What did you do in the reloading room today?

[TXGunNut]

I was casting and then my LEE Casting pot died. Off to Midway to go buy another one. Only took 18 years for this one to die.

Replace it with an RCBS ProMelt, thank me later!

[TXGunNut]

Lubrisized NOE 312299's and 311041's for 30-06 and 30-40. Then loaded same. Then lubrisized NOE 379279 PB and loaded same for 38-55. Lots of head scratching and loading manual perusal and coffee drinking included. ;-) Cleaned a certain 30-06. Weather sucked most of the day here on my spot on the prairie today. Fog prevented a trip to the club so I may have to crank off a round out the back door to get my fresh-burned powder fix. Most of my property underwater at the moment, will have to fire that shot from a fixed action.

[Butchman205]

Cast a couple thou boolits from new to me Lyman 31141 and some 40 cals. Powder coating and sizing to be done hopefully this week.


-Butchman

[chrometip78]

Powder coated ~500 .453 200gr SWC today.

Got a basic casting setup for Christmas and been going to town since. Have to convince myself not to powder coat anymore until I test them out. I'm not doing anything new or edgy with my setup or loads but I still want to test them out before I powder coat everything I've made. Made 1,600pcs .452 200gr SWC, 450pcs .430 240gr SWC, and 600pcs .356 124gr FP since I've got into casting. Lot of fun so far, hope they shoot ok.

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[kmrra]

Tumble lubed and loaded up some 200g 44 bullets and tried them out , my first time tumble lubing , think im gona like that better than the lube-sizer, cleaned and moped shop, tumbled some brass, sorted some , I cant just leave the range and not pick up brass and going thru the trash. got brass coming out my ears. ordered a Lee Lead Hardness tester from Midway ,

[paraord]

Finally cracked open "Jacketed performance with cast bullets" by Veral Smith. Then I had a glass of Buffalo Trace. Some might say unproductive, I'd beg to differ.

[Charliemac]

Slugged a new revolver and ordered a new sizing die. When the new mold gets here I'll be in business.

[Harter66]

I've got the press mounted version for #11 caps. What do you use for priming compound?

At this point I will use paper caps and a "dash" of BP.

[Reverend Al]

Put a batch of dirty brass in the ss pin tumbler and put some sized .30-30 brass in the media tumbler to clean off the sizing lube. I'll deal with both of them when I go back down to the shop tomorrow ...

[chrometip78]

Finally cracked open "Jacketed performance with cast bullets" by Veral Smith. Then I had a glass of Buffalo Trace. Some might say unproductive, I'd beg to differ.
Definitely more productive than my day of tightening up my boolit cooking basket. I completely forgot the whiskey...

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[Budzilla 19]

Cast 600 .45 /200 grain RNFP for some .45 Colt loads! Boy, do I love the Lee 6 cavity molds, they just rain the boolits out of them, when up to speed! Cleaned it first as it was brand new, put it on the hot plate,when it was up to temp I then went to work using 50/50 WW/Pure lead, with 2% SN,absolutely beautiful boolits!! And didn't take long either! Going to PC them, size them, and off to the loading press!

[Texas by God]

I took pics of the 30-30 Spanish Mauser project and did powder inventory- I need some 4895 and some H110/W296 and some FFFG. That last one is aggravating to get hereabouts. God bless you all. Best, Thomas.

[trixter]

Worked on my computer, reconciled the bank account, and tried to go back to bed. Alas I had to appear at the work place. With all this bad weather, I might get off early Hope Hope.

[Taterhead]

I spent time setting up dedicated expander dies for 10mm and 40 SW. I setup two separate dies for each. One with an M expander properly dimensioned for jacketed bullets. The other has Cowboy M expanders that have a larger shank radius for my cast boolits. 4 expander dies total for the 2 cartridges.

Die settings are preserved with set screws so I just need to install the correct expander die into the die plate for jacketed bullets or cast boolits, as the occasion calls for.

[Charles Ellis]

Loaded 5 different test loads for my 30-30 using red dot and Lyman 311359 bullets.

[kmrra]

I recived my Lee Lead Hardness Tester in the mail today , and im in the process of retrofitting it to a child's microscope that I bought on eBay for 6 bux and some change, with shipping it came to about 17 bux it even came with the original wooden box ..... This is what I have got done so far

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Took the glass out of the original lenses and drilled out the hole to fit the Lee scope
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Used the dremil tool to do fitting to the eye piece
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Drilled out and ground down the original 3 position lower do-hickie
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assembled the scope top and lower pieces back in their original locations
Im not finished quite yet I still have to mount a small light and make a jig to hold an ingot or a bullet with adjustments , so far its taken about an hour of work to get this far , might take a little longer on the adjustable ingot or bullet holder. will post Picture of the outcome when I get that far.
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Kinda hard to take a picture with a cell phone holding it over a small object a the eye piece , , but looking thru it is no problem .

So far that is what I did in the gun room today.

[chrometip78]

Used up the last of my ready to go ingots to make ~250 452-200gr SWC.

Probably have 25lbs of scrap to melt down into ingots but I think I'll do some loading first. Lot of wet weather here right now.

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[Reverend Al]

Took a batch of mixed brass (.308, .30-30, .303 Brit) out of the ss pin tumbler, rinsed them off, and put them into the dehydrator for drying. Sorted out a big batch of mixed .38 Specials and .357 Mags that were cleaned previously. Emptied the vibratory tumbler of a bunch of .30-30's that I put in there to clean the sizing lube off. Started up another big batch of .223's in the ss pin tumbler as I went out the reloading shop door. Tomorrow is another day ...

(PS: Just waiting on the arrival in the mail of a Forster power drill press trimmer that I bought from a friend. Should really speed up the process of trimming this mountain of brass that I've been cleaning, annealing, and sizing for the past few months ...)

:bigsmyl2:

[Reverend Al]

Took the mixed brass (.308, .303, .30-30's) out of the dehydrator, emptied the .223 brass out of the tumbler and put it into the dehydrator, sorted out some mixed .38 and .357 brass. Got my "new to me" Forster drill press trimmer in today's mail so now I need to set it up and try it out!

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[Sean357]

Loaded up 18 45 Colt rounds with 454424 over 5.2 gr 700x, my first cast loads. Only had that many brass prepped or would have done more. Then went and shot em in the Blackhawk. Accurate out to 25 yards when I'm doing things right. Definitely need more practice.

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[mwells72774]

Made a new pin for ideal 429 HP mold and cast some of those

[3jimbo3]

Came home from work to find my order of 223's from Monmouth came today..... so I loaded some of those with CFE223. First time trying this powder.

I had received earlier some powder from Smoke so I coated about 20 or so 9mm's. I'm still trying to perfect this powder coating craft.

Then just cleaned up the bench a little.


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What if you woke up this morning with only the things you thank God for yesterday?

[Loudy13]

Made about 500 .30 cal GC's with my new Freechex III, going to make some more today!

[Texas by God]

Reassembled my Heritage .22 revolver after some custom work. Loaded 5 test rounds with the Lee 150gr in the .300 Blk ( seated longer & LFC'd) they passed the test. Best , Thomas.

[TexasGrunt]

Busy day for me. Burned through almost 50 lbs of lead.

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Those little Bator boolits are a kick to cast after you've been doing those big slabs.

[kayala]

Did prep on the 223 cases I've hauled last time from my indoor range.
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Using 550 instead of more capable brother (650) because I really like imperial lube for resizing.

[Caster1977]

100 rounds of .45 Colt, 250 grain Meister RNFP on top of 5.6 grains of Titegroup with a CCI300 to make it all go bang!


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[kmrra]

Not what I wanted to, wife had other plans

[Reverend Al]

Took the new Forster drill press powered case trimmer for a test drive today and I love it! Quick and easy method to trim a large volume of cases once you get the feel for it. (I was trimming a case about every 4 to 5 seconds once I got a system figured out.) Now I need to cobble up some sort of powered deburing tool since it took much longer to clean up the case mouths afterwards than it took to trim them ...

