Still processing pistol brass. Have 2 coffee cans of 45's left to size but more than that on deck waiting their turn in the tumbler.
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Still processing pistol brass. Have 2 coffee cans of 45's left to size but more than that on deck waiting their turn in the tumbler.
I have 40 primed 8x57 cases waiting for powder & boolits. I think I'll quit working on my taxes and go address that now.
Prepped some 357 and 4570 brass ready to load up for Sunday at the range.
Neck turned & processed ~ 400 300BO cases. Got another 500 or so to do.
Whatever!
Cleaned and sorted more 223 brass. Ordered another gun. Ruger mark 4 22/45 target. Shhhhh dont tell the wife.. No it was not that bad only came to 286.99 shipped. I can not wait.
Cast and coated a few hundred Lee 158 and 125 grainers for the Blackhawk. I think the speckled ones came out pretty good. The yellow not so much.
Processed some 6.5 Creedmore brass to load up for my brother to take on his hog hunt in a couple weeks. We settled on a load after some testing last weekend.
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I'm a big fan of speckled boolitsOriginally Posted by Mjdd23
Cast and coated a few hundred Lee 158 and 125 grainers for the Blackhawk. I think the speckled ones came out pretty good. The yellow not so much.
I am becoming a fan also! Yours look real good. I did some black and white ones last week and will do more of the same. I'm trying different combinations but they all have very good coverage which is what I like.
Flared some 9mm cases and reseated another box. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to the range and see if I did any good....
Tom
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
Turned some 6.8 spc brass into .30 HRT brass
These were run through the Star today, with some SL68B from my newest batch.
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Still processing pistol brass. Finished sizing the last of the 45's last night but I probably have all of today and maybe some of tomorrow tumbling and sorting them.
Yep. They work great in my rifles. No trouble at all with them.Magtech 24 gauge cases??
Wow, I'd really like to hear the story on those DLM. You know..........the why and how.
Wash day at the brass factory. Most of the week has been wash day.
Working out what recipe of dawn and lemishine, weight of pins, and run time yields an inside and out polish for the least run time.
So far 800 of 38 special, 160 of 45 colt, and tonight it will be at least 500 of the .223 brass getting their turn to wash up for science.
Then I'll add another pound of pins and repeat same weights/amounts and caliber of brass.
I want to know if spending money on more pins is worth it in terms of how short can my run be and get the job done. I have a lot of brass sorted by caliber and head stamp, be nice to know if adding pins allows me to do smaller sorted batches fast enough to be practical.
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.
Kind of hard to claim to love America while one is hating half the Americans that disagree with you. One nation indivisible requires work.
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Bought the Caliber Quick Change for the 550C in 380ACP. Got it set up with the new style dies from Dillon as well. So worth it to just have the complete tool head on a stand ready to go. Now I need a mold for the 380. And more lead. And more brass. And more...
A great old war horse. The Pacific DL-155.
Been so busy with other projects its taken me two months to have the time to get this puppy up on the work counter and go over it to see what is what. Anyways, just got this puppy cleaned up. Had to replace a few roller pins, but so far nothing else. It is set up for 16 gauge, so sometime this afternoon I'll get up a recipe for some 1oz. loads an see how it loads'. Got this and a Ponsness Warren from a member, and was amazed that they use the same powder and shot bushing so I didn't have to go through an order bunches of new bushings. I've already got 40 powder bushing for the MEC's and BPI has a adapter under $10.00 that allows you to use your powder bushings in the Pacific an the PW.
Loaded 50 x4570 cases with 405 gr boolits .roll on Sunday .snow day today .
Still processing pistol brass. Found a couple more tubbs of 45's and finished sizing them last night. Will be tumbling 45's all day today and prolly start sizing another caliber today, while the tumbler is running.
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