Mid-South Munitions making quality ammunition from start to finish
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- a rare peek inside Mid-South Munitions ammo making process from start to finish.This video is made of of several videos that have been compiled together to show how we make ammo from start to finish.
I reload my 223rem and 6.5cm on my little single stage press and love it but watching all that ammo being done in such quantities got me rock hard
I dint reallylize how went into making ammo. Holey shit. Thank you guys for keeping America strong
Sounds and looks like FREEDOM !!!! and my new ammo producer .... The shooting at the end PRICELESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right on from a fellow southerner. Not familiar with your product before now. "Made with PRIDE..."! I hear ya, son! I would be PROUD to use your ammunition.
13:16, no matter how precise the machines are, hand checking is the best way. I guess no one talks at this station. Cranking them out a box at a time. Wow.
Decent setup for a small manufacturer. There are some processes that can be improved to make it more efficient however, it's not to bad.
Awesome vid! Beautiful lookin' rounds! Thanks for posting!
OH, to have this setup in your garage !!! :)
You would be the hero of the neighborhood right now..
Do you sell this machine to Iraq?
@@shafaalzabaede6007 I think you can buy reloading presses almost anywhere.
Love the “QC” demonstration at the end 😂
That above all impressed me
What a gorgeous room! Seeing all of that brass is quite mesmerizing.
Seeing ALL that stuff is gun porn!!
Wish my vibe bowls ran like that
Seeing this October 2020, wonder how they are doing now.
Busy
@@jeffreyevans6892 Incorrect, they are no longer in business and sold their equipment during Trump's presidency when ammo demand and prices were low.
@@saintsfan7991 You know em?
@@joshmarsh2402 No Josh, I don't. That is the info that one of the Mid South employees posted. I can't remember if it was somewhere here on YT or on a forum.
@@saintsfan7991 That's a shame. Once guns are outlawed, next comes the ammo. Maybe that's why they say World War 3 will be fought with sticks and stones, because they banned all the guns!
How much will it cost to put a setup like this??? I am really curious. Please tell along with the materials needed like primer, and shell cost.. like that. Please, i want to setup.
Are you a recycling factory or a munitions maker?
Can a regular person buy one of these machines? What are they called lol now that's the case prep setup I want lol
That’s what I was thinking!
I’m sure you can but must be expensive.. just need to know who manufactures them to know more about it.
14:30- you just made customer for life! God bless!!!
16:06 talk about muzzle direction, right at cameraman’s feet/ legs- Jesus can’t help you when you have no knees.
Amazing that even a small factory like this has a lot of automation.
The beginning of the video makes my eyes light up with dollar signs and gold bars.
Hope these guys are still doing this
Great video I really loved watching it! I want a Camdex so bad I wish they weren’t so expensive. Things were looking a little sketchy at 16:09 muzzle looks like it’s pointed at camera guy
I physically flinched when the camera panned over to the shooter 😅
Do you use powders that’s available to the public? And just by in bulk or is it commercial powders?
Nice very good machine.
I realy want to learn it.
How can i do
You gotta love it when you see a guy chucking ammo casings around the shop landing all over the place!
Is the one machine labeled “your mom” because all the brass gets a turn?
Either way I love it. 👍🏼
I love the harbor freight calipers, lol
Out of all I have seen the verse at the end in the box sold me on the company 👍🏻
Keep America Strong 🇺🇸
#USPATRIOTPASTOR
What is the cost of all the equipment?
have you got any longer ones icould watch this for houers ?
4:42, noticed dent in case neck, are these once fired and reprocessed?
didnt you see all the used cases being separated?
At first i thought this was no big deal, but this is a commercial op, that shouldnt be going thru in order to keep qual, hopefully it didnt... I know that dent is harmless and will be fire-formed out upon firing which is fine when youre reloading your own ammo since you take 100% of your own risk, but not for this op
10:44
Hey Zack, I am getting into the industry ( far far far away from your location) and wondered if you would be interested in sharing some knowledge? Thanks
Their ammo shoots really good too! Great job MSM!
