Nice job on this video especially explaining all you've done. I was wondering if you could have used a lube pad and fully lubricated the shell cases instead of just the neck and shoulders? Too bad you couldn't have used the cases as primed with simply neck sizing them instead. Maybe load them 10% below the starting load listing and then fire formed them in the rifle. At any rate, I enjoyed this video and have a project where I need to load some .243 for a friend. Thanks for sharing and all your detailed work!
Worst case scenario, the primer goes off into the closed sizing die. Loud noise for sure, primer might fly down the press ram (and out the back, away from me in the case of my particular press.) No big deal. But I purposely sized with a gentle press, not a fast impact. So it wasn’t luck that none went off, but rather intentional care.
This was filmed at a time (peak of C19 component shortages) that new .243 brass was completely unavailable. This brass was all I could find at the time. Thanks for watching!
You know 10 minutes before you even did anything except talk you don't try editing video and I'm sure you could tell by the price of what you paid for those brass it was going to be a mess
I have used hornady dies for 9mm and have loaded over 20k in the last 10 years and have been very satisfied. Good video thanks for posting.
Nice job on this video especially explaining all you've done. I was wondering if you could have used a lube pad and fully lubricated the shell cases instead of just the neck and shoulders? Too bad you couldn't have used the cases as primed with simply neck sizing them instead. Maybe load them 10% below the starting load listing and then fire formed them in the rifle. At any rate, I enjoyed this video and have a project where I need to load some .243 for a friend. Thanks for sharing and all your detailed work!
you got a lot of balls de priming and sizing on a live primer !
Worst case scenario, the primer goes off into the closed sizing die. Loud noise for sure, primer might fly down the press ram (and out the back, away from me in the case of my particular press.) No big deal. But I purposely sized with a gentle press, not a fast impact. So it wasn’t luck that none went off, but rather intentional care.
Save the original primers for sighter/fireform loads. They will reseat and function fine. With today’s situation, never toss primers.
I have saved them for exactly that!
I like 2.71
I have a question, whenever you removed the primers from the 243 cased couldn't you have reused them?
I saved them! I’ll use them for a plinking load at some point.
Just buy new brass Mate.. Look after it and you`ll get 10 to 20 loads out of it (accept for Winchester and Remington).
This was filmed at a time (peak of C19 component shortages) that new .243 brass was completely unavailable. This brass was all I could find at the time. Thanks for watching!
Brass was stepped on at range?
Interesting brass issues. I have never purchased processed and primed brass. Is the variation typical or is this just from this vendor?
I’ve never purchased pull-downs before, so I’m not sure. I have bought once-fired stuff before though and never had this much trouble.
Why don't you just use your powder dispenser
You could of fire form them with those primers
True! I thought about that but didn’t think it was worth the powder.
consider yourself a lucky hack.
You know 10 minutes before you even did anything except talk you don't try editing video and I'm sure you could tell by the price of what you paid for those brass it was going to be a mess