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    I’ve started sizing and priming 200 .41 Magnum brass to load as fun plinkers. My Rockchucker and the steel( not carbide) dies make this an enjoyably slow process. Both the press and dies were given to me by a dear friends widow when he passed away. To you, JLC! You are missed.

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    I pillar bedded my Ruger American in a Boyds wood stock.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cwlongshot View Post
    I pillar bedded my Ruger American in a Boyds wood stock.
    I'd like to see that, got pics??

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    Here is what 84 lbs looks like. It is really not that impressive boxed up. At top speed I can coat and size about 10 lbs an hour.
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    Gonna try 226 sizing with powder coated gas checked boolits. Loaded 30 to test in the AR pistol tmro. Also shooting a DPMS for the first time. Bought it about a year ago and its never been shot.

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    Cleaned some range lead and old cast net sinkers. got 31#. I'd post pics.. but as normal .. all my upload attempts say failed. ( no issues at other sites fyi.. )

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    Picked up 2 Fireking Filing Cabinets. 1hr fire rating at 1200 deg. They are now my powder, primer, ect. storage.

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    Built a wood shelf to stack my lead on and sort it into sections by composition.

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    Powder coated some 8mm, ok that was in the garage, loaded up some 38sp wc over BE for my wife's Chiefs Special. Dug threw some molds to see what I'm going to cast this weekend, unboxed 2 Poly 80 Glock 19's I'm going to build and decided I'm going to cast up some 300gr 45LC to try in a Ruger Blackhawk I bought a couple of years ago but have never gotten around to shooting. Might cast some 200gr to try over Promo for it to try the nifty 45ACP cylinder it came with in a nice burgundy bag.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Texas by God View Post
    I’ve started sizing and priming 200 .41 Magnum brass to load as fun plinkers. My Rockchucker and the steel( not carbide) dies make this an enjoyably slow process. Both the press and dies were given to me by a dear friends widow when he passed away. To you, JLC! You are missed.
    That's a nice thing, right there. I have a lever I take out and clean once in a while and remember the man I got it from who helped me drag out a deer years ago but has since passed on.
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    .226 sizing was AWESOME!!! The AR pistol groups have shrunk by half!!

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    cast about 100 .38 boolets 140 gr. Lee mold
    Old retired guy in Baton Rouge La.

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    Re setup my casting area. Now Ill be using a hot plate!! Im liking it alot right now!! I posted up a video showing some too!

    I cast a couple Hundred from two molds. Weather permitting I mixed a fresh pot of alloy!!

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    As I finished my .41 Special level loads with bullets, I showed my son how to make .41 magnum shotshells. #12 shot ruins a copperheads day quite well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texas by God View Post
    As I finished my .41 Special level loads with bullets, I showed my son how to make .41 magnum shotshells. #12 shot ruins a copperheads day quite well.

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    Where do you get #12 shot?

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    Disassembled about 50 350 Legend rounds. Then resized the case and the boolits so I can reload them with a better load.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cwtebay View Post
    Where do you get #12 shot?

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    Quite a while back I bought one box of Rio 2-3/4" 12 gauge shotgun shells with 1-1/8 oz. of #12. I removed the shot from a few shells for this use and replaced it with spent primers for soft drink can assault.
    Those 12/12s will vaporize a well hit clay bird!

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    Loaded the last 400 srp I had, into .223 cases already prepped. Sealed and stored away. Primed all 400 off press because of priming problem with range brass not separated by head stamp, and not properly de-crimped. Will look further into why this is happening. Maybe me just being lazy.

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    I played with the new check maker that I got from Gregor and it is pretty slick. All the metal I have on hand is some .011" painted aluminum which is kind of loose on my 312-165 lee boolits but just right on the 312-185 boolits. I screwed it into the press and it worked flawlessly. I will need to get some .014/.015" metal and try it, It should snug up tight and be gooooood!
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    Smelted down about 60 lbs of alloy:

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check