? Most hated job in reloading ?

[Fire_stick]

Running out of time to load more.

[mdi]

My most hated part of reloading/casting is inspecting the last boolit or cartridge when I'm done. Means I gotta stop...

[deerslayer]

I have seen some saying they hate lubing cases. I am curious if you can buy a dedicated tumbler and add some case lube to the media and tumble. I experimented with some JPW (didn't have any nufinish) and just a tablespoon of that in the walnut really left those cases with a slick waxy film. I had to change the media and retumble them I was afraid they were to slick to shoot.

Trimming is the part that makes me groan!!

[Fly-guy]

Personally, I'd rather eat a really greasy cheeseburger than size and lube boolits through my 450 sizer. Let's see, should we add gas checks to the list too?

[Down South]

Brass Prep, it's the slowest and most grudging task of the reloading process.

[Heavy lead]

putting stuff away, primers, powder, etc. and cleaning the boolit lube off the boolit and case
tedious as hell and IMO worse than the case prep
Oh also finite adjustments to dies and especially progressive presses.

[The Dove]

Sortin bulk brass!!!

The Dove

[BlueSmoke]

Cleaning primer pockets......

Regards,

BlueSmoke

[HangFireW8]

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

For me it is getting 40S&W cases unwedged from 45ACP case mouths after tumbling together in corn media.

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

Had a buddy do that. Put an RCBS 3-way cutter in his drill press, used a Forster case holder with a custom knob handle on the press base, done.

-HF

[Milltown353]

Digging range brass from a couple inches of mud.

[Heavy lead]

Can't forget the shootin', damn shootin' so you can reload again.

[BAGTIC]

# 1. Case trimming.

There is no # 2

[fatnhappy]

worst part to me is digging tumbling media out of the flash holes

[dabsond]

Anything the wife tells me she wants me to do before I start working at the reloading bench.

[knappy]

Standles
I hate preping brass plus triming and cleaning up later

[shootinxd]

Sizing 1k of .223 brass!The rest I enjoy,including casting.I'm still workin on the lead free load.Just part of the fun(sick huh?).

[uncle joe]

Sizing primer pockets. YUK!

thank you I was starting to think I was the only one

[XWrench3]

it has to be getting the dirty wheel weights from the bucket into the smelting pot. it always makes a mess of things, and it is smellier than a pro athlete after a game. i could happilly live without either the smell, or the mess. but, since i am way to cheap to buy already smelted lead (and of unknown oragin), i will live with it best i can.

[SciFiJim]

it is smellier than a pro athlete after a game.

I found a fellow caster from the distinctive aroma once. I was out walking one evening and smelled WWs being melted down. I tracked the smell to someone smelting down a bucket into ingots. It takes someone who knows the smell to be able to identify it and track it down.

[azcruiser]

hardest part for me is the bending to pick up the brass. I don't bend or stoop worth a dam anymore and when I do it's taking longer and longer to straighten up. But it still beats being in the ground