What did you do in the reloading room today?

[JBinMN]

I had surgery on my right(strong side) elbow a week ago, & have been trying to shoot & reload one handed with my weak ( left) side. It is quite the experience.
Been going slowly & methodically so far. I have , along with the missus, shot some .38 sp & .22 (semi auto) then citrus cleaned & tumbled about 150+ 38sp. cases, de-primed them & now am working on trying to chamfer the mouths & clean primer pockets before priming, powder measuring & seating boolits. Everything is slow & sure, and enjoying it even though it is at a snails pace.

I started a thread about a week ago, asking for tips on this type of thing & have been getting some pretty good help from some of the members here. That is very helpful & very cool for them to try to help out. I try to thank them each for the help , as without their input I would be just winging it along. The hints & tips/advice is making a kind of a bummer situation into a more enjoyable adventure for me.
:)

Typing is a hassle, but I am working on that too.
;)

Gonna go work on those cases again in a lil while. Just taking a break now. I keep trying to use my right hand absent- mindedly & it is taxing to not be able to use it &so I have to stop to take a break to rest a bit so I don't overdo things right now. Slow & easy, right?
:)


P.s. - If ya feel like want to help out... Weak side- One handed Reloading & Shooting tips - Anyone? (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?342212-Weak-side-One-handed-Reloading-amp-Shooting-tips-Anyone) Please do!
:)

[popper]

The more you cast the healthier you are? Health-o-meter, I like. Sand those ribs down in the mag to get the heavies to feed well or get some lancer mags. Grmps - what is your shoot-n-see recipe?

[308Jeff]

Set up the Dillon swager to do military 223's. Goal is to have 2000 sized, swaged, trimmed and chamfered by fall.
Someday i will get a Dillon Power Trimmer.....but $400 is slowing me down.

Processing military brass is for the birds! Was working on a batch of 1,200 308 a couple of weeks ago. Hating every minute of it. Then the thought occurred to me "Why am I doing this when I already have 5-7K pieces ready to load"? I threw it all in a box and taped it shut. LOL

[Beau Cassidy]

The more you cast the healthier you are? Health-o-meter, I like. Sand those ribs down in the mag to get the heavies to feed well or get some lancer mags. Grmps - what is your shoot-n-see recipe?Here is my health-o-meter.

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[OS OK]

If those are 9's that looks like about 4,857 boolits!

[Michael J. Spangler]

http://i.imgur.com/iSWA8rM.jpg

RCBS 44-250K
20 grains 2400
A little light for Elmer but I think he would approve

[Texas by God]

http://i.imgur.com/iSWA8rM.jpg

RCBS 44-250K
20 grains 2400
A little light for Elmer but I think he would approveThey look good in that MTM ammo wallet!

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[Texas by God]

I had my shoulder rebuilt yesterday so I'M banished to the couch. No loading or shooting for weeks dang it.

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[Michael J. Spangler]

They look good in that MTM ammo wallet!

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Thank you

[Jal5]

Recuperating from surgery on my leg. But sorting thru about 700 pcs 9 mm brass. Clean and ready to reload once I feel good enough to get to the bench.

[TXGunNut]

I had my shoulder rebuilt yesterday so I'M banished to the couch. No loading or shooting for weeks dang it.

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Get better soon! Hope you'll progress to doing a bit of PT in your loading room before boredom sets in.

[Reverend Al]

Took the dry brass out of the dehydrator, emptied the new batch of clean brass out of the ss pin tumbler and put them into the dehydrator, and then put a big batch of .45 ACP in the tumbler. No end in sight of dirty brass yet.

Going to start sorting out a big batch of reloading and shooting equipment for a friend who's selling his house and moving out of town shortly. He asked me to sell it all off for him so I went and picked it up on Tuesday. Looks like it'll keep me busy for a little while ...

[Bowhunter73]

I got a new MP mold from a friend to cast boolits for my Huben 22 semi auto air rifle, it casts around 35 grain pure lead boolit, looking for something to get a little more accuracy.

[goryshaw]

New wire racks for the ammo stash closet, replaced the Wally World plastic shelves that have been slowly collapsing under the weight. Putting the old shelves in the garage to organize my reloading equipment and other odds and ends.

