What did you do in the reloading room today?

[MKN]

North East - we have had a nice break in the weather....got out to cast 15# of 9mm, Tumble lubed about 38# of them with JPW LLA mix, no solvent. Ordered a Lee C309-170 FP, going to get into gas checks and set up my deer rifle with CB. I have taken three deer with hand loads, now want to add a CB. I hope to have it dialed in for this November.
Matt

[taco650]

Sized, checked and lubed some 44 pills cast from a Lee C429-240-SWC mold.

[Reverend Al]

Absolutely nothing! In appreciation of all the work he has done for me lately installing some new shelving in my reloading shop I took my brother-in-law up to my local range today with four different rifles (a .223, a .300 Blackout, a .30-30 and a .25-06) and he made a bunch of live ammo into empty brass that will now need cleaning and reloading! He had a great time ...

[BlackRat]

Worked on developing new loads for my new 452-200RF mold. In batches of 10 rounds using W231 in increments of .2gn from 4Gn to 5.3gn

[kmrra]

We had a work day at the range today and I picked up 30# of scrap while I was there, came hole and smelted it and cleaned up the shop a bit , casted up some 22 bullets lastnight , testing out a new 6 cavity mold from lee...I can already see that I may have a few 2 cavity molds for sale .189640189641189642

[mistermog]

Finally installed the damn ceiling fan! Tired of sweating like a .... in here. :)

[Budzilla 19]

Cast up over a hundred .452-200grain RNFP for the .45 colt project, SS pin tumbled a load of 9mm,.38's and some rifle rounds together!!! Cleaned, washed, drying out now!!! Rearranged the loading room, cleaned up, put away, you guys know this drill!! Yesterday, loaded some 300+ 9mm's plus shot some PC'ed 230 grain ,45;s for function test. Boy, do I love 700X! it was a good day, Tater!!!! LOL.

[Smk SHoe]

sized and deprimed a few hundred 300 WSM cases for my neighbor. was gonna do some casting but still finishing the new work bench. ( think I'll cast in the morning)

[Sean357]

Tried powder coat for the first time. Really disappointed that it wasn't brighter than this. But can't really complain, they didn't fall over in the oven and was able to do it without BB's. Plus they passed smash test.

189670

Harbor freight red and Lyman 311410

[bjordan]

I fired up a new in the box MasterCaster shot maker the other day. After an initial failure due to the item sitting in the box since the 70s and some oxidation on the aluminum chute, I polished it down with some 600 grit paper and the second run was a huge success. I made 5 pounds of #8-9 shot in no time. I ordered a 12x12 screen of the appropriate size to sort out any bits that aren't quite right from McMaster-Carr. I'll cast more today - its dang neat watching drops of lead fall out of the jets and into coolant. Its fast too. They will work great from knocking over steel or bangin' steel plates for cowboy shooting.

Last night I started pulling the handle on the Master Caster for 2,000 130 grain RNFP for cowboy shooting (see a pattern here...). I'll pull more on it today.

So many projects these days...

[bedbugbilly]

Sat in the garage, looking across at the desert, listening to the cactus wrens and enjoying the souther Arizona breeze as I de-primed 1,162 45 ACP casings. Of course I took a couple of breaks to have a cup of coffee and enjoy watching the quail run around as well.

[308Jeff]

Sat in the garage, looking across at the desert, listening to the cactus wrens and enjoying the souther Arizona breeze as I de-primed 1,162 45 ACP casings. Of course I took a couple of breaks to have a cup of coffee and enjoy watching the quail run around as well.

It's a beautiful day here in AZ. I'm smelting, playing poker online, and having a brewski.

[RoadBike]

Decapped a bunch of 5.56mm LC brass, then swaged primer pockets.

[44deerslayer]

Casted 1k of 429421
casted 1k of 452374
casted 250 492421 hp


Im beat hands are sore so is my back

[Harter66]

I checked out 6 new to me old style Lee moulds and a Lyman 313226 . Then I loaded some 30-30 work ups and demooned some 45 ACP and reloaded them.

[John Guedry]

Completed my new bench,lost the old one due to the "flood of August 2016". No telling when I'll get to use it.

[iplaywithnoshoes]

I cast and sorted my first bullets yesterday!

[robg]

Loaded 250 ,357 mag rounds with 196 gr GC boolits over 11.5 gr of 2400 .

[Texas by God]

Sigh. Nothing. Still sick. I did go out there and stare a couple of times this week. Then back to the couch or the bed. Pneumonia sucks. I must have made the gun smithing/ reloading elves mad because everything is the same.......

[Loudy13]

Has a cup of coffee and sized, 45, 38, 9mm boolits from yesterdays powder coating session.

[taco650]

Smelted some range pickups from my last range trip. Got about 5lbs of lead out of it to add to my stock.

[Loudy13]

189948Finally set up a new to me Piggyback II for 300 BO. Manually actuating the powder drop is the only option for now since I am missing a piece to replace the powder arm for the dispenser. I might just keep it this way since it is hard to see into the case to check for powder. Works pretty good for a beat up piggyback and it is way faster than doing 50 at a time on reloading blocks and a turret press!

[OS OK]

Training the 'left' hand to manipulate and feed a handful of casts in rapid succession and develop a rhythm.
This is the first large batch of casts I've run on this 'upside down' sizing press...I just finished building the mount...before I've been putting the casts on the little push post one at a time.
Though I must look like a fumbly fingered monkey...it's coming along and it's super-fast now.


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[coxa2]

Deprimed my gallon bucket-o-brass form past shooting sessions.

[44deerslayer]

Lubed and sized 44 mag about 2500 decapped 308 put a new mold together

[kmrra]

been cleaning brass for two days , got another day or two left to go ,

[bjordan]

I fired up my ancient Lyman bottom pour pot yesterday and poured 50+ 200 grain Lyman .41 Long Colt hollow points. Yep, hollow points. Seems to be a factory Lyman done HP job too. Mold came with handles and the original box. Surprisingly, with Unique powder, my old Colt Thunderer will put 3 rounds touching each other at about 10 yards, all in the black. Its a hoot to shoot. I am very careful with it and baby the heck out of it. I'll load the bullets as soon as the alox dries. This loading will last me a long time.

This weekend is slated for melting large qualities of scrap yard lead into ingots and pulling the handle of my Master Caster a lot.

[44deerslayer]

I full length resized 308 and primed about 250 and sized 45 acp about 2500

[flyingmonkey35]

Prepared. 50 303 British. To be fireformed into .410 shot shells.

Got a new scratch and dent safe.

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[Smk SHoe]

Cast a couple hundred 357 and 308 bullets. then broke in a new mold from NOE a 140 grain 6.5mm. Good scrub and a little spur lube and bullets fell right out. Couple more heat cycles and all should be good.

