BullyDog Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 (edited) I think I just spent 8 hours to prep 500 ".223" cases for reloading. These cases been setting around dirty for 20 years, they where almost dark gray from dirt, dust and old burnt gun powder. They spent 4 hours in the media tumbler and that was just to remove the dirt and grim, 2 hours in the wet stainless tumbler, "looks like new now" and 2 hours resize, trim and case lube cleaning. Makes for a long day. Edited March 29, 2012 by BullyDog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coleman Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 With a dillon 650 with carbide dies and a dillon RT1200 case trimmer i can do 250 cases in under 9 minutes. 20 cases a minute with the dillon primer swager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Religious Shooter Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 650 w/case feeder. Not rushing and for blasting ammo for 500 cases: Put in the tumbler... (exclude time for tumbling) take out of the tumbler and dump the media from the cases... put in box and lube... 30 minutes Put in case feeder and pull the handle... 1hr 15 minutes Put in the tumbler... (exclude time for tumbling) take out of the tumbler and dump the media from the cases... put in can... 20 minutes So 2-2.5 hours excluding tumbling time for 500 cases. If you include tumbling time, if the cleaning media is new, I would do 30 minutes for the intial cleaning then about 10 minutes for the second tumbling. My tumbler's capacity is about 200. So 2.5x40minutes = 1hr 40 min. So I'd say 4-5.5 hours with breaks. If you add set up time for the press that adds .5-1 hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcracco Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 You didn't spend 8 hours prepping, rather the cases took 8 hours to be prepped. Unless you were sitting there watching the tumbler the whole time. Where you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round_Gun_Shooter Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 10 days, 5200 cases and all it took me was a trip to the post office with 2 large flat rate boxes I don't own a trimmer, I don't own a swage for primer pockets but the brass came back like new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basman Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 10 days, 5200 cases and all it took me was a trip to the post office with 2 large flat rate boxes I don't own a trimmer, I don't own a swage for primer pockets but the brass came back like new Care to share your secret? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel1212 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 10 days, 5200 cases and all it took me was a trip to the post office with 2 large flat rate boxes I don't own a trimmer, I don't own a swage for primer pockets but the brass came back like new Care to share your secret? He shipped it off to somebody to be processed. Its what I did last time as well. Just get it in and load it up like pistol ammo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round_Gun_Shooter Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 10 days, 5200 cases and all it took me was a trip to the post office with 2 large flat rate boxes I don't own a trimmer, I don't own a swage for primer pockets but the brass came back like new Care to share your secret? LINK Danny is a great guy to deal with. Fast, fair, and easy. 10 days round trip and it was delivered back to my house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullyDog Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 You didn't spend 8 hours prepping, rather the cases took 8 hours to be prepped. Unless you were sitting there watching the tumbler the whole time. Where you? Your right, the cases took this long just to get clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskapopo Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 (edited) 650 w/case feeder. Not rushing and for blasting ammo for 500 cases: Put in the tumbler... (exclude time for tumbling) take out of the tumbler and dump the media from the cases... put in box and lube... 30 minutes Put in case feeder and pull the handle... 1hr 15 minutes Put in the tumbler... (exclude time for tumbling) take out of the tumbler and dump the media from the cases... put in can... 20 minutes So 2-2.5 hours excluding tumbling time for 500 cases. If you include tumbling time, if the cleaning media is new, I would do 30 minutes for the intial cleaning then about 10 minutes for the second tumbling. My tumbler's capacity is about 200. So 2.5x40minutes = 1hr 40 min. So I'd say 4-5.5 hours with breaks. If you add set up time for the press that adds .5-1 hour. I just started recently trimming all my brass each time with my Dillon trimmer. I can trim it as fast as I can pull the handle so I would say about 600 rounds an hour. So 500 rounds trimmed and polished not counting time in tumbler about 1 hour. I used to just trim the brass on the third cycle but it got too hard to keep track expecially with other peoples brass getting mixed in. Pat Edited April 6, 2012 by Alaskapopo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullyDog Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 650 w/case feeder. Not rushing and for blasting ammo for 500 cases: Put in the tumbler... (exclude time for tumbling) take out of the tumbler and dump the media from the cases... put in box and lube... 30 minutes Put in case feeder and pull the handle... 1hr 15 minutes Put in the tumbler... (exclude time for tumbling) take out of the tumbler and dump the media from the cases... put in can... 20 minutes So 2-2.5 hours excluding tumbling time for 500 cases. If you include tumbling time, if the cleaning media is new, I would do 30 minutes for the intial cleaning then about 10 minutes for the second tumbling. My tumbler's capacity is about 200. So 2.5x40minutes = 1hr 40 min. So I'd say 4-5.5 hours with breaks. If you add set up time for the press that adds .5-1 hour. I just started recently trimming all my brass each time with my Dillon trimmer. I can trim it as fast as I can pull the handle so I would say about 600 rounds an hour. So 500 rounds trimmed and polished not counting time in tumbler about 1 hour. I used to just trim the brass on the third cycle but it got too hard to keep track expecially with other peoples brass getting mixed in. Pat Me and my buddy punched out about 2500 cases of 223 last weekend using a 550 setup with a dillon case trimmer in 3 hours. Bought some dirty real dirty brass at the big Reno show yesterday, and man this stuff is old and dirty. The brass was marked SEARS, how long has it been since Sears was making brass? Well this brass took about 6 hours to shine up in both corn and stainless media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mervalus Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 I am not understanding all the fuss about trimming 223 cases .After shooting, cleaning Depriming and sizing my cases , I have , after measuring the case , seldom found case length variations enough to have to trim them. Even after sizing they still fit perfectly in the case gauge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxerglocker Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I am not understanding all the fuss about trimming 223 cases .After shooting, cleaning Depriming and sizing my cases , I have , after measuring the case , seldom found case length variations enough to have to trim them. Even after sizing they still fit perfectly in the case gauge Do you actually case gauge every single case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhenry132 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 15 mins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 (edited) Me and my buddy punched out about 2500 cases of 223 last weekend using a 550 setup with a dillon case trimmer in 3 hours. You must have stereo equipped earmuffs too. I don't dry tumble then wet, just chunk them in the SS tumbler and go, in and out takes up 15 min of my time. I don't watch them spin or dry though. Size/deprime and trim on a 650, with lubing, filling up the case feeder it generally comes out to 1500 an hour or less if I stop for beer. Annealing generally runs around 2-3 seconds per case but I have a case feeder on my annealer so it too is just a fill up turn on and walk away job. The 1050 swages them so that doesn't add any prep time but I do post load tumble and casegauge every round I shoot in competition. Edited February 19, 2013 by jmorris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickpony Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I hate prepping rifle brass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfish Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Case prep on a single stage, I do it in batches set up tools once for each task. Tumble lot (bucket) a day or days, then resize/deprime on another day, case gage another day, trim. When I feel like it I sort by headstamp. After all of these I got a lot that is ready for the 650. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullyDog Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 Well since I posted this, I done all my prep work on my only 550. Since then I upgraded to a 1050, and now I can do all this in a snap. Just did about 1500 cases in a few hours now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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