I'm assuming they're no longer in business?
I need that in my life
looks like shooters paradise!
Can I tour the facility? Would you help me get started as far as info? Could I use your suppliers for brass and etc or is brass, bullets, etc hard to get?
Is this the company as Midsouth Shooter Supply?
Awesome setups brother, I'm super jealous!
Do you guys sell those case gauges?
so exactly how did you get away with posting this video with ACDC with out being copy struck UA-cam????? they're notorious for striking over this ! cool vid tho
So thats why I cant find any once fired brass to reload!
Hey I have a question about the machines can I email you a question?? Please
Would love to know where to buy it. Do you guys have a website? Would love to get some to review with my new primary arms scope.
Really fun video. Thanks for sharing it. Makes me want to buy from you, too!
Wow! Pretty cool stuff! By the way, what is the 9mm rotary sorting machine? Custom made or commercial? Looks absolutely fantastic!
Once I muted the sound I could watch this.
I like your video. I appreciate the American dream. Thank you. I will be in touch with your company.
Looks great, however you looks like you need more equipment to ramp up production by 5X or more
Look @ those beautiful rounds.
Do you have a R&D dept?
Fantastic! Very good!!!
So, re-using cases. Doesnt that give you different velocitys when you reload different brands of the same caliber? While they vary a bit in volume, and thus give different pressures, thus giving different velocities. That gives different impactpoints downrange.
So is this ammo only for short range rangeammo, or do you also sell this for longer ranges?
Really i want to know.
Jeff
13.17 to 13.50 the quality control is shown. Have you carried out the inspection tools on your own? Can I buy a tool somewhere?
So where does one find a "transferrable" so-called "AR" pistol-caliber select-fire "carbine"? Or is that a "DIAS" and/or "demo" type deal?
Most satisfying video on the internet.
This is awesome.
I really like your case gauge/chamber checker with lid, I could use a couple like that. Where did you buy that?
Make one yourself.
you can use your own gun barrel
15:28 What in the hell did he say? I caught "Fully automatic" at the beginning after listening three times, but the rest of it entirely escapes me. Can anyone help me?
Speechless awesome great job.
Your website is down..is their a new one?
Camdex is expensive as hell but looks like it earns it's keep.
Robert Palmore Camdex is junk. I think the Ammoload is a much better machine. Either way, pretty impressive shop.
What happened to these guys? I can't find any website for them.
Wonderful !
which country can i learn as a beginner
Absolutely love this!!!
What kind of skills do you need to work in ammo manufacturing? I know this certainly isn’t a minimum wage jobs but what qualifications do you need?
This is, basically, a min wage job. Anyone who is careful and works in manufacturing can do it.
scbane I wouldn't mind working on the weekends for minimum wage
So cool. Thx
So uh this is 2020, do those machines have a faster setting?
😂😂😂😂😂
They should be on made in Merica. Cha ching sound every time the press comes down. They must love their jobs, might be repetitive but its serving a purpose.
I liked it up to the point where you were using cracked calipers might as well use a ruler. Been a machinist for over 15 years big and small shops all would have fired me for using those
@Just a person ive been a machinist for 17 years in large and small shops also. my bosses didnt care if i used a knotted rope as long as i turned out quality work lol
I think I saw a speck of dirt in the corner. Haters gonna hate. 😄
Only the plastic cover, nothing else.
he's doing nothing critical. I owned several of these, and that specific no name model lasted me a long time. However , I now use chinese dial caliper, tired of the digitals running out of battery or breaking down unexpectedely
As long as they were calibrated and gave accurate readings, what does a cracked screen matter?
Where did you buy the shaker plate from for your packing table?
4.42 looks like dented shoulder to me
_That ending!_
How do I get an integrated factory
Y'all getting any primers currently?
Their website is dead, guess they closed
Ever think about lubricating your equipment? I didn't see a trace of oil or grease anywhere.
Deep Bass oil will contaminate the primers and powders.
Are yall still producing ammo? Every link i can fund doesnt work. Your ammo is very tough to find if its available.
