What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Mandoair]

I hatched a plan today to hobble down the stairs to the room on Monday if for nothing else to see what it looked like when I left it. I’m certain I was working on something I believe I was working up some 9mm loads for a training session in February that I will no longer be able to attend. Funny how fast priorities can change‼️

[MOA]

I finished sizing the 45 acp brass this morning while the 40 S&W along with the 360 Nitro express was pin tumbling. Was able to get 100 225gr #452374 Lyman cast boolits into the lube-a-matic for tomorrow's loading. Will use red dot. Likely around 4.7 grains or so. Will have to get out the master caster soon cause not too many left in the box to load so, that's ok, I've got some ingots ready to go. Although it really needs to warm up a bit.

[trails4u]

Fully prepped about 200 5.56 cases... Ugh, my least favorite chore at the bench, but a necessary evil I suppose. We do run some ARs, as does my son, so the ammo cans must be filled from time to time. Probably have close to 1,000 fully prepped at this point, so time to set up the press and grind through the misery.... Would much rather be doing something cool like BP loads in 43 Spanish but....it can't all be fun, right!?

[Pavia]

My small casting setup. When I sold my house, I scaled down my reloading setup. I also recently put together a minimal, but effective, casting station to get back into the hobby. Plenty of light and I added a ducted exhaust fan to move fumes outside. Just goes to show you don’t need a fancy expensive setup to enjoy casting.

[Kosh75287]

I'm loading practice ammo for my wife's ("The Boss's") 9mm, and for my new (to ME) Israeli Kareen P-35.
I reloaded 9x19mm in the following forms:
4.8/BE-86/147 gr. PC-TC/CCI SPPs/WIN Cases/1.130"
4.8/BE-86/147 gr. PC-TC/CCI SPPs/F-C Cases/1.130"
4.8/BE-86/147 gr. PC-TC/CCI SPPs/R-P Cases/1.130"
5.5/BE-86/125 gr. PC-TC/CCI SPPs/WIN Cases/1.130"
5.5/BE-86/125 gr. PC-TC/CCI SPPs/F-C Cases/1.130"
5.5/BE-86/125 gr. PC-TC/CCI SPPs/R-P Cases/1.130"
5.5/BE-86/122 gr. LRNFP/CCI SPPs/WIN Cases/1.130"
5.5/BE-86/125 gr. LRNFP/CCI SPPs/F-C Cases/1.130"
5.5/BE-86/125 gr. LRNFP/CCI SPPs/R-P Cases/1.130"
25 rounds each, chronograph and accuracy results to follow. "Accuracy" with a P-35 is somewhat "in the eyes of the beholder", since they have a reputation for "adequate but not stellar" groups. Eight or nine rounds rounds of 10 in an 8" diameter circle at 50 yards is probably twice as accurate as it needs to be.
I have ONE way of organizing the results, but if anyone has a super-neato method of tabulating the specs on the ammo, plus average velocity + standard deviation, please PM me.

[firefly1957]

I chronographed a load I worked up for a OLD Winchester 1907 I size a Hornady 140 grain FXT bullet to .351 " Because of the shape this bullet is the same length as the original 180 grain bullet . It is seated to 1.9" and some loads I had for the 180 grain were tried .

first try was using AA 1680 powder a maximum loading density only give 1740 f/s the powder was to slow gave less then a 180 grain bullet .
Next try is 2400 powder 19 grains in a OLD Lyman manual said just under 1800 f/s and it is faster then AA 1680 . Working up to 19 grains all were safe and cycled action it gave the 140 grain bullet an average of 2150 f/s cases drop next to me .

[Bentstick]

First try at casting (finaly),long story short, inherited some casting equipment some used and abused ok most,so been gearing up to get a fresh go a Lee 4-20 pot and a few molds mostly lee and a RCBS 30-180-FN so I cleaned up a lee 309-200 and played with both today learned some on amount of heat to use and how to speed up and mostly slow down, first issue was non filled molds, got over and through that then was frosted bullets(not some frosting but lots) started to get away from them also, it will be a learning curve for sure but progress as been made into my journey of casting my own boolits
Thanks to all for the info that is shared on this forum, makes the rough road a lil smoother.

[MOA]

Pulled out another 400 pieces of acp brass to decap and then pin tumble. Then when I get the master caster setup and cranking I'll have some place to put the boolits. But at least these 400 are ready to go as soon as I make up some stuffing for them.

[Rapier]

I have about 3k pieces of nickel brass cleaning, in a big blue vibrator cleaner.

Then I have some 375 Win Big Boy brass coming, dies, etc., I need this like I need a new butt whipping. I think a cast plain base for powder coating. But I do not like Winchesters, can not see distance, a Marlin is better for me to mount a scope on. I may need another trade deal done
to get where I need to be.

[trixter]

I tore down my Lee Turret cleaned lubed all moving parts and changed over form 9mm to 10mm.

[robg]

loaded up 50 x 45-70 352gn boolits

[trixter]

Looked in as I walked by, and moaned "I'll be back".

[Texas by God]

I explored the versatility of the 30-06 by loading 4 types of bullets for four uses.
L to R we have the C309150F with Red Dot for small game and target; the 110gr V-Max going fast for general varmints; the 175gr Sierra bthp for long range target; and 180gr Vernon Speer sp for bigger game. All the "j- words" are loaded with Varget.

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[Michael J. Spangler]

Mixed up about 140 pounds of alloy.
A little over 2% antimony and 1.4% tin. This blend has worked great for me in 9mm where I prefer some hardness.

[Mandoair]

After almost 3 weeks on the walker I was able to hobble down the stairs to the reload room looked around looks okay like I was doing something when I left for the hospital. Maybe in a couple of weeks I’ll be able to actually start reloading I’m hoping to make a bunch of rounds up for a match for training in March or April. So you can take my advice I’m not using it, keep the shiny side up.

[StuBach]

Stared longingly at the “new” firearms I got from my Fathers collection as I worked on other things. Hard having him gone but these help me keep the memories going.

Among the pieces, a bare Brownells 1911 SS kit gun (with all the parts needed) he had barely started fitting on. I will eventually have enough time to finish it for him. Irony being, when his father passed in 07 he left behind a barely started tuning job on a 1918 manufacturer 1911 which my dad finished and presented to me the last time I saw him. (Yes it retains is property of USG stamping)




I did play around a little with the Ruger PCC on my Beamhit though, that was fun.

[Outer Rondacker]

Hung 6 more packs of Crossman Premier Hollow Point pellets on the rack. Got lucky local WalMart had 6 packs of .22 cal still marked at $6.24 each. Not anymore.

[thump_rrr]

I had a big day today.
I cast my first batch of 600 125gr 9mm and 375 230gr .45 out of my automated Magma caster.
I sized them through my Star Lube Sizer (no lube)
I bought a nice used toaster oven for $45 and powder coated my first batch of 9mm.
I test loaded 50 rounds to try out tomorrow.
Here is a video of my Magma Caster that I automated.
This is an older video from around a year ago.
I got too busy with work and set the project aside till now.
I added a touchscreen which I can also use to search the web if I wanted to.

[Iron369]

Put together a Lee pro 1000 for 223. I decap and resize on a single stage and hand prime, so I’m setting up my first progressive press trying to transition from a Lee turret press.

[openbook]

Cleaned up the bench a bit, and loaded up a few "steps" in my ongoing 22 Hornet Red Dot load ladder.