Loaded a 100 gun club shotshells with an ounce and an eighth of 7 1/2 magnum. Over a Fig 8 wad, 19 grains of WST and 209 Winchester primers.
Loaded a 100 gun club shotshells with an ounce and an eighth of 7 1/2 magnum. Over a Fig 8 wad, 19 grains of WST and 209 Winchester primers.
All of my reloading is done for a while, I am out of empty cases. I need to go shoot more, much more. So I tore the AR15 apart for a thorough cleaning, and the XDm 45 needed some attention too, so now I have clean guns.
Focused on 9mm right now. I am loading COWW alloy cast Lee TL356-124-TC. No sizing and 1 round of 45/45/10 lube and moderate crimp. I have an accurate load with Ramshot Silhouette and now working with BE-86. I loaded a couple hundred rounds after finding a nice accurate load this weekend for my Glock 19 at 90% of the published load.
I finished loading the last of my pound of BE86. I loaded nearly 1500 rounds of Lee 358-158-RF with it over the last two weeks. I only had the one pound and it did it's best job under that boolit.
I have plenty of other powders that are more flexible for use in my guns.
debating what to start for my next run. could stand to do a batch of 380's I suppose, still have a few jars of 92gr noe boolits to use up. New mold on the way for my 40 cal so I will start casting for it soon as well.
Between work and farming I've been loading 200SWC /6grs Unique in .45 acp as time allows. 500rounds on a Rockchucker!
45 230gr TC.... Or jelly beans as I'm now calling them
I loaded up 52 rounds of 44mag. A 240 grain TL LSWC over 19 grains of 2400.
Sized some 35 Rem cases and ran 100 NOE 360200's thru the 4500. Cabela's is having a promotion this weekend so I'm for getting a VX-3i for Scopekiller. Broke in the 360200 a few weeks ago so this should be interesting.
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Smokeless powder is a passing fad! -Steve Garbe
I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it. -Woodrow F. Call, Lonesome Dove
Some of my favorite recipes start out with a handful of depleted counterbalance devices.
I'm trying to teach myself to load for 9mm. I got a new Lee mold and sizer in yesterday. Tonight I cleaned the mold up good, smoked it and tried my hand at casting some. I got about 50 good ones made up before the rain hit and I had to shut down. I got those tumble lubed and laid out to dry. Tomorrow I'll try out the sizer and see if I can get them loaded.
5-14-16 Loaded up and tested a few until I got it right. Loaded about 25 more until I realized I was almost out of small pistol primers.
Last edited by shadowwalker; 05-17-2016 at 11:04 PM.
Loaded up 100 Lee C358158SWC on 5.0 grains of CFE Pistol, and 50 240 grain Lasercast SWC with 6.0 grains W321, more to come tomorrow.
Well I am batting a thousand in my reloading room/casting area. Last night while breaking in the new to me 358429 my mould handles stand in defiance
And today I figure, well let's deprime this pile of brass.....the bench says no more and a 2x2 pops off the bench along with the press and a 44 mag shell halfway sized.
At least the bench is a 2 dollar fix with some new bolts. This time it will go through the metal frame.
Off to the hardware store.
Ill try anything once, twice if I forgot
Some days it's just not meant to be. Close the door and walk away. I've had those days, bet we all have.
I loaded some 35 Rem rounds for Scopekiller; RD 359190 and NOE/RCBS 360200 over LVR. Mounted a 2.5-8X VX-3i on Scopekiller. Probably should have done that years ago.
Endowment Life Member NRA, Life Member TSRA, Member WACA, NRA Whittington Center, BBHC
Smokeless powder is a passing fad! -Steve Garbe
I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it. -Woodrow F. Call, Lonesome Dove
Some of my favorite recipes start out with a handful of depleted counterbalance devices.
Nothing...absolutely nothing. Dangit. Got a dozer I borrowed at the ranch right now, so the Mrs. has no time for me and my habits. Pushing dirt like there's no tomorrow...... Don't get me wrong...I enjoy seat time in a good machine, but I do miss the bench/range.
"Do not follow where the path might lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" Ralph Waldo Emerson
Loaded 250 rounds of 9mm on Friday. Found a box of Hornday bullets that I forgot about. Finding 1k bullets is always a good thing
I labeled the boxes and wrote the loads down in my binder. Developed a load numbering system to keep track of everything moving forward. Was getting to confusing w/ multiple boxes labeled w/ Load #X on them. This is what happens when you have multiple guns in the same caliber and they all like slightly different loads :laugh:
Last edited by dragon813gt; 05-15-2016 at 09:33 PM.
I turned about 150 lbs of range scrap into about 100-120 lbs of ingots. And then I took a nap.
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 |