What was in the press to start the new year?

[dtknowles]

9mm in the Lee Pro 1000 but have not pulled the handle yet this year.

.22 Hornet, 6mm PPC and 30 BR in the Lyman Spar T

Lee Lead hardness tester in the Lyman Spartan

This time of year is casting time for me so I have been casting not loading, I did load some .22 Hornet to test some bullets I cast back before New Years. Water dropped and pushthru sized. They hardened up nicely but not real hard. I shot my smallest cast bullet group with them Friday, just under an inch.

Tim

[blaser.306]

Started the year off with a bang as they say! 1000 38 spec. hollow base wadcutters loaded over 2.4 gr of Promo, a couple hundred 357 mag with 8.2 gr of Pro reach and last but definitely not least I did initial forming of 30/06 brass to 35 Whelen. My newest lead boolit shooter!

[shoot-n-lead]

Loaded some NOE 358429 .357 rds on New Year's day and the last 2 days I have loaded some 45colt from a new Saeco mold.

Gonna go run'em across a new chrono that I got for Christmas and compare results to the old chrono numbers.

[Bazoo]

I loaded some 38's. 358156 over 3.5 titegroup

[therealhitman]

Switching from 700x to Bullseye for 120gr TC 9mm boolits. I close up shop for the Christmas break, so New Years I worked up several hundred rounds to run through the Autos for cycling and feed/eject tests. Trying to hit the most economical load over best grouping as its all just practice ammo for Speed Steel and IDPA. But I like to use only one 9mm load for competition practice and carry gun proficiency practice so I can only go so far to the small side. Friday I loaded up some .38 SWCs with the 700x just to compare economy in that platform for S&Gs.
Then today I fired up a heater on the back patio, set up the Saeco 24 and melted about 40 lbs of linotype spacers into ingots. I keep my actual lino with words intact in coffee cans to add to my melt in smaller amounts, and then ingotize spacers for mixing appropriate recipe with pure in the big pot. My current batch of type metals and spacers from a print shop sellout seems to all be 84-4-12 though... so that was just extra melting out of habit and OCD I guess lol.

[FISH4BUGS]

Finishing up 32 lbs worth of 748 to load 223 and 308. Completed 2000 223 so far on the Dillon 550. Case prep is all done. Probably do 1000 or 2000 more. Then change to 308. Lube cases and load. I set up for one caliber and bullet and load until I get sick of them. Did 4000 9mm last go round.
Time is harder to find than the components.

[nashtn]

45lc, using my rock chucker; I broke a pawl on my lnl so it sits idle 'till the new ones arrive.
--Nashtn--

[bear67]

I have several presses loaded up with dies (9 x 19, 32 s&w long, 303 savage and others), but spent my time setting up a Dillon 550 for 45 Colt. I finally have both 550s set up, one for SP and one for LP. I have loaded 45 Colt and 45 ACP for years on a SDB, but from now on, will just use the 550s--son and son in law have the SDBs now. Used some bullets I traded for and an existing load, so nothing new, but did load 800. I did cast some OO buck and a few 12 ga HB slugs.

It has been cold and wet since Christmas nearly, so I NEED some range time. Today was sonny and cold and I had to spend morning at Doctor's office and afternoon working on a backhoe. There is always tomorrow.

[Blanket]

my Dillon was rocking hard, 3000 9mm, another 1500 38 spl and just changed over to 45acp. Loaded some test rounds in 35 Whelen and 204 but the weather was not working for bench testing. One nice thing about living where I do is the weather is the only thing that slows my shooting. Man it stinks having a range in your back yard

[seanhagerty]

I thought i was in the big leagues loading up 500 rounds of 9mm. I guess I better get back to loading.

[Yodogsandman]

New Years day, loaded up 10 each Noe RD 360230 HP with 57.0gr IMR4064, 10 each Lyman 358009 with 56.5gr IMR4350 for the 35 Whelen, 20 each Lyman 266673 with 17.0gr surplus SR4759 for the 6.5x55 and 10 each Lee 312-155-2R with 20.0gr Reloader 7 for the SKS.

Shot them all Saturday 1/3/15...loaded them up again yesterday, 1/4/15.

[salpal48]

Started Loading , Cutting cases 458 American (458 x 2) on my lachmiller

[mulletmaster]

Loaded 20 new 9mm loads with 147gr LRN bullets and 100 .223 both on my Christmas gift to myself, a Lee Load Master.

[dikman]

44-40 for my model 92 Win (using Trail Boss). Now trying to figure out how to modify my Auto Disk measure to handle higher volumes of BP.

[charlie b]

7.62 Mauser for wife's gun. A C96 made in 1897.

[Dframe]

About a hundred 45 acp for my new (old) snubby

[cliff55]

44-40 for 73 50 rounds to try different primers. 45 acp just because

[HATCH]

300 BO on the Dillon 550 small primer, 44/40 on the 650 and the large primer 550 is empty.
Haven't pulled a handle on any of them since late Oct.
I did cast some 38/40s on the Master Caster over the holidays

[jmorris]

The 357 superDduper.

[reddoggm]

45 ACP gotta replenish from the last few Range Trips
DOGG!!!