What loading process do you no longer do?

[BenPerfected]

I stopped turning brass cases into jewelry. Ok, I never even started. But if I had, I would have stopped, does that count?
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Just stay focused on make great bullets!

 

[JLT]

Stop neck sizing * snip *

^^^^^^^ This!!! ^^^^^^^^

I full length resize everything, every time now.

 

[Metal God]

my process is much different for my hunting rifles than my bench guns.

with my bench guns i try everything from sorting brass and bullets, pointing and trimming, neck turning, custom sizing dies, wilson seaters with 21st century hydro press, using adam's autotrickler, sorting by seating effort and concentricity, small incremental improvments in group size at each evolution of my reloading education.

still trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.

The OP's question is what do you no longer do ? So I have to assume by your quote above that you have found none of them to be less important or no longer seem to help and do all of those things all the time every time . While at the same time adding other things from time to time to that very long procedure ??

Me ? I no longer weigh rifle charges to the kernel . If I'm inside .1gr it's good enough .
I no longer wait for my beam scale to completely stop moving . Over the years I've learned what's going to be dead zero just by it's movement when it slows down .
I no longer trim my 9mm and 45acp brass .
I no longer use a feeler gauge under the case when FL sizing bottle neck cases to get all them sized exactly the same . I now use the Redding comp shell holders
I no longer inspect each piece of brass with a magnifying glass for defects .
I no longer use the RCBS press mount swaging tool . I now cut out all crimped primer pockets .
I no longer use Oneshot as my case lube . I now use the home made lanolin mixture .

You know , when I really think about it . The list of things I no longer do could go on and on so I'll stop there .

 

[eric n]

I haven't checked seating concentricity in a long time. The runout boogeyman doesn't scare me anymore.

 

[dmoran]

• Stopped taking steps and process' for granted. Everything has to be tested.
• Stopped neck sizing only, many, many, years ago.... a myth.
• Stopped worrying about over working brass and/or necks.... more myth
• Stopped using tight-necks.... no gains, only more risks
• Stopped making ammo with runout.... find the cause & remedy it
• Stopped thinking I knew where the lands are, without using the "stripped bolt method"
• Stopped getting as bad of fliers after paying more attention to primers
  • Stopped tumbling - does not clean interior, which is what matters
  • Started ultra-sonic cleaning once a year, cleans the interior (after they oxidate all winter)
• Started sterilizing them after ultra-sonic cleaning - boiling water for 20-minutes
• Stopped believing “off the shelf dies” are comparable to customs.
• Stopped taking for granted shell-holders are flat - surface grind mine to .115" deck height
• Stopped believing anyone's input on barrel cleaning that does not own/use a bore-scope.
• Stopped using JB and switched to IOSSO
• Stopped using Kroil for anything, after using bore-scopes.
• Stopped thinking I hated girls, after the 6th grade!!!

Better stop there...lol
Donovan
PS..... okay to question my inputs, but please PM me instead of starting a pissing match here

 

[Scott Harris]

I stopped wet tumbling, life is so much better now!

 

[JohnKielly]

Buy inexpensive poor quality components.

 

[Davidb187]

Stop listening to all the internet bull and only listening to what i can see with my own eyes..
Even the girl who can.... Ah... Forget it...

 

[chop house]

great thread

 

[kountryboy2]

Cleaning brass and primer pockets.

 

[Raythemanroe]

I don't check run out like maybe in the past..


Ray

 

[geraldgee]

I stopped wet tumbling, life is so much better now!

+1 on the no longer SS wet tumbling. I have however added using an old primer pocket uniforming tool to clean out primer pockets set to clean the powder residue and not recut the pocket - so far its worked well for me.

 

[Toolbreaker]

Stop neck sizing about 10 years ago. I use to believe the myth that neck sizing prolonged case life and improved accuracy.

^^^. I used to be a rabid neck-sizer until I made myself run honest comparisons between the processes. My Lee collet dies haven't been used by their selves in a good long while now.

 

[Barlow]

Donovan, What's the problem with Kroil? Barlow

 

[Medic505]

I stopped giving advice. Seems I was always wrong anyway, and got tired of getting beat up for it.....

 

[people]

I stopped using molly. I do use HBN but not on everything.

 

[people]

Stop neck sizing about 10 years ago. I use to believe the myth that neck sizing prolonged case life and improved accuracy.

After 10 years of full sizing with a .001 to .002" shoulder bump I can say for certain that case life has not been reduce or has accuracy been reduced by full sizing but most importantly my reloads chamber without any problems, an important consideration for hunter.

Switched from Hornady One Shot lube to Imperial sizing wax for case lube about four years ago. Imperial is perfect for me. I'm still on the same can I purchased four years ago and I reload about a thousand rifle rounds a year. Applied correctly you'll never experience a stuck case and its considerably cheaper that One Shot.

It would be odd to have just match rifles.

 

[ireload2]

I measure my chamber lengths so I know how long the brass can get and still be safe. So I no longer trim very much. Trimming is only done if the cases are uneven or approach max length. With careful sizing they rarely need trimming.

Stopped tumbling brass except to rehab large lots of range brass or other corroded brass.
Cases cleaned in Birchwood Casey Case Cleaner seem to stay tarnish free forever.

I prep cases and store them. So I never load until I am going to shoot.
That minimizes inventory of primers and powder tied up.

Priming on a press is a poor method and I stopped that about 50 years ago.

I stopped knocking out primers on my presses about 50 years ago. No more spent primer primer trash around my presses. No more bent pins and decapping rods.

No more second rate dies. Bye bye Herters,, Lyman and Lee..

No weighing powder charges with anything electronic.

Bye bye to most ball powders when I got an Autoscale.

Bye bye to powder companies that sourced each batch from a different country.

 

[1K6BRA]

I have eliminated the process of being frustrated and bored out of my gourd trimming my cases after purchasing a Giraud case trimmer. I actually look forward to the process now!

 

[Joe Salt]

Barlow I'm with you been using Kroil for years Donovan must have gotten it on his bore scope.

Joe Salt