What did you do in the reloading room today?

[firefly1957]

Nice modification. Great boolit performance for the 1911. I'd try tapping a copper plated bb into the nose on a few just to see how it behaves in the hi point.

I can do that in the carbine but could not use the same ammo in the pistol then because of MY state and federal armor piercing laws ! The hole is .185" and slightly tapered in the bullet I think for shear fun maybe some priming mix would be better in that Hollow Point .

[YoungGun88]

Spent a couple hours this evening listening to Loads of Bacon and FortuneCookie45LC videos on Reloader Network and Rumble, while FL sizing, mouth flaring and priming up some 38 and 357 brass I picked up recently. Every time I do bulk brass prep(especially decapping and FL sizing, it makes me look longingly at the Lee APP! Are any of yall doing case mouth flaring with the Lee APP?

[trails4u]

FINALLY made it down the stairs and to my bench....only to discover so many unfinished projects! Worked on forming some 35WCF from 7x65R...tedious, at best. The forming is pretty straight forward, but about .003 has to be removed from the base, just above the rim, to chamber. Also spent some time forming 43 Mauser back to 43 Mauser, as it had at some point been formed to 43 Spanish. Also pretty easy....just a quick trip through a 43 Mauser sizing die and a little clean up.

It was nice to be back in the cave.....

[Outer Rondacker]

Trails4u I am glad to hear you are moving around better. Even happier to hear you made it to the man cave. Things are looking up. Congrats.

[trails4u]

Trails4u I am glad to hear you are moving around better. Even happier to hear you made it to the man cave. Things are looking up. Congrats.

Thanks Outer.... I have some projects piled up down there, and probably another 2-3 weeks before I'll be released to go back to work, so I hope to spend some time down there pretty much every day if I can. Gotta finish my 40pcs of 35WCF and get those loaded, 40pcs of 43 Mauser to reform and load, quite a bit of 11x36R Werndl Carbine to finish trimming/forming/loading. ....and that's just the first layer I found on the bench!!

[405grain]

In the "reloading room" today I cast up a batch of 6.5mm Lyman #266673 out of hard alloy for a 6.5x55 Swedish sporter that I built on a Mauser 98 action. When the pot was about 3/4 empty I put in a couple of pounds of pure lead, then switched to casting Lyman #311041" for use in 30-30. I got about 200+ boolits of each type out of that one session.

[jim 44-40]

Cast some Lyman .330 rb with ww lead. perfect #00 buckshot for 12 gauge.
Would like to thank Centershot for the mold.

[Mandoair]

Stayed clear of the bench so far been plowing snow

[brassrat]

LGS had bags of 100 + .38 RP WC brass. Bought a few bags, last year and loaded up 100. HG button WCs coated Smokes clear. Finally managing a full .358 size after reaming out a, too small, not 358 sizer from Lee and Titan.

[hickfu]

Went through everything looking for 35 Rem brass. Selling my old 1950 waffletop ��

[Mandoair]

Cast 38 lbs of MP 135-138 RN BB 132 gr.

[hawkeye1]

Been on vacation for couple weeks. Always nice to get some time off and get some things done around the place. Been out in gun room some every day. Yesterday I got a batch of about 400 45 Colt brass ready to prime. Will get some 200 gr. RNFP bullets poured today.

[MOA]

Finished up a bunch of Federal GM paper shotshells.

[littlejack]

Been finishing up making shotshell loads that will function in my Win. 94 AE. I first started making them for my Uberti 45 Colt Evil Roy.
I use 460 S&W cases cut back. Powered by 6.5 grains of HP-38, and a payload of 220 grains of #9 shot. That's a few more pellets than a 2.5" 410 load.

[brassrat]

Have a lot of, waiting brass, many completely ready to insert powder/ boolets. Banged out three boxes of 170gr SWCs .38sp. with 2400 loads that might hit 700 fps. Faith loading that one of my guns will like em.

was surprised an older Lyman book listed this as most accurate load, never loaded this powder at less than boomer loads in 357

[trixter]

I ran out of boolits. So tomorrow I will have to go out to the garage to my casting table and get busy.

[Mandoair]

Separating by head stamp and length a few hundred 9mm with clean primer pockets to load some tests. Still trying to get my new echelon to shoot straight. It may never meet my expectations set by the late XDM.

[pete501]

I had some problems with previous ammo for an XD compact. It would not go into battery without a rap on the back of the slide. Same ammo works fine in S&W 4006 and glock.

Started yesterday casting a couple hundred 40143. Range lead and linotype powder coated using a mix of orange and white, I call it creamsickle and sized to .401". I normally use the Piggyback, this was the first time in a long while I have loaded pistol on single stage. I ran the brass through a home made bulge buster die using a Corbin CSP-1 swage press. Then deprimed it.

Belling and Seat dies were set up in a hollywood turret. I hand primed and laid everything in a loading block. Load for today was 4.2 bullseye, starting load from the 48th lyman book. Made four to test fire, everything cycled. Went back and charged the rest of the primed cases and using the turret, Flared the mouths and seated the bullets in a two step.

This was the first time I have used a lyman 55 powder measure, I was impressed. The only thing I did like is that the handle does not rotate like all my other powder measure handles do.

Now if I can get some range time,

[Texas by God]

Cast a pot using three moulds in tandem; all Lees.
135 gr .277”, 250gr .379”,& 340gr .457”
LLA for the 45-70 bullets, PC for the 6.8 and 38-55 bullets.


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[cwtebay]

Cast 100 - 210gr 0.450" for my Smith and Wesson #3. Looking forward to handling her some more after the holidays.

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