What did you do in the reloading room today?

[15meter]

Put two more coats of finish on both Winchester Model 67 and a Model 74 stock. Got 10 on now, maybe done in another half dozen.

Polished a small batch of 280 Ross brass, annealed a different batch of 280 Ross brass.

Primed 40 pieces of 300 H&H.

Continued the epic journey of the 1968 Savage 243 I picked up last month. I'm guessing that the original owner(s) had never heard of copper fouling. Day #4 of blue patches coming out. And even with all that, for a whippy light barrel rifle with stiff trigger, it turned in ~1-1/8" group on Sunday. Get the barrel clean and a load worked up, I may have a shooter here. Bought the thing for $250 bucks just to get the action. I wasn't even going to shoot it. Just pull the barrel, stock and scope off and pedal that stuff, then buy new stuff. Someone had cut the stock down dramatically. Like rip you eye out on the scope kind of cut down if you are over 4'8" tall.

Bought a $24 semi-inlet stock from Numrich. Turns out it was left over factory stock NICE walnut. Like the nicest Savage stock I have seen in my life. Fitted and finished the stock put a real scope on it and gave it a try. Glad I did.

The group was mostly vertical, almost no horizontal. Should be able to tune a load to reduce the vertical.

[cwtebay]

Deconstructed around 750 rounds of 40 S&W rounds. They were part of a deal for a Springfield 40 and a Hi Point carbine deal. All were unknown handloads. My sons pointed out that powder charges seemed VERY inconsistent so we weighed a few dozen. +/- 25% powder charge discrepancy by weight.
Looking forward to getting the dies we ordered today to start loading and shooting these critters!

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[Johnny S]

Christmas present ..... new 45-70 mold from Accurate (thanks Tom) .... 46-405M ..... https://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet...bullet=46-405M

Anxious now to get her up and running ....

[Iwsbull]

Loaded a Hs6 and H110 loads for the 500 Linebaugh with 460 and 490 grain bullets then went to the range and unloaded them.
After all it is New Year’s Eve and fireworks.

[MOA]

Loaded a Hs6 and H110 loads for the 500 Linebaugh with 460 and 490 grain bullets then went to the range and unloaded them.
After all it is New Year’s Eve and fireworks.

It's always good to have extra lighting when shooting at the range.

[openbook]

Measuring and cutting plywood for my Christmas break reloading bench project. Lots of cuts to make. Coincidentally, the plans I'm using are for the same bench featured in this reloading room writeup, which has a nice picture of the bench: https://www.lee-loader.com/viewtopic.php?t=24. Plans have been sitting on the shelf for a few months waiting for me.

[lightman]

I'm still sorting and tumbling range brass. Will be for another week probably.

[Tar Heel]

Loaded up some basic 38 Special with the Lyman RNL cast bullets atop 3.7gr of HP-38. It sure is fun to load up these classic bullets without all the worries of specialty ammo or wildcat ammo or other minutia. Just clean em, resize em, prime em, charge em, and seat/crimp em. What a treat.

Shot the Uberti Richards/Mason Colt 1851 Conversion today so needed to load up more 38 Special.

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[kfd518]

Deprimed and swaged and sized 397 LC 5.56, trimmed 200 of them last nite and another 277 today.
Liking my new Lyman case trim express.

[robg]

helped a mate load up some 6.5 creedmoor .nice way to start the new year.

[guzma393]

Resized, decapped, and tumbled 9mm this past weekend

[Chaparral66]

Well, last night I Hi-Teck coated about 4 pounds each of .45 TL 200 SWC and 9mm TL 124 RN. Passed them all through the sizer, now waiting for a reason to load them (I already have plenty loaded on hand)

[Texas by God]

I spent a little time when I could over a few days to load 120 rounds of 9mm Luger using 4 grs of AA#2 and 135 gr MP RN. Pleasant to shoot and functions the Hi-point perfectly.

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[MOA]

Just finished getting 2,400 pieces of 38 Spcl. ready for the tumbler tomorrow.

[cwtebay]

Hopefully going to spend some time with the cast bullets (and mould) to reload 40 S&W in the primed brass my sons made. I really need the therapy after this day.

Aside:. Mould from a member, loads from a member, sizing dies arrived:
COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED from a member.
This pay it forward thing has basically determined my sanity so far this year!!!!

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[gnappi]

Continuing my garage cleanup after 12 years of demon sloth. I found two coffee cans of lead .45 bullets with wax lube on them, AND a box of 1000 .40 cal lubed bullets. I "think" my dad must have bought them before he passed away a few years ago.

On one hand I want to use them up, smoke filled lungs and all... OTOH, I want to strip off the lube and PC them. Then there's the possibility of selling them.

I also received an old Hornady Pro-jector today, set it up and despite it not having all of the priming bits and bobs, it's a tank and makes pre primed 9x25 ammo FAST and forms cases PDQ also. Too bad Hornady doesn't have parts. But that's what you get for not buying Dillon. Years ago I setup a frustrated friends Pro-jector machine and he ran it with one caliber for many years. I loved using it but back then my 4 station Dillon 450 and 550's served my needs.

Who'd have thought I'd be making 9x25 and would need that fifth station? I'd have bought one back then when parts were available

[kevin c]

Mixed up a quart of HiTek. I gotta lot of boolits to coat. I make it half strength to get a prolonged shake with better coverage. Should be able to do about 15K. Black Cherry and Kryptonite Green. Maybe I’ll try mixing colors for some boolits; got a couple more colors to play with.

[popper]

TBG - I prefer 4 gr. WST under a 135gr in my pocket 9mms, less 'flip' for the guns with no real 'handle'.

[Texas by God]

TBG - I prefer 4 gr. WST under a 135gr in my pocket 9mms, less 'flip' for the guns with no real 'handle'.

Thanks, Popper. Powder is slowly coming back, I’ll look for that. I’m feeding two Shield 9s as well so that’s a good tip.
Times being what they are, I’m going to have to work up some .38 Special and .40 S&W loads with magnum small pistol and perhaps small rifle primers. Just a few test rounds to see what’s what.

[MOA]

Just stainless steel pin tumbling more 7.62x39 and some 38 special cases.