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Originally Posted by Eternal_SiR
yeah thats the hard part, finding the perfect seating depth. When i first started reloading, i tried to copy factory ammo recicpe, same powder, same grains, and same bullets. Then took calipers to see how far OACL was and tried my best to match. Which turret did you go with? What are you using to clean your brass? I use an ultrasonic cleaner. I have 2 sizes, a big and small, small one does about a batch of 400 9mm. the big brother does about 1500 .308 brass
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Seating depth and then crimp die settings were the hardest to get just right but once you get it figured out it is pretty straight forward. I am just reloading for my revolver right now, so OAL is not as important as a semi-auto or rifle. Once I feel confident with some more rounds then I will read and take on reloading my 7mm MAG rifle rounds, I have several hundred cleaned brass ready to go.
For cleaning I just bought a Frankford Arsenal EZ Tumbler. Using corn media and a little polish - the casings looked new even after running 800 cases through them. Ran each batch for 3-4 hours. Cheap and easy. For reloading I went with the Lee Classic Turret set-up. Everything about the kit is good except the scale - I need a better scale and preferably a digital one - I'm going to look into that ASAP.
Just got back from the range and all 60 rounds of .38 SPL fired as expected. I still have all my fingers.
I will reload a bunch more and then get into some hotter loads of .357. The wad cutters were not as accurate as the jacketed rounds, but I will play with the loads a bit to see if I can balance that out.