Cast up 100ish 405gr 45/70 pills and gas checked them. Hopefully get a few loaded up tonight!
Cast up 100ish 405gr 45/70 pills and gas checked them. Hopefully get a few loaded up tonight!
Decapped and sized about 600 44 mag, 200 357 mag, broke my rcbs sizing and depriming die (actual pin bent Lord knows how) a neighbor helped me finish up by giving me a Lee set of dies.
Got all the 44 tumbled, then lubrisized 50 of my 429421 HPs. Busy day yesterday.
Ill try anything once, twice if I forgot
Started organizing all the junk I have. Found some 4198 with a price of $1.50.....yes the decimal point is in the right place!
"Found" literally thousands of bullets and cases I had forgotten about.
I have more to do. Some will go on sale.
Yesterday had the pleasure of breaking down 100 9mm rounds. Loaded them with Lee 105 gr Swc and forgot to plunk test them. Great memory therapy using a kinetic bullet puller. Maybe I'll remember the next time? Tim
Cast up some Ideal's to mike out the groove and bore riding portions: 308284 and 311413.
Yesterday I FL sized, in a 40 S&W die, and bulge busted around 650 pieces if 357 Sig Brass. Threw them in the tumbler and forgot about them. I remembered this morning so I bagged them up and placed them in the proper five gallon bucket. Now I can run them through a 357 Sig die w/ no lube and I'm good to go.
was outside at the casting "bench" making some more H&G 68 clones to play with. Got the hitek zombie green to come out green this time too! Not as pretty as some, but it still passed all my tests so i don't care. next for a range trip to test them out.
I've had that happen before. The rounds fed in one of my 9mm handguns, but not in the new one that I was going to be shooting. I ended up just running one through the seating die to seat it a bit deeper until I got to a point where it would pass the plunk test and then running the rest through after test firing that first one. It was a mild load, so I wasn't worried about the slightly increased pressure.
Loaded this weekend 500 / 223 with 55 fmjs 69 and 75 grain hornady and 69 and 77 grain sierras target loads. I used Varget and CFE. All on a lee single stage press . The week before I loaded over 700 40 s&w with Hs6 and 300 223 with Win 748 on the same press. I just mounted my press and powder measure to a old school desk. It's a lot better than using my hand press all the time.
I didn't get that much production out. I loaded 60 rounds of 223 to test in my new rifle. Still figuring out what it like the best.
I used 3 different bullet weights, 3 different powders, and 3 different styles of bullets.
It's going to be a long and interesting trip to the range next time.
I finally got my casting area setup somewhat comfortably and attempted to revive my new Lee 401-145swc mold. I finally got it to release the Boolits. Now I have to figure out what I'm doing wrong so it'll release good Boolits.
edit: I don't know why the picture is sideways, it isn't on my phone.
Last edited by Strtspdlx; 07-26-2016 at 09:09 AM.
Nice set up . I had all my loading stuff mounted to a bench in the basement but moved it all to my closet. It gets wet in the basement a few big rains a year so decided to move all my stuff.i have been using my lee hand press the last few years on the kitchen table and living room couch but like my school desk the best .it's portable,can load in the living room or kitchen. And when Iam done everything gets put back up
This followed me home today.
Ruger model 100 357.
Going to shoot 38 spc mostly.
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loaded some 12 ga shells and did alittle gun room cleanup
farted
Hit em'hard
hit em'often
In whose direction?
I did inventory. Need 900 bullets of 5 styles and 2 alloys. Casting in July/August requires many cold beverages.
I have danced with the Devil. She had excellent attorneys.
Loaded up 25 45-70`s. 405grain boolit over 6.5grains of Unique.
Tried to clean a wider path so walking through my crowded shop / garage building, isn't as dangerous. When I'm not there every day or 3 family just goes in and when they don't know where something goes and place it in the floor. A little here and a little there.
Be careful,
Victor
Life member NRA
Time to disassemble the LnL AP and install the strong mount....eventually. Enough loaded ammo for awhile already and the list of house repairs out weighs my need for more.
My feedback page if you feel inclined to add:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...raight-Shooter
Thanks Yall!
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 |