Are y'all still in business?
You can take on a small army with all those bullets! YheeeeHaw, the south rocks!
are this guys still in business ??
they come loose in the box with no tray? havent seen that before. do the presses have auto shut off if you run out of components?
you better get some glasses..lol
@@jjmckay6man1you didn’t watch the whole video did you? I’m guessing you stopped before the 14:00 min mark?
@@sik59rt if you watched them run the pistol rounds through the 50 round checker they go into a tray/divider at the end of that process then get stacked up and put into boxes with the rounds in the tray/divider. they aren't just rolling around in the boxes. bulk/loose ammo does not require those and comes in smaller boxes because they don't use trays/dividers. they aren't the solid bottom and sides trays you are used to seeing. they are grid style trays/dividers.
@@jjmckay6man1 theres not a divider/tray to be seen in any box. and as i said four years ago, ive still never seen loose rounds sold in a box like that.
@@sik59rt buy a box and see for yourself lol. then you will know for sure. I reload my own.
Vibrating/tumbling/banging around loaded ammo isn't particularly smart. It tends to disintegrate powder flakes, grains and balls and can dramatically increase burn rates. It doesn't do priming compounds much good either. Kinda messes with neck tension and helps bullet "setback" as well. Especially with shiny slick plated bullets in mixed, range scrap brass. If Berdan primers and split cases are a concern in your .45 brass supply, you must be loading range scrap. Hell, I've never even heard of Berdan-primed .45 ACP. And I'm not sure I'd trust a split-second "air test" to find all case splits. Especially after cases have been cleaned/tumbled/bounced around some and have been stress-relieved" and cracks "shrink" some. Cracks also like to show up post-sizing during case mouth expanding or seating. I've loaded and fired lots of .45 ACP in two 1911s (early R1 and a Les Baer Premier II) through both factory barrels and a .460 Rowland conversion and a Blackhawk Convertible and have loaded OLD range pickup "chocolate" brass not even were tumbling will clean up, nickel cases and even some Wolf steel case mainly because so many people say it can't be done. And I've loaded probably 15 to 20 different bullets from my own cast 165-grain FP "round nose", 200-grain SWCs and 230-grain RNs to 185-grain Berry's HBRNs to Nosler Custom Competition 185-grain JHPs to Hornady 200-grain and 230-grain XTPs to plain old 230-grain hardball and as weak as possible while still cycling a 10-lb. recoil spring right up to "max" in the Hornady manual. Mainly with Titegroup. And I know I've got "range junk" cases (ugly old stuff I don't mind losing. Much) including the steel Wolf's that have been loaded 6-8 times. If I've split 6-8 cases in 5000+ rounds fired I'd be surprised. And I know the majority of them are Wolf steel and after that probably a few nickel. Unless a guy gets stupid with "+P/+P+" loads and/or heavy crimps and/or shoots a sloppy, loose, worn-out and/or POS pistol that's very inefficient at managung recoil energy due to design (Glock) or a stupid-light recoil spring (everything else) and its more like a blowback pistol than short-recoil, quality .45 ACP brass will last dozen of reloads and the headstamps will get faint before the cases will crack if loaded like "range" ammo instead of "defense" ammo. I think I'd shitcan the Berdan checker, get the SP brass sorted out ASAP, save the "air test" until after all sizing/expanding and buy only quality once-fired .45 brass and the same for .40. The big ammo burners are the 9mm guys and they"re dumb enough to throw away brass they could at least sell for scrap although it's not worth much more as brass. .45 guys tend to be much more conservative and are a lit more likely to reload. And with "free" range scrap lead dug/screened out of local "range" gravel pit banks/berms like the 200-300 lbs I dug up in a couple decent half-days and $50 in materials to build a waste-high 3x4' 1/4" screen "sifting table" and another $100 in simple cleaning/fluxing/ingot casting tools, a 2- or 6-cavity Lee mold and 10-lb bottom-pour pot, anybody can be reloading ..45 (and/or .40 and 9mm) for around 5 cents a round. Doesn't take long to pay for a 550C or even a 650 at that rate. And it's at that point that spending time /money on 9mm starts looking stupid. But not as stupid as paying 75% of new "bulk" range ammo for "remanufactured" mixed, unmatched unknown-origin/history .45 ACP. I'm sure it's good work