[trixter]

I had put away my press, thought I had enough ammo loaded up for the upcoming shooting season. I had used the bench for some gun repairs, but finished that. and the bench was just sitting there, naked. So I re-mounted the press and started loading up 45ACP. I am so addicted. I did pry myself away to go shoot 100 9mm, and 100 45ACP at the indoor range. There were 3 nice ladies shooting there with me and they donated all of their brass, so now I have 'stuff' to do. Very nice day

[Bob in St. Louis]

Not what I wanted to, wife had other plans
I must have married her sister.
....and on my Birthday weekend, no less. :(

[Harter66]

Just a few rules for me no work and no plans on our birthdays that don't involve dinner , family and friends .

I've done zip for months .......

[trixter]

A short day at work, home by 2:00. I got 50 more 45ACP with 200gr hex hollow point done. These I am going very slowly and getting them perfect.

[rancher1913]

worked on melting down wheel weights to try and put a dent in the "to melt" pile just as I was getting done a buddy showed up wanting some feed wheat, he left with a barrel full and left me 100 pounds of radiation shielding lead, but its in big pieces so I will need to remelt and make usable ingots.

[mwells72774]

Cut down some split neck 308/243 and made some 45 win mag but need to figure out how to team the neck so it's not too thick

[Boolseye]

I've been unhappy with my reloading bench location, so I moved it to a secluded spot under the stairs. Got right to work on some 9mm and .357 SIG using the NOE 358-155 ELKO HPs over some 231 and 800x. Most recent casting session was with my Lee melter and a couple double-cavs, rejects back in the pot.

[kmrra]

ordered a 45cal 2 cavity mold, sizer and a couple other nic-knacks

[Doggonekid]

Casted 20 LBS of .41 SWC and 20 LBS of .475 WFN. PC 400 .475. Sized and lubes around 200 .50 RNHP. Posted on this thread again and went to bed.

[Spruce]

Deprimmed, pin tumbled and sorted 1000 45acp. brass.

[NavyVet1959]

Cut down some split neck 308/243 and made some 45 win mag but need to figure out how to team the neck so it's not too thick

Well, you've been looking for an excuse to buy a lathe anyway, right? :)

Seriously though... If you don't have a lathe and only have a drill / drill press, you might be able to find a reamer / tapered reamer in the right size that you make work. Maybe something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/06-000-450-High-Speed-Steel-Special-Decimal-Size-Chucking-Reamers-Diameter-0-/390971432083?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

[enloe]

Tumbled a bunch of 45 A.C.P. brass

[paraord]

Well over the weekend I tumbled a good 500-600 cases of 44 mag. Then yesterday I got my 358242 125G 4 cavity in the mail, along with the handles I ordered. 1st 4 cavity, so Ill be trying it out today and really running the PID controller I built on the ol lee 4-20.

[mwells72774]

Well, you've been looking for an excuse to buy a lathe anyway, right? :)

Seriously though... If you don't have a lathe and only have a drill / drill press, you might be able to find a reamer / tapered reamer in the right size that you make work. Maybe something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/06-000-450-High-Speed-Steel-Special-Decimal-Size-Chucking-Reamers-Diameter-0-/390971432083?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

Lucky for me the gun shop that I work in is connected to a machine shop so I've got access to the lathe. I may just make myself a reamer. It just depends which is the most cost-effective method

[murf205]

I swore at a Lee 240gr GC 44 mold that makes me declare that I'm going to have Tom @ Accurate make me a #255N, every time I use it. I think it's time to do just that!

[Discipulus Plumbum]

I finished loading my first "soup to nuts" 100 rounds of BPCR Silhouette .40-65 Win. Previously had my shooting partner casting and lubesizing for me. These are my first cast boolits, sized/lubed and loaded into new Starline brass. I've come to the conclusion that loading and shooting BPCR is a combined art & science with pixie dust sprinkled on it.

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[mold maker]

Finally finished the deprime and swaging to the primer pockets of 2700 pieces of 5.56 nato brass. The first tumbler is full is dry and the second is running now.
Looks like it's lunch and Ben Gay for this evening. 5400 pulls on the tools left me aching.

[Jal5]

Finished inspecting about 350 pcs 223 brass that are now ready to reload and poured about 10# of 358125RNF for my 9mm.

[robg]

Sized ,cleaned ,expanded and primed 76 x357 cases .would have been 80 but 4 had splits in the neck.now I must prep a load of 223 brass that I've put off for weeks,maybe tomorrow.

[Boolseye]

I finished loading my first "soup to nuts" 100 rounds of BPCR Silhouette .40-65 Win.
lookin' good

[NavyVet1959]

Lucky for me the gun shop that I work in is connected to a machine shop so I've got access to the lathe. I may just make myself a reamer. It just depends which is the most cost-effective method

I don't see many gun shops these days that actually do machining. Most who call themselves "gunsmiths" these days simply just bolt on commercial parts using existing attachment points. Hell, they don't even drill and tap for scope mounts -- something that was very common when I was younger.

[taco650]

I swore at a Lee 240gr GC 44 mold that makes me declare that I'm going to have Tom @ Accurate make me a #255N, every time I use it. I think it's time to do just that!

I have a Lee 358-158 GC that I think the same thing about! HATE THAT MOLD but still have it..

I also have the same one you're complaining about and it works great for me and the bullets I've cast with it shoot well in my DW.

[mwells72774]

I don't see many gun shops these days that actually do machining. Most who call themselves "gunsmiths" these days simply just bolt on commercial parts using existing attachment points. Hell, they don't even drill and tap for scope mounts -- something that was very common when I was younger.

We made sure to get the correct mfg FFL just for that reason. There's been several parts that were impossible to find so we just made them. Uncle has been a machinist for 30+ years so there's little he can't make. Gives us a bit of an advantage.

[Loudy13]

Sized about 150 308 cases and trimmed about half of them.

[DanishM1Garand]

My harbor freight vibratory tumbler had the 1/4 inch rod strip. Spent an hour or two replacing it. Now to get to work on the .45 ACP brass I just bought.

[Harter66]

I made dummies and turned the OD down until they plunked in the cylinder chambered . High tech drill press , fine file , 320 wet n dry . Pull load and fire form .

[enloe]

Well I didn't do anything in the reloading room yet. I did empty some 44 Mag Brass and some 454 Casull brass at the range so maybe this evening I will get to reload some more ammo

[NavyVet1959]

Took a lot of measurements of Dillon Powder Funnels so that I can make one on my mini lathe with a "M" type step on it.

[labradigger1]

Formed about 90 pcs of 218 bee from 32/20 and 25/20

[Harter66]

Bought a pre-owned 313226 2C Lyman for some flyweight plinkers in several rifles . Opened a box of new AR 6.8 mags ......... discovered an equal number 223/556 mags I had put away ......And forgotten . I hope I don't have a bunch of those loaded in a can someplace and all those new ones too .
I've decided that it is time to buy the memorandum books for each gun vs the log pages from the manuals by caliber .

[brassrat]

Today !00 rds of 30/30 with $13/100 GC boolets and Herco. No hunting, just steel and my Williams ghost ring sights.:-)

[Butchman205]

Loaded up a 200 30/30 with my new to me 31141 Lyman's on top of Leverevolution powder. Hopefully they'll shoot as well as the 150 Barnes hollow points and Leverevolution in my '67 336.


-Butchman

[Reverend Al]

Haven't gone to poke around at the Government surplus sales outlet in a while so I dropped by today. I got 14 large and small Akrobins for $10. Good timing ... I needed some more bins for brass and boolits!

[pka45]

I worked on my 380 pest/cat sneeze loads. Found the minimum amount of Titewad that will cycle my P238 with 95 gr Lee and grits as case filler: 1.6 gr. Shoots pretty close to the sights, is hearing safer for field use, and fully penetrates a 5/4 deck board. Next test will be trying the same with a 125 gr.

[kmrra]

Boxed up a new lee mold to return for warranty, Mold face and under sprue plate did not have any vent lines , appeared to have not been finished , as I have bought 6 different molds since right before Christmas and this one didn't look the same. was a 120g 9mm TC

[laveritt]

I measured the seating depth for a 30BR and sized cases. Need to tidy up my reloading bench, as usual.