Primed 108x once fired mixed year HXP .30-06 cases. Looks like I sacrificed 2 to the brass gods at the last 2 JCG matches, there should have been 110x.

After cleaning a couple of ARs I figured I may as well run Patch Out through most of my milsurps. They have all been cleaned with Ed's Red and looked clean already. Patch Out pulled a lot of copper and carbon out of most of those 'clean' barrels. Used up most of the 8 oz bottle the last few days, now I'm down to alternating Ed's Red and homemade copper cleaner (50-50 industrial cleaning ammonia and distilled water with Dawn dishwashing detergent added). Between the two I'm still getting carbon and copper out, it just takes 2x as many patches.

[Tripplebeards]

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Tried out my new Lee collet crimp on the 44 devistators.

[KrakenFan69]

do a bit more testing last night. Spun up another 100 12 shells today. Then finished what was left in the tray of the 650 (300 rounds of 9mm) before converting it over to .223 to do my last set of load tests for the 225-61 Elvis mold for the AR. CFE223 was looking good but H4895 is really looking nice too!

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[MuthaFunk]

I resized some 500 gr Lee GC bullets from .457 to .452 and loaded them into 460 Magnum brass under 27 gr H110.

Wow are they ever a lot of fun! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170909/737174f992971275a4120748ff1eda36.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170909/f7c6a13efdb55cee32131b11fa78a243.jpg

Chrony'd at almost 1200 fps out of my 5" S&W 460V

[Michael J. Spangler]

I resized some 500 gr Lee GC bullets from .457 to .452 and loaded them into 460 Magnum brass under 27 gr H110.

Wow are they ever a lot of fun! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170909/737174f992971275a4120748ff1eda36.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170909/f7c6a13efdb55cee32131b11fa78a243.jpg

Chrony'd at almost 1200 fps out of my 5" S&W 460V

that must be punishing!

[dragon813gt]

Opened up the package containing a new to me RCBS A2 press. Now to take it apart and clean it up. I should probably order parts for the LAM1 so I can put it back together and get it off the bench.

[David2011]

Get better soon! Hope you'll progress to doing a bit of PT in your loading room before boredom sets in.

That's what I did after my total knee. Not only was it mentally therapeutic but I have a rolling office chair for the single stage bench. Pushing and pulling myself around with the weakened leg helped. I would plant my foot on the floor, grab a press and pull toward it, flexing that stiff knee. The reloading room was a sanctuary. Always was, still is.

[KrakenFan69]

Filled the lead pot with pure lead and cast up 230 Lyman 525 gn slugs. ready to roll when I get some new Rio hulls. (hopefully soon)

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[Bob in St. Louis]

Envious !!!!!!!!!! :)

[Michael J. Spangler]

Coated another 8 pounds of 9mm and a couple pounds of collar buttons.
Cast some 550 grain 458's and some RCBS 44-250K
Also emptied the lee pot making 00 buck. Now I need to cut them all apart.

[308Jeff]

Went to Goodwill this morning and picked up a nice steel 4 drawer vertical file cabinet for $6.48. Got everything I had on the floor and other misc places put in it all nice and organized like. Set up the LNL AP to start running some plinking rounds for my Ruger PC4. Have a bunch of plated 180gr bullets I need to use up. Be glad when it cools off enough around here to actually start casting!

[camp]

I cast 500 9mm boolits ,oh and about 200 311 :)

[jdfoxinc]

Sorted and weighed 230 gr.452 rn that averaged 234 gr.

[DerekP Houston]

Apparently my hitek bottles all dried out and were rock hard. Tried to rehydrate with some more acetone but looked like a no go so I pitched them rather than get a flaky coat. My mistake for mixing up too much before I could use it up. Had a jar of hg #50 wadcutters I cast up that were awaiting coating so I used BLL instead. 2 light coats (1 before sizing and 1 after) and they are drying on wax paper again now. Even the BLL was a tad thick, guess it's been longer since I had to do any casting than I realized. Used a bit of kerosene to thin it back down since someone in another thread mentioned naphtha was the original solvent used for alox.

Worked like a champ! Now to work on cementing in some new fence posts before I can play in the office again.

