Sat in the garage, looking across at the desert, listening to the cactus wrens and enjoying the souther Arizona breeze as I de-primed 1,162 45 ACP casings. Of course I took a couple of breaks to have a cup of coffee and enjoy watching the quail run around as well.
It's a beautiful day here in AZ. I'm smelting, playing poker online, and having a brewski.Originally Posted by bedbugbilly
Decapped a bunch of 5.56mm LC brass, then swaged primer pockets.
Casted 1k of 429421
casted 1k of 452374
casted 250 492421 hp
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I checked out 6 new to me old style Lee moulds and a Lyman 313226 . Then I loaded some 30-30 work ups and demooned some 45 ACP and reloaded them.
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Completed my new bench,lost the old one due to the "flood of August 2016". No telling when I'll get to use it.
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I cast and sorted my first bullets yesterday!
Loaded 250 ,357 mag rounds with 196 gr GC boolits over 11.5 gr of 2400 .
Sigh. Nothing. Still sick. I did go out there and stare a couple of times this week. Then back to the couch or the bed. Pneumonia sucks. I must have made the gun smithing/ reloading elves mad because everything is the same.......
Has a cup of coffee and sized, 45, 38, 9mm boolits from yesterdays powder coating session.
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Smelted some range pickups from my last range trip. Got about 5lbs of lead out of it to add to my stock.
Finally set up a new to me Piggyback II for 300 BO. Manually actuating the powder drop is the only option for now since I am missing a piece to replace the powder arm for the dispenser. I might just keep it this way since it is hard to see into the case to check for powder. Works pretty good for a beat up piggyback and it is way faster than doing 50 at a time on reloading blocks and a turret press!
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Training the 'left' hand to manipulate and feed a handful of casts in rapid succession and develop a rhythm.
This is the first large batch of casts I've run on this 'upside down' sizing press...I just finished building the mount...before I've been putting the casts on the little push post one at a time.
Though I must look like a fumbly fingered monkey...it's coming along and it's super-fast now.
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Deprimed my gallon bucket-o-brass form past shooting sessions.
Lubed and sized 44 mag about 2500 decapped 308 put a new mold together
been cleaning brass for two days , got another day or two left to go ,
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I fired up my ancient Lyman bottom pour pot yesterday and poured 50+ 200 grain Lyman .41 Long Colt hollow points. Yep, hollow points. Seems to be a factory Lyman done HP job too. Mold came with handles and the original box. Surprisingly, with Unique powder, my old Colt Thunderer will put 3 rounds touching each other at about 10 yards, all in the black. Its a hoot to shoot. I am very careful with it and baby the heck out of it. I'll load the bullets as soon as the alox dries. This loading will last me a long time.
This weekend is slated for melting large qualities of scrap yard lead into ingots and pulling the handle of my Master Caster a lot.
I full length resized 308 and primed about 250 and sized 45 acp about 2500
Prepared. 50 303 British. To be fireformed into .410 shot shells.
Got a new scratch and dent safe.
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Cast a couple hundred 357 and 308 bullets. then broke in a new mold from NOE a 140 grain 6.5mm. Good scrub and a little spur lube and bullets fell right out. Couple more heat cycles and all should be good.
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| 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 |
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