Initial case prep on Startind .223 brass.

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Opened a new 1K bag of Starline .223 brass. Initial prep includes de-burring and unitizing the flash holes, run a tapered carbide neck mandrel for a .003 tension, trim and mouth prep with a Giraud trimmer, weight sort and bag for 1 gn or closer segregation. Whatta Hobby!

 

 

 

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Finished up the last of them a few minutes ago and weight sorted to 1 gn for now. Weight on Starline was all between 93 and 95 so pretty good to start. Whatta Hobby!

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Finished up segregating into .1 gn bags today. Majority of the brass is within .5 gn centered at 94. gn Whatta Hobby!

 

 

 

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Prepping new Starline .223 brass today. When received some time ago it was sorted into .1 gn lots. Pulled out 150 of the 93.9 gn bag for 3 range boxes and set the neck tension at .002. Will be loading with 73 gn Berger's over 24 gn of IMR-8208 using BR-4 primers. This load had been running at 2850 in the past out of my Savage 110 bolt rifle with a 26" Criterion 1-7 varmint profile barrel. Whatta Hobby!