Share Your Work - What did you load today?

[jma1965]

Today was one of my days off, Loaded 100 rounds 'O' 38 Special, 125 grain RNFP with Trail Boss. :guntootsmiley:

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/jma2006_bucket/SDC10909.jpg

[btroj]

300 rounds 38 special. Goes well with the 300 I loaded yesterday. Tomorrow may well see more.

[Tom W.]

I loaded some 270 gr RCBS SAA boolits for my .454, and a few 255 gr RCBS boolits for my .45 Colt with Red Dot.





Then I loaded a few rounds for my .308 until I ran out of bullets.

[selmerfan]

I didn't load anything. I rearranged the man cave to accommodate the oak gun cabinet that I traded for, added a shelf in the top of it for pistols/TC Encore and went to text study, had a collegial conversation with a fellow pastor about a visit from last night, and helped three confirmation students transpose hymns for their instruments for Mother's Day weekend.

[NMBillB]

Didn't load any, but I did cast 100 or so after work before the sun went down.

[357maximum]

I was naughty and loaded a couple hundred of them red colored full length gas check things into .223 brass. :evil:

[leowa]

Working up a load for the 7.62 x 54R. First time reloading it. 165 grain boolit Can any one give me a max with 2400

[John Boy]

A total of 40 reloads for initial velocity & group testing of the new Alliant 300-MP (Magnum Pistol) powder using 97:1.5:1.5 alloy for the following rifle calibers

* 8.15x46R (BACO 316180) for 1920 Aydt
* 32-40 (Saeco 723) for CPA 44 1/2 Stevens
* 38-55 (Ideal 375272) for Uberti HiWall
* 38-55 (Ideal 375166) for ditto

Not your normal reloading, wouldn't you say? Especially with bullets from Ideal molds that haven't seen the light of day for over 50 years! :happy dance:

[danski26]

I loaded a bit over 1,000 45 acp 185 gr swc in the morning and then this evening loaded up 50 308 win with 180 gr SMK.

Dillion 1000's are very nice to load on. I wish I owned one or two. A friend let me load on one of his today. Very nice!

[BruceB]

My intent is to take two .303 British rifles to Alberta in November for white-tail and elk.

One rifle is my new Ruger #1, and the other is a gorgeous #1 MkIII sporter from 1914.

I'll do all the load work with the scoped Ruger, because my vision is 'iffy' for iron sights...even sights as good as the Lyman 48 on the Mark III.

So.... I loaded fifty rounds of NOE 316299 over 40.0 IMR4350, CCI 250 Magnum primers, to allow enough rounds to get a basic zero and start the development process. I want to find a load in the 2100fps area, which will be close to the original 215-grain factory load. I've killed enough moose with such ballistics in the .303 to have complete faith in them.

The actual hunting loads will employ my cast softpoints, with about 30% of the bullet weight being pure lead.

My belief is that by developing the best-possible load for the scoped rifle. I can then use it with the MkIII's iron sights with no more worry than buying a box of factory ammo off the shelf.

Two-inch groups at 100 yards will suffice for the big Alberta critters, since my self-imposed range limit is 200 yards. Better accuracy than that would be very nice, of course.

[RobS]

I loaded up some 45 auto with some home grown 230 grain HP's I had sitting around.


The Dillon 1000 is sick when it's like this...............take a look at this youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjpQijPilDk

[smoked turkey]

I am in the process of load development for my 300 Weatherby Mag for an up coming trip to South Africa later this summer. Load I am working on now is the 165 gr. j-word bullet with 76 grains of H4831SC for estimated velocity of 3100'/s. I am doing all my shooting off a tripod at 175 yards.

[plainsman456]

Just finished loading 650 200 SWC for the Colt for later blasting.
And looking at the molds for the 30 caliber for tomorrow.And maybe trying to cast some 490 round balls for the front stuffer and then there is the number 1 buckshot thing I need to get under way.

[runfiverun]

no loading today spent the afternoon swaging up some 250 gr rnhp's for the 44.
and then helping the wife cast some rcbs 165 silhouette boolits.
she is getting pretty good.
she cast the cores for the 44's.