EDIT: Even better! My neighbor already hired a crew of guys and got the back neighbor to chip in some cash for the fence repairs. For less than I would have paid just for materials they will have it completed today and repaired. I was willing to do the work myself but this means I can visit the range instead. Win/Win in my book! Also got a quote to replace my chimney boards (rotted out) and redo the cap.

[JBinMN]

Could not sleep, so in the middle of the night I sized, flared & primed 150 38sp cases. 50 WC for 148gr. cast WC & 100 regular cases with 158gr cast SWC. I used one press to size & another set up to flare the mouths. then I set up one for priming & primed. Next will be powder & boolit seating later today, most likely. I am in no hurry anyway.
:)

I am finding out that doing things weak one handed is slower & more meticulous than with one strong hand or both, but it can still be done with precision. Slow & easy...
;)

[OS OK]

Well JB...here's hoping that you mend well and become a two fisted brass stuffer again soon!

c h a r l i e

[JBinMN]

Well JB...here's hoping that you mend well and become a two fisted brass stuffer again soon!

c h a r l i e

Thanks Charlie! I am hoping so too.
:)

Very glad it is apparently not a permanent thing. Still gonna have the neuropathy in both arms, & some limits to strength & motion, but I think I can work around it eventually.

Looking forward to shooting & loading up some other handgun loads soon. Then it will be time for 12 & 20ga. shotgun loading & shooting for the hunting seasons... Depending on how the arm turns out.

That will likely be the next time I am posting in this topic.
:)

[Texas by God]

Re-loading as re-hab??? I sure hope so. I will ask the doc and SWWBO lol.......

[Beau Cassidy]

Ran the Magma with Mihec's 6-cavity 9mm brass mold for a few hrs then pulled the handle on the progressive and made some green-tipped .40's.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170911/9115a96848250e5eb1ee4a2944c44dc6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170911/a728d583a489ce4739bc716de78f96ac.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170911/9491b33949efc0ccfa68b4d49d64b4ce.jpg

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[WFO2]

Sitting here recovering from my Triple A surgery . It will three more days before I can lift anything over 4 pounds . Then I plan on reloading a few k in different calibers for my next range trip .

[DerekP Houston]

Loaded up 200 rounds of my MP 200gr HP bullets over 4.7gr WST. Had a few pieces of brass where the primer punched out the anvil but left a ring stuck inside the pocket. Not sure if anyone has a method for saving those, I just toss them in the trash as I catch them. 2 more jars of bullets left to load for it before I switch to a different caliber.

[Loudy13]

finished 4 new test loads for 135gr RNFP 9mm, loaded 250 .380 for the old man, and sorted 308 brass! Still trying to get the new room together after the move!!

[RogerDat]

Could not sleep, so in the middle of the night I sized, flared & primed 150 38sp cases. 50 WC for 148gr. cast WC & 100 regular cases with 158gr cast SWC. I used one press to size & another set up to flare the mouths. then I set up one for priming & primed. Next will be powder & boolit seating later today, most likely. I am in no hurry anyway.
:)

I am finding out that doing things weak one handed is slower & more meticulous than with one strong hand or both, but it can still be done with precision. Slow & easy...
;)

Remember James Braddock who after breaking his right hand as a boxer was forced to work with his weak left hand, when he came back he found he was better than before because the right hand was healed and he was more skillful with his left hand.

[JBinMN]

Remember James Braddock who after breaking his right hand as a boxer was forced to work with his weak left hand, when he came back he found he was better than before because the right hand was healed and he was more skillful with his left hand.

I like the motivational point of that!
:)
Thnx!
;)

Going down to start the powder loading & seating of the ladder test for 50 of the WCs & 50 of the SWC for the missus this evening. Hopefully, then test them tomorrow on the sandbags thru the chrono, and then repeat with the best choice of the loads for all 150 total I will keep around for her.
:)

[Texas by God]

I supervised while my wife packed up some sold items then she & my son swept the floor, bless them.

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[LUCKYDAWG13]

I got 100 rounds of 30/30 brass all set to load also sized and checked about 6# of Lyman 311041 Boolits

[Grmps]

Loaded 18 test loads of 12 rounds each, 356-125-2r-- BE 3.8, 3.9, 4.0 in BHN 10, 14, 19 sized to .356, .357 Want to see how charge, weight, and size affect accuracy.