[flyingmonkey35]

Cast and powder coated. 500 ish lee .225 55gr / 250 mp mold 9mm and 300 lee 45 acp.


My first at 223.

Should i gas check or not?

Ar 15. Standard velocity? For 55gr.

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[Harter66]

Cast and powder coated. 500 ish lee .225 55gr / 250 mp mold 9mm and 300 lee 45 acp.


My first at 223.

Should i gas check or not?

Ar 15. Standard velocity? For 55gr.

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Yep gas checks .


I got to shoot the 45 Raptor today . That is going to be a grand thumper from pop gun to full throttle . Good grief do the 230s get to the back stop in a hurry .

[Bob in St. Louis]

Wife is "making me" paint a room.
So I went to the local farm and home store to buy the paint color she wanted.
I came home with paint. I also got a Stihl chainsaw (with extra chain, of course), a bag of Winchester wads, a bag of CB wads, a jug of 700-x powder, a Lodge cast iron skillet for smelting lead, and various odds and ends the shop needed to "restock".
In all, I spent $372 dollars. Overall, the reloading room had a good day, despite not actually performing any work in it.
That'll teach her to send me for paint.

Oh... I also got a paint roller too.

[chrometip78]

Cast and powder coated. 500 ish lee .225 55gr / 250 mp mold 9mm and 300 lee 45 acp.


My first at 223.

Should i gas check or not?

Ar 15. Standard velocity? For 55gr.

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Very curious to hear how those lee 55gr boolits perform. I want to do the same but at lower ~2400fps-ish.

Wife is "making me" paint a room.
So I went to the local farm and home store to buy the paint color she wanted.
I came home with paint. I also got a Stihl chainsaw (with extra chain, of course), a bag of Winchester wads, a bag of CB wads, a jug of 700-x powder, a Lodge cast iron skillet for smelting lead, and various odds and ends the shop needed to "restock".
In all, I spent $372 dollars. Overall, the reloading room had a good day, despite not actually performing any work in it.
That'll teach her to send me for paint.

Oh... I also got a paint roller too.
How the heck did you get all that for 372?! I'd be happy to get the chainsaw alone for that.

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[Bob in St. Louis]

How the heck did you get all that for 372?! I'd be happy to get the chainsaw alone for that.

The Stihl MS170 was $180, the chain was $21?
Powder was $18, wads were something like $22?
The paint was $35 for a gallon. The Lodge skillet was $12.
A bunch went into "stuff" that added up.
Heck... I got a great deal. I'll shoot a pic of the receipt just to "show off", if ya want! haha!!!!

[Harter66]

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Just fooling around .

[mwells72774]

What are those?

[Harter66]

308 with a Cramer 30 cal 150 gr
358 with a 358 XCB 360-228 NOE
45 Raptor with a Mountain Moulds 454-350 custom

The Raptor is in a Rhineland arms bbl on 95 Mauser , it's a rimless twin of the 460 S&W . I've elected to presue fast rifle powders over the traditional H110 in the mag , I've got a 16" closed breach I may as well use it .

[taco650]

308 with a Cramer 30 cal 150 gr
358 with a 358 XCB 360-228 NOE
45 Raptor with a Mountain Moulds 454-350 custom

The Raptor is in a Rhineland arms bbl on 95 Mauser , it's a rimless twin of the 460 S&W . I've elected to presue fast rifle powders over the traditional H110 in the mag , I've got a 16" closed breach I may as well use it .

"rimless twin of the 460 S&W". Is made from a 308 blown out to straight wall and trimmed to length? Where does it headspace... the case mouth?

[Harter66]

"rimless twin of the 460 S&W". Is made from a 308 blown out to straight wall and trimmed to length? Where does it headspace... the case mouth?

Yes , for my platform it is a soft hs as there is next to no slack in the Mauser extractor . I think the AR 10 it is intended for relies exclusively on the case mouth and "fat" brass .

[robg]

Sized trimed expanded and primed 15 x308 win brass that a non reloading member left on the range,I was only playing with my 1022 so that was a good result.

[kmrra]

Thinking it time to do a little cleaning , getting ready to do some renovating , and expanding the shop, right now my loading room is a divided room and I am moving my wife out of her half and im going to have a dedicated casting and repair side now , I have out grown my side long ago , but since I got back into casting I really need the room now , cause im putting up a vent-a-hood and a place for an oven for powder coating , and sizing station .

[Reverend Al]

I put together 20 sample rounds of .270 Winchester (WW cases with 130 grain Hornady spitzers seated over IMR7828) to test fire in a friend's Tikka T3 rifle, and then I loaded 50 rounds of .300 Blackout (150 grain bulk WW soft points over IMR4227 in converted WW commercial cases) for myself. I just got a replacement pre-64 Winchester steel buttplate and mounting screws in the mail today and I fitted them onto a 1958 vintage 94 in .30-30 that I bought a few months back. It was the right price since it had a recoil pad very poorly fitted and the original plate and screws were missing. (Other than that it was all original and in very nice condition.) I trashed the junk recoil pad and re-installed the proper period used buttplate since the stock hadn't been altered when the recoil pad was installed. (The pad was trash since they tried to bend it to match the factory curve of the stock and broke the back of the pad.) I loaded a few 173 grain gc'd boolits over some IMR4198 to test fire in it, but I also have a few factory loaded .30-30's to try in it as well just for comparison. My friend and I are meeting up at the range tomorrow for a shooting day so I'll take along a few more rifles and we'll wring them all out and have some fun!

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[Tenbender]

40 lb's 358495, 163 gr. wadcutters.186867

[Plate plinker]

Cast some boolits.

[Spruce]

Lube-sized a couple hundred 158s on the lubeamatic.

[bstone5]

Started cleaning and working on 7mm Mag brass that has been seating around 20 years.
Brass was used in a 1000 yard prone rifle I shot some years back. The rifle was converted to a 7mm STW with a new barrel and a new stock for deer hunting.
The brass about 400 cases is in very good condition, after cleaning may sell the brass.
Do not have a rifle for this brass at the present time.

[Nanook]

I was having an issue with the primer feed on one of my presses. I fixed that and then loaded around 85 rounds of 230 LRN. When the weather breaks a bit, I'll shoot them. I need to function test an AR build I did lately, too.

I don't go shooting when it's under 20 if I can avoid it. I've done it, which is why I now avoid it. Saturday is supposed to be in the 30's.

I also made some labels for the box lids in Excel. They work well, and are easily changed.

[zubrato]

40 lb's 358495, 163 gr. wadcutters.186867

Beautiful!

Makes me want to cast up a bunch more wadcutters. I love looking at a huge pile of fresh boolits in that fleeting moment where I forget I'm the one lubing/sizing. Lol


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[OeldeWolf]

I fixed the throttle shaft linkage on the carburetor of my F-150. The little tab where the idle adjusting screw contacts , broke off. Welding and brazing failed, so I created a part from an L bracket, and drilled and tapped things. Used locktite, so it should be good for a while. I am going to have to replace the Motocraft carburetor with the Holly, as floats for the Motocraft are unavailable. Next project is making a reloading bench with actual drawers, to replace the 4x4 frame my reloading benchtop rests on.

[kmrra]

I got my order in from Midway today , I got me one of those small 35 dollar Lee Presses, and mounted it for a dedicated bullet sizing press , That little press is well worth the money. I may get a couple more just for the heck of it , might need it some day LOL., Also got in a couple more molds in , so I have seven now so im ready to get after some casting .

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[dragon813gt]

Troubleshot electrical issues. Thought the breaker panel in the detached garage(loading room)finally gave out. It's severely corroded and I've been intentionally ignoring it hoping it would keep working. Discovered the actual service is done. Wire is direct buried and is from 1984. 70v on one leg, 15v on the other. Now I have a ton of electrical work to do. The previous owner did not know how to do anything correctly but literally touched everything. Everything from the meter forward needs to be replaced. Panel in my house doesn't meet code so that needs to be corrected. I hate when this stuff happens. Especially because I have to drill holes through a 3' thick stone wall and dig a trench out to the garage.

