What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Patrick L]

I did some .22 rim thickness sorting.

I use the Hornady gauge, but I found that to get consistency I needed to permanently JB Weld it to the calipers. So, I sacrificed a $20 Harbor Freight set. I found it is easier and faster to mount the set up to my bench. Just use a 3/4 " block and a soft jaw squeeze clamp.



I've also cast a few hundred Mihec 22 NATO boolits

[StuBach]

Sorted newest bucket of lead from auto shop.

[Green Frog]

This! It’s 50 each of beagle’s modified Lyman 313631, half HP with his super secret no groove gas checks and the other half PB solids. They came out so purty I don’t know whether to shoot them or just put them on display!

Froggie

[Bookworm]

Several mox-nix projects.

Hammered apart a few 44 mags; some unknown reloads I got in a lot purchase and some old Winchester that had started corroding. I saved the primers for reuse, the brass is crushed, the projectiles will be melted. The powder is in the garden.

Put away some range brass, assorted miscellaneous stuff; .30-30, 6.5 Grendel, 223, Blackout....

Loaded 30 count of .223 to break in the barrel of the new Howa. Medium load of I4895 and 55gr Hornady.

And some general cleanup.

[shell70634]

Gettin ready for Easter with 45 Colt Easter egg boolits.
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[RedlegEd]

Hi all,
I annealed about 400 .45 Colt cases with my Annealeez.
Ed

[Hanzy4200]

Yesterday I prepped and loaded 400+ .223 loads. Just Plinking ammo. Then cast around 500 Lyman 75 gr .32 pills. Today I ran the .32's through the Lubrisizer, then loaded some 8MM Mauser brass I tumbled last week. Only have about 75 pieces of 8MM brass. Thinking of forming another 75-100 pieces tomorrow from some .270 brass I have lying around.

[sigep1764]

Sized/deprimed and primer pocket swaged 1000 223's. Trimmed about a 200 then the drill battery needed charging. Loaded 70 rounds of 30-30, first time loading this caliber.

[MUSTANG]

I completed swaging the nose (Point Forming) of five hundred .308 RBT 175 Grain bullets made from 5/16 copper tubing. And 250 of the same made from 5.7 x 28 brass. I'll clean the "Bag Balm" off each one and will be ready for reloading some .308 Winchester, 30-06, and .300 WinMag as needed.

[redhawk0]

Busy day today in the shop...

I received 2 full buckets of WW from a hunting partner of mine. He owns a garage. So far the buckets are yielding about 85% lead...the rest being Steel/Zinc....not too bad...I figure its worth about $80 or so.

So...I've been Powder coating boolits today for him as a payback for the free WWs. The problem is...I had many of my boolits already tumble-lubed and stored in plastic jars.

I took them all out and soaked them in gasoline which dissolves the Alox coating very nicely....then a quick soak/rinse in Denatured Alcohol which gets the oily residue off. Once I dry them out...its on to powder coating. They coat perfectly.

Well today...I did a few hundred .358s and .430s....Blue, Red, and JD Green. I already had some in White and Lt Blue that I threw in the bag for him as well. It looked like a big bag of jelly beans when I was done....REALLY heavy jelly beans.

redhawk

[Patrick L]

Wow, buckets that are 80% lead. That's amazing. The buckets I sort these days, I'm happy if I see 20% lead. I don't know where in the Northeast you are, but in upstate NY it's pretty dismal

[Pete44mag]

Loaded 1000 9mm as practice ammo and for USPSA competition. I need a lot of practice!

[kmw1954]

I don't know where in the Northeast you are, but in upstate NY it's pretty dismal

Here in SE Wisconsin unless you already have a connection lead wheel weights are pretty much extinct.

[44Blam]

Went down to the garage and loaded 100 40s waiting for the missus to get home.
Wanted to PC a bunch of boolits, but I need all the rain to clear out. Maybe this weekend it'll be a PC/Load/Clean brass a-thon.

[chriskendziora]

Casted some 45-70 bullets for the 1st time in years with a new Lee mold. The struggle was real but got few done. Need to play around with my heat and the mold.

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[Michael J. Spangler]

Casted some 45-70 bullets for the 1st time in years with a new Lee mold. The struggle was real but got few done. Need to play around with my heat and the mold.

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2 cavity 45/70 Lees moulds are tough. I suggest having a second mould to work with.
You can cast with the 45/70 then cast twice with whatever other mould you have. Then back to the 45/70.
Big bullets in a mould with barely any meat to it and they frost up fast!

[chriskendziora]

It was a challenge to work with 1st time casting in 25 years.

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[44Blam]

GC'd and PC'd about 400 44s and about 600 40s... When I put the 44s in the ammo box full of 44s, I realized that my panic that I don't have any 44s a couple weeks ago was unfounded.

I did realize that I have like 5000 dirty 357 sig cartridges to clean and like 47 boolits... Next casting session is gonna be 357s...

[rr2030]

Made a loading block for 45-70. Varathane applied and drying now.

[willowbend]

Sorted 4 gallons of range brass.