What reload workflow steps have you stopped doing?

[menhaden_man]

I’ve never tracked how many times a piece of brass has been fired. Have enough trouble keeping organized.

 

[Wrench]

Lee collet die for sizing. Always concentric. Neck tension can be adjusted by spinning the mandrel / decapper down. Dead cheap and accurate.

I sold my 260ai body die with a rifle I built for a friend because he felt like he had to have it.....that was 5 years ago and I've been through hundreds of 260ai in a 260 lee collet with zero issues.

So, ram it, fill it stuff it and run it.

So many guys will wear out a rifle trying to close the gap between .7 and .3 because the internet tells them they need a .5 or under (often preaching WAAAAY under) to be effective, ethical.....whatever.
The problem is that a huge percentage of them will only shoot paper from a couple positions on calm days. Take a guy with a 1.0 gun and .2 skills and run him against the guy with the .2 rifle and 1.0 skills and see who makes meat.....

Hint, thing shooters tend to be very deadly compared to those who spend their free time married to a chronograph and paper.

 

[Brendan]

I anneal, trim, chamfer, deburr because my setup makes it super easy. And, I've had my annealer show a different program (AMP) after 2-3 firings which tells me the neck does change.

The one I'm having trouble saying that there's any benefit whatsoever is tumbling (precision rifle rounds)

 

[archp625]

I quit depriming before tumbling brass. I got tired of the media stuck inside the flash jokes and primer pockets.

 

[woods89]

So many guys will wear out a rifle trying to close the gap between .7 and .3 because the internet tells them they need a .5 or under (often preaching WAAAAY under) to be effective, ethical.....whatever.
The problem is that a huge percentage of them will only shoot paper from a couple positions on calm days. Take a guy with a 1.0 gun and .2 skills and run him against the guy with the .2 rifle and 1.0 skills and see who makes meat.....

Hint, thing shooters tend to be very deadly compared to those who spend their free time married to a chronograph and paper.

I read an interesting thread on the 'Hide where a well respected member was putting forward the idea that finding a speed node wasn't even really that necessary, speaking of PRS style shooting. He argued that with a match chamber you would be just as good to load for the velocity you want, play with seating if you felt like you needed to, and roll on. His argument was that for the dynamic type of shooting in PRS the shooters skills are going to be the limiting factor anyways, so why waste barrel life and components chasing something you don't need.

I think sometimes hunters could use some of this introspection. Unless you are truly shooting long range a 1.5 MOA rifle in the hands of someone with a lot of field shooting skill is going to get the job done quite tidily.