[adam_mac84]

Cast my first babies. Mostly rejects. But it was fun. And mistakes can be remelted again and again and I'm not burning propane to do it. (Minus the heater). https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170312/a2dc5131d91ef0d93064051cae67e3ec.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170312/8f14a7d183c4104346db5cd004b2bac4.jpg


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[DannyW]

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[MKN]

First Gas Check casting, from my new Lee GC 170 FP mold, Cast, water drop, and GC / sized -200 boolits from range scrap. The copper GC stay on secure, some AL are a touch loose. Getting ready for 30-06 and 30-30 hunting with this bullet. Pics below still needs lube, I am trying a 75% Beeswax, 25% Vaseline. Working up reduced loads using Robert Lee's method in his first edition reloading manual. So far for powders I have on hand ( and would like to use ) H380 is going to get a try, as well as RL 15 and H322, all at 1900fps.
Matt

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[308Jeff]

Not in the reloading room, but in the back yard. Again.

Sorted some more of the "mountain" and got a few ingots poured. Pretty sure I'll have all the sorting done mid-morning tomorrow, and then just smelting the rest of the day.

[Charliemac]

I tumble cleaned a mess of brass.

[robg]

Pulled 50 boolits of a batch that I thought I'd under loaded .yep 2.5 gr not 7.5 gr set scale wrong ,using Lyman beam jobby set the scale on rh side not adjusted it on the lh ,going nuts doh.

[OS OK]

Not in the reloading room, but in the back yard. Again.

Sorted some more of the "mountain" and got a few ingots poured. Pretty sure I'll have all the sorting done mid-morning tomorrow, and then just smelting the rest of the day.
190340
Lately after talking in one of the posts about smelting and lead explosions...I've started putting another pot over the smelt pot to guard against Pb rain...something I noticed last time was that the lead melts so much quicker by trapping the heat in the pot...what a difference in the number of melts in a day when it melts quicker.

[jmar254]

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
Have you got to the point of turning that bad boy upside down yet, so much quicker to drop them in the hole.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?274370-Upside-down-press-for-sizing-using-Lee-sizing-die&highlight=Upside+lee+press

[jmar254]

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/
189218
Kit rocks, it does need a hole in the table under the Lee spout for the inevitable drips, spare RCBS bar mold fits between legs perfectly.

[Plate plinker]

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Just this. 40lbs of H&G 68's.

[Texas by God]

Glass bedded the 1926 Oviedo 30-30. I borrowed a Miles Gilbert complete bedding kit from a buddy. Everything you need in a plastic case. Neat.
I cleaned a closet dweller Savage .22 auto for a buddy. The clack-clack of the action working when you fire it is hilarious. Put my new 1X Vortex on my Nylon 66 for testing and Wow is all. Super quick and accurate. I got lucky and never had to touch the adjustments. It's dead on 1" targets @20yds. Now I'm going to shoot my .357 Blackhawk some more to decide if it's cylinder needs Mr. Doug.
Best, Thomas.

[bjordan]

Not today, but yesterday I took 30 pound lead ingots from Roto Metals and made them into 5 pound ingots for the Master Caster. This lead was indoor range scrap that they were selling for $1.66 a pound, free shipping. After the large ingots were smaller, I melted down a pot of pure plumber's lead. Man, that stuff is nasty. Lots of dross and **** floats to the top. But, it makes bullets. All in all, I melted down 75 pounds of lead yesterday into usable ingots.

[michael.birdsley]

I didn't cast these so I didn't start a new thread. These are 145 grn rn .361 boolits from Missouri bullet co. For my Iver Johnson .38 s&w. Loaded according to the Lyman manual between 2.1-2.4 grains of bullseye. Loaded In Starline brass. I wanted to buy some before I bought a mold from NOE as the mold will probably be about the same moneywise as what purchased the gun for. First time using a lee dipper and I kinda like it. If I needed more I just trickled it in.

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[Jal5]

Sized about 500 of the lee 358125RF for my 9mm use. These work fine TL in BLL twice for practice rounds

[Michael J. Spangler]

Nothing lately but I'm praying for a foot of snow so I can cast some lee 309-150f

[trixter]

I spent all day Saturday cleaning up the gun/computer room, then Sunday my middle grandson came over and asked if we can go shooting, now reloading table is a mess again, but I have a lot of reloading to do now.

[Electric88]

Power was out most of the weekend, so I loaded up some new reloads for a few handguns and wandered off to the range when I got a bit stir crazy.

[NavyVet1959]

Nothing lately but I'm praying for a foot of snow so I can cast some lee 309-150f

Snow quenched bullets? :)

[Pinsnscrews]

prepped up some brand new Starline .45acp brass, got it all loaded with powder, and was getting ready to start putting in the hard cast 200gr Semi Wadcutters I had bought at Winter Range, when my wife let me know she was being called into a Video Meeting at work. My reloading bench is shared with her office. I don't reload when she is working, but she had gotten an emergency text to log in (on the clock) to deal with an issue that had come up over the weekend...

It is all loaded with 800x, and I placed a book over the reloading block, so hopefully with care, I won't have to measure out the powder all over again and will be able to just reload tomorrow morning.

[popper]

May need to beg that cheap press I gave to G.S. back, turn upside down for sizing boolits.

[Plate plinker]

190465
Finished the last 10 lbs.

[41mag]

Was headed to the range Sat but it rained me out. So I set up for a Sun morning smelting session.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/asset.php?fid=164283&uid=2895&d=1489455573

It really don't look like 120lbs but I blended double batches of my most used alloys.

Then while rooting around for the lead, I ran across some 3/8" aluminum flatbed so I cut a couple of pieces to use while setting my casting height.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/asset.php?fid=164282&uid=2895&d=1489455542

[44deerslayer]

Lubed and sized 45acp carried ignots to the melting pot got my molds out cleaned and orangized and cleaned my loading bench ready to cast tomorrow

[Michael J. Spangler]

Snow quenched bullets? :)

I may have used snow to cool my hi-tek coating before acetone testing.

I also may have used snow to ice down my water between quenching those said coated bullets.

Gotta love new England.

[Ithaca Gunner]

Cast up a bunch of Lyman 454190's for my .45 Colts.

[Harter66]

Sized and decapped 100 1x Privi Partizan 45-70 from one lot run through my buddies JM Marlin 1895G in stainless so I can feed my new to me blued 1895G Remlin . They share brass and Jorge won't shoot reloads . A match made in heaven .

[centershot]

Nor'easter blowin' in, went out to the casting shed, lit the propane heater and made up several hundred 311041's for my hungry 30's. Now, if it would just stop with the snowin' and blowin' so I can get to the range next week!!!

[15meter]

Made a pair of snap caps for a 8x50R double rifle.

[rmark]

Loaded about 20 or so 45-70 shells with RCBS 45-500 cast last week from range lead, sized and primed about 100 .38 special brass

[NavyVet1959]

I may have used snow to cool my hi-tek coating before acetone testing.

I also may have used snow to ice down my water between quenching those said coated bullets.

Gotta love new England.

I'm thinking the snow would have been better for icing down the beer...

[Utah Shooter]

190465
Finished the last 10 lbs.
All by hand or machine?

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[popper]

Nothing. Emptied some 40SW & 30/30 cases, wet a fly.

[NavyVet1959]

Nothing. Emptied some 40SW & 30/30 cases, wet a fly.

