OldSchoolRanger

I recently purchased a Giraud after years of suffering thru using the various hand powered (Lee Case length gauges & trimmer, Hornady) brass trimmers, and drill powered (Lee, WFT). Since I only have the Square Deal, and the RL550 reloaders. My rifle reloading routine has been to swage all the military and civilian brass which need swaging with the Dillon SS. Size all brass, run it through the Giraud, then run them thru the loading cycle. I can't complain about the Giraud, it doesn't hurt my hands like the previous types of brass trimmers, and gets the job done fairly quickly. The greatest thing about the Giraud is that it saves me the deburring, and chamfering operation. But it is a little expensive. I have the Giraud set up for the 223 & 308 only, and still use the hand tools to do other rifle calibers.

Hello! from the other OC (Orange County), in NYS. Upstate NY starts here in the Hudson Valley, unfortunately it's still in King Andy Cuomo's state, but fortunately the county isn't as anti-2nd Admt as NYC and it's surrounding counties. When looking for information regarding reloading, somehow I always manage to visit this site. So I decided to join.