[rodsvet]

Spent the day de-Glocking, sizing, and depriming 5500 .40 S&W FBI once fired brass. Tomorrow they will get a wet pin polish and wax and be put away for the next reloading session.

[wyofool]

Why do I torture myself.
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i don't even have a 9mm. As part of another deal I got the pictured gal. jar 1/3 full of 9mm all with bullets, 415 of them. The pile of brass next to the bullets have primers with about half bottom side up. The other about 200 had no primers. My friend and neighbor loads nines so I gave them all to him. Pushed the 100 and something bottom up primers out and will load them in something later.

[whisler]

Oeldewolf: check your PM's.

[adcoch1]

Went out to size up some 30-06 from the gun show, frozen lube in the sizing die caused the 4th case to stick. Shoud have had the heater going out there since we've been flirting with freezing temps. Got the rim ripped off the case too. My very first stuck case! Thawed out the die, got the case out, broke the decapper end on the pin in the process. So I set up my new universal decapper die and swapped out the expander in the 30-06 with my 308 pin and finished up the 100 rnds by using two steps instead of one. Gonna go back out after dinner to pull those 100 cases out of the tumbler and trim them up...

[Reverend Al]

Did a HUGE clean up in the reloading room today. I can actually move around in there the best since it was first built! (But that probably won't last for too long I suspect ...)

[bullseye67]

Good evening, just finished up, putting away a bunch of TL'd 158gr. swc. Swabbed out the bore of the rifle and revolver with ED'S RED, I was shooting today at the range. It will make tomorrows clean up a breeze.

[Sean357]

Unloaded 40 lbs of wheel weight corn figurines.

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[triggerhappy243]

smelted 300 pounds of indoor range scrap into 20 pound ingots and small coupons to have bhn test them.

[Tenbender]

I got my order in from Midway today , I got me one of those small 35 dollar Lee Presses, and mounted it for a dedicated bullet sizing press , That little press is well worth the money. I may get a couple more just for the heck of it , might need it some day LOL., Also got in a couple more molds in , so I have seven now so im ready to get after some casting .

187070

I have 2 of those. Bought them when they were $15.00. I use one for a boolit seater and the other for the crimp.

[Harter66]

I went and emptied 20 45 Raptors in the 95 Mauser ......... That was plenty .
H322 , 454 350 RNFP Mountain Moulds custom , 1700fps and a load window to explore around 35 kpsi . Seated 2.3 OAL .
The rifle is maybe 5.5 lbs , I may have to rethink hurling VWs and drop back to a paper patched 257gr 429421 at .448 or the 452-255 @265 .

So the plan today is to load another set of work ups in the load window and lock the sight mount down . I gotta take the 454 dia down to 453 and lube both grooves .

[paraord]

Well I ordered an rcbs turret press and case activated powder linkage kit from Amazon but it has a 2-5 week backorder. So I checked midway, lo and behold they had it in stock and the same price for the press and 15 bucks cheaper for the powder linkage kit. Had to pay 15 bucks in shipping but didnt have to pay tax so all in all I saved like 20 bucks and will have it by the end of the week!

[Strtspdlx]

I actually did this a week or two ago. I converted a damaged/misaligned Lee 452-200 mold to flat base and tried to fix the alignment issue. So far they look pretty good.

[Texas by God]

Loaded 50 .300 Blackout with the 309150fp Lee and LilGun. Now I'm loading .358 Win with the RCBS 200gr fp and IMR3031. I'm using a Lee 9mm Luger PTE die adjusted just so to bell the .358s a tad. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Works beautifully. I'll probably play outside some more since Dallas isn't in Houston today. Best, Thomas.

[Reverend Al]

Finally moved all of my lead and smelting gear into my dedicated reloading shop from the old storage room. Soft lead, raw COWW, COWW ingots, lino, 55 lbs of pewter, several containers full of scrap lead, etc. When the weather improves I need to do a rather large smelting / alloying day!

[flyingmonkey35]

Cast sized some 230 grain rou d nose. Lubbed a few for some black powder loads.

Going to pc the rest with a chrome powder coat. For show loads.

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[dougader]

I loaded up my 41 Spl brass with 231, and the 41 mag brass with Blue Dot. Used some Rainier plated bullets to start. Had some 255 gr WFN bullets but they're sized too big to fit through the cylinder throats on the FA 97 in 41 mag.

[Dave18]

gawked around at all that needed to be done, put away, ect, said heck with it,

and got out the new hand press(Buchanan) and played with that, sizing out some 44s and 357s,

[Bob in St. Louis]

I straightened mine up!

[Michael J. Spangler]

Loaded 50 each 300 blackout with NOE 311365 and 11 grains of W296. Should be about 1300 fps.
Wonder if they will cycle the gun.

[zubrato]

Loaded up about 50 slugs. Lyman 525 on top of a 20ga nitro card in waa12f114 wads, AA hulls and 29gr Longshot.

Loove those slugs.


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[nhyrum]

Didn't cast ,today(smelted about 20 pounds ww yesterday)

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But I did do this today. All on a single stage. No progressive for this guy

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[flyingmonkey35]

Didn't cast ,today(smelted about 20 pounds ww yesterday)

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But I did do this today

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[robg]

Sized trimmed cleaned expanded and primed 40 308 cases.20 once fired as the guy doesn't reload, bonus ppu brass .must load a few up with 160grrngc boolits for next week .

[nhyrum]

Perdy

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[paraord]

So on lunch as usual I fire up the ol pot and was casting some 358242's. I noticed a slow moving stink bug climbing around my pile of sprue's and rejects but didnt think anything of it.

Boolits get made, pot lessens, dump sprues back in....sweet mother of all that is holy what is that smell?

Yep. Stink bug at 715 degrees. Dont be like me, dont alloy in stink bugs.

[1988-4551]

So on lunch as usual I fire up the ol pot and was casting some 358242's. I noticed a slow moving stink bug climbing around my pile of sprue's and rejects but didnt think anything of it.

Boolits get made, pot lessens, dump sprues back in....sweet mother of all that is holy what is that smell?

Yep. Stink bug at 715 degrees. Dont be like me, dont alloy in stink bugs.

Ouch never done that before.

[Bob in St. Louis]

I've heard of using bacon as an alloy (for shooting muslims), but never heard of using insects.

[GONRA]

GONRA just finished 500 rds, 7.62x25 mm Tokarev Pistol TRACER load using new Starline *---* cases
(shot in a Czech M52 pistol with heavier recoil spring):
Surplus (got 'em in 1990's?) ORANGE tip 98-99 grain US Carbine TRACER bullet pulls.
Cartridge 1.370 inch OAL, 6.0 grains 800 X powder, Win WSP primer.
Pleasantly surprised to see all these all function/light up/trace Just Fine.

[woodbutcher]

:D Hi paraord.Did that clear out you nasal passages?Had one fall out of the rafters in my Dads garage one time.30 min evack.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Michael J. Spangler]

Converted more 223 brass to 300 blackout.
Such a cool cartridge.
Hoping to cast some more 311365 this weekend. Now that I'm loading blackout the 2 cavity mold is mighty slow. Lol

[Reverend Al]

Finally did a "test drive" on some candy apple red powder coat that I got from "Powder by the Pound" on some 200 grain SWC .45 ACP's. Neat stuff ... I'll have to try the candy apple purple next ...

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[Tenbender]

187564
1000 , 358495's and 600 or so 360-180 WFN. Stocking up for spring.

[Shiloh]

8x57 Mauser.

Shiloh

[dougader]

480 Ruger, 41 Special and 41 mag.

Look at that little 45 Colt stuck in there next to some 480 Ruger...

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[flyingmonkey35]

Was the rso for some varisty scouts at my range this evening

Let them shoot my 45 colt. 250 grn lubbed round nose over 30 grns of fff black powder.

Real cowboy loads.


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[Reverend Al]

Today I coated about 7 trays of 240 grain SWC .44's and a handful of 405 grain HP Lee .45-70's with the orange / bronze powder I've been trying out. Getting the gist of this powder coating thing and I'm happy with the results so far. I have about 2 more days worth of raw cast boolits that I can coat and then it'll be time for a "size-a-thon"!

