Sorted out a donated tub full of bullets and brass and powder! Christmas in May!
Sorted out a donated tub full of bullets and brass and powder! Christmas in May!
Loaded up 100 rounds of .223, then escaped to my favorite shooting place with a .22, bolt 223 and trusty A3 03 and perferated some paper. Had a ball.
Loaded Lee 150 fn 308 boolits from my new Lee mold that i cast last week .the previously cast batch I gave to a mate for his 3030 .20 rounds to see how they go .then loaded 95 357 mag with 195 gr boolits (that was all I had of that weight).day off not wasted.
Sized trimmed expanded primed 20 308 I'd forgotten to prep last week .
True. I mainly saw an opportunity to use some space that wasnt being utilized. The white drawers came from a bunk bed I built for my kids years ago and have had sitting in the garage for a while. When I built the rolling cart, I made the top fit the space left over from my bench. I did store some little things in the far left area, but was working in the garage one day prepping brass and set the bin in the hole and thought, I could store all my brass in this space, so I used scraps of plywood I had laying around.
Nice to use up scrap wood/drawers and come away with a space to dedicate to my casting.
I've been doing the same thing for decades, especially scrap pieces of steel that I use to make little brackets and such...the scrap pile piles up quick but...every little piece is just waiting to become something else!
That's full blown OCD...oh well, it could be worse!
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Powder coated and sized 400 boolits (125gr RN 9mm) and loaded 50 30-30 plinking rounds.
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Finally lube sized all the bullets I cast, 158gr 358429 HP from my MiHec mold and 358429 from my Lyman.
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Turned pipe lead into ingots. About 20 pounds worth.
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
We're awaiting yours Jeff...
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Thank you sirs. Haven't cast in a while but needed the ammo, lubing bullets can get old when you underestimate how much you've actually made
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Got my lee hardness tester. My stockpile of lead is only 12.5 BH. Probably explains why it doesn't do so hot in rifles
Maybe it's time to start reading about heat treating.
http://www.lasc.us/HeatTreat.htm
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
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Todays project in the reloading room was to install a ceiling fan with improved lighting. Accomplished !
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
― The Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 2001
Yesterday I sized, lubed & checked some 44 boolits until my Lyman 450 ran out of lube.
Today's project is to make more lube LOL! At least I have all the ingredients this time.
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 |