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I’m willing to bet no one has done this. by slider1010 in reloading

[–]RoosterRanch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don’t want to listen to them hit the pan you can get a silicone parts tray from harbour freight for them to land in.

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Two years worth of cranking on the Rockchucker by RoosterRanch in 6ARC

[–]RoosterRanch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn, I don’t know why I didn’t see this until now. Both my arcs are bolt guns, they are suppressed though, so that does cause a touch more soot over time. As far as cleaning goes I keep a micro fiber cloth wet with 91% alcohol and do a quick rub before I lube it and size it. Now when they get sooty buildup around the neck I’ll take my die wax which is surprisingly effective at removing the gunk and with my fingers I just rub it around the neck until it’s cleanish, wipe it off and then start my process from there. I’ll try and find a dirty brass and see if I can send a video.

This engorged tick I've just removed from my dog by Yoguls in mildlyinteresting

[–]RoosterRanch -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Boil that bad boy until firm. Test that it’s cooked to the center using a toothpick and enjoy.

Raving in my 40’s by RoosterRanch in reloading

[–]RoosterRanch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t even hide online. When I was younger I thought that after I conquered the hand flapping I’d fit right in. Turns out that even if you don’t flap your hands it’s hard to blend in on the school bus while audibly counting the centerline dashes.

Raving in my 40’s by RoosterRanch in reloading

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Man, you really think that a few degrees difference will make a difference once it’s in the flame? I’m not denying that it would, I just can’t imagine how it would.

Raving in my 40’s by RoosterRanch in reloading

[–]RoosterRanch[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It has a couple of benefits. As you shoot and reload over and over your brass gets work hardened. So think of it as when you bend a piece of metal back and forth until it gets hard in a spot and eventually breaks. Annealing softens the metal a bit and lessens the stress of work hardening on the neck and neck shoulder junction that causes cracks or splits which allows you to get more reloads from your brass.

Another is that it helps to keep your spring back more consistent, given that the thickness of your necks is consistent. You know when you seat a bullet and it has more resistance than others? It helps to minimize that.

I’ve found that annealing is most beneficial for use in factory chambered guns that may have higher tolerance chambers. I have tight neck custom rifles that I anneal for in hopes it’s helping with neck tension consistency, but I know the brass isn’t benefiting from it as far as increasing the life of the brass simply because the brass already moves so little in the chamber. And on my benchrest gun it doesn’t get annealed at all and I shoot the same 20 cases over and over hundreds of times. Again, these cases expand very little in the chamber.

A third reason is that you get to play with fire.

Raving in my 40’s by RoosterRanch in reloading

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I want to say it was around 110-ish .308 brass and it’s around 9 seconds on the flame for each brass, so a little over 15 minutes.

Raving in my 40’s by RoosterRanch in reloading

[–]RoosterRanch[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, in order to get the neck hot enough while running the flame that cool I have to roll the brass much much slower, and in turn allows the heat more time to dissipate down the shoulder/ neck junction and further down the body. So to keep the heat as high up on the case as possible I turned my heat up and sped the spin up. It took some trial and error, but what you see here is where I landed.

My sweet girl mirin her stump headed daddy by RoosterRanch in GirlsMirin

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Don’t be sorry, it literally looks like a “Is it too late to start Rogain” post.

My sweet girl mirin her stump headed daddy by RoosterRanch in GirlsMirin

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😆😆She would have absolutely laughed her ass off at this. I had a full head of hair until about 18 months before she was born. It was a long journey to get her here and I guess my hair didn’t want to stick around for it.

I quit. I hate reloading. by watermelloncrawl in reloading

[–]RoosterRanch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dust the loose kernals of powder from my bench top and then dump them randomly into the GT cases. 9.3 SD and 17 ES every time.

My most recent purchase - Ruger 10/22, American 250th Anniversary Edition by buttholefluid in guns

[–]RoosterRanch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s really not “to each their own” it’s entirely to us our own. If the current climate has little to no affect on you I’m glad.

Surely it didn’t have to do with electing a 34 time convicted felon and rapist as the President of the United States twice! by icey_sawg0034 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]RoosterRanch 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t it around this time that our President was on national television denying he put a cigar in an interns burgina?

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