That's all I used for several years when I first started out. A Ramset concrete nail ground down on the end to fit primer pocket flash holes.
To get going I also made many bits and pieces -...
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That's all I used for several years when I first started out. A Ramset concrete nail ground down on the end to fit primer pocket flash holes.
To get going I also made many bits and pieces -...
Yep, all good. No problem depriming and sizing at the same time. I'm guessing 95% of handloaders do that and if using a progressive press that's what happens and the primer pockets most likely get no...
Same sequence I use and probably many others except I've long since given the washing the flick. Just not necessary. Will depnd upon the lube used of course.
Also the way my set up works is I...
1940s CAC Boxer primed? Don't you mean Berdan?
He doesn't actually say the the sizing process doesn't cause alteration in ductility, just the firing process has a more a significant work hardening effect.
However, I have one Ackley chambering....
His article credibility goes out the window with that starting statement methinks.
Always anneal after every firing and b4 any sizing.
I deprime, brush clean inside the neck, clean the outside of the neck and shoulder with Krazy Kloth, clean the primer pocket, and then anneal....