What did you do in the reloading room today?

[44Blam]

I prepped two new 8 cav MP molds, both the same 9mm design. Hopefully they'll be put to work tomorrow. I'm trying to get my dual mold technique down. When I do, using a ProMelt with a feeder pot, I may be able to cast at a rate of 1500 boolits an hour.

I also drifted the rear sight on my G34. I actually started doing a lot more accuracy drills, and now the zero at 15 yards that was "good-enough-for-govmint-work" is consistently a foot left at 35 yards.

So, today I was shooting 10mm in my GP-100... I was missing occasionally, but doing OK. I pulled out my G35 and occilated between the 8" plates at 15 yards and a 1x2' plate at 50 yards for 15 rounds with all hits - so I put the gun up and went home.

[kevin c]

Good to leave on a high note. I hope diligent practice will make me as proficient. Off to the range I go this AM, casting this PM.

[44Blam]

I cast about a 5lb pile of boolits but got really frustrated with my 45 cal 396 grain boolit...

I'm thinking of just not casting those anymore and casting the 45 cal 350s.

Tonight I kept trying to get good boolits and was over heating the mold, so I brought out another mold and was doing 3x 40 cal and 1-2x 45 cal mold...

So, now I have a bunch of the 40s -- probably 12-16 times as many-- as the 45s, but I think I might just change my 45 caliber mode from 396 to 350...

I think they will fly flatter, a bit faster and probably just as far.

Casting and shooting boolits has sooo many little things to think about. I think that might just be why I like it.

[2A-Jay]

Rearranged my reloading room/garage for better storage space and added a 6 toot 7 shelf rollaway storage shelf unit.

[lightman]

Good to leave on a high note. I hope diligent practice will make me as proficient. Off to the range I go this AM, casting this PM.

I try to make my last shot of my Prairie Dog trip a hit. No matter what my hit % is, I feel better leaving with a hit.

[sigep1764]

Tumbled all the brass from the trip to friends land. Loaded 50 30-30, 50 38 Special, and getting around to the 270 and 223 and 9mm tonight.

[Cast_outlaw]

Smelted 140lb of sheet lead off a roof I love free lead

[kevin c]

Those ingots sure have that nice, dark, shiney blue look of pure!

[Shaner87]

I loaded my first hand load ever yesterday. A skeeter load for my Ruger NM Bisley Blackhawk in 44 Spl. Picking up the pistol next week, so should be able to shoot it then. Pretty excited.

[RedlegEd]

I loaded my first hand load ever yesterday. A skeeter load for my Ruger NM Bisley Blackhawk in 44 Spl. Picking up the pistol next week, so should be able to shoot it then. Pretty excited.

Outstanding and welcome to the obsession!
Ed

[lightman]

Washing and drying the range brass I picked up this week. I'll deprime and tumble it later today.

[44Blam]

Cast up a whole pile of 350 grain 45 cal and 188 grain 40 cal booits.

[kmw1954]

Started loading up some cast 45acp from a Lyman 452374 single cavity mold. This will be my 3 loading from this mold. The first small batch was with COWW alloy and those I loaded 20 with AA#2 and AA#5 at just over the starting load listed for that bullet in the Lyman Pistol & Revolver book.

These bullets are now cast with straight range scrap (pretty soft) which I have 55 of and then I have 67 that were cast with the same range scrap with 10% print type added. The print type is of unknown origin but I believe it is either monotype or foundry type as it is pretty hard and brittle.

Right now I have the 67 loaded with 7.1gr of AA#5 at OAL of 1.250". The max load listed is 8.2gr and the start load was 6.7gr.. The soft range scrap will be loaded the same and then to compare against the harder alloy.

The AA#2 was sporadic and the #5 held a nice group but was consistently low. See if a little more speed helps.

[BigAlofPa.]

I got caught up loading. What i shot the last few weeks. Yesterday and today.

[Jal5]

Time to do some serious cleaning up both at the reloading bench and at the casting bench. Found lead I forgot I had and a couple of coffee containers full of range scrap. A morning to melt everything is in near future.

[Bookworm]

Brass prep. Shot the Military Bolt-gun match at the local club, so I have empty brass. I had to get into my stash of spare brass, pulled out some weighed piece to fill in the perceived shortage of prepped brass. I need 70 loaded cartridges per match, and I prefer to have 5 or 6 spares just in case.

Deprimed and cleaned the primer pockets, then washed the 7.62x54r brass, and scrubbed the necks with a nylon brush. Laid it out on the porch to dry.
Annealed, neck sized, and primed the brass.

All ready to load up. I better go check the boolit cache. I may need to lube and weight sort some of those too.

[curiousgeorge]

After bring out of office and at home for 10 weeks, lots of big loading runs are complete.

So, just for fun I loaded 5 rounds of .45-70 with my old Lee handload set. Still pretty neat to turn them out with a few whacks and a small scoop of powder.

Tomorrow maybe the Lyman tong tool and a few .38 Specials.

[Win94ae]

Got some powder more to my liking, and loaded up a ladder test for the Marlin 1894S 44mag; using the Lee 240gr RN, PC, that has mushroomed well in water.
You see, the rifle's locking bolt was not fitted properly; but I have fitted the new one correctly! Now the action doesn't open upon recoil anymore, and I think it will be able to group. So I will try to develop a good deer load.

[Boolseye]

I loaded my first hand load ever yesterday. A skeeter load for my Ruger NM Bisley Blackhawk in 44 Spl. Picking up the pistol next week, so should be able to shoot it then. Pretty excited.

Well done, welcome to the club


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[Bookworm]

I loaded my first hand load ever yesterday. A skeeter load for my Ruger NM Bisley Blackhawk in 44 Spl. Picking up the pistol next week, so should be able to shoot it then. Pretty excited.

I've got the same revolver. You're gonna love it.