Going to build something like this tomorrow

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[Buzz64]

Moved to new house with 3 car garage. Decided to make one stall my play room so built a divider wall, insulated, sheet rocked and put in benches and shelves.
Before:
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Made the MEC 9000G's "quick change" with bolts permanently mounted to bench so all I have to do is undo the 4 wing nuts to switch out the press with 410 or 28 ga (have the 12 and 20 mounted now). Will put in exhaust fan over the casting station (Far right near garage door) when I find one on sale.

[JBinMN]

Moved to new house with 3 car garage. Decided to make one stall my play room so built a divider wall, insulated, sheet rocked and put in benches and shelves.


Nice!
:)

[OS OK]

Well thought out and executed...gotta luv it when a plan comes together!

[whisler]

Added to my ingot stash and re-arranged a bit.

[DerekP Houston]

Not a reloading room yet, but we clamped a press down on my buddies counter top and got him started on the reloading journey. Started him off with some 45 rounds, got the dies set, and made 3 rounds of 200gr lead RN over 4.8gr HP-38. Dummy round fed and cleared from his 1911 easily, next step is for him to build a real bench for more secure mounting and getting a digital scale. I apparently have gotten quite spoiled with my setup ;). All in all a good day getting another member introduced to the fun of reloading.

[OS OK]

Derek...try to figure a way to isolate his digital scale from the bench vibrations and you'll save him time and frustrations...

Good job young man in helping to further our craft and for helping that other Texican whose eqpt. went submerged!

You are allright Derek...I don't care what they say about you . . . :bigsmyl2:

[Reverend Al]

Continued sorting, cleaning up, and organizing down in my reloading room so that I can move around in there. Dang! I sure have a lot of "stuff"!

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded up 250 Cast 225-61 Elvis .223 rounds for a 3-Gun match this Sat. Coated 350 358-158 RF rounds for a gun I do not as yet own. (plan to purchase this fall) pretty slow week as far as reloading goes.

Kraken Fan #69

[sniper]

Looked at the mess, and decided"I just gotta clean this up one of these days!" :mrgreen:

[lightman]

Moved to new house with 3 car garage. Decided to make one stall my play room so built a divider wall, insulated, sheet rocked and put in benches and shelves.
Before:
203942

After:
203943

203944

203945

Made the MEC 9000G's "quick change" with bolts permanently mounted to bench so all I have to do is undo the 4 wing nuts to switch out the press with 410 or 28 ga (have the 12 and 20 mounted now). Will put in exhaust fan over the casting station (Far right near garage door) when I find one on sale.

Thats a nice room. I'm sure you will enjoy it for years to come.

[KrakenFan69]

Chasing further issues last evening I found the 650 wouldn't index. So i tore it apart to investigate. The index spring had gotten buggered somewhere along the way. All better now. It was touch and go for a bit there.

Kraken Fan #69

[popper]

Melted some culls today, yesterday I processed a hundred 30/30 cases and several hundred 40sw, primed & ready.
Actually spending time to learn all but drum parts of 'Apache' (Jorgen Ingmann) without the overdubs. Venture's release helps some. Need to find the 'Cherokee' version too.

[CASTER OF LEAD]

I SIZED , FL ,TRIMMEED, 100 30-30 ONCE FIRED BRASS,lenghth trimmed and primed also. Loaded 40 with 175 gr. lachmiller , Pc'd, no check sized to
.311 over 9 gr. Of Unique
Will be shot from my Marlin 336 S.C..
Will report back when I shoot these.- CASTER

[bedbugbilly]

This is "casting week" for me. I've been casting various round balls and conicals for all of my muzzleloaders. Goal is to get a good supply ahead so I have plenty to use and won't have to cast for quite a while. Today, I got about 450 different round balls done - I'm a "dipper" and with some of the odd sizes I do, all I have is single cavity molds. Not an issue though - plenty of time, I can stand in the garage and pour while looking outside - watch traffic go by and enjoy a nice day - and of course a cup of coffee every once in a while! Couple more days and I'll be done.

[Tom W.]

Pulled some .357 brass out of my tumbler and looked at some .45 Colt brass that needs attention, but as I don't have a .45 Colt yet I didn't see any hurry. Besides, it was hot out there.