:-D

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[Patrick L]

Ha! Snow Day!!!! Teachers love them more than the kids!
So I think I'll sleep late. Nope, too excited. I get up, feed the dog, make coffee, and head downstairs. So far (as of 10 am) I have

loaded 300 rds of .223 cast for this summer's Highpower season
changed out the pressure washer on one of my Ideal 45 sizers (still waiting for a washer for the other one)
resized about 150 20 ga hulls
set up my 20 ga loader

Just about to head back down and start loading little yellow boolits!

Oh yeah, I guess I'll eventually go out and shovel.

[kmrra]

Love that color , what powder is that and color

[kmrra]

smelted 54 # of lead that a friend found while metal detecting
187675

[Golfswithwolves]

Cast some bullets with a new-to-me Lyman 452423 single cavity mold. I'd had trouble with rejects from this mold the first time I used it and decided to try ladle pouring this time. Voila, the bullets were beauties! I don't have any idea why this happened, but now I have found out that sometimes bottom pouring works great and sometimes it is ladle pouring that is the ticket.

[RoadBike]

Loaded 200 rounds of 9mm, 115gr practice rounds for my daughter.

Polished another couple of hundred 9mm cases.

Primed another 100 cases.

[bjordan]

I cast a few 545 grain .45-90 RNFP bullets and also a few 525 grain RN .45-90 bullets. The RNs are from a new to me mold that Santa bought for himself on ebay for Christmas. My rolling block in .45-90 likes heavy bullets.

I polished a box of .284 Winchester brass for my cousin and will hold on to them until he needs them loaded again for hunting.

And then late this afternoon, I started looking at a MEC 650 that I was given in the late 90s and never liked loading on it. But, after watching a few you tube videos, it seems there is a simple series of adjustment to keep the reloader from dumping powder and shot all over the place if you don't have a hull under the drop stations. Who knew?! Back before youtube I had no idea and just thought that's how it worked, so I didn't touch it and stuck with my MEC 600s. I feel like an idiot. :-)[smilie=b:

[The Dar]

I'm new to casting, been at it for a few weeks. My Midway order arrived yesterday with a Lee 2 cavity TL-430-240-SWC. I cast almost 300 of them this afternoon.

187735

I loaded up 2 dummy rounds and it looks like I won't have to resize them for my 6" S&W model 29. The picture was taken before I culled the bad ones, I wound up with about 40 that will go back in the pot.

[kmrra]

Mixed some alloy and tryed out my New Lyman digital Thermometer
187737

[flyingmonkey35]

Picked up a old lyman true-line jr. With 30/30 dies and powder measure.

Going to deep clean and lube it up.

Should i order some lyman orange powder coat????

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[kmrra]

you got a dandy there

[WJP]

Organized some more like every time I walk in there. Labeled all my new brass, tumbled some more, then said there's always tomorrow and if not someone will have fun digging through it at my estate sale.

[ARKLITE881South]

Oh boy, where do i start? Yesterday, started cleaning off the loading bench, finally found it about 3 hrs later. Its still not cleaned off though. Then, i started resizing .223 brass, moved on to trimming, and doing the primer pockets. Took a little break, went back to the bench again, moved a bunch of brass, no a lot of brass to some shelving next too it. Then, some bullets on the shelving as well. Back to the .223 brass, this yesterday. I just about have the loading area 3/4ths cleaned off. Went back to the .223 stuff again, didn't stop till 4:30 AM, this morning, ! Yup, stayed up most the night. Went to bed about 4:45, got back up again around 6:30, i know, weird hours, but, it works for me. Started back out to the loading area, cleaned up the mess in the middle of the floor, and took it to the trash can, no primers, no loaded ammo, just papers, boxes, things i thought were important that actually was not. Got the bench pretty cleaned up, put up a 4 ft light above the bench, i have 2 other 4 footers, but, this is right above me now. Did more .223 brass, grandson came over, he's 7, he picked up some little stuff for me. Then, finally settled down and ate dinner. LONG< LONG Day, but, by my choice. I love retirement :D ''the only way to go''.


I"m 69 and the way to do all this is to pace yourself, don't make it a job, make it fun, when it starts being a job, i walk away from it for a while, then, come back and its fun again.

[flyingmonkey35]

Organized some more like every time I walk in there. Labeled all my new brass, tumbled some more, then said there's always tomorrow and if not someone will have fun digging through it at my estate sale.
How long dose it take you to label reach new pics of brass???? [emoji12]

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[kmrra]

Today im clearing my wifes belongings out of the other half of my building , its a divided building and im taking over the whole thing , I out grew my side long ago , but when I went back into casting and lead hording , I needed the room, and the wife is happy cause her hobbies will now be in the house, in a spare bedroom , new benches going in and building cabinets with a vent-a-hood plus I will have room for 3 or more other presses that I have bought in anticipation of doing this .

[DannyW]

Hand primed 2,000 9mm. Working on 2,500-.223 now.

[chrometip78]

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[Reverend Al]

Love that color , what powder is that and color

I wish I knew! I bought a bunch of cheap powder on eBay from a contractor who was doing large pc contracts and then he was selling off his leftover surplus powders for $5 to $6 per pound on eBay. I bought about 12 pounds from him in several different colours. I started out with 4 pounds of this orange and haven't really used very much of it yet, so it will last quite a long time. I did a few thousand more of the 200 grain SWC .45 ACP's yesterday so the pile is growing larger and larger, but I have a "few" left to coat yet! (There is another full wooden crate of raw cast bullets under this one waiting to be coated ...)

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[Reverend Al]

By the way, did I mention that I REALLY like to shoot my Colt series 70 Government and my JR Carbine in .45 ACP?

:bigsmyl2:

[DanishM1Garand]

I cast several hundred 9mm 147 grain boolits. Gonna try powder coating them.

I needed a mold for 9mm and bought it heavy in anticipation of the Hearing Protection Act passing.

ETA: loaded the remaining .38 special brass.....one case. Found it in the garage. Last month I had a marathon session of .38 loading. I loaded 500 rounds till I ran out of brass. It bugged me just sitting there.

[Bob in St. Louis]

Speaking of PCing bullets....
Noob question:
How much does PCing add to the width of these?
I mention this thread to a couple guys at work (both with an impressive "gun resume") and they not only haven't heard of PCing, but thought it would be bad since you're increasing the diameter.
Specifically, I was talking about the RB shotgun molds (a thread active today) and that you could buy molds in sizes that vary in the 0.00x" category.
So, {quote} if diameters in the thousands make a difference, then how come a coat of paint doesn't matter{unquote}.
I had to give them an unqualified shrug of the shoulders on that one.

[maxreloader]

I mention this thread to a couple guys at work (both with an impressive "gun resume") and they not only haven't heard of PCing, but thought it would be bad since you're increasing the diameter.

They need to add to their resume :Fire:

[Bob in St. Louis]

Ouch! Great comeback!
haha!!!

[flyingmonkey35]

.001 - .002 depending on the type the manufacture of the powder coat. and how you apply it.

pecifically, I was talking about the RB shotgun molds (a thread active today) and that you could buy molds in sizes that vary in the 0.00x" category.
So, {quote} if diameters in the thousands make a difference, then how come a coat of paint doesn't matter{unquote}.

*** while you CAN powder coat a Shotgun slug, There is not much need to coat them as the the slugs are put in a WAD. and do not touch the barrel.

[Reverend Al]

*** while you CAN powder coat a Shotgun slug, There is not much need to coat them as the the slugs are put in a WAD. and do not touch the barrel.

Yeah, I knew that ... but they look so darn COOL after they are powder coated!

:bigsmyl2:

[308Jeff]

My reloading room is my garage. I spent the better part of today clearing out the stuff I recently brought home that had been in storage for 3 years. I can finally walk up to my bench again!

[finstr]

Speaking of PCing bullets....
Noob question:
How much does PCing add to the width of these?
I mention this thread to a couple guys at work (both with an impressive "gun resume") and they not only haven't heard of PCing, but thought it would be bad since you're increasing the diameter.
Specifically, I was talking about the RB shotgun molds (a thread active today) and that you could buy molds in sizes that vary in the 0.00x" category.
So, {quote} if diameters in the thousands make a difference, then how come a coat of paint doesn't matter{unquote}.
I had to give them an unqualified shrug of the shoulders on that one.