Sounds like you need to be a bit quicker in your zipper operation... :)

[Michael J. Spangler]

I'm thinking the snow would have been better for icing down the beer...

Thats a good idea.
Used the snow to keep a 2 cavity mould cool today. So handy

[popper]

Bass are starting to hit the shallows now. Wouldn't take a midge.

[armoredman]

Wife had issue, called in sick family to work. She stabilized, so I cast up, powder coated, sized and loaded 100 9mm 124gr boolits. Same time I was tumbling brass, depriming, resizing and repriming,. Busy 6 hours, also given cool down periods. :) Keeps me busy and happy.

[kmrra]

Built a corner shelf for my computer and radios in the corner of my casting room.
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[jimb16]

Loaded up 250 .300AAC rounds using 150 gr cast plain base boolits; powder coated with IMR 4227 powder. Started at 14.5 gr and worked up to 18.1. Just got to wait til the weather breaks so I can go out and try them.

[shoot-n-lead]

Been tumbling brass for the last couple of days. I am just about to go out and dump a batch and reload the tumbler.

[15meter]

Made a case trimmer gage for .318 Westley Richards. Was going to post a photo, apparently my ability to do so is "BUSTED".

[mwells72774]

Built a corner shelf for my computer and radios in the corner of my casting room.
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What kind of radio? Kenwood ts-440?

[RogerDat]

Sat there putting gas checks on .223 and looking at a tray of military 30-06 waiting for a RCBS 8mm form and trim die to arrive and give them a new purpose in life. Choice of military brass was to avoid making 8mm with a 30-06 head stamp.

[toallmy]

I spent yesterday cutting the primer pockets on 2 1/2 gallons of WCC 9mm brass with a drill press . My fingers are a bit beat up but I finally got tired of looking at them just sitting around .

[RogerDat]

I spent yesterday cutting the primer pockets on 2 1/2 gallons of WCC 9mm brass with a drill press . My fingers are a bit beat up but I finally got tired of looking at them just sitting around . Isn't it funny? After a bit you could almost swear the pile of brass sitting there is mocking you behind your back. :mrgreen: Guess you shut that bucket up!

[jimb16]

Yup! Mocking is the right word. I've got a 5 gal. bucket of 20 ga. hulls sitting there doing exactly that. They know I can do anything about it either. At least not until I run another batch of shot! I wish they would just be quiet!

[toallmy]

I got them in the end , but they fought back , there was blood yesterday and today there are blisters .

[OS OK]

Just received an old Ideal single cavity mold today in the mail...thought I'd find out if it would work in the 8x57mm Yugo M48...there is clearance to go into battery but haven't shot it yet...I'm looking for feedback on this cast load, it's a heavy weight at 250 grains in COWW + 1% Sn. I PC'd them too but this Pb blend may be too soft...dunnoh yet?

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[shoot-n-lead]

Tumbled MORE brass...

[whtsmoke]

Tore down my progressive press and pulled a little maintenance on it so it will work smoothly.

[flyingmonkey35]

Loaded up some brass.410 shotshells.

Need to get a better hole punch for overshot. I used a cotton ball and wax.

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[Reverend Al]

I haven't been feeling all that well for a couple of weeks, but I forced myself to finally go down to my shop today and installed a new, replacement front sight on an Israeli 98 Mauser in 7.62 Nato today that I bought years ago and still haven't shot yet. I'm meeting an old friend up at the rifle range tomorrow and so I will finally shoot it along with the little Chiappa M1-9 carbine that I bought recently. I'm about ready for a long overdue shooting day ...

[taco650]

I haven't been feeling all that well for a couple of weeks, but I forced myself to finally go down to my shop today and installed a new, replacement front sight on an Israeli 98 Mauser in 7.62 Nato today that I bought years ago and still haven't shot yet. I'm meeting an old friend up at the rifle range tomorrow and so I will finally shoot it along with the little Chiappa M1-9 carbine that I bought recently. I'm about ready for a long overdue shooting day ...

Me too but family business this weekend prevents it once again.

[kmrra]

What kind of radio? Kenwood ts-440?Its a Yaesu 757gx

[kmrra]

Went to the range and mined about 150# of range lead from the pistol berms, and came home and smelted 50# of if , will try to get the rest tomorrow .

[bullseye67]

Good evening,
Well today was a cleanup day. Started with filing away some "new" load targets in the load binder. Next was putting away a bunch of 357 brass and realized/decided I needed to load a bunch. So dumped some TrailBoss into the measure and an hour later 150 rounds of nice shooting 357's loaded up. Now had to stop for lunch and a family activity. Back at it, cleaned up from loading put the powder away and what was left of the 158gr SWC and looks like tomorrow if all goes good I will either cast or load a bunch of 32 S&W Long for next week. All in a fantastic day! now time for :drinks:

[RogerDat]

tried out my new RCBS 8x57 from 30-06 forming die. Formed and marked 53 pieces. Cut a couple down and went to trim with my Lee Quick Trim and the brass just spins. No o rings. Finally found the size online and will hopefully be able to locate some 12mm o rings of a workable diameter tomorrow and be able to trim the brass. Having to cut down with a hacksaw, going to see if I can locate a really fine tooth blade. Or may try my tubing cutter. But suspect that would leave an inside ring.

I was able to rig enough pressure to trim two cases, and confirm that the homemade 8mm will cycle at COAL for the bullet I use.

[Drew P]

Killed it at the casting bench. The lee 6 cav mold was really being a challenge and I ended the casting session after a brief tantrum that left the mold handle broken off! Boy those lee mold handles are made from some very hardened stuff!
Too bad though I liked the handles more than the mold.

[prsman23]

Cast up some lee 312-155-2R
Hadn't cast in a while. Felt good to get back at it!

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[coxa2]

Added more powder and primers to an already unorganized bench. (O e of these days I'll have to break down and clean it)

[1989toddm]

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Good ole wood fired smelter.

[rmark]

'Good ole wood fired smelter.'

Read that first as 'fired up the still'. :)

[rmark]

Yesterday I smelted another 7 gallons of clip on wheel weights into 5 gallons of ingots. One more 5 gallon bucket to go.

[JeffG]

Put a new turret on the RCBS turret press and setup for 38 special, then loaded 50 rounds.

[flyingmonkey35]

Out sick with a fever again. Got a little cleaning done when i was feeling good.



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[Reverend Al]

Emptied out my ss pin tumbler and put that batch of clean brass into the dehydrator to dry. Re-filled the tumbler with a new batch of dirty brass. Sorted out some brass and bullets and made a bit of room on the work benches. Pulled down some junk ammo to salvage the bullets and brass. Dug out a few items to put on my sale and trade table that I'll have at our local gun show next weekend. Turned on the ss pin tumbler again when I headed out the shop door after about 5 hours of puttering around in there ...

[1989toddm]

'Good ole wood fired smelter.'

Read that first as 'fired up the still'. :)

That would be just as productive!
If I had a still. [emoji848]

[labradigger1]

Tried out a 257 Hollywood swaging die in a senior press tonight that I've had for a good while. I don't think it's my cup of tea.

