What did you do in the reloading room today?

[DerekP Houston]

I took a Lee .358 158 RNF, 6 gang mould I bought used and 'cleaned the tar' out of it with Acetone and a toothbrush (hope the wife doesn't find out!) and I sat down and enjoyed the afternoon...played a Buddy Holly CD, had a few cold Millers and ..."Wallagh!"


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outta keep you busy for an afternoon at the range I'd imagine .

[taco650]

Used up 2.5 pounds of lead to make 400 bullets.

They all look alike.

[308Jeff]

I took a Lee .358 158 RNF, 6 gang mould I bought used and 'cleaned the tar' out of it with Acetone and a toothbrush (hope the wife doesn't find out!) and I sat down and enjoyed the afternoon...played a Buddy Holly CD, had a few cold Millers and ..."Wallagh!"


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This is mucho bullets.

[Reverend Al]

Measured the throat length in the 7x57 Roller today and then loaded 42 test rounds to try out on Friday. Yikes! To just "kiss" the rifling with a big, long 175 grain Winchester semi-spitzer bullet they ended up at a COAL of 3.321"! There is probably less than a quarter of the case neck length holding onto the bullet base. It'll be interesting to see how these shoot ... and then I'll have to go looking for a really, REALLY long, round nosed 7mm cast boolit mould to try and match the really long throat in this rifle. Anyone have any suggestions on a mould that might be suitable?

I already had a bunch of Federal and Winchester 7x57 brass, but I use a tapered expanding mandrel to expand the case mouths from 7mm up to 30 calibre first. Then I adjusted the 7x57 FL sizer down a quarter turn at a time until I could just close the block and the hammer would go all of the way down. Then I locked my sizer die at that length (this is the only 7x57 I have at the moment). I'll be reloading light, low pressure loads in this rifle anyway (the previous owner recommended 34.0 grains of IMR4064) but I will also seat the 175 grain round nose bullets out to "kiss" the rifling to ensure that the cases fire form at the correct length.

[Madoktor1]

Tried out my new Lee R.E.A.L. muzzle loader Bullet molds. I think I'm gonna like these. I got both the 250 gr and the 320 gr.
I also think I might have an addiction as well. Lol.







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[mwells72774]

Just cast up a mess of 9mm devestators

[W.R.Buchanan]

I started a new run of BPM Hand Presses for the Masses. You're gonna want one!

Randy

[acoop101]

Got up early (as always), got the wife off to work and loaded 250 38 specials for the daughter. Got another box of 500 Missouri bullet company's, and between her shooting them up need to find a mold to cast some lighter 38 Cal for her.

Take a look at the Lee 105 grain swc.

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[Digital Dan]

Put the GC on 400 .22 bullets, sized and lubed. My fingers are bigger than they used to be. Lessons in tedium? Pigs are having a protest.

[Soundguy]

Made up a few blocks of ballistic gelatin today.

[WRideout]

Rolled up a box of 357 mag. Lyman 358477 as cast, homemade lube. Usual alloy is range scrap plus tin. 9 gr Blue Dot and WW mag primer.

Wayne

[OS OK]

Made up a few blocks of ballistic gelatin today.

You could start some pretty interesting threads here with pictures of your testing and some details about the rounds tested!

Just a thought...charlie

[Kraschenbirn]

Ran off 575 rounds of .357 Mag...PC'd 162 gr. Arsenal RNFP over 6.5 gr. Unique...on my Dillon SDB. Would've run off more but ran out of clean empties.

Bill

[Soundguy]

You could start some pretty interesting threads here with pictures of your testing and some details about the rounds tested!

Just a thought...charlie

I plan on taking plenty of pictures! I'm sure son will make it here.

[hc18flyer]

Today a cast some RCBS 45-255 KT with a new to me mold off of evilbay. 2/3 coww, 1/3 soww + 1% tin. Cast and sized beautifully, lubed with Tac1. I can't wait to bang some steel with them over some Green Dot, out of my nm Blackhawk! hc18flyer

[Michael J. Spangler]

Took some 45/70 pull down brass out of the tumbler. Realized I had to scrub out the cases.
Whoever was loading there things (not me I bought them as pull down ammo) had some heavy bullets and some serious compressed loads.
After a couple hours tumbling I still had to scrape the powder off the walls.

[Soundguy]

Mighta been shooting black or a black sub.

[Bzcraig]

Casted, coated and loaded!

[Michael J. Spangler]

Mighta been shooting black or a black sub.

it was smokeless. 480 grain jacketed with as much powder as you can fit under the Bullet and then some. Loaded long too. Too long for a lever gun. I think the guy had a Ruger #1

[Bookworm]

Found the live primer I lost 2 weeks ago.

I was lubing/checking some Lee 430-310 boolits with NRA lube, one of them slippery devils got away from me. It hit the ground and disappeared, just like the primer. I looked, didn't see it. Figgered '...this thing is far too large to lose on the floor...'

Got the flashlight, went under the bench..... found it, wedged in betwixt the leg and the shelving adjacent to it. Had to get needle-nose pliers to reach it.

Pulled the boolit out, and there under it was the prodigal primer.

Now I have a single SPP to keep up with. So far, it's just sitting on the bench....