Trimming brass sucks, no question about it. I refrain as long as I can from doing it but with that said I bought this a few years ago and it works pretty well. It's not a Giraud but it is pretty handy. I would really love to compare the two but I'm sure there is no comparison, LOL This one works so I'll just suffer through the task like everyone else!
https://www.lymanproducts.com/brass-...-trim-xpresstm These vary greatly in price depending on where you buy it, I got mine a few years ago and it was under $130ish, on sale and with Free shipping, maybe Midways USA, would have to look into it.
I read about people who say that you can attach the RCBS three-way cutter to the Hornady trimmer. But it looks to me like you’d have to disassemble the whole damn thing. Anybody here ever actually done that?
If the threads are the same size, I recommend using a 3-way cutter if you can afford it. It certainly saves a lot of time.
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I loaned out my Super Gracey to a friend who needs to process around 4K of military cases. He's almost done with it, and the Gracey has been a trooper and is still holding the length variation under 2 thousandths, but my friends enthusiasm is fading, and he hasn't touched it in over a month. No matter how you do it, trimming brass just universally sucks.
“Detached Reflection Cannot Be Demanded in the Presence of an Uplifted Knife” ~ Brown v. United States (1921)
Just this moment finished trimming a 50 ct block of lc21 with a possum hollow kwick trimmer, turning cases in a drill. 21 minutes including occasional oal and headspace measurement. Trimming indexes off shoulder and is within a half a thou. I can almost guess headspace off of oal measurement. Still, it leaves a tremalous burr inside and out. Process sux especially when multiplied by 2601 cases.....
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