What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Rico1791]

Resized, deprimed,washed,dried 1k 9mm brass.

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[2A-Jay]

Reloaded another 100 30-06 150gr btsp over 40gr imr3031

[drac0nic]

Made a few .45 rounds to test and see what Power Pistol does in my XD .45. I ran out of the free bottle of Nitro 100 I had laying around pretty much so figured I'd just load up and try to get that done.

[rmark]

Loaded some 380’s for my brother, resized a batch of 45acp, loaded a few 45-70.

[cwtebay]

Helped a buddy get set up to load 250 - 44 Russian. Apparently his girlfriend decided shooting my 44 with them was waaaayy too much fun!

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[44Blam]

Cast just about 500 HTC-310-225 RN (TACO) boolits. And FINALLY figured out that mold!!!

[drac0nic]

Casted up some Lee 125 LRNs for my 9mm and some 200 LRNs for my .45 ACP. Had a pin drop out of the mold mid casting and that was the night. Wish I'd have had a few more .45 ACPs but casting time was limited and it was only a 2 cavity mold.

[oger]

Got everything ready to fireform some brass in a chamber that is marked 35 Ackley magnum only it ain't 35 Ackey magnum. Maybe I'll name it something else but it was made a long time ago on a pre war 98.

[cwtebay]

Annealed 85 pieces of 300 PRC brass.

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[Remiel]

Cleaning some 223 range brass and installed a extended mag release in my daughter's 10/22

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[tward]

Really nice day,I fired up my 20 lb Lee and cast some Lee 44 240 gr tumble lube, Lyman 429421 Keith, 433 RB and finally some Lee 311 93gr rn. I cast in my backyard watching some robins and listening to a Cardinal! GREAT DAY!Tim

[Soundguy]

re-organized, sorted and stacked my lead stash. finally feel ok for a bit.

[cwlongshot]

re-organized, sorted and stacked my lead stash. finally feel ok for a bit.

I smelted about 75-80# and tossed them in a bucket!

CW

[Soundguy]

I used to store them in a bucket..till it became difficult to alloy. I used to have just range scrap and just soft lead...easy to distinguish 5 from 10 hardness.. Then I added tin, tin babbit, linotype, Lyman #2, clip on ww, and mild antimonial lead...like 8 hardness.

Once I did all that..had to make shelves.

Then I standardized my ingots. Had some muffin tin stuff, some 5# mini pigs, some scrap in chunks and nuggets. etc. Poured everything down to half and pound ingots.

[cwlongshot]

I separate, but still use buckets. Cardboard attached to the bucket naming what it is. When I have small quantities if something Ill use ammo cans.

For instance I have some super hard 40 bhn babbit. I also have mono and tin and super hard all in there own 50 cal cans well labled. I dont really have room on the bench where I cast for the ingots. So they get buckets under the bench.

CW

[green mountain boy]

broke out my new 30cal gas check maker from dave matteson, he does great work ! made 200 aluminum gas checks at the first sitting.... .014 flashing works well.

[green mountain boy]

im sorry to hear that, i just lost my brother in law to covid 19.

[44Blam]

Sorry to hear GMB. SARS COV2 is a nasty bug.

I did go into the garage and resized all those 30-255 Taco boolits and then powder coated some 40 S&W boolits.

I got a TM neck turning kit recently and while I was waiting on the PC to bake, I started playing with it a little. My plan is to make 300 BO out of 223/556 brass and I've made a few that chamber properly. Those all have brass thickness in the neck of < 0.012". The cases with brass thickness of > 0.012" do not chamber properly. So, all those wolf cases, etc - I'm gonna thin those necks down to 0.011".

[SaltCreek]

I'm wrestling with new small base 5.56 dies that appear, to size the case so small. That, I can't seat the primer. Is That possible?

I have to ask, did you swage the primer pockets after depriming and sizing? Even commercial 223 is starting to have crimped primer pockets. I use RCBS small base die on everything. I've never had a problem with any of it except it does take a little extra lube and muscle to really do big cartridges. But it should not affect the primer pocket at all.


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[Sailormilan2]

A friend's grandson, and grandson in law, are getting into reloading. With a press on the way. Since projectiles, both cast and J word, are in short supply everywhere, I gave them several hundred cast bullets in two calibers, as well and a hundred of each caliber in J word bullets, to get them started. Finding primers and powder is on them, though I might be able to help them with a little powder.
Gotta help the newbies out.