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Giraud Power Trimmer
Do any of you have a Giraud Power Trimmer? These are for serious case trimming. I have a couple thousand Lake City cases in both .308 and .223. I can do these cases in a couple of hours. The Giraud Power Trimmer cuts the case to proper length and chamfers the mouth of the case: "The Giraud Carbide blade is standard with the trimmer. It allows a 15 degree inside case mouth chamfer and 45 degree outside chamfer for smooth burr free seating of VLD style bullets." If you shoot a lot you should consider one of these.
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I also have one. I have processed 1000's of cases with it. It is a very high quality tool and I have found that there is a learning curve to a technique that gives the best results. I have numerous cutter heads (.22, .25, 6.5mm, .27/6.8, .30) for most of my rifle calibers to eliminate as much adjusting of the carbide blade as possible. It has been invaluable when trimming re-formed cut down 5.56 brass into 300 Blackout. I have also processed several thousand Federal Match 308 brass cases that I accumulated for working up a precision load for my Match M1a and my bolt gun. (Final trimmed and then segregated into lots by empty processed case weights.) My match brass for my Rock River Arms NM rifle gets re-trimmed about every other reloading due to the ease and speed of the tool.
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I had one for several years. Just sold it to a friend for $200.00.
He got a heck of a deal.
Sold all my bullet molds, RCBS casting furnace, RCBS sizer, dies, bullet lubes, and other casting equipment to my Cousin for $400.00. He also got a heck of a deal.
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I have one I have only used it sparingly as I had a Dillon power trimmer. I think the Giraud is a better mousetrap. I am about to do a lot of trimming of 223 with it
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I have one and it a joy to use.
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It was a retirement gift to self. So much easier to trim large lots of brass, but not quite as accurate as lathe type trimmer.
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It was a retirement gift to self. So much easier to trim large lots of brass, but not quite as accurate as lathe type trimmer.
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Zeke, Just a suggestion. I initially experience slight variations in finished length using my Giruad. In trying different techniques, I found that pushing the case in against the spring pressure, then rotating the case 360 degrees resulted in much more consistent case lengths.
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[QUOTE=mckenney99;141042333 In trying different techniques, I found that pushing the case in against the spring pressure, then rotating the case 360 degrees resulted in much more consistent case lengths.[/QUOTE]
That is what I was told to do from the beginning and have had no problems with uneven case lengths.
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Remember guys on bottle neck cases you are trimming based on the shoulder - cases fired from different guns (chambers) are potentially goes going to result in different OAL
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After being used to slight/non existent length variations, am getting up to several thousands with the giraud in large batches. Just the nature of the beast, even with cases fired from same gun and following the directions. This matches the variations in bottom to shoulder datum variations with the brass fired through semi.
For my purposes, am willing to make this slight trade off when trimming up to 1000 pieces of brass. The brass head spaces off the shoulder anyway, and the COL isn't influenced.
Most of my bolt precision rounds are still lathe style trimmed from tighter chambers and do not get as much variation shoulder variation.
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I just noticed you could get just the cutter head, and mount it to a drill motor, or spare motor with a chuck adapter. HUGE cost saving.
I'm going to make a wood cradle, and clamp my beater drill to my bench. It has a lock on the trigger to lock the drill ON. I can burn through a LOT of cheap drills, or buy a used footed fractional horsepower motor and chuck adapter and still ba money ahead.
I have a LOT of 223 and 308 to trim.
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I just noticed you could get just the cutter head, and mount it to a drill motor, or spare motor with a chuck adapter. HUGE cost saving.
I'm going to make a wood cradle, and clamp my beater drill to my bench. It has a lock on the trigger to lock the drill ON. I can burn through a LOT of cheap drills, or buy a used footed fractional horsepower motor and chuck adapter and still ba money ahead.
I have a LOT of 223 and 308 to trim.
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I thought about that also...then the lightbulb came on and I realized that by the time I did all that...I'd have ALL that brass trimmed and if I ever needed to get rid of my reloading stuff I'd probably make a profit on it. I had 2 Gracey's..sold 'em both for a profit. The Giraud cost me very little after deducting those profits. Better machine too
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