Leave extra room in front of the machine to clamp the board to the bench with a wide-mouth C-clamp. Listen While You Work A lot of bad shells can be caught before they become real problems just by listening to the machine working. The same goes for how each stroke of the handle feels. Watch for these details. Work Slow, Stay Organized I make it a point to set aside time to reload, rather than waiting until 30 minutes before I plan to shoot.
When you rush, mistakes happen, and mistakes made when reloading result in damaged guns or injured people. Finally, keep your work area organized. Have a separate container on the bench for hulls and wads.
Sweep up loose powder. And clean up messes as soon as they happen. The advancement of non-toxic shot has brought the gauge back to the duck blind. Shotgun Shooting Tips. Want more hunting and fishing stories? I then took a rag and rubbed the top portion of the around the rim to take off some of the burnt powder. I then rinsed them off real good and set them out on my loading bench to dry. Figured I'd let them dry for a few days and then store them in containers.
When it comes time to reload I figured I'd have an easier time of it. Now that's funny!! The Lake Fork Marina use to have an aquarium where they had two bass over 15 lb on display I just reload them. If there's a little dirt on the outside I'll wipe it off, but that's it. Good Luck. Jefro Relax-Enjoy. I'm fussy. Only dumpster dive for one fired hulls. Then re-size the head with a MEC Size Master because nearly all chambers are a little different in diameter.
If any of your shells happen to contain a fiber base wad, soaking them in water would make them unusable for reloading. Oh gosh - that sure reminds me when I was shooting skeet - a lot of skeet - maybe 20, targets per year. A fellow shooter always had nicer looking 20 gauge hulls than anyone else.
He finally revealed his secret to us. He put them in a mesh laundry bag and ran them thru the washing machine 1 time with some detergent. After that he place them on a towel and let them air dry over a few days time.
Well, being a single guy, I thought - what the heck. I tried it and things went well at the beginning. I quickly shut it off and examined the situation. The draw string on the mesh bag had wrapped itself around the base of the impeller - so tightly that the whole was bound up - and that caused the problem.
I later re-tied the draw string and tried again - it does work - but more effort than the results warrant. When I shoot trap, my empties never hit the ground, they go straight from the gun into my empties bag.
No need to do anything to a hull that has not hit the ground. No matter how many times it has been reloaded, and how sooty it might get, I just reload them until they won't hold a crimp any more. When I pick up once fired STS hulls from the ground at a cowboy match left behind by shooters who don't reload, as long as they did not land in a mud puddle, they do not need anything else done to them.
If they are dusty I might wipe them off with a cloth, other than that, they go right into my stash of spent STS hulls. I toss the hulls in the separator with an old piece of tee shirt that is just a bit damp with water. A few turns in the separator and the hull are dust free. There are times I will also include a washing static sheet to get the fine dust if the customer is really picky about their hulls.
Years ago I tried washing the hulls but found that even in the summer sun that some hulls would corrode slightly and there would still be water in the hull between the hull outside and the insert at the bottom inside the hull. My personal hulls get wiped down a little as I put them on the press.
I have an old tee shirt on the bench I roll the hulls on. Good enough for me. You can see my media separator here. Brimstone Gazette March I have used a cloth that was kinda soaked with WD40 to wipe off burnt powder..
The rest.. Any stuck on dirt inside and out and the shells goes in the trash. Any inside base wad that even looks like it shifted away from the "metal" base and the shells goes in the trash. Winchester AA. The list goes on. So many different types of reloading components available. They are often great values to buy and shoot once. But low price comes at another cost: They are usually made with a paper insert at the base of the hull.
That insert will eventually detach. Some people say only reload them once. Others say three or four, max. The problem is if the insert detaches when the shell fires, it can lodge in the gun.
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