Step By Step Reloading Video

[SongDoghunter]

Several of you have asked about getting into reloading. this is a decent video showing the basics!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6vVtVRtJmY

[fmrleatherneck]

Nice video, thanks, Curtis. Pretty informative, helpful, even a tiny bit humorous!

So:
1) Case trimming; controlled adjustment or trial and error? How critical, what's the acceptable tolerance? Proper lengths listed in Reloading Books?
2) How consistant is a hand primer, really? What are the alternatives? It looked like it took him two hands to seat that primer.
3) Seating a bullet a second time to get the right OAL is the proper practice? Do the dies have a locking ring to hold that position when you find the right length? Are the "right lengths" listed in Reloading Books? Should a bullet get seated too short, is there a disassembly method, besides firing? Major safety issue to fire one too short, I would think?

[SongDoghunter]

Case trimming is a controlled adjustment. All rounds have trim to and max case lengths published.
Hand primers are very consistent if pockets are cleaned properly
bullet seating is done based on chamber measurements with the proper tools and gauges. These depths vary from rifle to rifle unless seating to SAAMI specs for any rifle
You use a bullet pulling hammer to remove an improperly seated bullets and charge. It works off of inertia. The round is clamped into the hammer and you drive the polymer hammer against a hard survice driving the bullet out into the built in catch basin