[kmrra]

Smelted 100 # of rande lead, and a friend gave me a 23 # pig of Linotype so I made ingots out of it too, Tested it with the Lee Lead hardness tester and I was indeed Linotype , came in at 20 bhn. so now my total lead stash is up to 457 lbs, everyone always says you can never have enough lead

[NavyVet1959]

everyone always says you can never have enough lead

But you can come close...

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[Harter66]

I ran and launched 50 45-70 from hot Colts level up to real 45-70-405s . It didn't do anything for the source of the stress but it did make it go away for a few hours .

[robg]

Loaded 50 357 mag with Lee 158gr wnfp boolits 7.5 gr true blue .used my new Lee ppm ,must say I like it ,still got my Lyman 55 measure but after using a friends when helping him set up I was impressed with the little Lee ppm .

[jonp]

100rds 140gr swc for a 38sp over 3.0gr etr7. Finally trying that rip off powder out.

When i get home im loading up some 158gr Berrys over IMR Target to start testing again. New scale and chrono work great

[centershot]

Filled two propane tanks and started smelting range scrap into ingots. 2 buckets down, 4 more waiting their turn! Then I can start on the wheelweights..........

[jimb16]

Short and sweet....made 65# of #9 shot.

[rl69]

The little brown truck showed up today with my lee 9x18 case trimer. I converted almost a hundred 9 MM Luger cases to 9x18 Makarov.

I loaded 5 rounds with 2.6 GR of IMR 700X topped with 93 GR cast boolit. They functioned well grouped good but the outside of the cases had powder burns on the outside of the cases.

Bumped up the charge to near max 3.4 gr and made 20 rounds still had the powder burns on the hulls

What I'm thinking now is I need to resize a second time after I trim?

I'm shooting a CZ 82,nice little pistol, good weight, compact, as acurat as I am, which isn't saying a lot, verry dependable. The only down side it slings the cases. I managed to find 8 of the 20 rounds I fired

felt good to get back to the bench. It's been about a year sense I made any ammo

[mwells72774]

The little brown truck showed up today with my lee 9x18 case trimer. I converted almost a hundred 9 MM Luger cases to 9x18 Makarov.

I loaded 5 rounds with 2.6 GR of IMR 700X topped with 93 GR cast boolit. They functioned well grouped good but the outside of the cases had powder burns on the outside of the cases.

Bumped up the charge to near max 3.4 gr and made 20 rounds still had the powder burns on the hulls

What I'm thinking now is I need to resize a second time after I trim?

I'm shooting a CZ 82,nice little pistol, good weight, compact, as acurat as I am, which isn't saying a lot, verry dependable. The only down side it slings the cases. I managed to find 8 of the 20 rounds I fired

felt good to get back to the bench. It's been about a year sense I made any ammo
Curious about the powder burns on the case. What does it indicate? All of my 9x19 have it

[rl69]

I don't know yet? I'm new to this caliber. I'm thinking that the 9 mm Luger isint sizing out enough? The next step is to see if the extra sizing step helps. If not see if the fire forming stops it?

[rl69]

I don't have any isues with my 9x18 Makarov cases, only the converted Luger cases.

are your isues with Luger or Makarov cases

[mwells72774]

Luger cases in a CZ75

[rl69]

Have you shot them after they were fire formed?

what is your proses of converting the cases?

[taco650]

I don't know yet? I'm new to this caliber. I'm thinking that the 9 mm Luger isint sizing out enough? The next step is to see if the extra sizing step helps. If not see if the fire forming stops it?

I think the 9×18 cases have a little wider base than the 9×19.

[Reverend Al]

Emptied the brass out the dehydrator, emptied the ss pin tumbler and put that new batch of clean brass into the dehydrator, re-filled the tumbler with 2,000 round of .40 S&W brass, sorted out a bunch of cleaned brass and put it away into storage boxes ... and then went and took a nap!

[jonp]

2,000rds of brass? You using a cement mixer?

[DanishM1Garand]

Lubed about 1200 147 gir cast bullets for 9mm.

[Uncle Jimbo]

Loaded from start to finished 300 rds of 357 mag.
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[Reverend Al]

2,000rds of brass? You using a cement mixer?

Nah, just .40 S&W pistol brass so it filled the tumbler ... I used the large Frankford Arsenal ss pin tumbler ...

[jonp]

Nah, just .40 S&W pistol brass so it filled the tumbler ... I used the large Frankford Arsenal ss pin tumbler ...

I didn't think you could get that many in there at one time.

[tward]

Cast 400+ Lee 120 gr tc, 50 Lyman 358311, 100 MiHec 360 180 gr hp, 60 Lee 358 158 gr rnfp. Now to lube, size, load and shoot!:bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2: Tim

[sharps4590]

Turned some R-P, 30-06 brass into 8 X 56 Mannlicher/Schoenauer, loaded them with 24 grs. of IMR-4227 under a 200 gr. Accurate Mold, gas checked bullet and fireformed them in my 1908 M/S. Such a delightful little rifle!!

[prsman23]

More casting yesterday. Ideal 323471hp. This mold won't drop a bad bullet!


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[lightman]

Today was a casting day. Cast with a new to me H&G 503-429 mold. Probably cast about 1000. This mold is a joy to cast with!

[labradigger1]

After work loaded 50 44 mag ratshot. 2 gas checks and #12 shot, 4.7 grains bullseye.

[Loudy13]

Finished sizing every piece of .243 brass in the house, well one box of 50 left but those are the daughters rounds and she has to work those up after she shoots the last 10 or so.

[62chevy]

Made 50 cat sneeze loads using the ladder method starting at 3.5 grains then 3.8, 4.1, 4.4, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.6, 5.9 and 6.2. I used the powder coated Lee TL314-90-SWC.

[44deerslayer]

Casted 2k 44 429421
2k 45 230 rn

[trixter]

Applied gas checks to a bunch of 224 cast boolits, boy what an intense chore.

[Tom W.]

I hobbled over and looked for the first time since my surgery. I didn't recognize the bench, as prior to the surgery I had put boolits and brass on the bench so I could have components handy with no strain. I didn't know that I cleaned it up so well !

[62chevy]

Good to see you are ready to reload Tom. That sure is better than flat on your back. Keep the good news coming.

[bjordan]

I loaded 50 .44 mag lead handloads for future Wild Bunch matches. These were loaded on the old Chucker. Before that, I loaded 250 .45 ACP rounds for Wild Bunch on a Dillon. Tonight was another box of #8 shotshells with shot I made.

[jimb16]

Got 75 # of #9 shot polished and graphited today. Got another 65# to go.
Also got another 75 rounds of 300 B.O. blasting ammo loaded. Went to the range and sighted in a .22 rifle scope AND shot 3 rounds of skeet! Busy day today!

[Harter66]

Loaded 30 more test loads for the new to me 45-70 . Started on some 30-30 full power 150 gr Cramers ......Crushed a case .......I guess I'll be trimming 30-30 for an evening or 2.