[BorderBrewer]

sized and lubed some 358429's to feed my GP-100's

[runfiverun]

for the x54 you'll run out of accuracy before you hit a max.
i have gone up to 22 grs but the best accuracy is in the 18-19 gr range.
yours may be from 17-18.

[Harter66]

I loaded about 60,000# of 6"47 projectiles ............... at home I rolled ,lubed and sized 50 more PP'd 200gn boolits for work ups for the 7.62-39. Belled the matching brass.

That was yesterday similar gig today.

[Dframe]

Nothing special.................well, 44 special that is.

[That'll Do]

500 rds. of 230gr FMJ (gasp!) 45 ACP the other day. I need to load some 200gr SWC loads too.

[nwellons]

Something different.

I loaded 20 rounds of .42 Russian Berdan and 50 rounds of .44 Russian; both with black powder. To top that off, all I use is a pair of Lee Reloader single stage presses (the little ones) and the .42 Berdan is a giant of a cartridge using 74 grains of FFG black powder. I bought the little press to try out reloading and found it works fine on small and large cartridges, but I only neck size the big brass including .43 Egyptian.

[HammerMTB]

I was naughty and loaded a couple hundred of them red colored full length gas check things into .223 brass. :evil:

+1 here- no boolits, but set up the Loadmaster for volume with the .264LBC, and made a few lots of 10 for testing. All condom'd loads.

[ColColt]

I've gotten too many toys lately so I just played around with my new Lee 4-20 pot and later put together some ammo for the range tomorrow. Mostly, 38/357 loads with HS-6 and Universal with the 158 and 170 gr SWC's along with some I cast last week with the new Lee 358-158 gr RF. Tomorrow will be the first time testing them.

[Armorer]

No loading today. Had to catch up on my casting since I seem to be on a .40 S&W binge as of late. I cast a little over 400 Lyman 401043. That will keep me busy til the weekend.

Armorer

[Southern Son]

Well yesterday I loaded up 50 rounds of 22/250Imp, all with those nasty J-Bombs (20 with 40gr Sierra BlitzKing, 15 with 36gr Barnes Varmint Grenades and 15 with 55gr Berges Varmint). I took them to the range today and used 2 of the Sierra BlitzKings to shoot my Chrony. Don't ask how I did it cause I got no idea. The rest of them showed promiss, some good groups in spite of wind and mirage.

[WILCO]

Working up a load for the 7.62 x 54R. First time reloading it. 165 grain boolit Can any one give me a max with 2400

Found this thread while doing a search for your load:

http://forums.handloads.com/archive/forum_posts.asp?TID=16526

[snaplink]

I'm new to casting. A few days ago did about a dozen 22 bator, 22 mold #225462, and lee mold c309-150f haven't hit the range yet. Learning how to do the formulas, mixing ww with lead and see what happens. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to math.

[Heavy lead]

Well last night I rolled off 300 .44 mags with 10 grains of Unique, Federal 150 under 503's casted from the new brass mould casted 50/50 ww/pb with 2% tin lubed with BAC sized .431, it's my simply boring, pleasant yet powerful enough to get done shootsand feeds in 7 different revolvers and 1 rifle do everything with load.
Boring or not it works, the LNL is great (have 3, one set up for 45 acp only, one for small primers, one for large for other than 45 acp). I have limited hobby time working 50 plus hours a week plus family time, so speed with accuracy and quick changover is important.

[bslim]

Well it finally warmed up enough to get outside and do some smelting. I ran out of bullet ingots after casting for my 45LC and now it's time to start casting for my wifes' 38 special loads. Hope to get out to the range this afternoon (when it warms up) and get in a little bit of practice. It was a long winter, sure is good to feel some warmth for a change.

[dpunch]

I loaded another 40 rounds for the 500 S&W. 440 Gr. Boolit with 34 gr. H110. I have been shooting this gun quite a bit. It has been shooting high so I need a higher front pin or send it back. Has anyone else had this problem with this gun?

