Finally moved all of my lead and smelting gear into my dedicated reloading shop from the old storage room. Soft lead, raw COWW, COWW ingots, lino, 55 lbs of pewter, several containers full of scrap lead, etc. When the weather improves I need to do a rather large smelting / alloying day!
I may have passed my "Best Before" date, but I haven't reached my "Expiry" date!
Cast sized some 230 grain rou d nose. Lubbed a few for some black powder loads.
Going to pc the rest with a chrome powder coat. For show loads.
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I loaded up my 41 Spl brass with 231, and the 41 mag brass with Blue Dot. Used some Rainier plated bullets to start. Had some 255 gr WFN bullets but they're sized too big to fit through the cylinder throats on the FA 97 in 41 mag.
well, sat down,
gawked around at all that needed to be done, put away, ect, said heck with it,
and got out the new hand press(Buchanan) and played with that, sizing out some 44s and 357s,
I straightened mine up!
Loaded 50 each 300 blackout with NOE 311365 and 11 grains of W296. Should be about 1300 fps.
Wonder if they will cycle the gun.
Loaded up about 50 slugs. Lyman 525 on top of a 20ga nitro card in waa12f114 wads, AA hulls and 29gr Longshot.
Loove those slugs.
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Recycle, Reuse, Reload.
Didn't cast ,today(smelted about 20 pounds ww yesterday)
But I did do this today. All on a single stage. No progressive for this guy
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PerdyOriginally Posted by nhyrum
Didn't cast ,today(smelted about 20 pounds ww yesterday)
But I did do this today
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Sized trimmed cleaned expanded and primed 40 308 cases.20 once fired as the guy doesn't reload, bonus ppu brass .must load a few up with 160grrngc boolits for next week .
And I just got 3k 9mm brass and another thousand 40(that's what is in the Tupperware. Special gun Tupperware, not eating Tupperware to be clear) today. Time for weeks of brass prep
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So on lunch as usual I fire up the ol pot and was casting some 358242's. I noticed a slow moving stink bug climbing around my pile of sprue's and rejects but didnt think anything of it.
Boolits get made, pot lessens, dump sprues back in....sweet mother of all that is holy what is that smell?
Yep. Stink bug at 715 degrees. Dont be like me, dont alloy in stink bugs.
Ill try anything once, twice if I forgot
Ouch never done that before.
I've heard of using bacon as an alloy (for shooting muslims), but never heard of using insects.
GONRA just finished 500 rds, 7.62x25 mm Tokarev Pistol TRACER load using new Starline *---* cases
(shot in a Czech M52 pistol with heavier recoil spring):
Surplus (got 'em in 1990's?) ORANGE tip 98-99 grain US Carbine TRACER bullet pulls.
Cartridge 1.370 inch OAL, 6.0 grains 800 X powder, Win WSP primer.
Pleasantly surprised to see all these all function/light up/trace Just Fine.
Hi paraord.Did that clear out you nasal passages?Had one fall out of the rafters in my Dads garage one time.30 min evack.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo
People never lie so much as after a hunt,during a war,or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Converted more 223 brass to 300 blackout.
Such a cool cartridge.
Hoping to cast some more 311365 this weekend. Now that I'm loading blackout the 2 cavity mold is mighty slow. Lol
Finally did a "test drive" on some candy apple red powder coat that I got from "Powder by the Pound" on some 200 grain SWC .45 ACP's. Neat stuff ... I'll have to try the candy apple purple next ...
I may have passed my "Best Before" date, but I haven't reached my "Expiry" date!
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1000 , 358495's and 600 or so 360-180 WFN. Stocking up for spring.
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