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    I have been wanting to use my fathers reloading press (RCBS JR3) as a dedicated sizer. So I flipped the block over so it now work on the downward pull when the press is upside down. I then wanted a way to guide the bullets into a large bin under my table, so I found a 3/4 piece of pvc I had left over from another project (bike rack in the garage) fit snug. So I heated the end up with a torch and made a slide fit into my Lee sizing die. I then did the same down a little to aim the tube where I wanted it. I plan to paint it so it doesn't look as bad, but it works and cost me $0.

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    Wrote a letter to my granddaughter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trixter View Post
    Wrote a letter to my granddaughter.
    Good to hear people still do that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob in St. Louis View Post
    Good to hear people still do that.
    Yeah, but do kids these days know how to open envelopes?

    "I can't find the 'open' button on this. Is there a app for it?"

    Surely you've seen the news articles about carjackings these days that seem to indicate that the best theft prevention device on a car is apparently a MANUAL TRANSMISSION.

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    Amen to that!
    My son started driving a couple years ago. I insisted his first car ba a stick. I wanted his hands on the car, not a phone, or a girls left thigh. It also prevented his car from being borrowed by one of his friends. Not to mention he now has a skill that will last a lifetime.
    But to answer your question, I'm sure there's an app that allows a hand written letter to be read without opening the envelope. haha

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    Hand written letter?

    Wow... I can't think of the last time I did that... I suspect it would have been close to 40 years ago back in boot camp. I think after boot camp, there was usually a typewriter available.

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    One questing that keeps haunting me... I haven't fired a factory loaded metallic in at least 20 years (likely longer)... how in the heck did I acquire so many empty cartridge boxes?? I had empty boxes for cartridges I don't remember ever having a firearm for. I ended up crushing/stuffing a tall kitchen garbage plum full.

    Spider ,
    I bet all those empty boxes came from 9mm , 40 and 45 trays you used for storage and load blocks ....... That where mine came from .

    I had a great Aunt that insisted on the written letter .
    I have her diaries now what a life I missed out on with my Dad not getting along with her .
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    Finished swaging primer pockets and sizing a 5 gallon bucket, 3/4 full, of 223 brass. Trimmed 1000 will get to the rest tonight and tomorrow. Loading hopefully starts next week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harter66 View Post
    I had a great Aunt that insisted on the written letter .
    I have her diaries now what a life I missed out on with my Dad not getting along with her .
    Sometimes, the best type of family is the one that you are estranged from...

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    Quote Originally Posted by NavyVet1959 View Post
    Sometimes, the best type of family is the one that you are estranged from...
    Now that's funny.
    My family lives several hundred miles away one direction, Mrs Bookworm has family 650 miles the opposite direction.
    We get along fine with all of them, when we visit.

    Every few years.....

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    100 x 6.5x55 with Hornady 140 gr BTSP and 39 gr IMR 4350
    100 x 7x57 with Nosler 168 gr Custom Comp and 41 gr IMR 4350
    100 x 7.65x53 with NOE 314199 and 10.0 gr Red Dot (already had 80 loaded, just needed to finish seating the last 20)
    100 x 8x57 with Nosler 200 gr Custom Comp and 47 gr of Varget

    First coat of BLL on approx 200 NOE 314199, have another 200 or so to do when the first 200 dry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bookworm View Post
    Now that's funny.
    My family lives several hundred miles away one direction, Mrs Bookworm has family 650 miles the opposite direction.
    We get along fine with all of them, when we visit.

    Every few years.....
    You can't choose your blood relatives. You can choose your in-laws, I guess, but you don't know until too late that you chose wrong.

    Sometimes, you have blood relatives that seem to always have drama about them as if they were *trying* to end up on the Jerry Springer show.

    I just didn't need that sort of thing in my life and I was more than willing to live 300+ miles away and never give them my address. I look at the Facebook page of some of them every year or so just to remind myself why I don't live there anymore.

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    Finished loading some 45ACP & cleaned some 380 brass.

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    Cleaned and organized. Found stuff that I haven't seen in years.

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    Mixed up some alloy - 50/50 CWW/pure. About 80 lbs worth.

    I've been working with a Ruger 3-screw 41 Mag. Tried Lee TL410-210-SWC, water-quenched CWW @ 1145fps, and got leading from the forcing cone to the middle of the barrel.

    I'm thinking the boolit is too hard. We'll see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bookworm View Post
    Mixed up some alloy - 50/50 CWW/pure. About 80 lbs worth.

    I've been working with a Ruger 3-screw 41 Mag. Tried Lee TL410-210-SWC, water-quenched CWW @ 1145fps, and got leading from the forcing cone to the middle of the barrel.

    I'm thinking the boolit is too hard. We'll see.
    Sounds more like your bullet does not fit your cylinder. Measure your bullets after sizing and then measure your cylinder, your bullet should be .001 to .002 bigger than your largest chamber in the cylinder.
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    GONRA started machining experimental punch stripper parts for my Corbin CSP-2 Mega-Mite ™
    press to aid in making FMJ boolits with jackets slightly different from those originally used.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GONRA View Post
    GONRA started machining experimental punch stripper parts for my Corbin CSP-2 Mega-Mite ™
    press to aid in making FMJ boolits with jackets slightly different from those originally used.
    I've noticed that you always talk about yourself in the 3rd person. From what I've read, that's probably a sign of either being a narcissist or someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Which is it in your case?

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    This is the only Gonra I ever heard of & it was long long ago when I was reading comix. maybe 45-50 years ago...
    http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/gonraofthesword.htm

    I find it to be just another interesting character here also.


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    Anyway... Reloading stuff I did....

    I have still been sorting 380 cases. They are very small for my hands & fingers. I think I drop 4 for every 10... So, I do some then get away from them for a while. I like the bigger cases better.

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    I rooted around and found that I have no empty .357 brass, nor boolits to go into them. I have all kinds of brass for stuff I no longer own.
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    Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?

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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