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    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trixter View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Between work and farming I've been loading 200SWC /6grs Unique in .45 acp as time allows. 500rounds on a Rockchucker!

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    45 230gr TC.... Or jelly beans as I'm now calling them
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    I loaded up 52 rounds of 44mag. A 240 grain TL LSWC over 19 grains of 2400.

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    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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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.
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    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.
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    What did you do in the reloading room today?

    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.

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    ready to load more 38! cast a few dozen of the new keith style hp from mihec will see how it performs.

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    I turned about 150 lbs of range scrap into about 100-120 lbs of ingots. And then I took a nap.

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    Are those PC? Do you shake and dump? They look like Hi-tek but the foil has me wondering.


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    ready to load more 38! cast a few dozen of the new keith style hp from mihec will see how it performs.

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    Cleaned this mess up :beer:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Landshark9025 View Post
    Are those PC? Do you shake and dump? They look like Hi-tek but the foil has me wondering.
    Those are hitek, zombie green and gold 1035. I did half early via bbtb and standing them up with gloves. I generally get tired about halfway through and then hitek the remainder .

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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