Except for the shotgun slugs all my powder coated boolets get resized thru a Lee sizing die and come out exactly on the correct diameter. Your gun gurus sound like they've stopped learning new tricks. No offence but it pays to keep an open mind. PCing is the best thing to happen to shooting cast in a very long time imo.

[ohiomadman]

Resized about 120 45-70 brass last night. In the tumbler now getting the lube off.

[taco650]

Speaking of PCing bullets....
Noob question:
How much does PCing add to the width of these?
I mention this thread to a couple guys at work (both with an impressive "gun resume") and they not only haven't heard of PCing, but thought it would be bad since you're increasing the diameter.
Specifically, I was talking about the RB shotgun molds (a thread active today) and that you could buy molds in sizes that vary in the 0.00x" category.
So, {quote} if diameters in the thousands make a difference, then how come a coat of paint doesn't matter{unquote}.
I had to give them an unqualified shrug of the shoulders on that one.


They need to add to their resume :Fire:

Ditto! There's always something to learn on any topic!:coffeecom

[jonp]

Beat the cylinder out of a Blackhawk with a deadblow due to a misfire using the new IMR Target. Read my thread above

[Michael J. Spangler]

Cast just under 800 NOE 311365 today. Took about 2 hours
2 cavity mold. It's about 32 degrees in the shop so I can run the mold pretty fast without it over heating.
Calling it quits for the day. I'll coat them later in the week. They're destined for 300 blackout

[flyingmonkey35]

Sorted my dirty brass. And started tumbling.

Btw did i show you all my 2 dollar idea for a tumbler timer. Can be adapted fir anything.

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[bruce drake]

I was casting and then my LEE Casting pot died. Off to Midway to go buy another one. Only took 18 years for this one to die.
Took it apart and ordered a new heating element. It should be up and running again by the weekend.

Bruce

[zubrato]

Emptied my casting pot, scrubbed and cleaned the sides, and spout. Polished up the inside of the spout and will be welding a washer under the spout to prevent leaking around the spout itself. Not too happy with the Lee penny pinching, so gotta make it the pot it was supposed to be.
In retrospect I should have just bought a promelt but invested so much time and love welding up a better frame I'd feel defeated if I gave up on account of a crappy spout.
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[Bob in St. Louis]

So when you guys talk about "resizing", you're squeezing the bullet back to the correct diameter?
I've been thinking you were talking about resizing the brass.
(sorry for the noob question, I've only reloaded shotshells)

[flyingmonkey35]

So when you guys talk about "resizing", you're squeezing the bullet back to the correct diameter?
I've been thinking you were talking about resizing the brass.
(sorry for the noob question, I've only reloaded shotshells)
Correct. We a resizing the boolit to the size we want.

For example my powder coated cast ...223 bullets drop at 228 with pc in measures 230.

I put it in a sizing die now its 224

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[finstr]

Exactly. Lee makes bullet sizing dies to squeeze the bullet down to the correct diameter. A lubersizer does the same thing but also squeezes the lube into the grooves. Guys who powdercoat don't use any lube so we just resize the bullet.

[Harter66]

Loaded some 30-30 bullet test loads .
Knocked out 25 45 Raptors to get the sights on target .

[Bob in St. Louis]

Well that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation (and taking it easy on me)!

[kmrra]

Got my benches made for my casting room , cabinets installed under the bench , next up is to build my upper cabinets and install my vent-a-hood , another week and I should be finished
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187905

[hc18flyer]

Cast, sized, lubed, and checked 300- Lee 324-175 boolets for my Yugo Mausers. I also cast 100+ RCBS 35-200 boolets for another member of this forum. Getting my Yugo 24/47 back from the Gunsmith this week, with a Redfield peep sight. Hopefully the weather will cooperate for some range time? hc18flyer

[toallmy]

Wow I spent yesterday boxing up years of hulls , wads , and components for loading shot shells to store in the attic . I don't know how many trips up and down the stairs I made but my goodness I have a problem , I'm a hoarder !!!

[Loudy13]

Filled some boxes and sent some stuff with the kid to his new place. Measured and plotted for benches, lights, and shelves. His room has gotten the red light from the Boss to be my new reloading room.

[RogerDat]

Split my time between the garage where ingot making was the task, then down to the basement where my time was split between brass cleaning, trimming .357 brass, this was used brass and I roll crimp so want to get it all at the same length, and fixing up and organizing stuff using goodies that arrived Saturday from Titan Reloading. Put a few parts into a Pro Auto Disk, some dies into cases, and some mold handles on molds.

melted 4.5 lbs. of pewter into ingots, and a 3.5 lb. ball of unknown wire solder (solid core) I had accumulated along with a solder bar of unknown tin percentage. Those are now in little baby muffin tin "coins" and I'll get them gunned to find out the alloy composition. They seem very nice. Smooth and tight grained, pretty hard too.

All that and took wife out to dinner - dang I'm good! Or at least have my moments.

[taco650]

Well that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation (and taking it easy on me)!

We've all been in your situation at some time or the other. The folks on this sight is pretty kind and respectful all the time. The occasional jack leg is dealt with by the moderators promptly.

Also, there's always something to learn when casting bullets (or boolets).

[Bob in St. Louis]

Thank ya Taco.
Yea, it didn't take long to realise it's a pretty good bunch of folks here!

[mdi]

I'm clearing off a space on my bench (or might just use my Rock Dock) for a brand new Forster Co-Ax. Due tomorrow! Yaaaaa...

[adcoch1]

Went out and sized 200 7.62x39 and 100 30-06 with my 5 year old son. Its amazing how all that "help" makes everything take longer... He did pull the handle to decap all the 30-06 though.

[62chevy]

Went out and sized 200 7.62x39 and 100 30-06 with my 5 year old son. Its amazing how all that "help" makes everything take longer... He did pull the handle to decap all the 30-06 though.

I did that with my grandson when he was 5 but after 15 minutes he lost interest and went and did something else. Great fun while it lasted though.

[Loudy13]

Coated couple pans of .308 boolits, trimmed 60-70 308 cases and cleaned up some clutter.

[Jal5]

Finally finished prepping 223 brass. I have all my stash prepped ready for a long reloading session

[flyingmonkey35]

Took the lyman over to my brothers and used his sand blaster to get it all prepped up for powder coating.

Cleand and polished the ram with emry cloth.

Looks good so far

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[Reverend Al]

I spent several hours getting organized for a day at the range with our 25 year old niece. She's coming out for a visit tomorrow and has never shot before. Got out 8 different handguns in a variety of different calibres, my JR Carbine in .45 ACP, and a TON of ammo. We'll taker her out to the range to shoot them all on Friday. It should be a really fun day!

[Loudy13]

Coated about 150-200 boolits, sized .308 230gr and 155gr from yesterdays coating session.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Coated my 22.5# of NOE 311365 from Sunday.
Then sized them in the star. I chased them with a 308 jacketed one at a time so I didn't have to use the nose punch and deform the nose (even though it's alight it makes me OCD flare up)
im hoping to get a lee push through in .310 soon. My local gun store is ordering a 40 piece run of lee .310 sizers. Woohoo!
So much easier with the Lee for coated bullets.

[enloe]

I didn't do any reloading but I did sit down there and put the vertical forgrip on my KSG

[RogerDat]

Decided to try cutting down 30-06 and forming as 8mm mauser. Cut down went ok but I had decided to use military head stamp brass so it would not be stamped 30-06 in order for it to be less likely to be mistaken for the wrong caliber. Blankity blank crimped military primers. Took out the 323 expander de-capping pin, then the Lee universal de-capper pin bent after a couple of cases. If I couldn't see a primer hole I would have sworn these were Berdan primed.

Not sure the effort is worth it but on the other hand it is nice to know it can be done if needed. Not so nice is knowing one needs to have a supply of replacement pins on hand.

[TES]

lubed 20k brass...sized/expanded 16k brass...loaded 12k .308....now tired.

[bruce drake]

Took it apart and ordered a new heating element. It should be up and running again by the weekend.

