Tumbled 45x 45-70 cases look like new now .
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Tumbled 45x 45-70 cases look like new now .
Cast some 372 grn hp and 320 grn hp and then culled and pc them. Sized and gc the ones i did a few weeks ago then prepped 20 new starline 45-70 brass and then loaded it.
Nothing today, but did read my Lyman 4th edition Cast Boolit handbook.
Yesterday the polisher did 3 batches of pistol brass (357, 38spec, 45acp) and a batch of 30-30 win.
Loaded 50 rounds of 30-30win with Lee 150gr flat nose gas checked and lubed in my old grey Lyman lube/sizer to 0.312".
H2400 16gr to push the load down the barrel of a NEF break action 30-30 win.
Should be a great deer load for the 12 y.o. grand daughter.
Sorry no pics.
smilin jack
Smelted down ~ 100 lbs. of lead of various types-- cast boolits from dead guy stuff in calibers that I don't load, bunch of what I suspect is pretty close to pure lead--boolits from a North-South skirmish match and a batch of range lead mixed with a bunch of 22 rimfire boolits.
The rimfire batch was interesting, it was given to me by a buddy, I didn't check it, just tossed it into and empty pot and set it on the turkey fryer. Went over to stir it and skim the dross off the top when there was a rather nice BANG, Cool beans man, never had a live round go off in the pot before.
And the tinsel fairy didn't get me
Made next month's batch of 40s... It's about 16 lbs of metal so maybe 6-700...
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Sized a bunch of green powder coated Lee 230 TC to use with my "Distressed" cases. Placed some bullets on top of the cases to get the look. I think they will come out looking pretty neat. The cases were wet tumbled then put in vibratory tumbler with wax and corncob media.
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I got another box of 50 loaded up today...this batch was 35 Rem. Hunting season is less than a month away up here.
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I like that look. What did you use to distress the brass?Originally Posted by vtech26
Sized a bunch of green powder coated Lee 230 TC to use with my "Distressed" cases. Placed some bullets on top of the cases to get the look. I think they will come out looking pretty neat. The cases were wet tumbled then put in vibratory tumbler with wax and corncob media.
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Cast, seated gas checkes, and tumble lubed 300+ Lee (BLL).329-205-1R. Water quenched WW + 2%TIN.....
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I started pushing up some pull downs I recently bought here. Don’t tell anyone that I’m loading 44-40s with 200 gr JHPs............
Checked and sized about 9 pounds of Lee C312-185-1R for the M39 Finn.
Tumble lubed and sized 11 pounds of 38 wadcutters from my new MP mould (360-160-WC).
Melted some lead sheathed cable, some foil from dental xray film. Cleaned up enough to find the floor and at least some bench top. Ran the brass from a friends funeral salute through tumbler with SS pins so his widow would have clean brass to put in a keepsake box for the grandkids.
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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Im powder coating yesterdays cast. Then loading some 6.5’s.
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Sized and expander 60 x357 mag cases from Sunday at the range.
Mounted LED strip lights over the benches.
The good news is, now I can see!
The bad news is, now I can see!
The amount of junk cluttering the bench tops is amazing...
Loaded some boogie boolits:
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Loaded some 9mm with boolits sized .356 and .357 going to see what the gun likes.
Re-sized and trimmed 100 pcs. 308 brass.
Had a Lee 8x56R seater die modfied for the "Oldfeller Frankenstein" bullet.... Had it opened up to.341" (from .332). A local machine shop did it for me on a lathe for $20... Lee folks suggested that, rather than wait months due to their custom shop backlog.
Also had to shorten the seater plug a bit.... I wanted at least two threads engaged on the seater " top" at my seating depth..
This puts the gas check just at the beginning of the case neck. The finished cartridge feeds when loaded in the clips and functions through the Steyr M95 action perfectly....
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Started sizing my 30 cal. ammo can of 90 gr. .356 bullets. I love this star sizer.
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