[405]

Well, the last couple days have been snowy, cruddy weather so loaded a few at both ends of the spectrum :)
20 rounds 32-20, light loads, 100gr cast for the Colt SAA
40 rounds 416 Rem Mag, full Dugga Boy, 400gr Swift A and Solids for the Win 70

[Ugluk]

The kids and I loaded 393 9x19 for my new pistol. Well, I loaded and the kids squabbled over who would box them for me..

393 was the number of cu-plated rn 125grainers I had left in a drawer and didn't expect to use as I've got my other 9 on a boolits only diet.
Now they're going to feed my new Luger. New-to-me that is, the gun is three times as old as I am as it was manufactured in 1906..

That is so mind tickling. It may even have seen use in both world wars. The first one for sure.

It even has a .355 shiny bore and high sharp lands..[smilie=w:

[clintsfolly]

Loaded 20)45/70 (45) 458AccRel (50) 22hornets size&belled (50)457122 Sized. Then I made a mistake and started to size (200) 225348s OMG they tiny and the checks are smaller! Clint

[Silent]

100 .357 Magnum last night, I'll probably load 30-30 tonight.

[troyboy]

I loaded 200 38spcl for my new to me S&W M&P circa 1950.

[trixter]

I loaded 10 rounds of 300 Savage 110gr fmj over TAC, and 10 rounds 30-06 110 gr fmj over more TAC for the range tomorrow to see how I like them. Talking to my boolit caster to get some 150gr RN for the 30-06. Still negotiating.

[Floydster]

Loaded 50 rounds of 550 gr. SWC for my Nitro arms 600 Wheel gun, hope all goes well, this thing is a bear compared to my 440 mag.

[Jal5]

Loaded some test rounds-20- for the 9mm Mak using Lee 95gr 'RN boolits as cast from range scrap plus some tin. Tested the initial batch last weekend over Bullseye but didn't go to the max loading at that time. Will try these up to max loading on Saturday. No leading at all as cast too :)

Joe

[Doby45]

Loaded me up a gaggle of 9mm to shoot in my carbine this weekend.

[Harter66]

Just for fun ,its part of my job I like to be able to say 60,000 lbs of 8 inch howidzer,but alas it was just bullets in a few really big boxes.

[Beagler]

Load up 500 S/W 's for a co-worker who is going Lion Hunting and Plains Game hunting in Africa in three weeks. Sorry to say there not CB's there Sierra 400 Jacketed soft points. Sierra calls them soft point and I call them hard as rock. At 15 yards they penetrated 13 inches in to a piece of green elm on the wood pile and hardly did anything to bullet.

[Silent]

300 rounds of .357 Magnum. 358-125-RF MolyBee lubed.

[pistolman44]

Just finished doing a trigger job on this revolver. Got it down to 3 lbs. That's low enough for hunting. My target revolver is 1 1/2 lbs. Building another 1911 for a friend of mine, should have it done in a couple of days. Got some time in to reload a 100 44 mag 240gr LSWC gc to try this revolver out.

[captaint]

Since the weather got up to 80 yesterday, I burned a vacation day and had the Spring Smelt. Ended up with about 350 lbs of ingots. About half WW's and half softer lead, mostly pipe. Glad that's done. Next time I get a day I'll be pouring up a bunch of various 452's. enjoy Mike

[-06]

Nothing yesterday other than tumbling a couple hundred 223, just too tired after working till nearly 7. Just deprimed @500 223s and loaded 184 with 25.5 BLC-2 under 55 gn BTSP. Have 120 357s set out for tonight and about that many 9s. Tomorrow everything gets packed for the gathering.

[161]

1000 rnds Monday and a 1000 last night 40 S&W 180 Two Alpha boolit and WSF.

[AzCaesar]

Things have been a little crazy here, but I loaded the dishwasher. That count?

[EMC45]

I loaded 50 rounds of 158gr. Lee RNFP .38 Special over 3gr. Bullseye for my Dad (gave him a Taurus M85 Ultralite 2 weeks ago) yesterday. I lubed some 105 SWCs and sized them to .358 as well. Also loaded the dishwasher. All done yesterday of course.

[saz]

200 45ACP 230gr RN over 5grs Red Dot on my single stage press. Time for the Lee turret press.........

