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Jumping Frog wrote:

RX8er wrote:Interesting about the depriming. The more I read, the more people I see that deprime and resize and then measure. Since I have a progressive and no other presses, I guess I could run brass through the deprime and then through the resizing.

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loneranger4x4 wrote:in most cases, resize and deprime are the same step.

I ran 300 case of .44 mag through stations 1 & 2 today. Station one deprimes, station two resizes. When they got to station 3, I pulled them out.

Then I trimmed and chamfered all of them. Now I have 300 cases prepped and ready to reload.

loneranger4x4, I use a universal de-priming die in Station one and then the resizing die (with depriming pin removed) in Station two because Station two is where the case is primed on my press. By resizing in Station two, it holds the case firmly and repeatedly in the identical position for every case, thus making the priming a more repeatable process. I could be fooling myself, but it works for me.

I know most people don't trim straightwall pistol cases, but I like to trim revolver cases to the same length so that the bullet is always consistently seated in the crimping groove. I don't bother trimming semiauto straightwall pistol cartridges.

That's Why I said Most, there have been cases where I removed the depriming pin from the die and only used the resizing, but Personally I havent found a need in my process to make it a seperate step. I only mentioned that because I the OP sounded new to reloading rifle cartridges and I did't want them to think that it had to be a seperate step. I still don't understand the reasoning behind what you are doing, probably because I use a single stage press, but it's like you said, "it works for me" and that is the key. find the process that works best for you and stick with it.

in most cases, resize and deprime are the same step.

RX8er wrote: So, here is my process I am working up in my head:

1. Tumble brass
2. Inspect and measure for max length
2a. Too long = pile for trimming
3. Put wax on fingers and on each neck apply very little as loaded
4. Place brass on carrier
a. deprime
b. prime
c. powder
d. bullet
e. crimp
5. Check length
6. Clean wax off?
7. Storage

if you are loading for accuracy then you will probably want to add a few steps in there.
1. Tumble brass
2. Put wax on fingers and on each neck apply very little as loaded
3. De-Prime and resize (full length resize if this brass did not come out of the gun you are loading for, and neck resizing if it was previously fired in the gun you were loading for)
4. Inspect and measure for max length
5. find the shortest case and trim all to match
6. debur and chamfer case mouth
7. clean and uniform primer pockets
9. prime
10. powder (not sure how accurate your powder thrower is, but I usually do this off the press and measure each charge to within .01 of a grain)
11. bullet
12. crimp
13. Check length ( I only do this on the first couple of rounds then about every 10th round afterwards)

there are a few more steps that are done which some say are unnecessary like
weighing and seperating the bulletts
weighing and seperating the brass
deburing the flash hole
checking each round for straightness
i am sure that there are some more that I can't think of right now.

But if you are just loading for something like a semi auto or for plinking rounds, you should change your pattern up a little to make sure you a least resize before you check the length. full length resizing will change the length of the brass.

this is just the way I do things and in no way am I implying it's "the only / best way" just some suggestions.