Easier ways to process 5.56 brass

[sniper7]

I've been doing this shit by hand and am about tired of it. I need something easier. The trimming is what is getting me. I have several thousand cases in need of trimming and doing them one at a time on my cordless drill is getting old real fast.

what are the most economical yet easier ways to trim brass you guys are using? I don't shoot a ton of ammo, but shoot enough that reloading has saved me a ton if money over the years. I don't mind doing everything by hand for my hunting calipers as I don't shoot much of those, but my ars can eat up ammo like crazy and I can never have enough.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

If you give them to me, pay me, and pay Jim, I'll run em through his 1050.

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[rondog]

I have a Giraud trimmer, and it'll go through brass like shit through a goose. Trims to length, and chamfers the inside and outside all in one shot. They're not cheap, but I hate doing it the hard way. Being able to do all three operations in a couple of seconds is worth it to me.

I hate to trim a few hundred, then have to chamfer the insides, then the outsides. With arthritic thumbs, that really sucks. So the high upfront cost was worth it to me. And it can be setup to run damn near any tapered rifle cases pretty easily.

[Danimal]

WFT seems to work well for me. I want the Giraud really bad, but not bad enough to throw down the cash. Once you get out ahead of it a little bit it is not too bad. I have a couple thousand all done and ready to load, and I only process brass when I feel like it.

[obawon]

RCBS X-die....just trim once

[dmeis]

I use the RCBS 3 way trimmer. It was very economical but still requires you trim one at a time. The advantage is that it trims, chamfers, and deburs all in one step.

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[sniper7]

WFT seems to work well for me. I want the Giraud really bad, but not bad enough to throw down the cash. Once you get out ahead of it a little bit it is not too bad. I have a couple thousand all done and ready to load, and I only process brass when I feel like it.

While the giraud looks absolutely awesome, there is no way I'm going to pay that much. I'm way too cheap.

the WFT looks awesome and 223 is really the only thing I load rifle caliber wise that I would want something like this for. The others can be done by hand no problem. with the WFT, do you have issues with the chamfering and deburring? It looks like it does a good job in a couple videos I watched. And the length seemed to be really precise on multiple cases.

[scratchy]

I use a WFT on a 1/4 HP motor with a 5/8 shaft. Get a shopsmith/Jacobs chuck for the motor and you're good to go. My setup looks just like this one:

http://s1173.photobucket.com/user/ch...3192f.jpg.html

[ray1970]

If I had a bucket load of brass to process I'd just pay Hoser to do it for me.

[Hoser]

If I had a bucket load of brass to process I'd just pay Hoser to do it for me.

Happens just like that pretty often.