[44deerslayer]

Casted 300 hp 44
casted 1000 45
loaded about 80 308
got lead moved up to pot

[labradigger1]

Cast a few hundred 311008's for 32-20

[Sean357]

On Saturday, broke in my new Lee TL 356-124-TC. Rough start but stuck with it and started turning out good ones after smoking it a few times and finally finding the temp it likes.

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[trixter]

I finished setting up the kit form Inline Fabrication on my Lee Classic Cast Turret press reverse rotation and the finger that pushes the finish round out, down the little slide and into the plastic tray. Then I loaded about 75 rounds of 223 with cast boolits. Thank you Inline Fabrication for a very functional system.

[coxa2]

Prepped 100 44mag cases for the new to me Rossi showing up this week sometime.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Couple nights ago I cut up about 1/2 gallon of LC 223 brass down to the much better cartridge 300 Blackout. I lubed and sized them tonight.
Into the tumbler for a couple hours now to clean them.
Looks like I need to order some more media. Down to 3 or so gallons. Anyone else buy media by the 50 pound bag around here? I'm thinking there might be a good percentage.

[MKN]

Set up my Lyman 4500, used a lube I made, (Bee's , Vaseline , Carnubula ) 3 steps in one ! I like that.
Matt

[OS OK]

I made a simple garage for preheating the mold...drilled a hole in the top and put an old oven thermometer on it...


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[flyingmonkey35]

Loaded my .410 bras shot shells made from 303 british.


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[Madoktor1]

Just killing time waiting on the ins adjuster loading some of my cast 30-30. Plain and coated 170 gr. Lee mold with Gator gas checks over 22.0 grs of IMR 3031.

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[Reverend Al]

Neat looking over shot card wad design. Did you find a bunch that made them like that or make your own punch of that design? I need to load some of these for my No. 1 Lee Enfield smooth bore single shot musket chambered in .410 Musket ...


Loaded my .410 bras shot shells made from 303 british.


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[Reverend Al]

Pulled down some more old junk ammo for the components. Powder coated some .30 calibre boolits in 125 grain, 155 grain and 247 grain ...

[flyingmonkey35]

Neat looking over shot card wad design. Did you find a bunch that made them like that or make your own punch of that design? I need to load some of these for my No. 1 Lee Enfield smooth bore single shot musket chambered in .410 Musket ...
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[lightman]

Loaded the 900+ pounds of ingots from the last two smelting days into milk crates. After while I'll probably scrap up the little splashes of spilled lead and finish storing the smelting tools away.

[Texas by God]

Loaded some test rounds in the .32ACP with the Accurate31-090B boolits(thanks Outpost75!).
Replaced the broken mag catch in my brother's Colt Huntsman.22 pistol. Arthritis came to help!?
Best, Thomas.

[mjkonopka]

Picked up 7 55gallon drums and 20 5gallon buckets for storing brass. Dirty brass goes in drums and clean brass gets stored in buckets with lids and packed away for later.

[wolf3006]

Loaded 50 41 mag. Lubed 100 more .

[trixter]

Shed tears because I have to go to work, but there is always tomorrow.

[Harter66]

Cast these
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In this
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There were of course more than that that was just a few pulled to scale and measure .

[toallmy]

You all made me tired talking about moving all that lead , and brass so I'm going to take a nap in a little bit . I might go make some empty brass later though .

[mold maker]

Went down to load some 45 ACP and wound up sweeping water. Early morning storm floated/blew a piece of plastic over the drain outside the door. Dehumidifier running full tilt.
Thank goodness for tomorrow.

[1989toddm]

Cast these
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In this
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There were of course more than that that was just a few pulled to scale and measure .

Is this similar to the Lee 405 gr boolit? From your pictures they look identical.

[sundog]

Working my way thru FLSing a batch of 300 BO brass. Still have a borrowed upper from a friend and playing around with it.

This sure is a interesting cartridge with so much varying potential.

[Harter66]

Is this similar to the Lee 405 gr boolit? From your pictures they look identical.

This is the Lyman 458193 . 405 gr . I do have a Lee 405 HB ono the way though . Honest mistake I bet .

[1989toddm]

This is the Lyman 458193 . 405 gr . I do have a Lee 405 HB ono the way though . Honest mistake I bet .

I am referring to the plain base Lee 405 gr. I don't think you're lyman mold is identical to the hollow base 405 Lee.

[Harter66]

The nose is longer on the Lyman than the Lee I believe . I don't have a Lee 405 . The Lyman here and the Lee 450 are similar in proportions .

I do have a thread with a whole bunch bullets in it though and some of those are Lee .

[mac60]

F/L sized, trimmed, chamferred and deburred and cleaned 322 pcs. of .30-30 brass. Loved every second of it.

[Texas by God]

Working my way thru FLSing a batch of 300 BO brass. Still have a borrowed upper from a friend and playing around with it.

This sure is a interesting cartridge with so much varying potential.
You know you'll get one, right?
Best, Thomas.

[Lee S. Forsberg]

The last few days cast about a 1000 H&G 224 powder coated and sized them. Will load them into 9mm in the next few days.

[sundog]

You know you'll get one, right?
Best, Thomas.

No doubt!

[trixter]

Loaded up 80 rounds of 9mm. That was all of the lubed cast boolits I had left. I am sure liking the reverse rotation kit form Inline Fabrication.
192442

It cuts a lot of time and motion form the process.

[mwells72774]

Installed my new Forster co-ax (hidden in bargain cave at Cabelas for $179) and destroyed a few 32-20 cases deciding I'll switch back to the RC for those. Semi quick change setup. Have a 6"x6"x3/4" plate with holes drilled for the Rock chucker and the Forster now. The plate is bolted 3/4 way on the bench so it over hangs 2" or so for clearance

[robg]

Sized ,expanded ,cleaned and primed 70x 357 mag cases .might load them tommorow .

[TexasGrunt]

I was loading .45 ACP hollow point boolits and broke a part on my Dillon 650. I had to wait an agonizing 4 minutes on hold to order the new part. Now I have to figure out why that particular part broke.

I then switched benches and starting casting more .45 ACP hollow points. I'm really in love with that NOE mold.

Headed to the range to see how they shoot on Wednesday!

[Loudy13]

loaded 50rds of .308, set up the trimmer for .243 and ran about 25 round of 9mm through the progressive press.

[Reverend Al]

I loaded some powder coated Lee 405 hollow based .45-70's over 22.5 grains of my remaining, hoarded SR-4759 to test in my 1878 dated Trapdoor Springfield. PC'ing them brought them up to .461 / 462" which is a better fit in my old, large bored rifle. I test fired them at 100 yards and they were shooting into about 6 to 8 inches (which is better than the original tests when as cast they were shooting about "minute of sheet of plywood" at 100 yards). More testing is needed to fine tune the load, but it's a lot more promising than the original go around ...

[ikarus1]

got my Lee 38 trim die, chucked up my power driver and started going thru about 2000 cases. I never used to trim straight wall cases but it makes it easy to use the flash hole tool, and leads to a more consistant crimp. Besides, what else am I gonna do while watching Breaking Bad reruns?

