a year or approx 40,000-100,000 cases and possibly look into a remanufacturing business in my spare time.

The gracey or giraud style trimmers will make short work of trimming.

I use a primer pocket reamer chucked in a drill press to remove crimps.

Don't know of any system that does both.

My Rapid Trim FL sizes and trims as fast as I can pull the handle on my XL650 or as fast as the case feeder can drop one on the shell plate BUT my swageing system is much like yours "one at a time"... Just looking at stepping up to the next level between commercial loader and eccentric hobbiest.

 

[hexbasher]

running rt 1200 on hornady LNL with 5 stations

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...ase-trimming?p=9804284&viewfull=1#post9804284

link to swagging mod
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...-AP-Autodrive-Project/page2?highlight=hornady


i want to get setup for 300blk now

 

[supernova]

Maybe adding an RCBS swager to your progressive or turret press could speed things up?

 

[maynard]

Will do!




That above picture is 2000ish IVI 1f brass, I love the stuff and get good deals on it... When I setup for .223 I do several thousand cases for myself and several times that for friends and if there is any left over it hits the EE around gopher season for trade on other rifle brass that I need... I deal with everything from LC and IVI to federal/Winchester/PPU... That small batch took me 6hrs to FL size, trim, swage... I'd like to bump it up to 10,000pcs in a day so I could run 2 batches a year or approx 40,000-100,000 cases and possibly look into a remanufacturing business in my spare time.

I am not sure how General Dynamics will feel about you going into the ammo remanufacturing business using IVI brass.

 

[mkwn]

try this super swage mod to speed up your process:

 

[mudmaker]

Slick, guess what I'm doing to my swage

 

[Hotwheels81]

I am not sure how General Dynamics will feel about you going into the ammo remanufacturing business using IVI brass.

Funny guy... IVI is like gold to me, i keep it all for myself.

And I have no desire to reload for people, all I'm looking at is a way to process crimped primer brass in quantity.