Posted on 12/27/2017 10:38:37 AM PST by fella
Richard Brown spends hours in his Shepherd basement most days, pulling the lever on his loading press over and over at a steady pace. Each movement drops a brass pistol or rifle casing with a fresh primer onto an assembly line, fills another casing with powder and seats a bullet on a casing already filled with powder to complete the cartridge.
The assembly line rotates. The completed cartridge drops into a bin with other finished rounds. Another pull of the lever advances each of the casings to the next stage. It’s a simple procedure and a source of relaxation for Brown.
His hobby-turned-business pumps out thousands of rounds of ammunition every week, completing orders from across the country and occasionally bulk purchases from local law enforcement agencies.
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Do the sheep ever knock over his reloading supplies?
I know many folks that reload..and reload a lot. But there are only a couple of em that I would trust their finished products in my gun. IMHO, there’s just too much liability in it to do as a business. One accidental double-charge that causes someone grevious injury and it’s lawsuit city.
For later.
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I only reload for myself and only the cartridges that are easy, .45ACP, .45LC, .45-70 Govt, .30-30.
Sounds like a much better use of time and resources than watching the (F)NFL.
As someone who has reloaded for forty years I can state that the reloader has to be focused and alert, especially when using a progressive press. Regards.
He could probably make some pretty good money manufacturing hard to find calibers.
He could probably make some pretty good money manufacturing hard to find calibers.
He does. He has the customers buy and send him the dies which he sends back with the order.
More danger in squib loads that get stuck half way down the barrel
Like Martini-Henry .577/.450
$7 per round, sold-out.
sounds like a good deal
I have been reloading since the mid-1960’s. I reload for everything I shoot. Also cast the bullets for many of them. I form cases for a few of them. Cost per shot ranges from about 15 cents to about 50 cents each.
I have been asked many times to sell some (especially after Sandy Hook), but I have ALWAYS turned them down. I don’t need the liability.
I knew a guy many years ago (Pre Dillon progressive presses) who had a Class 4 license. He and a few other Class 4 licensees got together, bought a farm to shoot on and a Hollywood progressive press to supply their guns. They owned a number of legal machine guns between them. He said that they could afford to buy a farm, machine guns, and a progressive press, but they could NOT afford to feed their guns with store bought ammunition.
I asked him if he could reload 600 of them per hour like the sales literature said. He said that it could be done, but there had to be one guy pulling the handle, one guy loading the primers in the tube, and one guy loading cases into their tube in order to make that happen. Otherwise, the loading was much slower because you had to stop every 10-15 minutes to supply (refill) the machine. Most of the time they had a get-together (a reloading party) to reload their ammunition. Everybody worked. From memory, they only loaded for 9mm and 45ACP.
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That’s a curious-looking set.
No apparent decapper (It must assume you’re using Berdan-primed brass), so that’s another step, it seems to want a different style of press than an RCBS.
To say nothing of finding brass.
Merits looking into, though.
Seems like having a post loading go-nogo scale would catch both double charge and squib loads. Thoughts?
This here is M-A-A-A-N-tana.
Sometimes you knocks the sheep over, sometimes the sheep knocks over you!
http://skyhorsepublishing.com/titles/8745-9781632202871-shooters-bible-guide-to-handloading
that will give you a good start.
Hand loading/reloading ammunition is not the least bit difficult. It does require careful inspection of all components, and a certain amount of concentration when measuring powder and performing the other steps.
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