[Reverend Al]

Just heading down to sort out some cleaned brass that I took out of the tumbler. I put the 9mm dies in the small primer Dillon 550 so I should load some test ammo to try in my wife's new Chiappa M1-9 carbine the next time we take it out ...

[brassrat]

:p............. I cut off a few coils on a .45 ACP spring cause yesterday I loaded 80 rds and only scooped in 3.2 gr Bullseye...somehow. I wanna try it

[Boolseye]

Spilled a full bottle of Hoppes cleaning an airgun.
Got all the fouling off of my bench.

[Boolseye]

I then switched benches and starting casting more .45 ACP hollow points. I'm really in love with that NOE mold.Which one do you have? Is that the 187 RF?

[MKN]

Had a good day ( actually Sat.)
GC - size, lube 100 +/- 30 cal 170 g from lee mold. loaded them into 300 Blk out.
loaded 50 of the S+W 460 mag with lee 230 g TC.
GC, size , lube 150 of 55 g lee .25, loaded them into 100 .223 at 2000fps
punched 150 AL 30 cal GC
Loving my new 4500 Lyman, with my hard lube.
Matt

[MKN]

Spilled a full bottle of Hoppes cleaning an airgun.
Got all the fouling off of my bench.

Now I have a Benjamin that I should clean as well as a few 22 cal.......maybe you have inspired me to get that Done !

[Reverend Al]

I did the same thing several times and finally figured out that you buy a large bulk pint or quart bottle of Hoppes #9 and then refill your small bottle as needed. That way when you spill it (and you will spill it ... it seems to be inevitable ...) then you've only spilled what was in the small bottle.


Spilled a full bottle of Hoppes cleaning an airgun.
Got all the fouling off of my bench.

[Good Cheer]

Spilled a glass of milk and worked on getting shelves rearranged.
Exciting huh!

[Boolseye]

thanks for the suggestion re. bulk Hoppe's.

[Reverend Al]

Loaded 100 rounds of .300 Blackout for my Remington 700 carbine. Reformed Winchester cases, CCI 450 primers, 15.0 grains of Winchester 296, 150 grain Winchester bulk soft points. We have an instructional rifle shooting session up at our local gun club tomorrow with the dedicated women's shooting group from within the club so I wanted to bring along something fun for them to shoot that has low recoil. Also taking my Remington 700 .223 HB Varminter and my wife's new Chiappa 9mm carbine for them to shoot too. Should make for a fun day at the range with a bunch of new shooters ...

[rmark]

Technically in the garage, smelted the last 5 gallon bucket of wheel weights.

[Harter66]

Loaded 20 45-70 . Prepped 80 more . Loaded 100 45 AR .
Gotta go fill up the Unique bench can again .

[mold maker]

Took a box of my latest purchases down and couldn't find a flat spot to set it. Where did all these unfinished projects come from???
I spent over an hour putting things away and here comes my son asking where I put his stuff.
He now has a dedicated area and the understanding is there is a line between his and mine that neither will cross. I even gave him his own press, but we do share the books.

[Reverend Al]

Just finished cleaning the 3 guns that I took up to our club shoot today. We had 3 young ladies who had never shot anything before and they had a great time and will come to more of our future events. We started them off with .22 rifles shooting steel Silhouettes and then let them shoot a variety of different centrefires. (We have a monthly instructional shoot for our gun club's dedicated Womens group and cycle our way through the various different club disciplines ... Trap, Skeet, Archery, Rifle, Pistol.) I took my HB Remington 700 .223 Varminter, my HB Remington 700 .300 Blackout 16" tactical carbine, and the Chiappa M1-9 that I recently bought for my wife. The Chiappa 9mm was shooting all over the map and I just found out when cleaning it that the rear sight had shot loose and was bouncing back and forth side to side by about 1/2" or more! No wonder they couldn't hit much with it. (I've gotta find a scope base to fit the factory dovetails and install a red dot sight or a low powered scope on it to replace that crappy factory rear sight.)


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[pjames32]

Sized/lubed about 800 9mm 128gr NOE bullets (cast 131.5 with my 13.4bhn alloyy. Cleaned the bench a bit while the lube heater warmed.
Hope to load some of them Monday for the first try at the range.
FWIW I set my small bottle of Hoppe's in a round cottage cheese container while the bottle is open. Do the same with all those tippy small bottles. I've spilled more than one!

[Charliemac]

I finished sizing a batch (20#'s) of 357446 with Carnuba blue. I'm using a .359 die and it barely did anything to the lead. Next week I'll be loading some 357 and 38 Special.

[Texas by God]

Spilled a full bottle of Hoppes cleaning an airgun.
Got all the fouling off of my bench.

No; you SEASONED your bench.

[Boolseye]

A nice Sunday morning session:
NOE 453-200 SWC, Lee 356-120 TC and NOE 225-55 RF,
Lubed in 45-45-10.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Loaded some test loads with 168 SMK and CFE BLK in 300 blackout. Didn't shoot mine but my buddy shot the same loads in his gun and found that his old standby of lilgun is more accurate.
I'll see how my rifle does with them next week

[Reverend Al]

Just filled my FA ss pin tumbler with a big batch of .40 S&W cases ... just going to head back upstairs so I'll turn it on when I do ...

[Loudy13]

192930Cast a bunch of .30 cal this weekend

[Texas by God]

I got a great deal on 7.62 NATO brass from a member here.
I'm making .358 Win out of all 150.

[robg]

Reloaded 40 rounds of 308 win with 164 gr lrngc boolits that I shot last week even trimed and cleaned primer pockets .all in an hour ,such good therapy .

[WilliamDahl]

Took a box of my latest purchases down and couldn't find a flat spot to set it. Where did all these unfinished projects come from???
I spent over an hour putting things away and here comes my son asking where I put his stuff.
He now has a dedicated area and the understanding is there is a line between his and mine that neither will cross. I even gave him his own press, but we do share the books.

Sometimes, I think we just get ADD (https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/addquiz.htm) as we get older... Sometimes I'll get as far as buying the parts for a project, but it might be a year before I get around to using them (assuming I remember what they were for). Sometimes, I put the parts in the online shopping cart, but never get around to completing the purchase, figuring that there was "one more thing" that I needed to get.

[Whitespider]

Just finished disassembling the frame of my new 1911 and stoning the sear.
I'm very happy with the trigger now.
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[Reverend Al]

My problem seems to be that I just can't help myself and I buy too many "projects". I have a project that I need to get to, but before I get around to working on it / finishing it I buy ANOTHER project, and then before I finish those first TWO projects I buy ANOTHER project ... and so on and so on and so on. I now have so many projects backed up that I don't know when I'll get around to them all! And the trouble is that I don't want to give up on any of my projects and sell any of them unfinished ... I bought all of them because I WANTED them! Oh, it's such a vicious circle ...


Sometimes, I think we just get ADD (https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/addquiz.htm) as we get older... Sometimes I'll get as far as buying the parts for a project, but it might be a year before I get around to using them (assuming I remember what they were for). Sometimes, I put the parts in the online shopping cart, but never get around to completing the purchase, figuring that there was "one more thing" that I needed to get.