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

I am a total candyass! I had my thyroid worked on last Thursday morning, and all I have done since then is lay around and whine...

This morning I felt well enough to run the tumbler.
Ten minutes upright, and three hours on the couch.
So, I did accomplish something...

Rich

[AaronJ]

Today I made 50 338 Lapuas using Lapua brass 250gr Sierra MKs 83grs of IMR 4350 and a Winchester LRM primer for ignition. I also sized and lubed 22 of my new NOE 311365 boolits in my new hard lube for use in my 30 06s. I used one of them to make a dummy round for future referance the other 21 where loaded with either 13grs of red dot or 35grs of IMR 4064. The red dot load will be shot from a sporterized Smith Corona 1903A3 with a 2 groove barrel. The IMR load will be also shoot in the 03A3 before being tried in my International Harvester Garand.

[mustanggt]

This morning I loaded 20 30-06 with Hornady 168gr match for my M1 Garand, all while waiting for my wife so we could go to work. Then tonight I prepped some more as I have a match this weekend. So I don't make you guys queesy with all that copper stuff I loaded some RCBS 150KT for my S&W model 27 and some 314299 for my Krag within the past week.

[saz]

200 45ACP 230gr RN over 5grs Red Dot on my single stage press. Time for the Lee turret press.........

Oh yeah I forgot, de-capped, tumbled, re-sized, trimmed and primed about 600 .45ACP, 100 .44 Mags and 150 454 Casull's. That is a lot of priming in front of the TV with the handheld Lee primer!

[micky_blue]

Yesterday I replaced the Under Valve Cover Harness on a 7.3L Powerstroke. Today I get to do the passenger side.

Edit - If I get done in enough time I will hopefully have time to make several dozen ingots.

[bigjake]

Last week my son and I loaded 600 WW 124 gr 9mm's with bullseye. We use two rcbs press's and work as a team.

The cool thing is, In the garage, we have two 32" white oak logs that we test fire our handguns into. you have to keep the garage door shut though.
Those fresh cut oak logs are really dense, they easily stop 7.62x54r rounds.

[midnight]

Ashamed to say I didn't load any rounds yesterday. I did my taxes and paid the penalty for Obama's fake tax cut (withholding cut). But I did put roll pins in all my mold handles except for an old H&G which was already pinned.

Bob

[Bomberman]

Loaded up a couple of dozen of these 295 Grain HP to test out at the range:

http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l612/Bomberman461/Reloading/1146958039_photobucket_48994_.jpg

Should be fun to shoot in my 4 inch .44 magnum. :guntootsmiley:

[RobS]

200 45ACP 230gr RN over 5grs Red Dot on my single stage press. Time for the Lee turret press.........

Get the Classic Cast Turret, you won't regret it. Staying on topic, last night I loaded up 20 or so 200 grain sample boolits for the 45 auto that I received from a forum member.

[VenomBallistics]

550 rounds of 45 ACP 230 grain boolit over 6.3 grains of Unique
60 rounds 400 corbon 139 grain hollow point boolit over 6.7 grains Unique as a starter / forming load

[mongo]

300 rounds of .357 usinga 158gr Lee swc over 14.0gr of 2400, Then 300 more of the same using 6.0gr ww 231. Ran out of boolits so I will be casting more tomorrow. I just started casting last summer, I sure enjoy my new hobby, It became a lot easier with all the help from all the good folks here.

[Silent]

463 rounds of 9mm 356-125-2R last night and tonight I'll load up 300 .357 Magnums with 358-125-RF boolits :D

[lawboy]

Handful of 44 Special-level loads in 44 Magnum brass. 8.0grs Unique. Will shoot out of custom Bisley 44 Mag with 4-5/8 barrel.

[quasi]

575 44 mag's, 10.7 231, cci 300 primer, Lyman 429244 boolits

[Mossy Nugget]

No loading tiday, cleaned brass with a Harbor Freight ultrasonic jewelry cleaner until it broke. Trimmed 9mm luger down to make 9x18 Makarov until the Lee shell holder stripped out. (Sigh)

[Jal5]

Some 243 and 270 Win for load development using J-words. Still trying to get that 270 mold to drop without finning....arghhh!

