Beautiful pic!! What are they?Originally Posted by Michael J. Spangler
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Beautiful pic!! What are they?
I started doing what scares us the most.....I started cleaning and sorting my casting area and shop.
I found several hundred pounds each of monotype and Lyman #2 I didn't remember I had.
This is a good thing but the forgetting, --- not so good
Still plugging away at trimming .223 brass. I'll stop at 500 cases. That is enough to have on hand in case I get a yen to try a load different than the ones already loaded. Prepping used crimped brass has me giving the eye to commercial new brass. But since I have a couple 5 gallon buckets of 1x fired already I can't make myself spend the money on new brass.
Scrap.... because all the really pithy and emphatic four letter words were taken and we had to describe this source of casting material somehow so we added an "S" to what non casters and wives call what we collect.
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We bought these from a fellow caster that is downsizing. They are still pretty plentiful around here though. These were pretty much sorted but I sorted them again. Picked out maybe 5 pounds of iron and zinc from nearly 2800#. All in all, very happy!
Separated my brass found about 2,000 of loaded ammo. It took 6 hrs to clean things up.
lubed 14 and 20 bore felt wads for muzzle loading shotguns, cleaned and moved casting stuff inside for the winter and gathered, sorted elemental metals for an alloy study to be started in a few days...stay tuned for the study!
Loaded some BP cartridges for my Italian Vetterli carbine while today's range trip brass was wet tumbling. I really need to get around to making more cases for that rifle.
Back in the land of boolits.
Loaded 60 400/350 Nitro Express. Cool old round.
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After I cleaned the gunk from the vent lines and upped the alloy temp she worked like a dream!
Running the steel pin Rebel17 cleaning up last years brass .223/.300/.44/.45/9mm/38 . Getting ready to load for next years shooting .
Powder coated some Lee 358-158-RF projectiles and now to test them in various loadings in a Contender carbine.
Don't be to hard on yourself Grmps, it's much worse when you find a Brand new reloading item still in the package. But you already had a new one and a used spare that you bought cause it was a deal and you thought you needed it !I started doing what scares us the most.....I started cleaning and sorting my casting area and shop.
I found several hundred pounds each of monotype and Lyman #2 I didn't remember I had.
This is a good thing but the forgetting, --- not so good
Today I separated some boxs of 10mm brass that I purchased long ago. I just recently loaded up a few to shoot at a friends house that never fired a 10mm before. The flame was impressive.
Next is prepping brass for future reloading.
Best to all,
Mike
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Being retired has some advantages. I primed some more 9mm and rooted around and found my 315 gr. 44 mag loaded rounds. Most of my loaded rounds are 245 gr PB cast. Well, all of them are cast......
Tom
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
Loaded 25 12 gs shotshells while the Lee pot got up to temp. Then cranked off a bunch of 9mm and .357 Mag and .223 in a casting session while enjoying an audiobook.
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0114, alloying and initial physical testing complete. Drinking whiskey now. Studying 4 alloys: 1% Sb, 3% Sb, 5% Sb and 4% Sb with .25% As all with 2% Sn and all air cooled versus quenched. 28 day study of BHN and diameter over time also melted boolits from the Missouri Bullet Co. to compare with known standards. Don't touch that dial!
Loaded some 196 gr. cast & gas checked bullets from an Accurate mold for my Strover 8 X 57I in preparation for our upcoming deer season.
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Cast a bunch more Lyman 22415 .224 GC bullets. The hornady GCs I have are very tight and hard to seat. The Freecheck III sample checks made from the .008" Al strip that came with the die are lose before sizing. I'm waiting for my .225 & .224 H&I dies than I'll see if I need thicker material.
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