Another 240 5.56 nato cases trimmed, deburred, chamfered, primer crimp removed, and HS checked. It's raining and arthritis stopped me from doing more.
Another 240 5.56 nato cases trimmed, deburred, chamfered, primer crimp removed, and HS checked. It's raining and arthritis stopped me from doing more.
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I cleaned up too, then cleaned up the whole shop! Didn't have time left for reloading tonight. Maybe tomorrow after the gun show...
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Took apart the bolt on the Mosin, did some polishing. I'm tired of fighting that pig at the bolt-gun match.
Took some 400 grit wet/dry to the cramming surfaces and got the ridges off, then followed that with 600 grit. Some attention to the locking lug surfaces, along with a bit here and there, and I can actually operate the bolt without smacking it.
A touch of synthetic grease, and done for now.
I hand primed 200 pies of 223 brass with junk Lee hand primer. Going back to press. Forgot how bad arthritis in hands are. Finished last 100 on the press. Thinking about the Lee bench prime
Trimmed the 700+ cases that I resized the other day and started tumbling them today. Hoping to load them tomorrow.
Loaded up 50 rounds 25 Krag with 13gr Unique and a 120gr cast boolit - have to expand the shells to the chamber. Ordered a scope base - Leupold quick release to move my scope from the 45-70 barrel. It'll be here Thursday.
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Loaded 25 slugs for testing. Decapped 500 9mm cases. Loaded 300 9mm. Cast 1,500 9mm and 1,250 225-61 Elvis, then Hi-Tek coated and sized them all. Harvested around 30#s of range scrap. It's been a good couple of days.
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Another 100 9mm. 50 more of them tonite & I am done with 9mm for a while.
38sp., 45acp or 44 Mag next.
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I cast some 240 grain GC boolits for 44 mag and some 7mm 85 grain boolits for my tokarev (7.62x25).
The 7mm boolits look tiny compared to the 240s:
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Pretty good haul:
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turned 120 .45 Colts rounds back into reloadable cases at the cowboy shoot
also about 20 shotgun shells are ready to be reloaded (again)
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No shoulder pain this morning. Loaded 50 .43 Spanish, first loading in two weeks. Confirmed the shoulder pain was caused by reloading.
Anybody figure out how to put a pneumatic cylinder on a Rockchucker?
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I cleared the lead out of my 7x57 last night ,
Still working on 223's. Probably resize a few hundred more and process them. Maybe start loading the ones that I processed last week while this batch is tumbling and drying.
Loaded another 100 rounds of .223 for a buddy's AR. Harvested another 60 #'s of range scrap in about 15 min at the range! I hit a sweet vein. of projectiles!!
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Loaded 12 mouse fart loads with Red Dot for a 30/30...
Tom
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
Lead bullets Matter
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. - Will Rodgers
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 |