Marathon decapping session pains.

[23's Dad]

Your making it too much like a JOB!

Gallon of brass a night? This is a hobby. Take it easy or it will become tedious. Then you'll be trying to sell your new Dillon press and equipment in the classifieds at full retail value.

It becomes a job when it's not fun anymore, or you're up against a deadline. I mismanaged my inventory last fall and was a couple hundred rounds short on my competition loads for the Creedmoor Cup. Being I only have a single stage press, I had to get busy. It wasn't fun, and it certainly wasn't relaxing.

I use the plastic snack canisters from Costco to store my brass. A single canister is enough for one night of decapping. Two canisters is a good load of brass for the FART. For sizing rifle brass, I do about a half of a canister at one sitting. Pistol brass is about the same, more strokes but less effort.

I also only reload in the evenings, and tumble in the mornings on weekends. I don't like to run tumblers when I'm in the garage due to the noise. I tumble on the weekends so I can put the brass out in the afternoon sun and dry it. The FART is much less noisy than my vibratory tumbler, but it's still annoying.

[Sapperforward]

Gallon of brass a night? This is a hobby. Take it easy or it will become tedious. Then you'll be trying to sell your new Dillon press and equipment in the classifieds at full retail value.

It becomes a job when it's not fun anymore, or you're up against a deadline. I mismanaged my inventory last fall and was a couple hundred rounds short on my competition loads for the Creedmoor Cup. Being I only have a single stage press, I had to get busy. It wasn't fun, and it certainly wasn't relaxing.

I use the plastic snack canisters from Costco to store my brass. A single canister is enough for one night of decapping. Two canisters is a good load of brass for the FART. For sizing rifle brass, I do about a half of a canister at one sitting. Pistol brass is about the same, more strokes but less effort.

I also only reload in the evenings, and tumble in the mornings on weekends. I don't like to run tumblers when I'm in the garage due to the noise. I tumble on the weekends so I can put the brass out in the afternoon sun and dry it. The FART is much less noisy than my vibratory tumbler, but it's still annoying.

I hear what your saying. My problem is I tend to laser focus on projects like these and am always competing with myself to get as much done as quickly as possible. I can't seem to relax until I see it through.

I feel like once all my brass is decapped I can relax because for now I only plan to load what I plan to shoot in the near future. I mean, after I buy my 650.

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[Divernhunter]

^^ well I know more about you now so I strongly suggest that you do the tumbling when not deprimeing or in back yard if not setting off the dogs. I forget that some reload in the garage as I did years ago. Now I have a separate room for reloading and 1/3 of the garage is for reloading component/ammo storage.

Even if you are fit the reloading can use muscles that are not used as much normally. Work into it more slowly. With time will come volume and not hurting.

Honest if you plan to run the tumbler while in the garage for any length of time wear ear protection. It is no fun to have your ears ring constantly and have hearing loss. I am an example so please learn from my mistakes.

Good luck and remember it is a hobby in itself so do not make it an unwanted chore by doing so much you do not enjoy it

[Sapperforward]

Well for the next day or two I won't be washing brass for sure. I took my tumbler apart to weld some bungs on the bottom for ajustable legs and primer and painted the frame. I'll probably reassemble it tonight or Sunday.



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[Calguns77]

Honest if you plan to run the tumbler while in the garage for any length of time wear ear protection. It is no fun to have your ears ring constantly and have hearing loss. I am an example so please learn from my mistakes.

Throwing a bin over your tumbler can help with the noise also.

[Jason_2111]

Dude, you need to free up some time and put up a gofundme page and make this a reality.



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Lol... I'm in the middle of building 5 case annealing machines, with probably another dozen after those. Once that is done, I'll give the decappomatic another look.

[kalapa]

You're over working yourself, but I think that's normal since your psyched about prepping for your first reloading setup.

I did the same thing.. but worse. I used a socket set, hammer, and punch, to manually deprime about 3k brass pieces to prep for reloading :O

[Sapperforward]

Lol

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[Rgarbarino]

Stop doing that! It's a huge waste of time! There's no reason to use a universal decapper on pistol brass. Use your sizer, you gotta do that step anyway.

But then you are sizing dirty cases!

Sure you might have carbide dies but I find it much better to decap, wet tumble the size, bell, etc....

[Rgarbarino]

And I just decap the rounds I've fired after a range trip. Keeps the decapping to a minimum and when I get a big enough batch I wet tumble them. I too have bins with cases in different stages of prep. Right now I only load 223, 9 and 45 so it's not a ton of stuff.

[TomReloaded]

But then you are sizing dirty cases!

Sure you might have carbide dies but I find it much better to decap, wet tumble the size, bell, etc....

You can clean them first if you want. A dirty primer pocket doesn't have anything to do with sizing though.

[Sapperforward]

I plan to start reloading in .380, 9, .40 and 45 immediately after I pick up my machine. By the end of the year I want to be reloading .223, .308 and 300 blackout as well. I'm sure I can meet my goal if I stay focused.

Life goals.



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[Bigedski]

If all your doing is decapping Your adding a step in the process that you don't need.

[Sapperforward]

How so? I'm wet tumbling. Decapping is the first step. What would you do?

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[SixPointEight]

How so? I'm wet tumbling. Decapping is the first step. What would you do?

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You can wet tumble with primers in. But I choose not to.

Some people like to minimize steps. Some people enjoy the process of reloading and don't mind a couple extra steps.

I'm with you OP. Decap, stainless tumble, then load as normal