Reloading Series, Episode 2- Tools

[@Jeff_Seely]

Thanks my friend. I appreciate the time, effort, and expense involved in producing these videos. Since I have been buying Alpha OCD brass, I have been very happy with how uniform they are , case to case. Good enough to just go right into pocket uniforming and flash hole deburring. Then I just expand the neck out and turn the necks and sometimes not even that is needed. It's really tremendously good brass. They don't have all the case sizes but they have most of the popular ones. Thank you again!

[@RetrieverTrainingAlone]

Excellent! I also prefer a bullet puller that screws on the press...so much easier than the hammer style puller. Measurements: A comparator to measure shoulder bump compared to a fired case when resizing brass and another style for measuring how far the bullet is seated from the lands (Hornady makes both).

[@michaelmuzzy8401]

you serve?

[@hawkeyeammosmithing]

Yep

[@michaelmuzzy8401]

@@hawkeyeammosmithing thank you,you usually can tell.11c 6yrs 11b 3 ,two boots at benning 85+86. started reloading about a year ago and have picked a lot of sites to learn from and see how far you can go,like panhandle precision,tibourrex,vaughn ,fortune cookie 45,gunblue490,and randy shelby,a few others.always looking to learn

[@hawkeyeammosmithing]

michael muzzy I’ve been loading for over 20 years now. I did have a gap in there where I was overseas during my activity duty days. I’m a full time reservist now. Still a crew chief on A-10s. Been doing the same job for over 15 years now. Multiple deployments, blah, blah, blah lol. I got really serious into reloading and the precision side of it about 10 years ago now. A lot of the channels you mentioned have all been ones I’ve kept up with before and during that time. This video series I’m working on and uploading here to KZbin is not a great representation of my experience or background lol. I’m simply making some crude videos for some friends that have requested it. Uploading them to KZbin makes it easy. I am starting a side gun/ammosmithing business that I’ll fall to full time when I retire. I do intend on redoing these videos at some point with better quality eventually, geared more towards that business. Until then, I’ll just keep doing these simple videos shot with my phone lol. I’m not doing this for subs and likes it to try to make some big channel right now lol. I’m just putting out some info is all.

[@hawkeyeammosmithing]

michael muzzy Randy Shelby definitely knows quite a bit, and for anyone that hasn’t put in the time, schooling, and research to experiment keep up with the new and modern methods- the methods all the current pros use, will watch his videos and eat it all up. Hell, 10 years ago I’d be right there myself eating it all up praising him for sharing his experience. Now though, I have a hard time agreeing with a majority of what he says regarding certain topics. He is still stuck in the methods he learned 50 years ago. He also is geared more towards hunting, and close to medium range hunting. I’m a long range hunter as well as a close to medium range hunter. I have put in a lot of time researching, testing, experimenting, etc with bullets, bullet construction/composition, and terminal ballistics. Enough to know there are multiple discrepancies with his broad statements regarding hunting in general. I’m not saying everything he says is wrong though. I’ve also watched a few of his episodes regarding load development there too he has a skewed method. He does things very inefficiently when you look at today’s methods. He is using a method that’s worked for him for a long time, but is simply not the best way to go about it, plus there are errors in what he says is going on. You don’t use SD to determine your accuracy node. You use SD to help you see the consistency you have in your ammo. I will cover these subjects later in my own crude reloading series. Stay tuned for that.

[@michaelmuzzy8401]

@@hawkeyeammosmithing very cool,i'm a builder now,but welded a lot,ran a wash /crushing plant,worked production framing for a while,built my own utra lite and mostly figured out to fly on my own,flyfish and tie my own.bla bla bla ,lol.hands on kind guy .my dad and uncle reloaded a lot his dad trained and smithed for crl robbins's sniper team.so i started to as way to think about them a little.so i set my goals high and it makes /keeps my attention.i have done 3 270,and my 25-06 tc have to get to the 338 win tc,and a couple 308s ,kids guns and famly fun when we can get the time.keep making vids.