What did you do in the reloading room today?

[ZippyHillbilly]

Tryin to straighten up the dag gum place! Lotta load workups, various friend's rifle preps, hunting season prep ...... dang place is a organized mess! Starting this casting hobby has only made it worse with pots, ladles, moulds, alloy and so forth. I am a pig in heaven I suppose.

[DerekP Houston]

Bought some 3/4" hardwood ply to shore up my bench . Now I have to disassemble everything and resurface it.

[warpspeed]

I seasoned my new brass mold and cast a few slugs. Good times!

[goryshaw]

First session with a new Lee 452-228 2 cavity mold. Emptied a 20 lb pot with it, had occasional problems with base fillout, but still got several hundred good bullets out of it.

Ran about 300 NOE 311299 through a Lee .311 sizer with Vulcan aluminum gas checks. Got 2 more coats of BLL on 100 of them, and 1 coat on the other 200. Do another coat on them tomorrow and they'll be ready to load.

Ordered a new NOE 314299 5 cavity, a Lee universal expander and a Lee .314 sizer. Got a CMP M1 match coming up on the 5th, would like to get a good load worked up for .30-06 with the 311299 next week.

[Steyr47]

Started cleaning ~400 pcs of 9 & 38 brass my son & I burned up at the range yesterday.

[Boolseye]

Cool Tazman, thanks.

[edler7]

Escaped from the grandkids and took a brief turkey induced nap in one of my loading room chairs.

[RogerDat]

The adjustable charge bar does not work for me with 3.5 grains of Bullseye. sometimes I got none, zero grains and some times it gave me 3.5 but most of the time it was very low from want I needed. Others have said it works great over 5 grains of powder.

Small charges of powder the charge bar hole is too far off to one side since the slide is pretty tight. There is a fix for the problem put a spacer in against the fixed part to shift the opening toward the adjustment side. Some use thin piece of plastic sheet, or cardboard, some use JB Weld and make the change permanent so that charge bar will always work for smaller loads but not have as much capacity.

Oh I put together some shelves for finished ammo, with space underneath to stack metal ammo cans 2 high. Nice to have it all in one place at the bench. Brass shelves on one end of bench, finished ammo on the other end of the bench. With the makings in the middle.

[62chevy]

Small charges of powder the charge bar hole is too far off to one side since the slide is pretty tight. There is a fix for the problem put a spacer in against the fixed part to shift the opening toward the adjustment side. Some use thin piece of plastic sheet, or cardboard, some use JB Weld and make the change permanent so that charge bar will always work for smaller loads but not have as much capacity.

Had not thought of that. Will have to give it a try and betting it will work because it makes sense.

[dragon813gt]

Pulled out the turkey fryer and all the smelting gear. The ingots I got from the foundry don't fit into the Lee pot. Tried splitting them, didn't work w/ what I had. Tried cutting them, made to much of a mess. So it's back to melting and pouring them into smaller ingots. Wish I had the money for Satan's Little Smelter because a little bottom pour pot would be the ticket for this chore.

[coxa2]

loaded up a couple hundred 45acp rounds for this weekend.

[JeffG]

Screwed down a Lyman case trimmer I got at the gun show, loaded 100 9x18 Makarov and 50 9x19. Cleaned up the loading bench.

[sealer]

Just finished sizing the last of the bullets that i made this week:
2000 9mm 120 gr. TC
400 45 200 gr. WC
250 44 240 SWC
250 44 240 gr HPGC
300 38 158 gr. HPGC
700 38 150 gr. SWC
500 38 148 gr. WC
500 9mm 102 gr. RN

I might make a few more 38 WC's later this weekend. i just got a new to me H&G #50 WC mold
Dennis
ETA: Almost forgot, I made about 5 lbs. of Felix Lube too.

[Stefflus]

Sorted through a bucket of Wheel weights.
Ended up with 4lbs of lead, 10lbs of ferrous and 30lbs of Zinc... So that's the end of small vehicle WW for me, I'll have to find a shop that only does trucks and buses since Lead is still allowed for them.

[62chevy]

Small charges of powder the charge bar hole is too far off to one side since the slide is pretty tight. There is a fix for the problem put a spacer in against the fixed part to shift the opening toward the adjustment side. Some use thin piece of plastic sheet, or cardboard, some use JB Weld and make the change permanent so that charge bar will always work for smaller loads but not have as much capacity.

Just had to give that advice a try and it sure worked. after adding 3 layers of thick card stock and super gluing all 3 in the adjustable charge bar dropped 2.5 grains of TiteGroup 8 out of the times, the other 2 were 2.6 grains. Still had problems as the powder normally drops after the hopper is closed but not this time.

[dragon813gt]

Tomorrow I will sort the plain base from gas checked. First time using the mold so I will weigh all of them to see how consistent they are.

[goryshaw]

Tried a new LEE 358-125 RNFP mold out. Cast about 15-16 lbs of them, then my LEE 20 lb furnace plugged it's spout and had to call it a day. Took about 15 casts to get the mold up to temp, but once it got there I got perfect bullet after perfect bullet, probably 3-400 of them. When sorting them out from the water bucket I found that my cheap LEE molds are turning out a much higher % of good bullets than my RCBS molds are.

Received a new NOE 314299 mold, but need to fix the furnace spout before I can use it. Al at NOE is terrific, ordered it Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving, got it Friday. Will cast up about 20 lbs of them, then I can start loading for my 1909 Mauser Cavalry Carbine in 7.65x53.

Rediscovered why it is a bad idea to toss 9mm, .40 S&W and .45 ACP in the tumbler at the same time. Still trying to get some 9mm cases removed from .40 S&W or .40 S&W from .45 ACP. Really neat when they daisy chain all three into one.

[Drew P]

Made some twice baked potatoes

[MOA]

Trimmed some 06 brass after wet pin tumbler.

[Bayou52]

Nothing. My Mom's very ill and in the hospital. So, my hobby has been trumped......