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<blockquote data-quote="BillNye" data-source="post: 2615798" data-attributes="member: 114642"><p>This is very much just my approach and is by no means universal but my order of operations is:</p><p></p><p>1. Deprime on press with universal depriming die.</p><p>2. Wet tumble with stainless steel media, a couple squirts of dish detergent, and 1/4 tsp citric acid powder (removes copper oxides from brass)</p><p>3. Anneal neck/shoulder</p><p>4. Lubricate brass</p><p>5. Size brass (die set to .003" shoulder bump). There's tons of ways to do this. Some rifles I use a body die + Lee collet die to size the body and neck separately, some just get run through a full length sizing die, some get run through a shoulder bump neck bushing die then expanded using a mandrel to set tension. I'm sure there's more ways to do it as well. </p><p>6. Wash brass to remove lubricant</p><p>7. Trim any over-length brass to SAAMI max length.</p><p>8. Chamfer inside of case mouth</p><p>9. Prime brass</p><p>10. Lubricate case mouth with graphite dry lube. </p><p>11. Throw powder charge -1gr from dispenser</p><p>12. Weigh on beam scale and trickle until desired weight is achieved, sometimes I have to use tweezers to add or remove a few granules of powder</p><p>13. Seat bullets a few thousandths long</p><p>14. Measure CBTO</p><p>15. Adjust micrometer seating die to seat bullet to desired CBTO (accounts for variation in ogive between bullets)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillNye, post: 2615798, member: 114642"] This is very much just my approach and is by no means universal but my order of operations is: 1. Deprime on press with universal depriming die. 2. Wet tumble with stainless steel media, a couple squirts of dish detergent, and 1/4 tsp citric acid powder (removes copper oxides from brass) 3. Anneal neck/shoulder 4. Lubricate brass 5. Size brass (die set to .003" shoulder bump). There's tons of ways to do this. Some rifles I use a body die + Lee collet die to size the body and neck separately, some just get run through a full length sizing die, some get run through a shoulder bump neck bushing die then expanded using a mandrel to set tension. I'm sure there's more ways to do it as well. 6. Wash brass to remove lubricant 7. Trim any over-length brass to SAAMI max length. 8. Chamfer inside of case mouth 9. Prime brass 10. Lubricate case mouth with graphite dry lube. 11. Throw powder charge -1gr from dispenser 12. Weigh on beam scale and trickle until desired weight is achieved, sometimes I have to use tweezers to add or remove a few granules of powder 13. Seat bullets a few thousandths long 14. Measure CBTO 15. Adjust micrometer seating die to seat bullet to desired CBTO (accounts for variation in ogive between bullets) [/QUOTE]
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