Echd
09-23-2014, 01:32 PM
First day off in about 10 days, so I head into the garage to do some reloading.
I decide to powdercoat some boolits, and pull my sprayer out of the box... only to find that the air valve is cracked right down the middle and it falls apart...
So, scratch that one. I decide to just handlube them and run them through a Lee die, since it was already on my press and I didn't want to fool with my Lyman 4500. I just wanted to make a handful of 405 gr .458s... maybe 30, tops.
All goes well, and it sure is putting out some pretty boolits. I'm patting myself on the back and thinking that it actually was pretty fun doing it by hand. I get done and reach for my .45-70 die box and what do I find in there?
My .459 sizer die. Turns out I just resized all my 405 grs to .452.
:violin:
Some day I'll really learn to "measure twice cut once"...
I decide to powdercoat some boolits, and pull my sprayer out of the box... only to find that the air valve is cracked right down the middle and it falls apart...
So, scratch that one. I decide to just handlube them and run them through a Lee die, since it was already on my press and I didn't want to fool with my Lyman 4500. I just wanted to make a handful of 405 gr .458s... maybe 30, tops.
All goes well, and it sure is putting out some pretty boolits. I'm patting myself on the back and thinking that it actually was pretty fun doing it by hand. I get done and reach for my .45-70 die box and what do I find in there?
My .459 sizer die. Turns out I just resized all my 405 grs to .452.
:violin:
Some day I'll really learn to "measure twice cut once"...