What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Mal Paso]

Cast a pot's worth of 44 Larsen deep hollowpoints just because.

[Walks]

Loaded up 300rds .44Mag Cowboy Ammo for My Chiropactor.
Sorted a mixed box of brass that I've been throwing odds & ends into for years. Headstamps like you would not believe.
Friend brought over an old RCBS .45ACP die set to swap so I would have a seating die that would roll crimp .45AR.

[Soundguy]

Cast some 150gr .309 gas check projectiles for 30-30/30-06/308 use.

[jdfoxinc]

Trimmed some .40 S&W brass to experiment with swaging .451 I words and SWC half jackets.

[ravelode]

Put the Lyman pot away and set up my Lyman 450 to lube/size 9mm boolits. Bore sighted my new Savage 22

[ravelode]

Looked at the press, yep it's there
Looked at the brass, yep plenty of that
Looked at the powder, oh yeah lots of that
Looked at the boolits, gottem
Checked the clock, plenty of time
Now what am I missing?

Primers

[onelight]

De-primed a 2lb5oz coffee can of 38 special , a half a can of 45acp , 3/4 can of 9mm , and 3 40s&w on the Lee app

[jdfoxinc]

Finished trimming the brass. Now to get up the energy to climb down those steep basement stairs to continue the experiment.

[44Blam]

100 of my new 10mm load. They're 180 grainers that go about 1300 fps - I had a 6 shot wheel of these that had some great #s:
Stats - Average 1302.38 fps
Stats - Highest 1319.39 fps
Stats - Lowest 1294.46 fps
Stats - Ext. Spread 24.93 fps
Stats - Std. Dev 9.3 fps

[sigep1764]

Four years ago, I took apart my Grandpa's Stevens 59A 410 shotgun with the intention of touching up the blue on the mag tube and refinishing the stock. It took two weeks back then to sand and Tru Oil the stock to a nice glass finish. Tonight, I finally blued the tube and figured out how to put it all back together. Turned out nice. Still need to paint the trigger guard tomorrow as its aluminum and won't take bluing. I know its just a cheap old shotgun that probably doesn't deserve the Tru Oil and all the attention, but the wood is nice and this will get handed down someday.

[cwlongshot]

Four years ago, I took apart my Grandpa's Stevens 59A 410 shotgun with the intention of touching up the blue on the mag tube and refinishing the stock. It took two weeks back then to sand and Tru Oil the stock to a nice glass finish. Tonight, I finally blued the tube and figured out how to put it all back together. Turned out nice. Still need to paint the trigger guard tomorrow as its aluminum and won't take bluing. I know its just a cheap old shotgun that probably doesn't deserve the Tru Oil and all the attention, but the wood is nice and this will get handed down someday.

Ill bet it looks awesome too!!

CW

[Soundguy]

got my .309 size die in the mail.. still waiting on 30 cal gas checks before I can size my 30 cal projectiles..

[sigep1764]

[Der Gebirgsjager]

I've had a coffee can full of once fired .410 hulls for many years. I always wanted to reload them, and decided to get into .410 reloading as a winter project. I bought a MEC 600 Jr. press set up for 3" hulls, and I believe it can be adjusted for 2 1/2" hulls with some tinkering. I loaded about 150 3" shells, and then my buddy Texas by God sent me some 2 1/2" empties. I still have some more 3" hulls to reload, so I didn't was to adjust the press. I figured a spacer of just the right thickness could be used to raise the shells enough for a crimp, and found that a 1/4" ceramic coffee coaster works just fine. Slow, but the crimps are prefect. These are Win. AA hulls, Claybuster WAA41 replacement wads from BPI, 13.0 gr. of Alliant 2400, and 1/2 oz. nickel plated #7 shot.





DG

[Loudy13]

Loaded some .45 ACP after scavenging the parts from a case of 45 GAP someone ordered by mistake.

[cwtebay]

Four years ago, I took apart my Grandpa's Stevens 59A 410 shotgun with the intention of touching up the blue on the mag tube and refinishing the stock. It took two weeks back then to sand and Tru Oil the stock to a nice glass finish. Tonight, I finally blued the tube and figured out how to put it all back together. Turned out nice. Still need to paint the trigger guard tomorrow as its aluminum and won't take bluing. I know its just a cheap old shotgun that probably doesn't deserve the Tru Oil and all the attention, but the wood is nice and this will get handed down someday.

That "cheap old shotgun" is probably worth quite a bit to you and your family. I hope you get lots of enjoyment from it.

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[jdfoxinc]

Annealed the trimmed .40 brass and pin tumbled it. Then played around with the .45 SWC die from BTS. I need to come up with a more accurate method of initially trimming the brass. This will cut down on the time spent using my trim pro 2.

[62chevy]

Annealed the trimmed .40 brass and pin tumbled it. Then played around with the .45 SWC die from BTS. I need to come up with a more accurate method of initially trimming the brass. This will cut down on the time spent using my trim pro 2.

You don't need to trim pistol brass so you can save some time by not do it.

[cwlongshot]

Sized up a pile of 311/170 Arsenal bullets.

Finished prepping 7Mag brass I got in the mail. Quite a few, more split necks then expected. Even found two that where fired SO HI PRESSURE, that the case head expanded past fitment into the shell holder!!!

Remaining 60 Or so look pretty good. Im assuming it's range pickup. I didnt clarify before buying so buyer beware.

CW

[Texas by God]

I decided to add to my loaded .45 ACP ammo stash, so I dumped most of one of my several coffee cans of fired brass into the tumbler. Two days later, I sized and deprimed 200 of them, a few every time I went through the shop. Its dang cold here today, so I'm priming them in front of the TV with my RCBS hand primer. Ive counted 11 different headstamps....and so far two of those blasted Blazer small pistol primer pocket stepchilds.
No worries, good times.

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