Bruce

Put it back together Wednesday night. While it was apart, I cleaned up all the parts and then painted the parts with high-temp paint (not the inside of the pot) and got it all back together. I dropped about 8lbs of lead into the pot and powered it up and it ran like a champ. The old element had broke into two parts at the heating coil on the inside of the pot assembly. I almost want to think it might have been dropped at sometime in its past with all my military moves that lead to a crack in the element that eventually burnt through.

[62chevy]

Decided to try cutting down 30-06 and forming as 8mm mauser. Cut down went ok but I had decided to use military head stamp brass so it would not be stamped 30-06 in order for it to be less likely to be mistaken for the wrong caliber. Blankity blank crimped military primers. Took out the 323 expander de-capping pin, then the Lee universal de-capper pin bent after a couple of cases. If I couldn't see a primer hole I would have sworn these were Berdan primed.

Not sure the effort is worth it but on the other hand it is nice to know it can be done if needed. Not so nice is knowing one needs to have a supply of replacement pins on hand.

A 1/16" punch works great for military brass or one of those Lee Loader decapping punches from a 30-06 kit will work even better.

[RogerDat]

A 1/16" punch works great for military brass or one of those Lee Loader decapping punches from a 30-06 kit will work even better. Thanks for the tip, I don't load 30-06 so no Lee loader for that but a 1/16 punch I do have and harbor freight has even more if I break it.

This may end up as a long term project, do a little '06 military brass as I find some, build up a pile of de-capped cases then go ahead and cut, form and trim a whole batch. Wouldn't hurt at all to make that de-capping process manual.

This was a detour from trimming and loading .357 mag but had already done a couple hundred and wanted a little break and I thought "hey why don't I try... will probably only take an hour and I'll know how then" Almost as silly as "here - hold my beer and watch this"

[62chevy]

Rodger a 1.5 mm punch should work too.

[rmark]

Inventoried moulds and moved them into some Mirro Covered Cake pans for storage, instead of the random plastic bags and boxes they were in. Is 43 molds too many?

[BlackRat]

Made a priming arm for my hollywood senior, it's not precisely reloading but I consider my atlas lathe as an important part of my reloading room

[Harter66]

Seems like it might be a little over the top .......Says the guy with with 8 for 45 pistols .

[RogerDat]

Inventoried moulds and moved them into some Mirro Covered Cake pans for storage, instead of the random plastic bags and boxes they were in. Is 43 molds too many?

I think for some around here they would probably say it depends on for what caliber. Me I say as long as you didn't buy two of the same mold because you forgot you already had one you're fine.

[Texas by God]

Between gunsmithing projects I'm polishing 25-06 brass to load 120gr Sierra hpbt over RL22 for some 1/4 mile shooting. Best, Thomas.

[maxreloader]

I think for some around here they would probably say it depends on for what caliber. Me I say as long as you didn't buy two of the same mold because you forgot you already had one you're fine.

^^^THIS! and btw I have bought a few twice on "accident". 2 out of 3 were upgraded cav count so I'm "really" at one "forget" :bigsmyl2:

[GhostHawk]

Scored a great deal on 75 pieces of .444 brass. Was inspired to go cast 50 rounds of the Lee 210 grain and loaded them up. Life is good. Love the look of that nice big long shiny brass with a nice cast boolit stuck in the end.

[adcoch1]

Loaded some home rolled ammo in my range bag and took my 5 yr old for his first shooting adventure! He got to try out dads ar15 and a 410 and 20 ga shotgun! I held on too, but watching him hit 4 for 4 with the 300 blackout was awesome! Then we scrounged for brass. Gonna clean em up later and probably reload them tomorrow...

[kmrra]

Got half the cabinets hung in the casting room, despite an arm injury this week that has slowed me down , But in getting there , Reloading Room, Casting shack is a total wreck right now.... but it going to be worth it when im thru, also got my vent_a_hood installed and working.....pictures to come....who said reloading was cheaper LOL188375188376188377

[paraord]

Well, with no 9mm brass to load I got antsy and tore down my grandfather's Buffalo Forge No.15 drill press. Down to the castings. Have a friend who will be doing the powder coating for me professionally. Going to sandblast it all over the next week or two and get those cast parts over to him to be done. Im thinking red with black accents, and all the embossing I'll go over in black.
Going to give it all new bearings and I am considering a new motor, although the 1949 General electric motor works mint.

Not directly reloading related until I put that forster trimmer on it. One of the reasons that got me to finally get going on this project, hoping for a sum .005" run out. Here's to hoping!
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[Loudy13]

188367Not in the reloading room (might be at work shhhh) making some gas checks to be installed later tonight!!

[DanishM1Garand]

I cast 250 147gr 9mm boolits. I loaded 150 .38 Special 160 grain LSWC over 4 grains of unique.

[thedave1164]

Finished dialing in my new .223 dies for the 550, loaded up 50 rounds to test.


Setup the Hornady LNL bushings in the RCBS RC Supreme, then setup my .45-70 dies and loaded 40 rounds.


Setup and used my World's Cheapest Trimmer (http://www.newhighpower.com/brass-trimmers.html) for .223 and it works as advertised.


Setup the GS Customs Swager for Dillon 550, works as advertised, hardest thing to remember is that it does not need to bottom out in the primer pocket, the crimp is only on the outside edge.

[RoadBike]

215 rounds of 124gr 9mm. Sorted some brass. Polished some brass in corn cob.

[trixter]

My housekeeper has been on vacation, so in between loads of laundry and dusting and sweeping etc, I filled the tumbler with 9mm's, made about a few rounds of 9mm worked on the computer.

[Harter66]

If the computer was broke it looks to be working now . :)

[mistermog]

after moving and building a new bench, bolted up and tried my LnL again. totally needs readjusting on -everything-... and how the hell am i crushing primers now all of a sudden?

[popper]

Nothing in the re-loading room but as I was browsing the CB threads after lunch (fried eggs, toast & leftover roast slices) I heard an "OHH, pooop" from the other room. Yup, she got a pile of it in the vacuum cleaner. I got to clean the machine.

[Smk SHoe]

PC's a couple hundred 40 cal 185 grain "Puckett". Looked pretty good right out of the mold so decided to PC and size them later. gonna heat cycle the mold a couple times then give it a good workout. Third mold from Arsenal and liking all three.

[Shiloh]

500+ 8mm slugs on Tuesday. Thursday i could dig my nail into them if I pushed. Today, Saturday, I can't. I water drop everything.

[kmrra]

Got some stuff moved into the casting room today , still need to build more cabinets , but im getting there , reloading room is not as messy than it was , I did get to try out the vent-a-hood and it worked great.
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[robg]

Sized and expanded the 170 case of 357 mag brass I used down the range

[kmrra]

Lets see I resmelted a batch of lead that I thought was junk , turned out to be a temp problem, went to wally world and bought me a Convection oven so I can try the HiTek and powder coating ,

[308Jeff]

Melted more pewter.

[toallmy]

Over the last few weeks a buddy has been sending me boxes and buckets of range brass , so I have been sorting and cleaning quite a bit . Although I am doing this on the front porch not in the reloading room in the end it will go to the reloading room .

[avogunner]

Loaded 60 .30-06 (Hornady 168gr A-Max) for a DCM Garand match in a couple of weeks. Also another 100 "ought - six" for my 1895 Winchester and 1903 but with the usual - Lyman 311299 and H&G #20 (169gr SP).

[Loudy13]

Made a couple hundred gas checks and affixed them to the boolits...on the 3rd day of putting gas checks on I guess it was a better casting session on Friday than I initially thought. I still have about 70 to finish then on to powder coating!

[Pmg]

added a second Dillon square deal b and a little housekeeping.

[Loudy13]

Finished making GC's and finished the putting them on the boolits I made last week. Then I cut aluminum strips for the next go around of making checks. Got enough cut for about 600 did this all while watching the Wild lose...at least I got some material prepped.

