I recently got rid of a .44 Mag contender barrel and since it was the only .44 Mag I had, I melted down a large quantity of hard cast SWCs and recast them as .45 FPRN bullets for the .45 colt. (I have 4 of those) No point in wasting the lead.
I recently got rid of a .44 Mag contender barrel and since it was the only .44 Mag I had, I melted down a large quantity of hard cast SWCs and recast them as .45 FPRN bullets for the .45 colt. (I have 4 of those) No point in wasting the lead.
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Reloading room is closed until we make our move.
Fired the ladder loads of 748 in 270 Win today. 25 yards is the furthest my indoor range goes to, our main 100 yard range is closed for at least another year for renovations. Have to drive an hour south this next week as 33 grains and 34.5 grains showed one hole groups with one flier each for 5 rounds apiece.
Also tried out the NAA in 32ACP with 1.8 grains of Red Dot and the new magazine catch NAA sent out. Still wants to eject the mag twice each full mag and fired out of battery. Went next door to the gun shop and they are sending it back to the factory for me. We will see what happens.
We hunt out in the Texas Pan Handle and over into Oklahoma. We have a friend that ranches and if he does not have enough for us he calls around to his neighbors. Its getting harder to find a place to go. It seem like everyone that can afford to poisons them.
We used to hunt around the Dalhart area but eventually lost that contact.
Managed to overcook those 50 when baking the powder coat so I cast up 350 more. They didn't slump over but the bottoms got sort of spread out. Sizing them had me standing up to use a little of my weight on the press handle instead of sitting on my stool feeding them in a pulling the handle. Set them aside, not sure if they will become plinking ammo or just get re-melted. They darn sure won't be used to develop an accurate load for this new to me mold.
I also switched alloys. Hardball with its high 8% alloy content was casting them at closer to 158 grains than the 160 expected. I switched to 96/2/2 with BHN of ~11 with PC that should be plenty for 38 or 357. Interesting how alloy composition can make such a difference in weight.
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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Yesterday, I sorted 35cal J-word bullets into plastic canisters. I have both Hornady and Sierra's that I needed to keep straight.
Now today, I'm Ball grinding charcoal...its such a messy job....but once done, then I can mix up a new batch of BP.
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Setting up for reloading 7.62x39 with cast- maiden voyage-I had better try a few before committing to a batch.
Annealed the case necks of the 270Win I shot the other day. Drying now and will load with 33 grains of 748 and 34.5 grains of 748 tmro night. Might take them to the lake on Sunday for a little longer range testing.
Realized that I was about 20 boolits short for the rifle stage tomorrow, so loaded 33 44 mag to fill up a box of 50.
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spent the week at scout camp with the boys.
almost got kicked out for shooting my candy cannon.lol
had a great time
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After I got back from the range today I deprimed and sized all of my empty brass. It was storming so hard that I had to put on a set of ear muffs. I put the brass in the tumbler and turned it on while I was cleaning my pistols. I hadn't been to the range in two months, and my CZ was crying. It shot about 100 rounds without a bobble. The little Ruger did like it was supposed to. My accuracy was terrible, but I was shooting various loads. .5cc of Herco and my Ruger don't get along well.
Tom
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
BUSY DAY!! I was a gunsmith most of the day!
Fit a welded up extractor into a Savage 24-A.
Then cut the stock down and fit a thin rifle pad.
On a 24V I fit a new stock, then a Limbsaver grind to fit pad.
Lastly, I put another limbsaver pad on my Marlin. But found two sets of holes already in stock. So I repaired that with a couple stubs of hard wood 3/8 dowels & epoxy. Then fit that pad too! Made a huge mess out on the deck with rubber grindings all over!!! Momma was none too happy! I asked if she preferred I made the mess inside. She quieted down. I cleaned it all up anyhow!
CW
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Took the crown off of my 5th wheel and resealed it. should be good to go for a while now.
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Loaded 50 rounds of 9mm with some Lee 125 rf and 5 grains of Tru Blue...
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
Had a fun surprise! My buddy came by with a 80% 308 lower. He just had a baby and he's had a lot of stress, so he pops in and says "Hey, will your jig work for this?"
I looked at him and said: "Yes, do you want to cut it tonight?" and I saw the "I need to get away for a couple hours." look.
So, we routed an 80% 308 lower and then drank a few beers. Fun times!
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I pulled the last 30 pcs of factory 350 Legend ammo I had. Weighed & Saved the powder tossed the bullets into the metal bucket. Powder charges averaged 21 grs.
I re sized 140 FTX Jwords and then ran the cases thru the M-Die. Lastly I trimmed them all to 1.700. Im amazed that a case designed for HS off its mouth where SO FLAMIN FAR out of spec!!! Its like Winchester forgot this one head spaces off its case mouth and oal dims are important.
I loaded 20.8g of the factory powder and seated a newly re sized .356 140g FTX bullet into the cases. When I was done I had 19grs of powder remaining... I guess a least one case of over loaded too!!! I fired off about two and a half boxes of factory. Yes a couple Had pretty flat primers. Being its a bolt, not a huge overloading. But might have been bad in a AR.
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Yesterday I formed about 50 30-06 cases to 8x57mm using some LC 67 brass. Tonight I will remove the primer pocket crimp and finish all brass prep.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |