? Most hated job in reloading ?

[DLCTEX]

I'm with 462, I enjoy it all, but I am not a high volume shooter (bolts, levers, single shots), but I shoot a lot of different calibers. When I go prairie dog shooting I usually take 5 or 6 guns and shoot 20-40 rounds from each.My son shoots a AR and he hates the case prep as he will load 500-1000 at a setting.

[ghh3rd]

Getting lots of Lee Alox off of my hands (found that hand lotion works).

[Gunslinger]

For me it's also case preping, especially lubing....

And sorting WWs, that's really a pain... probably because I get so many zinc weights.

[Nora]

Sizing primer pockets. YUK!

[Old Ironsights]

Case Trimming.

[leadeye]

Trimming and smelting.

[mike in co]

with the addition of a lathe, there are no steps that are an issue.....

[dmen]

For me it's driving to Denver to resupply. dmen

[Bladebu1]

Brass prep

[Huntducks]

I too hate trimming cases...

Me three along with sizing cast boolets

[dhoutfit]

Brass prep. is a pain in !!! Theres got to be a better way...

[mtgrs737]

This...Hands down.

+1, I hate trimming cases, but it has to be done.

[putteral]

Besides brass prep does cleaning your guns after a range trip count?

[sheepdog]

It has to be sorting cases after a day at the range. I used to think keeping 38, 357 and 44 mag, 45 Colt seperated was a nightmare untill I added 9X18 to my list.

Try a nice dirty bucket of 380, 9x18, 9x19 and 38 supers. Every single headstamp has to be eyeballed.

Prepping military brass for reloading has to be it. I've only done a little but I can imagine doing thousands of 5.56.

[NuJudge]

. . . by far and away, it's trimming brass, but after spending $400 on a Giraud, it's almost fun.

[jhrosier]

cutting off 30-06 cases with a dremel to make 358 win. there has got to be a better way.....

I bought one of those benchtop mini-lathes for $400 on sale.
It will trim a .223 to .300 Whisper length pretty quick.
I tried the old hacksaw and file on five cases before I got smart.

My most hated job is cleaning off the loading bench.
Mine hasn't been cleaned in a dozen years or so.
I'm considering if it might be less trouble to just build a new one.

Jack

[wiljen]

case forming 357 Herrett and primer pocket swaging

[KYCaster]

Everybody seems to dislike case prep. I don't think it's such a big deal. You don't have to do it for every reload. Except for trimming and annealing it's pretty much a one time thing. Primer pocket swaging, flash hole reaming, neck turning....do it once and you don't have to do it again.

Prepping .223 military brass??? I have a friend who does it 10,000 at a time on a Dillon 1050 with a trimmer die. FL size, swage the primer pocket, trim to length in one stroke. He doesn't mind adding my 1 or 2K.

What I really have a problem with is GAS CHECKS. Every thing about them is repulsive to me. Here you have a nice little cast jewel that's nearly free and before you can use it you have to add a GC that costs you 10X what the boolit did, and it takes twice as long to install the GC as it did to cast the boolit.

Makes me mad just to think about it.

Jerry

[Gunslinger]

Besides brass prep does cleaning your guns after a range trip count?

If you dislike cleaning your gun then I guess it does!

I usually enjoy cleaning guns. But I must admit, after I started using in excess of 300 boolits in my 9mm every saturday, cleaning has become somewhat of a dirty job. The gun gets really greasy.

[JIMinPHX]

What I hate most these days is trying to FIND primers to buy.