and money if you own/operate/partner with a "rental range" with an OTC ammo only policy in a "dry" town or county with no other "public" range options. But eventually people get sick, tired or bored to paying to play with someone else's toys in their sandbox by their rules and paying sandbox rent and for "adult supervision" too. And "serious shootera" don't go for the full-auto fun-gunning next door and vice versa. You can only do skin a sheep once and shear a sheep many times but your still stuck playing shepherd all the time and sheep don't live that l ong. When the "ammo shortage" ended it was a lot more the effect of reduced demand than increased supply. Eventually the fad, bandwagon "shooters" realized the world wasn't going to end, shooting began to be "mainstream", credit cards had to be paid off, divorces averted and play dates with tactical "buddies" canceled. Plus they realized that after several years, untold hours of "training", unmentionable "investment" and innumerable guns, gizmos, gadgets and gear they really couldn't shoot a damned bit better or maybe not even as well as day one as a "noob". Getting "trained " to do X one way and Y one way instead of think, act, experiment and "train yourself" and basically grow up and be a big boy is kind of what freedom, liberty and "2nd Amendment rights" are all about, how they were win and how they have to be defendend. If the "founding fathers" had stuck to the British "playbook" and "rules of engagement" , they wouldn't have won. Or even survived.
Made my little Dillon 550 seem really slow lol.. Sweet setup guys..
I think i'am your long lost cousin . Good stuff right there.
Hi i do not understand this video ,not antigun btw, im looking at well made ammo thats surely more expensive than normal and when comes to shooting instead of showing the probably better precision it gets wasted away in MP s in a way even the cheapest bulk ammo wouldn’t do worse.
I would have preferred a comparison of cheaper ammo vs these to show if its worth spending the extra buck.
what case gauge are you using
Ok now I have an unwavering need to make an epoxy tabletop of brass casings
Is there a reason nothing was mentioned about the powder loading? Like when/where in the process does it happen?
For example at 5:13 you see a linear press with what seems to be 10 stations. Typically what you see if a primer loading station (unless the cases are primed before entering the press), a station with a die that flares up the mouth of the casing, a powder dispenser which is typically a sliding block with a hole through it and when the casings are moving the powder reservoir dumps powder into that open volume for when the new casing enters the station the block moves sealing the powder reservoir and the hole dumps powder into a chute leading to the casing. Then typically you have a powder check station in which a plunger is pressed into the case to figure the powder level and if the case does not have the correct volume there's a chute for the rejected case. Then there's a bullet insert, a bullet seat, straigthening of the flared mouth and a crimping station.
Okay I got forward in the video and he explained the reject chutes.
Anyone else get a woody from seeing all this ammo?
Make sure to call a doctor if that thing lasts longer than 24 hours
Quite satisfying to watch
What is the machine name
Holly Cow, I'm close to you. Booneville Mississippi here. Would you help me get started? I'd pay you for your knowledge.
Actually i interested with the bullet neck shaping, and intended to make it by myself,
Good group of workers I’m sure you have to be in a zone wen making these all it would take is a few bad ones could be real dangerous I’d suspect
Where are they located????
So beautiful
Quality ammunition? At 4:41 there is a dent in the round... How is that quality? You would be hard pressed to get that out..
Complaining about quality when the round is not even completed and passed thought quality control is just silly. Its cheaper for them to inspect the rounds later in the process like they do at 13:20
Impressive
collecting rare metals, brass and lead!
fucking hell that gun at the end sounds powerfull
I went on Google can't find anything of you guys
So all the brass you use is used, correct?
@no candy that's probably what the air check is for. If air escapes it has a crack. I don't understand why so many people are complaining about it being remanufactured ammo though. People keep complaining about the piece of 223 that had a dented shoulder but there's no way of getting it out and it'll fire just the same.