Go to trimmer?

[vigildom7]

So what's everyones go to for a trimmer.
I normally use the Lee trimmers but the smaller flash hole on my lapua 6.5cm brass doesn't allow for fit.
I want to get a giraud tri way but they dont make one in for the creedmoor.

 

[Freediver111]

I just used a file to reduce the width of my Lee trimmer gage for my 6.5 Lapua brass. Now it fits into the SR primer hole. Stuck it on my Lyman case prep center and it works fine.

 

[Hollywood 6mm]

Giraud power trimmer here. Not cheap, but worth every penny, even over the TriWay.

If you absolutely can't stomach the cost (DO IT!) there's someone in Texas that will take a 223 TriWay and bore it out for 6.5 Creedmoor, too, but hell if I can remember how to contact them. Good chance someone here on the Hide will know, though.

 

[redneckbmxer24]

Giraud or go home.

 

[MTRecon]

Giraud power unit...

 

[tnichols]

Giraud

 

[Snuby642]

Just drill out / uniform the lapua brass.
The flash hole is1.5 mm instead of 1/16, a tooling driven size for them nothing about the performance.

 

[supercorndogs]

WFT. Around 50 bucks and once you use it, you will be very happy, never fumbling with that Lee POS again. I can trim about 5 cases in the time it takes to put a shell in the Lee trimmers shell holder. The Trim it II is about 100, but chamfers and deburs also.

 

[lightman]

I either use a Wilson thats all tricked out by Sinclair or a Giraud, depending on the volume of trimming that I have to do. I've used a Lyman, RCBS and the Lee case gauge trimmers in the past. They all worked, after a fashion, but the Giraud is where its at!

 

[Cbostick]

Giraud.

 

[427Cobra]

Giraud

 

[Bradu]

Giraud for most everything but I use a Wilson/ Sinclair for a few calibers I don't shoot much.

 

[Onyx Z]

Are y'all using the Giraud Tri-Way or the power trimmer?

 

[Ghogs Nightmare]

Giraud Tri Way....FTW Although I'll go back to the cromagnon forster on rare occasion, haven't trimmed yet but not looking forward to doing the 17 hornet.

 

[Rimfiremike]

I just use a Lee trimmer, but would never do them by hand. I chuck up the cutter head/pilot assembly into a bench top drill press. Then I insert a case into the caseholder and slide it onto the spinning (slow rpm) pilot and its trimmed in a second or so. You can sand down the pilot to fit the Lapua flash holes that are smaller.
Running the Lee by hand is something I would never do, but the drill press method can crank through hundreds of cases very quickly.
If we are talking thousands of cases (ie: 223), then I pull out the 'big gun' and run them through the trimmer setup on the Dillon 650.

 

[Bradu]

Are y'all using the Giraud Tri-Way or the power trimmer?

Most are talking about the power trimmer. I tried several and nothing compares.

 

[Shoots 700's]

Giraurd power trimmer!

 

[MarinePMI]

Giraurd.

 

[45cal4life]

Semi auto = motorized RCBS that will be replaced with a Giraurd in 2 months
Bolt action = Wilson/Sinclair