Loaded 20 rounds 8mm Mauser with NOE 326471GC and H4198.
Loaded 20 rounds 8mm Mauser with NOE 326471GC and H4198.
Cast some 0 Buck .320" for some .410 ammo.
I loaded 250 rounds of .32 S&W Long on my Lee classic turret (no proper shell plate for the 550) then switched to the 550 for 200 rounds of .38 Special.
Switching machines sure makes the superiority of the Dillon obvious.
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
RAH
Cast, sized, and lubed about 12 pounds of 230 grain boolits for my experiments with light 45 auto rim in my Mk VI Commercial Webley. I was using an RCBS 230 grain Cowboy mold that I got from Midway on sale. RCBS makes great molds, if they made 4 cavity molds, I'd probably own nothing else.
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cast sized and lubed almost 100 RCBS 500 grain .45 cal bullets for the 45-70
Range day today so now soaking all my brass.
Lead bullets Matter
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. - Will Rodgers
Smelted a gallon of stick-on WW's (outside, of course). The smell was strong 200 yards away, I was told.
Poor neighbors..
Not a darn thing
I Cast my Boolits, Therefore I am Happy.
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Cleaned it up. Last time I was in was over a month ago when I was emptying all the tools out of my work van. Got everything somewhat organized as far as the tools go. Had a bunch of random bags of brass on the bench.
One of them was some 300 Savage brass I converted. It was before I had a Dillon SuperSwage and small base sizing die. Saw one of the primers backed out of the pocket. So I deprimed one hundred pieces and scraped the brass. Not worth any potential issues and I have 100 pieces done that I know are done properly.
Ran a few .38 bullets through a used RCBS Lube matic 2 I just picked up, using the unknown lube that came in the sizer.
Tested using small rifle primers in the 10mm M1911 for heavy loads (216 gr, 747 ft-lbs) instead of pistol primers. The primer indentation was a bit less, but they fired reliably and there was less flattening of the primers.
Scratching my head, wondering where to start with all these moving boxes to unpack.. but I'm looking forward to the new and improved ..
Will get to it after work today, good excuse to call it a day at 3pm, at least to myself
sized & expanded 100 .357 cases,sized 60 .308 cases washed off the case lube then set them to dry before they go in the tumbler for a nice polish.
Cast 260 Lee 358 RNFP, 260 MiHic 433640L with solid nose and 180 Lee 429 200 gr RNFP. Lubed the Lee Boolits with Ben's liquid lube (BLL). Tim Great day for casting, bright and sunny temp around 65 degrees!
Took delivery of my Lee hardness tester today. Test fired about 20 rounds of cast through the chrono working up the powder load on 9mm 124gr TC. Loaded 30 rounds of 124gr truncated cone 9mm at 4.8gr of Ramshot Sillouette for a COAL accuracy test. Tumble lubed another 150 124gr TC bullets with 45/45/10 lube.
Trying to get Boolit stock built up. Just finished off casting another 200+ Lee TL356-124 TC for the 9mm, 200+ Lee TL401-175 for the .40s&w, 200+ Lee TL430-240 for the .44mag/spl. Now take a break and get ready to Powder Coat them. Hope to hit the Range tomorrow to try my loaded PC Boolits and see how they perform. And hopefully get some Range Lead too.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
Loaded another 100 rounds of 45 ACP using 230 RN from Xtreme bullets and Bullseye.
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Built a shelf for my reloading bench to help decrease clutter in my gun room.
I had to get organized after the "good luck bird" landed. These discs were found in a bucket of weights . Don't know what they are but they ring when dropped. Found this in the box of weights, Brand new. Trade bait soon. And last...on the way home saw a garage sale sponsored by one of the churches. $3 for this platter. Says its pewter. Anyone familiar with the brand?
Nothing, but I did special order a Lee case length gauge for the 6.5x57 so I can trim all my cases before reloading them..
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 |