What did you do in the reloading room today?

[fralic76]

Hand primed 1000 9mm brass.

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[robg]

Cast and lubed 110 \357\180gr boolits and 110 /308\154gr boolits,size and gas check them later .good way to spend a bank holiday over here .

[Harter66]

A creative mess is far better than tidy idleness .
Attachment 196503

222-45-70 and 45 Raptor .

[Sghinds]

Over the weekend I was able to test out more cast 223 bullets in my AR, narrowing down a nice plinking load.

I then wanted to try out a new and faster way to powder coat my bullets. I have always used airsoft BB's and then used hemostats to pick them out of the tub and stand them up on a baking sheet. I have seen others use a vibratory tumbler and dump them all in a wire basket and bake the whole thing. I got a wire screen from Walmart in the grill section, I formed it around my baking sheet that came with my toaster oven to maximize the space. Had a few issues at first but got them sorted out and the results are good to go. Much faster to coat my bullets. I picked up a nearly new FA vibratory tumbler off Craigslist for $10, it is now my dedicated tumbler for powder coating.

[308Jeff]

Cleaned 5,000 pieces of brass. Decapped and resized 2,500 of them. Broke/bent my decapping stem on a ringer.

[robg]

Sized, trimmed ,expanded and primed 24 308 cases .I think I'll sort out the 357 mag cases I shot on Sunday on other day .

[Smoke4320]

sized about 30 454 345 gr colt projectiles for the levergun project

fired 2 with 10 grns of 2400 .. Felt like mouse loads even though projected velocity should have been about 880 FPS

next is to try 11 grains then hopefully 12 grains.. which should be approx. 1050 fps ..
That's my goal.
1050 PFS with a 345 grn projectile out of a 45 colt levergun
a little kick and a lot of punch on the other end

[Reverend Al]

Dug out a large batch of cleaned and annealed .30-30 cases and started de-priming and neck expanding a bunch of them for use in my new (to me) large action Martini in .38-55. I'll fire form a bunch of shorter than normal cases from these .30-30 cases using some boolits I already have on hand, and then I'll stretch the cases out to full length with my Kal Max Case Stretcher. Just one more project of many ...

[jimb16]

Cast 500 225 gr, .452 rnfp bullets for my .45 colt 1873 rifle and pistol. Tomorrow, I'l PC them.

[Loudy13]

Made test rounds for subsonic 300BO, 150gr HP with trail boss and 230gr with IMR 4227. Trying them in my handi rifle tomorrow

Tested these on Saturday and they all worked out pretty well, ended up with a load for the 150gr at 1040 FPS average using 6.3 grains of Trail boss. Note you can not use the load data out of the Hornady manual it lists the starting powder at 6.8gr and 7.8C max. 6.8 grains barely fits in the case so I used that as my max and worked backwards. There were no signs of overpressure in any of the test rounds but found the lower load a touch more consistent and accurate.

The 230 grains with 4227 had very little variation from round to round and were chrony wise and even nicer they shot a nice group!!

[bullseye67]

Good evening,
Today I T/L about 20 pounds of boolits. Works out to half of the boolits I cast up yesterday. I have found that I can get one solid half day of casting a month, about 40 lbs of alloy, I can keep up with what I go through. Cast, Load, Shoot repeat as necessary.
Have an awesome week.

[Sghinds]

Last night I tumbled and primed 100 41 Mag cases to get ready for some load development. I am going to be loading some Lyman 410459, powder coated over 2400 to see what my S&W 57 likes best. If I have some time, I plan on casting a few Lyman 41026 and Lyman 41028 to test at the same time. Hopefully I can use my next range session to find a few good loads for the 41.

[skeettx]

I use the Ohaus 41-210-K bullet for my 41 Mags and 10 grains of Unique is all I need to make me happy
Mike

[Sghinds]

I use the Ohaus 41-210-K bullet for my 41 Mags and 10 grains of Unique is all I need to make me happy
Mike

I was reading another thread where people were raving about 8gr of Unique. I may add some Unique loads in there too for good measure. Thanks for the info. I have the RCBS version of that mould.

[Sghinds]

Tonight I cast a handful of the Lyman 41026 and 41028 to make some test rounds. Hope to get them powder coated and sized tomorrow. Won't be able to go to the range this weekend due to being on call, but hope to go soon.

[Tom W.]

My boolit mold came in today from Midway, but as I'm still hooked up to the chemo pump I guess I'll maybe do something this weekend after the hospital removes it. Cancer sucks..

[trixter]

I powder coated a bunch of 155gr 309 boolits for my 30-06 and 300 Savage (Rem 722 bolt) getting ready to reload them after work tonight.

I am having so much fun with this hobby.

[edadmartin]

Today I finally got my bench back in order.the reverse rotation case eject for my lee classic turret is tuned and working great,my first run of sized powdercoated boolits, 45acp are loaded and ready for the range friday. I also finished my case and boolit holder tubes.this makes it much easier for insensitive fingers to grab a case or boolit without fumbling and or dropping them in the bottomless pit.

Sorry about the duplicate pic

[edadmartin]

Here is one more pic of the case and bullet pez despenser.

[taco650]

My boolit mold came in today from Midway, but as I'm still hooked up to the chemo pump I guess I'll maybe do something this weekend after the hospital removes it. Cancer sucks..

Sorry to hear you're fighting this battle. Hang in there!

Stuart