[adam_mac84]

Continued my testing with Smoke's powder. Carolina blue is awesome. Pink, i have to do 2 coats to be happy, bright green the same. Not that I mind.

I sized and coated 300 boolits. Some I will load with a second sizing, some without. I can cast, coat and size, but had a couple that stripped off (think I identified a problem in my process so that shouldn't happen again). Sometimes I just like to get away and size some things... mindless

I also mized pink and blue for a fancy Easter purple for my wife. She loves her pink boolits.

Next is figuring out her damn Glock42 reload recipe (with J words to start). Once those cycle and I am happy with the reliability i will get a mold, she will have pink boolits for her pink glock

[country gent]

I finished assembling a powder trickler I made up and made a leveling plate for a new to me scales. Have to buff out the trickler after testing it and sand and finish the leveling plate still

[therealhitman]

A few years back when I won the reloading lot at a local estate sale auction I wound up with a few thousand really odd-colored projectiles in .355 .357 and .452. Just found them again during spring cleaning this week and decided to work up some loads and assemble a bunch. Not sure of the alloy but they are pretty hard. The color could be some odd form of oxidation I suppose. I did get some ingots on that palette but I don't remember any of them being orange. Anyway, the boxes claim these are extreme bullets but they seem pretty well behaved just laying there all this time. Made up some dummies to check feeding and noticed how smooth and consistent the surface is on these. The molds they used must be amazing! Wish they had been included in the lot.

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[adam_mac84]

I finished assembling a powder trickler I made up and made a leveling plate for a new to me scales. Have to buff out the trickler after testing it and sand and finish the leveling plate still

Can I see this leveling plate?


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[pjames32]

Cast a few over 2 afternoons.193187 35+ lbs. NOE 358-128
PJ

[Oklahoma Rebel]

I cast a little over 100 lee 312-185gc's for the sks, using the lyman#2 copper alloy, water dropped this time, just to see hhow that turns out. I usually use the oven to heat treat after I size, I just hope the water dropping doesn't make it to hard on my lubrisizer.oh well, if so I can de- temper them in the oven overnight if I need to

[coxa2]

Deprimed a couple hundred 38's, getting them ready for the tumbler.

[labradigger1]

Powder coated a few hundred 117 grain 32-20 boolits.

[poacherjo]

Tumbled some 45 brass and reloaded about 500 rounds of paper shotgun shells and about 300 rounds of 223

[MaLar]

Finished getting ready for a BPCRS match tomorrow.

[edadmartin]

The last couple days ive been deconstructing my lee classic turret. Im adding a new turret head and reverse rotation index rod and case ejector.had some problem with the dang little plastic index nut stripping.got it figured out and some new plastic parts coming from Lee.I like the idea of a case ejector.also ordered a backup camera,wifi version to hover over the case to avoid problems,its on the slo boat from china.
while doing that i wet tumbled some old brass which has been stored a few years and had some corrosion and discoloration. I tried walnut meadia but didnt get the clean,so i wet tumbled and let soak in a solution of vinegar,dawn and lemme shine, All morming , then rinsed and sun dried.they all came out great,so ill finish the rest subsequently.

[flyingmonkey35]

got some back plate up to protect the back stop of the club range. replaced the top board.

next up clean out range lead and reassemble. and some painting​.

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[sharps4590]

Worked up some 9.3 X 75R Nimrod brass for one of my drillings and some 8.7 X 55R brass for my Schuetzen rifle. Fired up the lead furnace and cast some bullets for the Schuetzen rifle. That and reviewed data for both rifles. May load them today if I get the Honey-do's finished then again I may wait as it's supposed to rain every day next week.

[Texas by God]

Reworking 7.62 Nato brass to .358 Win; hanging two ceiling fans; improving the lighting.

[bluejay75]

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Fine wire strainer and Eastwood Hotcoat clear does a pretty good job on NOE 432-278 WFN. I need to change out the powder. Before I started running a pile of bullets the powder was clear and white. Now it looks more gray when I get started. Transfers to a patina on the bullets. Im looking more for function than looks.

[Whitespider]

Well... after 3 sessions with no improvement in boolit release, I decided it was time to lap my new Lee 2-cavity mold.
And... a momentary lapse in concentration with the drill means my new Lee 2-cavity mold is now a one-hole mold :groner:
But... the good hole sure works great now.
Just think how many boolits I could have if I weren't such a dumb ***??

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[Harter66]

I cast 50 ea NOE 287-150 hunters and 7mm 168 SP for the 8.5 twist 7x6.8 .
Loaded 50 45 Colts , 60 45 ARs , 50 45-70 , 20 7x6.8 .

Good day .

[kmrra]

Rebarreled a Savage 110 from 270 Win to 6.5 Creedmoor

[Madoktor1]

Cast some C309-170-F for the 30-30. Sized and gas checked with Gator Checks.

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[Pee Wee]

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Swaged 3000 cores to make 125 grain XPT 9mm Rounds

[Reverend Al]

Sorted out a bunch more of my cleaned brass and separated it all by headstamps. Set up my small primer Dillon 550 for 9mm and ran a few test rounds. (And in the process spilled a freshly filled tube of 100 small pistol primers.) Put a batch of dirty .45-70 brass into the ss pin tumbler and turned it on when I left the shop ...

[6622729]

Finished the Polymer 80 compact build with a Glock 23 upper in .40 a week or so ago. I cast my first Lee TL401-175SWC and loaded my first cast lead rounds for .40. Alloy is water quenched (for convenience) COWW. Good looking round at 1.12" that went together well. I've been shooting copper plated reloads in the gun already so it shouldn't be too much to dial in a working load for cast and then starting loading in volume. There are just so many ways to enjoy this hobby! God Bless America.

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[Reverend Al]

Emptied the tumbler and put the .45-70 brass in to the dehydrator to dry. Ran a few hundred 9mm's through the 550 Dillon. Now I'm heading back upstairs to check on the turkey for family dinner tonight ...

[mwells72774]

Finished the Polymer 80 compact build with a Glock 23 upper in .40 a week or so ago. I cast my first Lee TL401-175SWC and loaded my first cast lead rounds for .40. Alloy is water quenched (for convenience) COWW. Good looking round at 1.12" that went together well. I've been shooting copper plated reloads in the gun already so it shouldn't be too much to dial in a working load for cast and then starting loading in volume. There are just so many ways to enjoy this hobby! God Bless America.

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193438

How's the glock handle your PC's, or are those PC? Look TL'ed

[Mgvande]

193487Loaded up a bunch of 43 Beaumont after work. I'm getting some good accuracy with the new mold. Just stepping up the charge.

[jimb16]

Just finished casting a couple hundred round ball for the old percussion revolvers. 1860s style 2 cavity mold with wooden handles. Boy does that thing heat up fast. Hard to handle when it gets hot. But is does cast some real nice balls once you get going.

[6622729]

I don't PC. I tumble lube with Recluse 45/45/10. They feed perfectly. The gun required no breakin. It was smooth and perfect from the first shot. Polymer 80 really got the compact version right!


