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I Just thought you'd enjoy the careful manufacturing & reloading example portrayed in this vid I found.
I wouldn't advise buying ammo from these guys.
My reloading efforts don't seem so bad after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfB-vuYMQKE
Handfuls of powder starting @ 12;58 but no doubt it still all works ok.
Phil.
3rd world
Cool, neat video!
Cool video.
Not much in the way of H&S monitoring going on.
At least there was no child labour being used.
Ethical employers
I would have loved a job like that when I as a kid.
Probably safer than half the unmonitored attempts at making similar stuff I got up to.
They may have all been doing that job for 40 years and no new staff taken on.Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
Brilliant. Loved the precision powder charging. Compressed load - wonder what the powder is.
just getting shit done
Except when someone makes a fatal mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidGunn
I bet they all count their fingers @ the end of the day & are grateful if they have all their digits, as to lose ones concentration means losing a finger or part thereof.
I think I'll just stick to doing my reloading a bit slower with a measured approach.
Phil.
Maybe we over complicate reloading
People say lee presses are shit, look at what they use. Those guys would see all the crap we think we need to reload our ammo and be scratching their heads.....
Would be easy to speed up the powder filling part.
What's the little bit he puts under the primer?
I think that is actually the cap compound. No anvils nothing. I bet that would be the weak part of the process, the primers misfiring. (I am just guessing though, maybe they all work fine.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian
100 year old manufacturing. That looks pretty much what the factories making ammo back in the early parts of the 20th century were doing, and I bet those same machines came from those factories that the British set up
Ha! I load .44-40 compressed loads, I am going to load the powder in like that from now on.
The guy that made me laugh was the one at then end putting the red laquer around the primer with a felt pen. Did anyone spot the Winchester white packet laying on the bench? This may be ammo you are buying...
Yeah not sure why they say that. Not to start an argument about Lee presses but they've probably made more ammo than anything else and put more meat on folks tables than anything else. Not to mention the world's top rifle competitor loading with a 2010 Lee 4 hole Turret Press lol. Anyway, what John Duxbury said, those old machines they're using are likely very finely made 19thC British engineering. And well maintained....Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
I wondered what Winchester would think if they saw their packaging in the video.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Duxbury
I remember reading an article by Graeme Henry about loading 270 rounds in camp on the hill. And charging them the same way. Putting them in an cream container and pouring powder over them until they were full. Then compressing the powder by seating the projectile.
I think I can remember what powder but I'm not saying in case some clown tries it and blows themselves up.
I have loaded 308 Norma mag ammo by filling case to bottom of shoulder with 5010 powder and pushing 30/06 Armour piercing projectile in backwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm