Outsourced rifle brass processing?

[NiteQwill]

Shooting/hunting season is here and honestly, I rather spend time behind the gun than process an ungodly amount of brass. I just cleaned/deprimed/sized about 10K of .45 ACP and my head was about to explode just thinking of my rifle ammo process.

Doug at DC Ammo no longer does brass processing, anyone else out there you guys can recommend?

I have about 5000 .223 brass I want resized, trimmed, and swaged...

[anyracoon]

Might check out Mattman. He did some brass processing for me last year. Here is a link to his old thread,http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s...d.php?t=245023, he is located in Arcadia.

[shooterbill]

I don't think Matt does it anymore. Put an ad in the reloading sales thread.

[cpatbay]

Outsourcing to Foxconn in China???

[elhefe50ss]

I have a friend in placerville that is very resonable pm me ill get u his number

[NiteQwill]

Just FYI...

Anyone that is interested, I found that Danny of Custom Brass Processing is back in business after his health issues earlier this year. Just sent him 4000 rounds, turnaround time is 10 calendar days.

He cleans, deprimes, sizes, swage, and high polish.

[Colt562]

Just FYI...

Anyone that is interested, I found that Danny of Custom Brass Processing is back in business after his health issues earlier this year. Just sent him 4000 rounds, turnaround time is 10 calendar days.

He cleans, deprimes, sizes, swage, and high polish.

does he also trim? and could you pm me his rates.

[BenHa]

does he also trim? and could you pm me his rates.

http://www.custombrassprocessing.com/

[Colt562]

thanks

[ExtremeX]

does he also trim? and could you pm me his rates.

[NiteQwill]

Here is an easy way to figure out how much 223 ammo you have according to weight:

(Take you number of measure pounds x 16) / 0.215 = estimated rounds

Example: 45 lbs * 16 / 0.215 = 3348 rounds

[ar15barrels]

But after that 6-7k, you would still have to keep paying for the service, where if you had the tools yourself, there's only the cost of power which is really minimal in the grand scheme of things.

[ExtremeX]

I know… if you have the time then the trimmer makes a lot of sense.

I don’t go hung go processing copious amounts of brass at one time anyways, I process at my leisure, the trimmer would be a better solution for my anyways. But I think it’s nice to see services like this being available for those that want to use it. If time really is money to you then the price isn’t that bad for processing.

[ar15barrels]

I know… if you have the time then the trimmer makes a lot of sense.

I don’t go hung go processing copious amounts of brass at one time anyways, I process at my leisure, the trimmer would be a better solution for my anyways. But I think it’s nice to see services like this being available for those that want to use it. If time really is money to you then the price isn’t that bad for processing.

I have a 650 dedicated to trimming and sizing 223.
It runs about 800 rounds per hour and that's a leisurely pace.
That is to decap, lube, size, trim and neck expand.
From there, it goes into a tumbler to remove lube and deburr any flashing left from trimming.
From there it goes into the 1050 to decap again (walnut media in flash hole), swage primer pocket, prime, charge, seat & crimp.

[ExtremeX]

I have a 650 dedicated to trimming and sizing 223.
It runs about 800 rounds per hour and that's a leisurely pace.
That is to decap, lube, size, trim and neck expand.
From there, it goes into a tumbler to remove lube and deburr any flashing left from trimming.
From there it goes into the 1050 to decap again (walnut media in flash hole), swage primer pocket, prime, charge, seat & crimp.

I hope this isn’t a thread jack but I figure I ask it here… as we are on the topic of bulk case prep.

Let me ask you a question about the Dillon 1200 trimmer, as everyone seems to have their own tricks when using it. I plan on using the trimmer on a progressive but I’m thinking about how to setup my dies.

Maybe you can clear up some things I see floating around the internet.

Do you, can you, or should you FL size before it hits the Dillon trimmer? Looks like some people do.

Some people like to neck size to remove inside neck burs after trimming; good or bad idea?

Some people use a Lee collet neck sizing die since they say the Dillon trimming sizing die neck sizes on the smaller side. Do you see any validity in this?

This is how think I want to setup my dies on my RCBS Pro 2000.
Station 1 (Lee universal decapping)
Station 2 (RCBS Lube Die)
Station 3 Fixed Station – Dillon trimmer installed here since it’s a fixed station with no chance die plate slop
Station 4 or 5 – Neck Sizing or Lee collet neck sizing die. (if needed)