Pre-emptive prep?

[Pony Soldier]

I have been snowed in for about two months and am struggling for things to do. All of my cartidge boxes are full so I really don't want to load more at this time. I'm considering going through my fired cases, resize them and deprime them, run them through the cleaning media and store them in clean plastic bags. Then when I need them heat them briefly to make sure there is no moisture, add primers, powder and bullets. It would save a lot of time at that point. Have I missed anything?

 

[sierracharlie338]

Sounds like you got it covered but just make sure they are void of moisture before you store in plastic like you mentioned. Otherwise they will likely not be usable when you pull them out. Been down this road

 

[Pony Soldier]

Good point! I kind of thought a couple hours in the vibrateing corn media would cover that. Have I assumed incorrectly?

 

[TaperPin]

I’ve seen guys buy cases of little glass bottles and pre measure a bunch of loads into them - later all they have to do is dump them in the case and seat the bullet.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I do this fairly often. Sometimes when I sit down at the bench, all I end up doing is brass prep. Resize, deprime, tumble, clean up the necks. I hate having to do that stuff when I want to load up ammo. It’s nice having it all done.

 

[sierracharlie338]

Good point! I kind of thought a couple hours in the vibrateing corn media would cover that. Have I assumed incorrectly?

Nope that should work. I’ve also seen guys put them in the oven on a cookie tray at a relatively low temp to burn any moisture away. Don’t recall what temp though.