Loaded up 10 test rounds for the 1895 Savage chambered in 303 Sanage.
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Loaded up 10 test rounds for the 1895 Savage chambered in 303 Sanage.
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Had a little fun with some melted lead!! Now time to get them to the range.
44-40
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My new Accurate Mold 43-208A. slightly heeled bullet.
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Left - 43-208A
Right - Ideal 42499 HP
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Accurate Mold 43-208A
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Sorted through 18 pounds of brass from an indoor range. It was roughly 70% 9mm, which is what I wanted. I got quite a bit of 22lr cases too.
After I sorted the 9mm, 22lr, and 223 brass from the rest I dumped some of the 9mm cases into my tumbler and let it do its thing for a while. After those were clean I sprayed them down with case lube and started depriming them. Got another batch going in the tumbler while I was depriming. After I got the first half of them deprimed I ended up coming in the house and relaxing.
Loaded up 50 rounds of 9 mm, and 12 rounds of 30/30 with 5 gr. of BE and a mag primer. Then I cast some 150 gr 30 cal.
Even with the A/C on in the shed it was a tad warm....
Cast up some Lee 356-120-TC from range scrap (1% tin added) - they dropped .356 @ 125 grain (a few were oversize at 127 grain and .358+ so I need more practice casting)
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And tried my hand at Hi Tek coating for the first time
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I only did two pounds to start out but could easily do three or four pounds at a time in my $12 Walmart toaster oven - if I grab two more trays, I could have them going continuously.
I walked into a room in my basement tonight and just started throwing $h!t...after a couple of hrs. danged if I didn't find a gun repair desk on one side of the room and a loading bench with couple press's, 30 or 35 sets of dies and some powder measuring machines on the other side... now I can enter and make use of the room without getting sick to my stomach for letting it get that disorganized.
Tumbled some 9mm and 357 brass and worked on going through some of the estate sale truckload of reloading equipment I have in there. Hope to get some of the brass de-primed tomorrow.
Played with my Lee factory crimp collet die and crimped some devastators to feed in my 77/44
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And loaded up 2 different HP styles for it.
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Loaded some NOE 311247 hps in 300 blackout
Next is 458 socom 500 gr subsonics
Loaded some NOE 311247 hps in 300 blackout
Next is 458 socom 500 gr subsonics
Tried out some handles I ordered from eBay to hopefully fit a old Ideal mold I bought from a member on this forum. Was lucky on the first try and got a set of handles for twenty bucks that were in perfect shape and were the correct size for the mold. Now if it will stop raining for a day I can get some nice round nose 45 cal boolits made.
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Primed 60 8mm Lebel cases and fixing to load them today.
Went out and cleaned some rifles and a pistol. It's humid!
Located a home for my new 44 cal spire pointed mold. It's a old Ideal mold #429 303. Was real surprised when I saw it up on ebay, so I jumped on it. It just arrived today, so next non-rainy day it will get the hot lead treatment it so richly deserves.
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That has always seemed like a shag-nasty bullet design to me--along the lines of the KTW bullets.
Did a batch of .45 ACP and .44 Magnum brass in the ss pin tumbler. They're in the dehydrator drying right now while a 2nd batch of mixed rifle brass is spinning in the ss pin tumbler ...
Got my shipment of lube 5 sticks of bac and 2 sticks of 2500+. Loaded the bac in my Lyman 45 I use for pistol boolits and lubed up the 450 9mm boolits I de-lubed earlier this week. Had some leakage from some leftover Felix lube I made a while back that I tried to salvage.
Decided I checked the "make your own lube" box so I'll just order some of Lars great lubes. Must say the lubes are great and the customer service is outstanding.