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    LOOKS GREAT PASTA!!! Nickle and FBlue is a attractive combo!!

    I emptied the tumblers from Sundays shooting.

    I prepped up a hundred Legend cases. None grew at all and none needed culled. This is the 7th loading on this batch.

    I finished off a box of 165 FTX With my preferd charge of 296 powder. 17 rounds in the hunting box. This load is a great shooter under MOA and running 2260 average. Its likely hot for a AR. Ill find out soon enough. Im hoping the barrel arrives eow! ♥️♥️
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    Powder coated 300 boolits and loaded 100 10MMs.
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    Primed 300 .44Mag cases.
    Set up Tumbler for 300 more.
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    Finished sizing and priming 100 350 Legend cases.

    Tumbled a batch of 43 Mag and 45 Colt brass.

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    More PCing 40 cal boolits and loading 10mm in between - 100 #9 heavies.
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    Assembled my new 350 Upper!!!

    (Turned tumblers off and sifted the brass)

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    Melted down some range scrap yesterday. Made 12 dozen muffin pan ingots averaging a pound each.

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    Inventoried my ingot pile last night. Been casting for .45 ACP, moved down in stock. Went from a metric ton to regular ton. Gonna have to start hitting the trail of local tire stores, and scrap yards.

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    Not today but over the last month I have finally went through all my accumulated 308 brass , thank goodness that's over . Sorted , Sized , trimmed , cut primer pocket on and on .......but I'm still waiting on a finish reamer .
    So this morning I'm going to load a box or so of 7x57s and knock some holes in a tree stump before going to work .

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    It was 5 degrees cooler in the reloading room yesterday so I dug out all my fired brass and deprimed it. 91 degrees at 6 am, I may just watch the tumbler today.
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    Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.

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    Scrounged for empty brass to load, but I've almost everything loaded. I did find 100 350RMs and can't find 100 9.3x57s that I know are hiding somewhere. A lack of empty brass is a not unpleasant problem to remedy - shoot more, soon.
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    It was 108 in the shade so I just watched the brass tumbler, maybe tomorrow I'll turn it on.
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    Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onelight View Post
    Ha , we will see if you can just walk away with them laying there cold and abandoned
    Ha Ha, sometimes being a brass rat ain't easy! You and 44Blam got me figured out!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lightman View Post
    I'm in the process of sorting through my stash of 223 brass trying to find 1000 that are crimped, dinged, dented or just plain ugly. Planning on shooting them in an AR in a place where recovering the brass will be difficult. Just took the first 500 out of the tumbler to dry.
    I missed a few days in the loading room because of Dove Season but I'll start working on the crimps on these after while and I just put the next 500 in the tumbler.

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    Got all set up to reload some 30 Carbine then went looking for the 200 pieces of brass I had prepped. Finally found it in the ammo can already loaded. I remember prepping and priming it, but I'll be darned if I remember loading it.

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    350 Legends, 38 Spl, 450 Bushmasters and 45 Colts!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cwlongshot View Post
    350 Legends, 38 Spl, 450 Bushmasters and 45 Colts!!

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    Lol, I like that part about the 45 Colts.

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    Heat treating at different times to see what the results will be in a couple days, a week, two weeks..
    30 min, 45 min, 1 hour, 1.25 hour, 1.5 hour, 1.75 hour and 2 hours
    Alloy started out 10.4 BHN will see how they turn out.

    Casting all sorts of bullets, lubing, PC'ing PB Gas checking etc..

    400gr PB, powder coated and PBGC'd
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    35 Rem 200gr
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    30-30 170gr
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    45-70 430gr
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    Just some of the things Ive been working on

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    Loaded a few hundred #4 birdshot loads.

    Then I loaded 6 "experimental" sabo slugs with data I have just kind of determined based on the slug and my wad/shell... Loaded nicely went light on the powder - we'll see.

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    And loaded 2 "experimental" buckshot rounds with 8 pelets.... Loaded nice, we'll see how that goes.
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    Waved hello, then goodbye to my press.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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