What did you do in the reloading room today?

[tazman]

My goal was a lower kicking round as well. I also have read that the M-1 Garand rifle load was a 150 grain j-word at 2700 fps so I figured that was enough power for whitetails.

I don't think the 30-06 is a hard kicking round but I'm old enough now that my shoulders ache most of the time so I want to save them for as long as possible while shooting a favorite rifle.

I got to the range today with my 30-06 and those reduced 150 grain bullet loads. I only shot 7 rounds. They all went into a 1.5 inch group between 2 and 3 inches high at 100 yards. I couldn't see any need for further testing. This was the result I was hoping for.

[avogunner]

Turned 25lbs of ingots into equal amounts of 452374 and 358156 boolits. Now to lube, size, load, shoot, repeat....

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[taco650]

I got to the range today with my 30-06 and those reduced 150 grain bullet loads. I only shot 7 rounds. They all went into a 1.5 inch group between 2 and 3 inches high at 100 yards. I couldn't see any need for further testing. This was the result I was hoping for.

You got the same result I did except I sighted mine to be inch & half high at 100. Enjoy!

[WebMonkey]

deprimed and tumbled 500 +/- range pickup brass.

setup some dies into some turrents.

that's about it for today.

[JSnover]

Found a forgotten stash of 220 gr Herters jacketed soft nose, .30 cal. Nothing to do then but load them over some IMR 4350 for the '06.

[ArrowJ]

Early start

[robg]

Loaded 50 .357 mag 50 .223 20 308 all with book it's ,still trying to get an accurate load for the .223 .

[dragon813gt]

W/ how long it took I thought there were a lot more at the bottom of the bucket. The King of Fans was doing a terrific job of keeping me, and the mold, cool :laugh:

[DerekP Houston]

if those are 9mm truncated cones it appears we use the exact same baking tray for our dump spot! I have no need to cast anymore...but a desire so I think I will try out that #68 mp mold today.

[downwind]

ain't the reloading room, but I'm off to the range to empty some brass .

I've always considered that the first step in: "BRASS PREPARATION"

[coxa2]

Didn't really "do" anything in the reloading room other than order a new mold; NOE 460-405-RF RG2 cavity GC Brass for my new 45-70

[DerekP Houston]

look wistfully at my pile of ammo waiting to be loaded and went to work =(.

[dragon813gt]

At least you were able to look in the room. I'm relegated to looking at pictures of mine on my phone :laugh:

[RogerDat]

Sorting brass, I scrounged up one 5 gallon bucket of .223 I call that bucket Hillary, another bucket I call Congress is almost full. Running it through the polisher while sorting out the reman stuff from the 1x fired military and commercial. Putting gas checks on the .224 70 grain pills that will go inside that brass while the polisher does its thing.

[Lagamor]

Fell months behind in processing spent pistol brass. Spent most of Sunday decapping, and called in sick on Monday to tumble several loads. Though I burnt motor on my tumbler once. Now I have to sort a giant pile of Luger, Makarov and 380 into separate piles.
I'll never fall behind again...

[labradigger1]

Tumbled 150 1x Norma 6.5x55 brass and wired in 2 more receps.

[Harter66]

Saturday, loaded a 3 step 9 round confirmation ladder for the new 222 brass . A real treat as I rarely if ever have new brass .
Sunday , loaded a NOE 225-55 @ 63 gr in 90 brand new 222 brass and 9 1x . Cast and culled 15# of NOE 225-55 and 279-124 .
Monday, loaded the last 50 finished NOE 225-55 in 223 cases. Dug out modified Darrs lube, .2257 push through sizer die and 22 GCs . Found it was getting late .

Tonight I lubed and checked about 100 fresh 225-55s . Less than 1/4 of what was cast even after culls .

[Green Frog]

Well, it wasn't today, but over the last week or so I've taken a trip down memory lane with a MEC 600 Jr that was gifted to me a while back by the widow of an old friend from church... When I was fresh out of college (40+ years ago) he introduced me to loading for the 20 gauge with this very press! Now I've gathered up about 500 once-fired AA hulls and the appropriate ClayBuster wads and dug out some 30 year old Win 209s, Green Dot powder and #9 shot and with just a little tweaking on the die adjustments I'm turning out near-factory quality reloads. The 600 Jr is the most basic, non-progressive press MEC makes. Simple is good!

Froggie

[tazman]

I loaded a set of test loads for my 223. 5 different bullets and 3 different powders. I am going to find out what it likes the best.

[robg]

I managed to get a Lee easy expander decapping rod for my 308die tried it out today by decapping and sizing 100 cases .well impressed half the effort needed to do the job,such a simple idea well done Lee!