Bullet Clock 3

Bullets Continued

Here is what a live round looks like compared to the dissembled one.

This is what it looks like once I was finished removing all the bullets and dumping out the powder. The reason I choose this style of ammo is because of the blue ballistic tips. Normally the bullets are all copper but I thought this would add a little something to the clocks. It's all in the details you know....

Now it's time to replace all the bullets so I'm changing dies to seat them.

Once I had things adjusted it's just a simple matter of placing a shell in the press, place a bullet in the empty brass, and then pull down on the handle to seat the bullet.

Here I'm making sure the new ones are the same over all length as the old ones.

There we go, the .223 ammo is finished.

Now it's time to work on the 9mm ammo. Same everything except the collet that's in the bullet pulling die is a different size.

I have 290 empty brass and bullets below. However, something caught my eye after a few minutes of handle pulling.

Notice anything strange here? These shells came out the same box of Magtech ammo. No kidding!! I wondered why I saw light and dark colored powder in my plastic bin but didn't give it much thought because once you get into high-gear, you just want to get finished. Then I started looking a little closer and this is what I saw.

It's hard to believe that a big name company would do something like this. Now I could see two different types of powder in two different "lots" of ammo, but not out of the same box of 9mm. It makes me wonder how many shots I fired at targets that didn't hit there mark because of this. Well this was a definite eye opener for me and will the be last time I purchase this brand of ammo.

Now the fun begins, reassembling all the ammo. This isn't a hard job, it just takes awhile.

Place the bullet in the shell, raise the ram on the press and seat it to the depth I need. Piece of cake...but I have to do this a bunch of times!!

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