What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Bookworm]

Cast a bit over 25 lbs of boolits. Used 50/50 CWW/Pb (pure), with 1% Sn added.

The weight is split about even, betwixt a LEE TL358-158-2R six cavity ; man that thing produces quickly,
and a new NOE TL358-175-RF 4 cavity.
That NOE mold is a joy to use. My first "nice" aluminum mold. Such a pleasure. Just a shake, and the boolits fall out.

Emptied the pot twice, that's enough at one sitting.

[mold maker]

Just finished citric acid cleaning over a K of really dirty mixed brass and sorted the military from the commercial. It rained on the brass before it dried and I let it sit over night on the screen to dry in today's sun. It started to darken before it dried so a CC and NuFinish tumble are in order.
What happened to the passivation that citric acid was supposed to impart?
Is acid rain possibly involved? The brass was brighter than new after citric acid-cleaning.

[Bookworm]

It's not acid rain, it's global warming. I mean climate change.

It's (we're) at fault for everything.

[62chevy]

Made 50 rounds of reduced loads for my 308 Savage Axis using 10 grains of Unique and a lead 170 grain powder coated bullet. This is a great plinking round with a mild recoil.

[Jal5]

125 rounds of 223 rem reloaded. Learned to better ream those primer pockets. Gave me problems on the lee loadmaster.

[trixter]

I reloaded 150 rounds of 9mm, tumbled 500+ 223 brass to remove lube, now I am going to size them using my new WFT trimmer, then reload about half of them with 55gr cast boolits that I have powder coated, and the other half with 55gr FMJBT bullets. Early tomorrow I'm going to my range and unload a whole bunch of the lead ones using my Mossberg MVP.

[EMC45]

Sorted/organized a BUNCH of brass. Loaded 50 rounds of .44 Special - 200gr. Lee RNFP, CCI LP (ancient), .5CC Lee dipper of Clays, 1.445"

[copdills]

loaded a few 7/8 lee slugs and check out and readjusted my powder measure

[Jal5]

Fixed a shelf in the reloading bench that had bowed from weight and installed two bins on the edge if the bench ti catch rounds etc.

[JBinMN]

Boxed up & drove 40 miles round trip to return a 30-06 mold that was drilled off center. Not really a, "What did I do in the Reloading room?" , but in a way it was.... Pert near, since I was gonna cast some of them & reload...

I hope to not repeat those doins & I will be reloading some more .380 tonite for shooting again tomorrow. Seems the kids & the missus like that cheap shooting more than .22 now a days.
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[Harter66]

Sold 2 gun cabinets for what we gave for the 5 yrs ago .
Everything is finally in the safe !
Now to start plying down the number of half cans of stuff to full cans .

[lightman]

Started sizing some of the bullets that I cast over the last few months. Finally emptied my 450 sizer so I can fix the lube leak. Got it apart and cleaned up but did not have the correct size "O" ring.

[EMC45]

Loaded 50 more rounds. .38 Special this time. 150gr. Lee SWC over 3.5 Bullseye. Still sorting the gun room.

[RED333]

Sorted, sized, deprime and tumble some 44 mag brass I picked up the other day.
Loaded up 2 cap & ball revolvers for a bit of shooting on Sunday.

[Texas by God]

Loaded 30 25-06 100 gr Nosler blue tips for this fall. 53.5 grs H4350. They're supposed to be fast.
For those across the field opportunities!

[triggerhappy243]

Loaded 30 25-06 100 gr Nosler blue tips for this fall. 53.5 grs H4350. They're supposed to be fast.
For those across the field opportunities!

only 30? I stopped at 150

[Bookworm]

only 30? I stopped at 150

That reminds me of a time, years ago, I went deer hunting with a new guy. we both had day-packs, and one evening we were discussing what we carried afield.
He had 50 rounds of .30-06 with him.

In the day-pack.

Every day.

I said something like "Joe, the deer aren't going to be shooting back...."

[lightman]

Wow, and I thought I was carrying too much with 4 extra cartridges. I cut up the red plastic case holders like Federal puts in their shell boxes and make a poor boys case holder. Its quieter than a stripper clip and easier to use. If I'm walking I won't carry more than what fits in the magazine. I strive for the one shot one kill thing!

[lightman]

As far as the loading room goes, I may start prepping some 44 brass. My working stock of loaded 44's is about used up and its about time to stuff them all again. I think I have enough bullets cast up to cover this.

[Texas by God]

only 30? I stopped at 150

Yep. Thirty deer/ hogs/ coyotes/ antelope. Actually had that many virgin unprimed brass sitting there looking at me as well as a box of NBT with 39 bullets left in it so.....
Bookworm- years ago in Kansas I carried my 30" 12 ga H&R Topper with 5 shells in the butt cuff. Hunted all day and got two cocks with 3 shots. My twenty something guides had Bennelis with decals and carried 2 boxes each of 3"shells. One young man paid more for his choke than my gun cost. They asked if I had more ammo; I replied-" Did they raise the limit?"
I felt vindicated at day's end when only one hunter got 3 cocks but he used a lot of shells to do it.
Sorry for the rambling!