What did you do in the reloading room today?

[JBinMN]

Smelted 52 pounds of pure lead Xray room sheeting into ingots this afternoon. It was about 80-85 F. & dewpoint at about 70. I sweated a lot, but the beer was cold when I took a sip on occasion.

I think I may be done with smelting for a while until I can get more COWW. Besides, I have surgery in about a week that will shut me down on that stuff for a couple months or so.


My "stash" is now at about 400# pure lead ingots, 20# SOWW & maybe 300+ of COWW. + about 15# of tin. I will continue to build the stash, but not gonna worry about smelting for a while. Only took me about 6 months to go from 100 # to this. I am satisfied for now anyway. I have enough to keep myself & family + a couple friends shooting & fishing for a bit now.


G'Luck to everyone with their doins! I really like to read about you folks & your doins. Please keep it goin!

[OS OK]

Good job and way to go JB...I will pray that your surgery goes well and your recovery is swift.

I was just sitting in the shop a while ago and trying to estimate the weight of my stash now, today I purchased another 180# of COWW and I am finally in the over 1,000#'s club.

[JBinMN]

Good job and way to go JB...I will pray that your surgery goes well and your recovery is swift.

I was just sitting in the shop a while ago and trying to estimate the weight of my stash now, today I purchased another 180# of COWW and I am finally in the over 1,000#'s club.

Thanks! I hope it goes well too.


I won't be doing much for reloading/casting/etc. for a while since the surgery is on my right elbow & I am right handed. So, I am right now trying to get as many done now as I can. While recovering I am gonna try to earn to shoot well left handed. I can shoot LH right now, but not as well as I would like. Good time to start working on it, I reckon. Making lemonade out of a lemon situation in a way.

[William Yanda]

I have been distracted lately. The blackberries in the patch across the road are ripe. I have picked a milk jug or two every other day for about 10 days. The wife has made several batches of jam.

[Wayne Smith]

Rebuilt a Tru-Line Jr. Sourced the top nut, washer, turret spring and 5/16" bearing locally. Filed the notch in the washer. Had one of the modern turrets ordered from eBay multiple years ago, one of the last steel ones he made (now aluminum). Sprayed the whole thing down with Kroil and it works.

Does anyone have the specs for the spring? Mine is a little weak.

[AnotherNew1]

Dropped another $0.50 pewter Mug @ 12.9oz into the "to be melted latter bucket" Score!!!!! The bucket is in the reloading room.

[jarhead0321usmc]

Made a powder bushing block for the mec out of walnut. And deprimed a thousand 5.56 cases.

[Grmps]

Finished another batch of shoot and see targets

[Jal5]

Deprimed a bunch of 9mm, 45acp, and 380 the past few days. Trying to catch up!

[Soundguy]

Finished another batch of shoot and see targets

How do you make those? Waxed colored paper sprayed with flat black?

[Grmps]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg-l2KWG1Yw

I used 22x28 colored paper from the dollar store $.60 ea
Cover completely with cheap 2-inch packing tape
I cut thin strips of blue tape, make the x
spray with cheap $1 per can flat black paint from HD or anywhere
then peel the blue tape off after painting

My next batch I'll skip the blue tape x and draw lines or circles with a silver metallic marker


Cost about 10 cents for a 7x7 inch target

PS any paint that contrasts with the paper (you can use white typing paper) works
I'm sure none of you has any old spray paint lying around

[Soundguy]

Sounds great, thanks!

[Tom W.]

I found out last night that I forgot to ease the pressure off of my LAM...... oh well, it was just a little ball of lube. It now resides in my lead pot....

[mold maker]

I found that the 600+ of my 5.56 brass didn't pass the plunk test. Only a few thousandths but enough. Guess I'm not as near done as I thought. Just glad I caught it before the rest of the 3000 pieces were done.

[Smoke4320]

Broke in a new NOE SC 454-290 RG2 mold
About 10 drops and it was casting perfect 274 grn hp bullets

[tazman]

Cast 250 Lyman 452374 boolits using a 2 cavity mold. I think I need to get hold of a 4 cavity.

[JBinMN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg-l2KWG1Yw

I used 22x28 colored paper from the dollar store $.60 ea
Cover completely with cheap 2-inch packing tape
I cut thin strips of blue tape, make the x
spray with cheap $1 per can flat black paint from HD or anywhere
then peel the blue tape off after painting

My next batch I'll skip the blue tape x and draw lines or circles with a silver metallic marker

Cost about 10 cents for a 7x7 inch target

PS any paint that contrasts with the paper (you can use white typing paper) works
I'm sure none of you has any old spray paint lying around

Made some today myself. 77 cents for the same sheets, 1.19 for the tape & the paint was just under $3. at Walmart.
(Didn't think to look at Dollar store.)

I use stickers for the bullseyes.

It is a good idea.

[Digital Dan]

Counted bullets.

Might be I have enough for the next few weeks.

[Texas by God]

Facing RC surgery on my favrite shoulder so most reloading tasks hurt. So I stippled the grips on my HiPoint! I WANT to reload dang it. I can shoot left handed except shotgun.

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[Sghinds]

Got extremely lucky with a local mold purchase. Guy listed some bullet molds for sale for a great price, so I drove out to pick them up. We spoke about shooting a bit and the calibers we load for. So he told me to grab a jug of powder from his shelf, not having a book to look for anything I might need, he gave me a mostly full older 5lb metal tin of 700X. As I walked with him to where the molds were, I noticed 2 San Diego Star sizers on the floor with some other gear. I stated those were some nice bullet sizers, and he said they sure are, I'll give them to you. I'm still in shock.

Molds were:

Lyman 4c 452664
Lyman 4c 358665
Ideal 2c 358429
Lyman 1c 358156
Lee 2c 452-200-SWC
Lee 2c 358-148 WC
Lee 1c 358-150 SWC
Lee 2c TL358-158-2r
Lee 2c TL452-230-2r
Lee 6c 452-200-RF
Lee 6c 452-200-SWC
Lee 6c 358-150-1R