What did you do in the reloading room today?

[therealhitman]

...all four batches came out really nice which surprised me. I'm thinking I want to clean without stainless pins - saves me a major pain of separating them out later.

That reaffirms my conclusion. I put the pins in a drawer after the first couple of days with the wet tumbler too. Lemishine makes a much bigger contribution to the process than the pins IMO.

[rodsvet]

But does it clean the primer pockets as well as the pins?

[OnceFired]

@rodsvet - I am cleaning mil crimped LC brass, and I leave the crimp on brass I resale. So those pockets aren't getting cleaned at this stage anyway.

[therealhitman]

I generally deprime my range pick up, then tumble. Gets the pockets without pins. After that first cleaning my pistol brass gets tumbled with dead primers and run through the 550s the normal way. Have yet to worry about primer pockets in pistol brass after the initial cleaning. Rifle brass gets deprimed and tumbled every few times. No problems seating primers to speak of on any of it.

[DerekP Houston]

Threw away my first mold =/. Dang lee 2 cavity for my 44, could not get the thing to close flush again after the first casting session. Should have listened to the advice around here; the six bangers were awesome though I'd take a chance.

[taco650]

Good day shooting at a range with a friend. Also got to bring home some extra brass & lead.

[Windwalker 45acp]

Installed my new Lyman 4500 and lubed close to a 100 452374's. I am liking it better than tumble lubing so far.

[Retumbo]

Waiting for a couple hundred 12 gauge hulls to show up.

[rwybld]

I'm a newbie here. This might not be the place for this input, but I've been reading for about six months. In that time I have learned a lot. From not reloading (except shotshells) I now have a Dillon 650 all set up and reloading .45 acp and today I actually "made" about 275 "good" and another 50-60 "bad" bullets - 452-200-SWC. At this point, filled sharp bases are good and they don't have more wrinkles than I do ANYWAY all this is thank all you guys (and gals?) -- people for your forum, knowledge, and so friendly sharing!

[skeettx]

Hello rwybld
Welcome on your first posting
Mike

[aspangler]

Loaded 280 5.56x45 with cast.

[dikman]

I'm in the process of treating my boolits with Hi-Tek coating, to get away from wax lubes. Ready to load a few to try out on Saturday. Also need to cast a few pure lead boolits for coating.

[jason280]

I attempted organizing my reloading room, but didn't get too far...ended up with quite a bit of stuff from the gun show over the weekend, so now I have even more stuff to organize. Did end up with some decent deals, though. Picked up an RCBS hand priming tool and Uniflow powder measure for cheap, but have to find the primer ram for the priming tool and a baffle and top for the powder measure. Also snagged an older Lyman 55 powder measure, has to be at least 30+ years old. Neat thing is, it still has the box and paperwork inside.

[coxa2]

Powder coated a couple hundred 45acp 225gr bullets, along with a couple hundred .358 pills.


Started the process of tearing down 200rds of 38special that I was given. Talk about terrible reloads. I have seen 4 different types of bullets all mixed in along with various degrees of bullet shaving. Plus at least 3 different powders. BEWARE RANDOM RELOADS!

[onehousecat]

Made my first foray into the 41 magnum world with some mild 215 SWC loads for my 657. When I find the Hornady 210 gr. bullets bought at the last gunshow, I will make some test loads for my Mark VII Desert Eagle.

[skeettx]

onehousecat
I want to hear more about your adventure with the Mark VII Desert Eagle
I know they do NOT like cast bullets
and the need a pretty HOT load to cycle
Mike

[rond]

200+ rounds of 32 S&W long.

[Electric88]

Have to remount the reloading press tonight. Then on to resizing 9mm brass

[Jal5]

Loaded some 9mm on the LLM. RANOUT OF BOOLITS. Guess its time to do some serious pouring fir 9 and 45s now

[Harter66]

Converted some long762 N LC Match to 358 Win .
Bore sighted a couple of new sight sets and and a backup set.
Tried some new pellets in an air rifle, the collared dove are, I hope, in trouble .