How's the glock handle your PC's, or are those PC? Look TL'ed

[robg]

Cast 90 180 gr 358 boolits,90 150 gr 309fp boolits and 90 160 gr 309rn boolits then tumble lubed with lee lube .gas check them when they are dry.had to stop as my wrists had had enough .the 309 molds are the new type Lee double cavity ,using three molds in rotation boolits just fall out with ease ,using more molds at once the molds don't stay hot enough.

[Sur-shot]

I setup the Bridgeport with the 1911 slide jig, got it all dialed in for level and for the straight run on the table using a dial indicator. Then setup a new Cool Mister coolant system. Ran a true up and square cut (just took .002) on the face of the slide and put a .350 wide flat top on the slide, then started cutting the top serrations, end to end. Got six slots cut before I stopped (center and 5 lower). After I go up and finish the 5 slots above the center, I will cut the cocking serrations, front and rear, then lower and relieve the ejection port, then cut the slide top for Novak dove tails. Then I will find a receiver candidate so I can cut the receiver to fit the slide and fit it.
Ed

[robg]

Gas checked the boolits I cast earlier today ,now I feel like I've not wasted my day off work ,even took the dog for a good walk so he's worn out as dogs cover 10 times the distance we walk .good day all round.

[OS1880]

Not a heck of alot today working on 150 rnds I started Saturday. Had alot of interuptions. Going to continue in a little while

[Bookworm]

Received a Lee Classic Turret press at Christmas.

There's been too much going on around here that required my attention, so I just got it set up, adjusted (for now) and running. Loaded up some Lyman 358495 .38 wadcutters as the inaugural load.

It's good to be back at the bench.

And, after using a single-stage since 1989, a turret press is just unbelievable !

[jsizemore]

400 rounds of 38 special WC on the Universal. Playtime with the 14 and 15-3 for the weekend. Loaded 50 rounds of 1 1/8th oz. #4 buck loads for home defense and range practice. 1000 45acp last week.

[bjordan]

I have been dialing in the "new to me" Magma Bullet Master MKII. This unit has several nice upgrades, including twin PID units and 1000 watt heating rods. I have a little bit more fine adjustment to the alignment of the pour stream to the molds, but it won't take but a minute. The machine came with a set of 8 .45 ACP molds and I am getting usable bullets now. This machine flat will crank out the bullets! I love it!

[Texas by God]

Finishing the .358 Win. loading project I started last week.
225 gr btsp Sierra over W748-50 rds
200gr RCBS over IMR 3031-30 rds Win primer;30 rds Rem 9-1/2M primer
Same bullet over Unique with the Rem primer-20 rds
I'm SO behind on my shooting!
Best, Thomas.

[Harter66]

Ran a new to me mould , sorted a couple of batches run recently and checked some 25 cal .

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[KMD]

Did some casting today, love the six cavity molds.
.225 55
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EPP-UG 45 150

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[Wayne Smith]

Popped Tom's primer catcher onto my Bair press (same casting as the Pacific) and admired it before I got on here to thank him.

[Skunk1]

Got up early (as always), got the wife off to work and loaded 250 38 specials for the daughter. Got another box of 500 Missouri bullet company's, and between her shooting them up need to find a mold to cast some lighter 38 Cal for her.

[David2011]

Been messing around in the shop as I feel up to it while my knee recovers. It's therapeutic but no long sessions yet. Made some .45 Colt RNFP loads to try out Trail Boss.

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David

[Reverend Al]

Today I ran 500 rounds of previously formed .300 BO brass back over my tapered neck expander plug and now I have to adjust my FL sizer die to set the shoulders to the correct position.

I made a numbskull mistake and loaded up 500 rounds of ammo using brass that a friend formed for me on his automated Dillon sizing and trimming setup. Then, AFTER they were all loaded I found out that the shoulders were set back too far and they had about 10 thousandths too much headspace for my 700 Remington Blackout carbine! I got misfire after misfire with very light primer dents and finally had to give up and start all over again. I had to pull the entire batch of ammo back apart, neck expand the cases, and now I need to set the headspace on them with my FL sizer die adjusted properly to be correct for my rifle. (And I've been reloading for long enough that I should have known better and only loaded a few sample test rounds first before loading the entire batch of brass ... but I got lazy and now I'm paying for it.)

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[Pee Wee]

Been messing around in the shop as I feel up to it while my knee recovers. It's therapeutic but no long sessions yet. Made some .45 Colt RNFP loads to try out Trail Boss.

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David

Your going to love the Trail Boss, I shoot it in my 45 colt thompson, running 5.0 grains with 250 grain Keith bullet. Running at 820 FPS. Like shooting a light load 38 special for me.

[labradigger1]

Cast about 5-600 215 grain 32-20 boolits with a Lyman dc using Bruce b's speed casting method.

[rmark]

Smelted scrap soft lead yesterday, net 250 lbs, resized a bunch of 30-30 cases today.

[Loudy13]

Had a good weekend as far as reloading, coated about 1600 bullets 9mm, 30 cal, 38 wadcutters, and some 200gr .45's. sized all of those and loaded almost 400 9mm!
melted down 75 lbs of range lead while working on the coating. So all in all it was a good weekend made a big dent in my back log of powdercoating and smelting.

[popper]

Deprimed a bunch of 30/30 & a full 1 gal baggie of 223 for BO conversion. Reminds me to glue a magnet to my HF saw so I can check for steel cases.

[308Jeff]

I really need to quit staring at those molds in their boxes, and get to casting.

Just on the fence about attempting my first casts with a ladle, or going ahead and buying a bottom pour first.

[62chevy]

I really need to quit staring at those molds in their boxes, and get to casting.

Just on the fence about attempting my first casts with a ladle, or going ahead and buying a bottom pour first.

I ladle pour only and get great results. not as fast as a 6 cavity and bottom pour but much cheaper to start and easy to do. Just have to keep your pot and mold at the right temps and you will produce great bullets.

[Harter66]

I really need to quit staring at those molds in their boxes, and get to casting.

Just on the fence about attempting my first casts with a ladle, or going ahead and buying a bottom pour first.

I've been pouring since just before my join date , last October I got my first real ladle before that I poured from a stainless steel soup spoon staked in a piece of broom handle and got good bullets . Just pour some already .

[308Jeff]

Talked me into it, Harter.

[62chevy]

Talked me into it, Harter.

Good now to see some first results. Mine are on here some place from 4 years and they ain't purdy but worked just fine.

[prsman23]

Yeah. Pretty comes with time spent pouring. As long as they are free of major defects pour em and shoot em


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[Bookworm]

Loaded some (hopefully) factory duplicate .38 Spl to try in my just-acquired S&W 10-8.

Loaded 49 rounds.

There's a live primer on the loose, somewhere in that room. I heard the primer hit the floor, then it disappeared.....

[Harter66]

I replaced or at least ordered a new 6C 358-200FP and 6C 452-200 RNFP from Titian . I will probably settle in after while and load some just shooting ammo and some work ups for the 257 .

[62chevy]

There's a live primer on the loose, somewhere in that room. I heard the primer hit the floor, then it disappeared.....


Hahahaha me too and have spent hours looking for the little critters.