Gary Reeder
you guys that hate the thought of loading 200
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 11:20

rounds of ammo for the weekend shooting, take a look at what John Taffin does in his spare time..

I've taken advantage of the lockdown stay at home to finally attack three five-gallon buckets of spent .45 ACP brass accumulated over the past couple years. They've all been sorted by headstamp plus some older ones and those with
small primer pockets tossed in the recycle box. I wound up with a total of 5,250 usable rounds. Turning to the RockChucker each one was individually sized and de-primed using the Lee Undersized Carbide Sizing Die, they were then
just barely kissed on the case mouth with the Lee Universal Expander to allow bullets to be seated without opening up the case mouth enough to lessen the bullet pull, and then all primed one at a the time using the RCBS Bench-
Mounted Priming Tool. Adding that all up comes to 21,000 separate operations. The next step is to charge them with powder, seat the bullet, and then use the Lee Factory Crimp Die. That will add 15,750 more individual operations for
a total of 36,750. If I had figured this out before hand those three buckets would still probably be full of spent brass. But I will have a large supply of perfect rounds when I am finished. Doing the same with over 700 rounds of
.45 Auto Rim brass. My two daughters and granddaughter insist I not leave the house until this crisis is over and they are doing all the grocery shopping so I will abide by their rules. For now. GOOD SHOOTIN' AND GOD BLESS, JOHN