Playing with my MP 432 Hammer mold I cast all the various pins and loaded 2 of them last night. The large hollowpoint weighs in at 242 grains and the solid is 266. 20g of 2400 to get them motivated.
Playing with my MP 432 Hammer mold I cast all the various pins and loaded 2 of them last night. The large hollowpoint weighs in at 242 grains and the solid is 266. 20g of 2400 to get them motivated.
Mal
Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.
Shot 100 38 Spl wadcutters the other day, so I deprimed and tumbled.
Decided to put them in the corncob tumbler, the one I haven't used in a couple years since I went with walnut media.
Now I remember why I quit using the cob. Out of 100 shells, 81 had cob fragments stuck in the flash hole.
That's 81 flash holes I had to clean out with a paperclip. Which means I had to handle each piece individually to ascertain if the hole was clear.
I'm done with corncob media. At least, this specific corncob media.
Put together 50 Saeco #315 loads, some bll, some pc'd for use in a model 70 '06. Also worked up some 45 Colt lo ads using a 267gr boolit sized at .453
Cast around 600 Elco boolits, sized and decapped the last of my 9mm brass (1500 or so) and loaded 500 rounds of it. Haven't bought 9mm brass since 2012, but looks like im gonna need more to keep busy.
Loaded 20 rounds of 308, in my attempt to make a 200m target load with the lee C309-180-2R, ran 30gr and 31gr rl7 in Winchester cases and with Winchester primers. Sized 309 with gator checks and I believe carnauba blue (got given a Lyman 450 With some blue lube so I’m guessing) cast from coww+a smige of tin. 30gr rls ran 2200 average 31gr ran 2240 zero leading I ran a tight patch through and nothing. right is 30gr left is 31gr and below is same everything except in a federal case with 16gr blue dot
Left 100m right 200
I think I’m going to play with the blue dot load if I can’t make it work I’ll try 28Gr and 29gr Rl7 again
So good day in the reloading room and range
Resized 100 45-70 cartridges... Only 5 or 600 more to go!
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Sat in the Garage with the door open watching it pur down rain, Listening to the Moody Blues. Garage is Reloading Room.
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Yesterday I pulled my molds out, up dated my mold list, and sprayed all of them down with oil. I try to do this about once a year.
Loaded 100 45/70 rounds with BP. 50 with the Gould 330 gr hollow point and 75 grs of 2F and 50 with the 550 Hoch Creedmoor bullet and 70 grs of the Holy Black!
I’m slowly loading 100 .44 WCF for my little rifle. 215gr .429” FP/ LLA over 9 grs of Yoonique. Too many mosquitos out there tonight, though. That Lyman stadium seating loading block is kind of neat after all.
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It's a 20" stub barreled Topper that I made. Lots of fun.
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spent a good part of the day inputting and upgrading my excel spreadsheet containing all my load workup data -- now my head hurts
Just dumped too much brass in the polisher this evening after making reloading opportunities in 7x57, 8x57, 303 British, 375 H&H, 6.5x53r, 7x61 S&H and 318 Westley Richards.
Almost forgot the 38 Special.
Brass should be all nice and spiffy by tomorrow morning. Unless the shed burns in down because of an overloaded polisher.
Added some lighting..Led shop lights..
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I just finished sorting by caliber the range brass that I have picked up the year. I'll start tumbling it in a few days.
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 |