What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Combat Diver]

Wife sent me one of my casting pots and hot plate. Have lots of range spatter to melt down to ingots. FRB sent over the ocean, USPS and Customs going to be cussing me



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[eric123]

Just finished reloading 394 38 Specials on my JR2 press...

[sigep1764]

Cancer sucks. You're too good of man to go out that way. Fight. I wish I was closer.

[jdfoxinc]

Annealed a batch of 9x19 yesterday and put them in small vibrators tumbler over night. Matched them up with cores and swaged .40 j words today.

[KrakenFan69]

Finally got around to casting with a couple of new Lee molds I picked up. I use a Lee 401-175 TC in my Glock 35 and they went on sale so I grabbed another. Then I picked up a Lee 358-150 1R for my revolver. Hoping for quicker reloading in my S&W 627 with the round nose over the 358-158 RF. Spun up a few of each last night and today after getting the molds broke in good. All Hi-Tek coated and ready to load now.



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[Budzilla 19]

It was a sad day in the reloading room today!! After I got it reorganized to my satisfaction, started reloading some 30/30’s , opened my last 1/2 pound of SR 4759!, now need to find a replacement powder. 😒☹️Got a lot of unique and some IMR 4198 so I’m good for now, just using up my half pound lots of different powders. Got TrailBoss also but not ready to go down that road yet.

[Ford SD]

Will changing out the brushes restore the drill??

Never thought to try... was a direct short ... I think the switch as it was shorting out in the off position..

replaced it with a even older chraftsman 12 volt drill

sears would replace the drill ... but not the batteries

Cordless drills ... cheeper to buy a hole new set than replace 2 batteries

[sigep1764]

Waiting on my NOE expander plug to arrive in the mail tmro, I primed 50 5.56 cases and emptied my powder measure of Promo. Filled it with W748 and set it to throw 14.5 grains. 748 meters SOOO much better than Promo through a Uniflow.

[Rich/WIS]

Between yesterday and today expanded and primed 500 45 ACP, sized and decapped another 100 ready for tumbling.

[Kegcaissy]

Sizing and cleaning 303 brass and searching for some advice on cast 5.56 ar reloading. We really need an ar subforum...

[Tom W.]

F**** Cancer. You're too good of man to go out that way. Fight. I wish I was closer.

Thanks. I did get to the range today. Lori took me because we needed one more day out before she has to face her class again. I enjoy shooting my two single shot rifles. I took one of my handguns, but never unholstered it.

[Conditor22]

*** some of these loads are for Rugers and may not be safe for all firearms ***

[sigep1764]

Where'd you get the boxes and labels? Are those from the new site sponsor?

[jdfoxinc]

Just received 1k 9x18 makarov starline from Grafs. Will prime some today. Get to load those j word pills I bought months ago. Then take my makarov and Vz 82 to shoot.

[Conditor22]

Where'd you get the boxes and labels? Are those from the new site sponsor?

these boxes and labels are what the new sponsor sells.

I bought them before they became sponsors. they make for an economical compact way to store cartridges.

I have boxes for all the handgun calibers I shoot

here's a couple

[Tom W.]

I sized and deprimed the rounds that I fire formed yesterday and they are now in the tumbler getting all nice and shiny. Later I'll sort and inspect them.....again

And I cleaned the rifles that I shot yesterday. No leading on either one, but there was some powder fouling.

[Mal Paso]

200 Arsenal #503 clones over 20g of 2400, Fed 150 primers, new Starline brass.

[sigep1764]

Used my new NOE expander to load MP227-75 in ladder loads with W748 from 14.5 to 16.5 in half grain increments, 10 for each load. Gonna try to get to the range with the AR tmro.

[Michael J. Spangler]

200 Arsenal #503 clones over 20g of 2400, Fed 150 primers, new Starline brass.

Looking good!!!!

[David2011]

Got 2000 more .40 S&W cases push through sized on the Case Master II. I think 2000 is my daily limit. This is the most strenuous reloading activity I've ever done. I've had the Case Master II for 10-11 years but in the past have sized hundreds at a time, not thousands. Tweaked my technique and have the cyclic rate up to 30-32/minute but due to having to do other things it takes over an hour to do 1000. Hope I don't trash my right arm doing this. I still have a bunch to go.

Are you lubing the cases first? I understand the die is carbide, but it really helps. I started lubing pistol cases when I did some marathon reloading sessions a few years ago; saved my arm for sure. It's so smooth I have continued even on batches of 200-300.

Yes, I use Dillon case lube when sizing with the Case Master II but thanks for asking. It was a game changer when I discovered how much it helped with that device. It would be very tiring without the lube when sizing thousands. and it doesn't make the tub of the case feeder too sticky. (I made a setup that lets me use a Dillon case feeder on the CM II.) It cleans up easily. I still have 3 USPS Tyvek bags to go.