[Harter66]

20 rounds of 7.62x39 with a 200 gr paper patched full spire point cast from 1-20 over 4350 ,5ea @ .5 steps.

[mustanggt]

Primed 200 pieces of IMI 30-06 brass and 50 of the Krag. Trimmed and deburred a bunch of cases this morning while waiting for my wife again to go to work.

[desteve811]

Reloaded big bag of 45 SWC's and a sandwich bag full of 45 HP's

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd410/desteve1981/18a2b48f.jpg

[Doby45]

I will be reloading a mess of 45 SWCs tonight as I just got my new Dillon 650 setup and ready to go. Might have to cast some more SWCs so I don't run out.

[405]

After promising myself to NOT buy any guns for a while I "fell off the wagon". :(
I spotted a REM 03-A3 4 groove all original, save an Ogden refurb. cartouche on the stock, slung over the shoulder of a fellow just before he walked into last weekend's gunshow. I started a conversation and to make a long story short purchased the Springfield on the spot. Loaded 10 rounds of Lym 314299(sized .310) over 5744 and dacron. Went to the range Monday to either find out the worst or best of what I had just done! Thank goodness [smilie=w:shot a .63" cluster at 50 yds....... while still feeling guilty about the moment of weakness, at least the thing does shoot!

[Sprue]

Hoorah to all the 38 spl guys out there. I didn't load any today, but for the last two days I spent about a day and a half making boolits( these two bangers are the pits). In all I got 471 boolits cast. Just thinking of the days ahead of us, along with the purchase of a 4 or 6 cav mold.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Loading 357 Mag today.
300 done...maybe 200 more yet this evening.

this morning was a lubsizing marathon...around 600 or so.
Jon

[badgeredd]

Loaded up some test cartridges for my 30 Badger. 1 grain Reddot under a 308241 for a quiet plinker. It is for sure...now to get some decent weather without stiff wind or rain or snow and I'll check out the grouping at 50 yards. THIS is FUN!!!!!!!!!! I am told by another forum member that 2000 fps should be very possible with the wildcat based on the 38 Special brass.

Edd

[David LaPell]

The last thing I loaded was a .38-44 load of a 170 grain Lyman # 358429 and 12.5 grains of 2400. Today I took out my new 125 grain SWC load from Lee and cast up about 100 bullets to break in the mould. A little later I will go down in the basement and lube up them up.

[Doby45]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/Doby45/e1e9a0e5.jpg

[jma1965]

30-40 Krag with 200 grn BOOLITS

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/jma2006_bucket/SDC10933.jpg

[mustanggt]

405, I hear you about going on the wagon for a while. Just not possible with all the guns out there that I want to get. Shooting the kind of groups you did with your 03A3 kind of salves the guilt a little. :-D I worked up some 2400 loads and 3031 for my 03A3. I shoot the same bullet and get the same results as you. Keep having fun with that 03A3 and get out there and buy more guns!!!:guntootsmiley:

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
Have not got to loading yet. Still sizing & lubing.:Fire::Fire:

[Von Gruff]

Cast up 250 x160gn 7mm in a new mix of 47 - 33 - 20 WW - Pb - Lino sized, GC with my al GC and nose sized then loaded 50 rounds over 17.2gn Blue Dot for 1900fps. Going to the range tomorrowand will take them and some 50/50 - 11.5gn red Dot @ 1500fps and some lino - 39gn H4350 @ 2415fps.

Von Gruff.

[ihmsakiwi]

well finally got the gorse out of my pocket and bought a new 4 ring gas burner for the BBQ gas bottle and melted down a large quantity of ingots whose origins are long forgotten.
I was getting sick of making up small batches of 40/40/10 mix for my IHMSA pistols. One brew does all.
I made 80 Gem ingots with about another 200 still to go. Then its on to the raw wheel weights that need smelting. Roll on Easter. Peter.

[10x]

100 rounds of 300 savage with the lee 120 grain cast bullet and 9 grains of Unique.
For my 90 year old Savage 99....