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    Loaded up 10 test rounds for the 1895 Savage chambered in 303 Sanage.

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    Had a little fun with some melted lead!! Now time to get them to the range.

    44-40

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    Sorted through 18 pounds of brass from an indoor range. It was roughly 70% 9mm, which is what I wanted. I got quite a bit of 22lr cases too.
    After I sorted the 9mm, 22lr, and 223 brass from the rest I dumped some of the 9mm cases into my tumbler and let it do its thing for a while. After those were clean I sprayed them down with case lube and started depriming them. Got another batch going in the tumbler while I was depriming. After I got the first half of them deprimed I ended up coming in the house and relaxing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by am44mag View Post
    Yeah, they have these new fangled things they're calling jackets. Think they're made of copper or something. I figure it's just a fad. At least the tip is still lead.

    The sleeve worked perfectly for these. Those bullets were a TIGHT fit in those reformed cases, and they are just flat based with almost no chamfer to them. I had no problems seating them straight though.
    them are really, really long gas checks!

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    Loaded up 50 rounds of 9 mm, and 12 rounds of 30/30 with 5 gr. of BE and a mag primer. Then I cast some 150 gr 30 cal.
    Even with the A/C on in the shed it was a tad warm....
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    Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?

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    Cast up some Lee 356-120-TC from range scrap (1% tin added) - they dropped .356 @ 125 grain (a few were oversize at 127 grain and .358+ so I need more practice casting)
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    And tried my hand at Hi Tek coating for the first time
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    I only did two pounds to start out but could easily do three or four pounds at a time in my $12 Walmart toaster oven - if I grab two more trays, I could have them going continuously.

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    I walked into a room in my basement tonight and just started throwing $h!t...after a couple of hrs. danged if I didn't find a gun repair desk on one side of the room and a loading bench with couple press's, 30 or 35 sets of dies and some powder measuring machines on the other side... now I can enter and make use of the room without getting sick to my stomach for letting it get that disorganized.

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    Tumbled some 9mm and 357 brass and worked on going through some of the estate sale truckload of reloading equipment I have in there. Hope to get some of the brass de-primed tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by No_1 View Post
    6000+ replies, 509,000 views. This one is a sticky!
    Thank you #1!! A couple years back when it first started I chimed in that it should be a sticky along with others but it was... declined. I follow it everyday and have learned a lot of good things over the time since it was started.

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    Played with my Lee factory crimp collet die and crimped some devastators to feed in my 77/44





    And loaded up 2 different HP styles for it.


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    Loaded some NOE 311247 hps in 300 blackout
    Next is 458 socom 500 gr subsonics
    [SIZE=4][B]Selling Hi Quality Powdercoating Powder

    I carry a Nuke50 because cleaning up the mess is Silly !!

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    I am not crazy my mom had me tested

    Theres a fine line between genius and crazy .. I'm that line
    and depending on the day I might just step over that line !!!

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    Loaded some NOE 311247 hps in 300 blackout
    Next is 458 socom 500 gr subsonics
    [SIZE=4][B]Selling Hi Quality Powdercoating Powder

    I carry a Nuke50 because cleaning up the mess is Silly !!

    http://www.bing.com/search?q=nuke50&...7ADE&FORM=QBLH

    I am not crazy my mom had me tested

    Theres a fine line between genius and crazy .. I'm that line
    and depending on the day I might just step over that line !!!

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    Tried out some handles I ordered from eBay to hopefully fit a old Ideal mold I bought from a member on this forum. Was lucky on the first try and got a set of handles for twenty bucks that were in perfect shape and were the correct size for the mold. Now if it will stop raining for a day I can get some nice round nose 45 cal boolits made.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tripplebeards View Post
    Played with my Lee factory crimp collet die and crimped some devastators to feed in my 77/44





    And loaded up 2 different HP styles for it.

    Do these style of bullets cause feeding issues with your 77/44?

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    Primed 60 8mm Lebel cases and fixing to load them today.

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    Went out and cleaned some rifles and a pistol. It's humid!
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    Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?

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    Located a home for my new 44 cal spire pointed mold. It's a old Ideal mold #429 303. Was real surprised when I saw it up on ebay, so I jumped on it. It just arrived today, so next non-rainy day it will get the hot lead treatment it so richly deserves.









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    That has always seemed like a shag-nasty bullet design to me--along the lines of the KTW bullets.
    I don't paint bullets. I like Black Rifle Coffee. Sacred cows are always fair game. California is to the United States what Syria is to Russia and North Korea is to China/South Korea/Japan--a Hermit Kingdom detached from the real world and led by delusional maniacs, an economic and social basket case sustained by "foreign" aid so as to not lose military bases.

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    Did a batch of .45 ACP and .44 Magnum brass in the ss pin tumbler. They're in the dehydrator drying right now while a 2nd batch of mixed rifle brass is spinning in the ss pin tumbler ...
    I may have passed my "Best Before" date, but I haven't reached my "Expiry" date!

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    Got my shipment of lube 5 sticks of bac and 2 sticks of 2500+. Loaded the bac in my Lyman 45 I use for pistol boolits and lubed up the 450 9mm boolits I de-lubed earlier this week. Had some leakage from some leftover Felix lube I made a while back that I tried to salvage.

    Decided I checked the "make your own lube" box so I'll just order some of Lars great lubes. Must say the lubes are great and the customer service is outstanding.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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