What did you do in the reloading room today?

[44Blam]

Cast some 240 grn PB boolits for my 44 mag and a TON of 85 grn 30 cal for my tok...
The timing is totally different when casting these.

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Turns out, a "TON" of the 30 cal boolits is about 500.

[scotner]

Actually PC'ed them yesterday afternoon and then sized them today. A quart jar of 300 BLK and a few 45. Eastwood V Twin Orange. Then loaded 150 9mm cast.

[sniper]

Installed a set of LED lights over the workbench. Great improvement! Got it on sale at Costco for $20 +tax. Now the wife wants the two-light fixture I took down over the washer-dryer and another one like I installed in another area of the basement! Oh well, win some, lose some!

[McFred]

I picked up a little rotary table for my little mill. Made some aluminum T-slot nuts and added a 1/2" plate to the top of it and drilled and tapped a pile of holes in it (I miss CNC). I just have to get some hardware to permanently hold down the plate and support a dedicated set of hardware to hold the rotary to the mill table.

[cwlongshot]

After much deliberation I ordered a Lyman All American 8 press! My Redding press po’d me for the last time. Its front bars make getting my large mits in to feed bullets nearly impossible. I wanted a T-7. But for 1/3 the cost I cheaped out and ordered the Lyman.

Than loaded 100 357 Magnums. 50 with a 158g Lyman PC bullet and 50 with a 185 Ranchsog GC bullet.

CW

[44Blam]

Loaded 30 Tokarev rounds in a ladder of W296 to test to see how the tok shoots with W296... I recently got an 8 lb keg of it and I know the tok likes 2400 so we'll give the 296 a go.
Then I deprimed, trimmed and loaded 131 308s...
Was a good way to spend a rainy Saturday.

[cwlongshot]

I bedded the entire barrel channel on my Savage B-Mag.



Then cut pillars for my new Boyds stock for my Howa Grendel





CW

[wolf3006]

Cast some 30 cal.

[jdfoxinc]

Played with my BT SNIPER one step 9mm to .40 die and my hornady blank making die. XD bullets look out.

[cwlongshot]

Finished drilling my stock for the pillars.


Scarified the outside of the pillars and JB Welded them in!

Had some troubles, jeeping the epoxy out of the inside of them pushing them inoto the stock..
Hope I got enough release agent on everything!!

Ill pop it out in the morning but wont know till then!!

[Butler Ford]

I tumble lubed some RCBS 32-170 bullets, repaired a mold, drained and cleaned my Lee casting pot, refilled it with Lyman No 2 and it still works! Tested the drained alloy @ 13.4 BN, thinking it should be around 15 after sitting for day or two, at least I hope it does. Did a little cleaning around the casting area and the tools that go along with it. Pulled a few "gifted" rounds and got them deprimed and sorted. Gathered and sorted several small containers of brass and have some of them tumbling as I type this. All and all, not really a lot accomplished but a pleasant day anyway.

[lightman]

Resized about 800 9mm cases and started tumbling them.

[Plate plinker]

Tumbled the last of 7000 pcs of 9mm brass.

[Tom W.]

Trimmed and flared 35 pcs of 30/30 brass to get ready to fire form them.

[CASTING MACHINE]

Sized and lubed 18,000 148 wadcutters for a local group buy

[obssd1958]

Separated and counted .380 ACP brass for a possible trade.

[L Erie Caster]

Absolutely nothing, unfortunately.

[wolf3006]

Lube a bunch of 30 cal.

[brass410]

looked in at the mess, shook my head, turned the light off and closed the door. There's better days ahead besides I've got new moulds to try, lead plates to smelt down to ingots, 9 5gallon pails of weights to sort wow its hard to get the time in.

[lightman]

A friend came over today to cast. I got to use a new Accurate 45-70 mold that I got at Christmas. Today may have been one of those brain cramp days. My buddy went off and left his wallet at home. Right next to a small cooler of beer! I plugged up my pot and turned the PID on. And forgot to turn on the pot! Bad start!!!

The mold cast great, once I learned a little about its personality. I have not cast with an aluminum mold since I bought and discarded a 2 cavity aluminum Lee mold, 40+ years ago. My lead temps may have been a little hot but I didn't want to reprogram the PID so I just adjusted my casting speed. It was a joy to cast with but maybe not as forgiving as a seasoned iron mold. It took a little getting used to the pour times as each bullet weighed about twice what I normally cast. All in all I like the mold. I cast about 1 gallon of 405 grain 45-70 bullets out of wheel weights.