[kmrra]

I played with my new toaster oven , checking the Temp on the digital read out that it has, its with in 8 deg, so I would call that good. Started getting a headach so I came back in the house

[lightman]

Today is planned to be a casting day. I've been cleaning up around the shop for a few weeks now and trying to make room on my workbench for my pot. Some of you have probably seen (and gotten tired of) my threads about the lead and other stuff that I found that I had forgot about. I have a Buddy that should be here in an hour or so. I'll try out a new to me H&G mold and he has a new Lee to try out.

[OS OK]

Yesterday I bought a pound each of PPG PC'ing...one 'Copper' the other 'Brass' ...Was in a hurry to see how they would look so I did 15 each color.
I'm not sure I like it though...either one?

Sorry for the glare, shop fluorescents I suppose.


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They might turn out interesting mixed with some red or black?

[Strtspdlx]

Cast 150 of these. Now I have to find an unloader for them.

[Wild Bill 7]

Just received the Lee 155 and 160 30 cal Ed Harris styled molds three days ago. Yesterday I fired up the trusty Pro Melt and made about 800 boolits (400 each). I also powder coated the 155's which weighed on average 156.3 grains. Do to honey do stuff the sizing and loading will have to wait for more free time. Main purpose for these boolits is for my sks.

[Strtspdlx]

Those looks real nice OS OK. I'm curious how they work out.

[skeettx]

Melted down some range scrap and made 100 Lyman/Ohaus/SAECO ingots :)
I have 14 of the four cavity ingot molds so it really speeds things up
Mike

[kmrra]

I have my oven set and all tuned up, waiting for my baskets to arrive and then I will try out the HiTek stuff, also ordered an upgrade kit for my lee pot

[OS OK]

I drove up country to Volcanoville today and smelted the remainder of Old Bob's wheel weights for him. When it dries up this spring we'll get into his berm where about 120# is waiting there. We generally mine the berm 3 times a year and get about 80# each time but last year we only mined it once so I imagine there's a real treat waiting for us there by now.
Bob allows the local Concealed cary instructor to bring his students there for their training and qualifying...they bring a lot of Pb and empty brass into the range...gotta love that.
Below, the large pile is COWW and the small one is SOWW's...stinky, stinky...we did them last. I use a lot of sawdust doing those SOWW's and it tends to bind with and stick to the gummy mess from the stick-on adhesion pads and you can pull that mess out without any trouble or excessive smoke from cooking that stuff down.

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Bob's holding my sidekick...Bubby. Bob has been loading for more years than I've been alive...I'm 67 in April.

[Loudy13]

188860Gonna do some coating today, I am a little behind on coating

[trixter]

Yesterday after work, while the housekeeper was finishing up, I loaded 100 9mm, today I am going to start sizing the last 500 of the 1000 .223's I bought last summer, then find some small rifle primers and get on with the reloading. The Sportsman's and Outdoor show is on at the Expo, so I will have to go see all the "STUFF".

[coxa2]

Sorted 2 buckets of wheel weights and cast some 405gr pills for my 45/70

[dragon813gt]

Finished refurbing this LAM1.

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[Digital Dan]

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[trixter]

I sized 500+ .223 empties. Found out that my Lyman heater for my Star lube sizer is dead. I'll deal with that on Monday.

[DannyW]

I cast 1,000 9mm 125 gr. RN. Now working on 200 gr. 45apc now. Will end up with a couple of 1,000 when finished.

[robg]

Didn't do anything but picked up 1k CCI spp so I'm good for the next couple of months for my 357 Winnie

[flyingmonkey35]

Finished rebuilding the true line jr.

Lubed and new turret.

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[Loudy13]

189100Trying to make a dent in my coating backlog

[labradigger1]

Loaded 150 30-06' with 202 grn cast then deprimed and full length sized a whole 5 gallon of lc and fa 30-06' brass. I then wet tumbled all of it and then polished in dry media. It took all day and I still need to Swage all the primer pockets as it's all once fired. Maybe this weekend coming.

Oh yeah, did something stupid too.
Somehow mixed around a hundred 41 Rem mag in with about 500 44 mag brass cases in the vibratory tumbler. That's a mistake I won't make again lol. Them suckers are really close the same size and I do t even own a 41.

[Reverend Al]

Put the replacement repair parts into my #2 Dillon 550 press ... tomorrow I'll set it up in .38 Special and take it for a test drive ...

[Reverend Al]

Well, so much for best intentions ... instead of loading the reloading room got a couple of new additions. My brother-in-law is out visiting with us and he's a top notch finish carpenter. He couldn't help himself and rebuilt two of the sets of shelves down in my reloading room, added new shelves and some pegboard above my workbench out in the garage, and reinforced the heavily overburdended shelves in my wife's clothes closet! Maybe I'll try to set up the dies in the rebuilt Dillon tomorrow after I put everything back onto the new shelves down in the reloading room ...

[kmrra]

Installed my lee 4-20 pot upgrade kit today , it is well worth the price
http://www.opennrg.com/product/lee-4-20-furnace-upgrade-kit/
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[41mag]

Well it was actually Sat, but I managed to get roughly 60# worth if several calibers poured up to replace some we have really hit hard over the last couple of months.

Hope to get another 20-25# worth of the HG-68 and some MP 200gr HP's done in the next couple of weekends if I get time.

[NavyVet1959]

He couldn't help himself and rebuilt two of the sets of shelves down in my reloading room, added new shelves and some pegboard above my workbench out in the garage, and reinforced the heavily overburdended shelves in my wife's clothes closet!

In a previous house that we owned, my wife overloaded the clothes rod in her closet. I was surprised that a woman could actually manage to squeeze that many clothes in that amount of space that it would exceed the weight limits on the rod. So, I used it as an excuse to put a cedar lining in the closet and re-engineered the rod and shelf. I tested it by hanging 500 lbs from one small area of it and could not see *any* deflection. As they say, "anything worth engineering is worth *over*engineering"...

[nhyrum]

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Loaded up 500 124 grain 9mm... I don't think filling this ammo can is going to be practical... I reckon it will weigh around 400 pounds, assuming I get 15k in it.

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[rmark]

Smelted about 7 gallons of old lead wheel weights, resulted in one full 5 gallon bucket of ingots plus a few.

[coxa2]

Cast up about 15lbs of bullets for my 444 & 45/70. Headed to the local scrap yard in the morning to see what goodies they have.

[Retumbo]

Emptied my pot of rifle bullet lead and loaded with pure. Cast about 100 1oz slugs

[Reverend Al]

Spent the day reorganizing brass and accessories on the brand new shelving that my brother-in-law built for me down in the reloading room. I love it, it's getting so that I can actually move around down there without tripping over "stuff"! I'll try to finish up organizing the last of it tomorrow and then on Thursday I'm taking him up to my local club for a day at the range in appreciation of everything he's been doing around the house for us while he's been out here visiting.

[taco650]

Installed my lee 4-20 pot upgrade kit today , it is well worth the price
http://www.opennrg.com/product/lee-4-20-furnace-upgrade-kit/
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That's a pretty nice looking upgrade!

[JeffG]

Loaded 100 rounds 9mm.

[alg3205]

Finally bit the bullet and took apart one of my Dillon 550b to clean and lube, also set up a new 650. Hope to load 45 acp this weekend on the 650.

[labradigger1]

Just finished up my 3rd evening after work annealing military 30-06 brass. All once fired and have not swaged the primer pockets yet. 994 pieces.

Wow did that ever suck eggs.

[Reverend Al]

Another day organizing and filling up my new shelves down in the reloading room. A LOT of stuff finally got off the floor and out of boxes. I can actually move in there now!

[flyingmonkey35]

This came home with me today.

Hatfield .410.
Wal-Mart special 99.00

Now i need to decide if i want to reload it or not.

Realoding brass looks like fun.

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[RoadBike]

Over the past couple of days: Smelted wheel weights for the first time ever. Cast a few 148gr wadcutters from the wheelweight to use to test hardness in 7 days. Two air-cooled, two water-dropped. Loaded 4 different loadings of 38 Special using a Lyman M-Die for the first time ever. Mic'd samples of the two commercially cast bullets I used for the 38 loadings. The 148gr double end wadcutter averaged 0.3581, but the 158gr LSWC averaged 0.3574". I'll chronograph these loadings tomorrow.