That's a lot of ammo to disassemble. I usually do small batch of 20-50 rounds and make sure they work in my guns before I commit to 1k+ on my 650.
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Started casting Lee TL 358148 WC using 6cav mold. Made a bunch in a short time. Hi number of rejects but it was a new mold first use.
today I turned 120 rounds of .45 Colt into reloadable brass
Went cowboy shooting and for once didn't die of heat exhaustion
Got started early and cast 1,000 9mm with a Lee 356-125 2R, A couple hundred 9mm Magma 124 BBNLG, and 400 Lee 358-158. Then I built a Shot shell trimmer, and started on a shot shell vice for roll crimping. I would just buy the BPI ones but the cost of shipping to Canada is just to much for small things like that. Go a buddy to grab me another 1,000 Win AA hulls and he is willing to take some old 9mm I had laying around as payment. Another buddy scored me a Lee FCD for .38 Special / .357 Magnum and he is willing to take some slug rounds as payment. Pretty good day for reloading and got to top it off by going to see the new Star Wars movie.
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After lunch I'll get back to sorting, sizing and tumbling 9mm brass. My goal for the winter is to get all of my pistol brass organized and a lot of it loaded.
Primed 500 PLC. 357 sig brass. 1000 7.62x25mm is next.
Over the past few days, I cast 33 pounds of range lead into Lee 358-125 RF boolits. Roughly 1800 of 'em.
I run them thru all the 38's, over 4.3g HP-38. Nice play load.
All the 9mm's run them too, I have some old Trap 100 I'm using up with those.
Got 1 coat of BLL on them, and sized 'em all to .358. Got another 2 VERY light coats of BLL on most of them after sizing, still another 4-500 to go.
Moved approximately 650# of lead from my front porch into the reloading area. The PO did me no favors by actually delivering it to my house. They usually leave the orange slip w/ one box because they don't want to lift it. This time they delivered all ten over two days.
Load a batch of .318 Westley Richards, resized a batch of 6.5x53R--in polisher to spiff-up before being annealed. Reassembled my RCBS lubrisizer after the replacement parts arrived today. Need to size some 6.5's after I anneal the brass.
Poured about 350 TL 358148 WC Over the last two days
Resized and decapped a few hundred .223 cases and put them in the polisher . When they are done I can get back to finding a load for Herco powder .
Jack
200x rounds of .30-06, Nosler 168 gr Custom Comps over 46.5 gr of IMR 4166. Gotta find another box of once fired brass, then load another 100x. That will finish up my stash of that bullet, and will give me enough loaded to last out the 2018 Garand/vintage military season.
wet tumbled 15# of 45 Colt and ACP brass
drying under the ceiling fan right now
Loaded up a ladder test of Red Dot 3.6 to 4.0 gr, (7 each) sitting under some 124gr TC for some 9mm accuracy testing. Gonna try to shoot them tomorrow with some other ladder tests before the snow storm front works its way into the local area.
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I taught an 18 year old young man how to reload. Granted, it was J words. but small steps. I hope he stays as excited as he was tonite.
Shelly
Loaded some 230 grn Hornady XTP in some .45 acp brass to have for hollowpoint loads to carry hunting. Then some .223 Remington with different bullets to check load development. Cleaned up the room, I can actually see the reloading bench!
Yup, Great Job! Gotta teach the next generation to load and cast!
I didn't do much today. Got up early and hunted this morning. Came in about noon and cleaned off the bar in the kitchen for a party that we hosted tonight. I use the bar and counter space for sorting and washing brass and most of the stuff on the bar was mine! Now tomorrow, I'll hopefully finish tumbling the last of my 9mm brass and probably start washing and depriming 40 S&W brass.