Determining COAL: Process question

[Orezona]

Pardon me for not responding to your original thread question(s), but I thought you might find these videos by Eric Cortina helpful and they might give you some answers as well. Using many of his suggestions has simplified my reloading process and improved my handload accuracy.

Finding Jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7vjgEgnhHk

Chasing the Lands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRXlCG9YZbQ

Chasing the Lands Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FKq8Jj8YEI

Setting your Shoulder Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvk1UYOXm8

Seating bullets to final depth before match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43XTH8Pm9yA

Load Development Seating Depth Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFI1DyaBwho

I watch his stuff all the time. Great dude sharing information to everyone.

[daved20319]

Pardon me for not responding to your original thread question(s), but I thought you might find these videos by Eric Cortina helpful and they might give you some answers as well. Using many of his suggestions has simplified my reloading process and improved my handload accuracy.

Finding Jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7vjgEgnhHk

Chasing the Lands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRXlCG9YZbQ

Chasing the Lands Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FKq8Jj8YEI

Setting your Shoulder Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvk1UYOXm8

Seating bullets to final depth before match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43XTH8Pm9yA

Load Development Seating Depth Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFI1DyaBwho

geezerhood, sorry for the late response, looks like good stuff, I'm subscribed to his channel, so thanks.

Robinhood, not concerned with bullet runout at this time, partly because there isn't much I can do about it, and because I feel my process SHOULD help at least reduce it. I FL resize, but with the neck expander button and depriming pin removed. I expand as a separate step using a carbide mandrel. I'm also using a Forster micrometer seating die that fits my bullets well. If results on target show an issue, maybe I'll dive deeper in the rabbit hole with neck turning and/or annealing my brass.

My latest addition to the hand loading tool box is a Frankford Arsenal Rotary Tumbler, but after my first experience with wet tumbling, I'm a long way from sold on the process. Messy, pins are hard to separate from brass, and just generally hard to keep corralled, and drying is just one more time consuming extra step. I can produce useable brass in half the time with my dry tumblers, the only upside I'm seeing so far with the pins is no need to clean primer pockets, with the added bonus of the inside of the cases also getting cleaned, for whatever that's worth. Still need to work on my process, starting with a media separator of some type, just need to figure out which one :rolleyes:. Just not sure I want to add more expense and more equipment eating up my limited space. Later.

Dave

[charlie b]

I like the wet tumbling. I am cleaning brass to get the insides clean. Cleaning the outside is just a nice byproduct. :)

I just use a magnet and dump each case. Probably makes a difference that I don't clean more than 200 cases at a time, and only once a week or less.

[Tempest]

This posted.

Been doing this for years. I could care less what the COAL is. I load base to Ogive and test from jam out to find what barrel likes.