[adam_mac84]

That's what I did after my total knee. Not only was it mentally therapeutic but I have a rolling office chair for the single stage bench. Pushing and pulling myself around with the weakened leg helped. I would plant my foot on the floor, grab a press and pull toward it, flexing that stiff knee. The reloading room was a sanctuary. Always was, still is.

as a physical therapist, this was music to my ears!!!

[Loudy13]

finished deburring 300+ cut down 5.56 cases in prep for forming to 300BO. Sized 100 or so LR 308 cases.

[paraord]

Well over lunch breaks at work this week cast 250 of my 46-405D. Also found old boxes that were used for parts that look like a pen box fit 50 of those in each very nicely.
Next big project which is outside the reloading room is build the berm for my 300 yard range in the back. Which will result in more work IN the reloading room

[FISH4BUGS]

Trimmed 500 223 military on a Forster Trimmer. Gotta debur and chamfer next then ready to load.
Then I need to size and lube 1000 230gr rn 45's and load them for my son's birthday present. Then cast 2000 H&G #51gc and size and lube and load 357's.
Oh...I just remembered. I need to load 1000 308's.
Long range plans to sort 10 5 gal buckets of wheel weights and make ingots. The cut up 125lbs of linotype pigs and make ingots.
Never lack for anything to do in the man cave.

[DannyW]

Started working on some .410's this afternoon. Ran out of lead to melt down.:(

[JBinMN]

Tumbled, de-primed, sized & cleaned pockets on 150 -.380ACP cases. Priming/powder & seating some boolits tonite. Haven't decided on which weight boolits yet, nor whether I will size these before seating... Maybe some of each?

Decisions, decisions...
LOL
:)

The missus came down & helped prep. She is getting to where he wants to join in the prepping fort shooting & not just the shooting once in a while. Don't really know yet if that is a good thing or not.. Another thing to ponder on...
;)

G'Luck & have fun!
:D

[DerekP Houston]

Not my reloading room but someone else here on the forum, spent the morning digging through a flooded garage. Most of the boxes disentegrated when we tried to move them so we repacked into new boxes. The GI ammo cans weren't even bother by being under water, I need to invest in more of those for myself! Boxes and boxes of bullets and brass were quite soggy, once I get the rest of the equipment cleaned I'll try tossing them in a tumbler to see if they are saveable.

Found 3 presses that are much better off now, surface rust has been removed (just a bit of discoloration left) and they are spray with corrosion inhibiter now. A good amount of small tools are soaking in some evaporust, going to order a bucketful for the larger items and get them soaking once it arrives.

pretty good day over all, just hot and sweaty now. Too bad I have to go back to work tonight.

[gwpercle]

I checked my little out building loading room for anything rusting. Its just a wood framed , unconditioned , uninsulated , 1 room, built about three steps off the ground.
Hurricane Harvey caused what seemed like a week of rain , off and on . I was laid up for two weeks and didn't get out there.
Last week was nice weather but I was working from can to caint . This morning I checked all the moulds , casting and reloading tools on the bench and didn't find a speck of rust.
I have been using Liquid Wrench Dry Lubricant , both the spray and the liquid applied with a Q-Tip on my moulds , dies , presses...anything that can rust that I want lubricated but not greasy or oily.
That stuff appears to keep the rust at bay ....I don't know why, it's just some kind of a micro teflon ( they call it Cerflon) in a base that quickly evaporates. After coating the mould and cavities I put them away, the next casting session I warm the mould and the boolits want to jump out of the cavities...the stuff doesn't contaminate the cavity at all . I started spraying the other tools with it when I tired of getting oil/grease on hands...it's messy. I don't know how great a lubricant it is but it works at keeping the rust in check .... hard to argue with success !
Gary

[taco650]

Well over lunch breaks at work this week cast 250 of my 46-405D. Also found old boxes that were used for parts that look like a pen box fit 50 of those in each very nicely.
Next big project which is outside the reloading room is build the berm for my 300 yard range in the back. Which will result in more work IN the reloading room

Wish I had the land to build a home range...

[paraord]

Wish I had the land to build a home range...

It took a lot of hard work to get it but I couldn't live anywhere else! Nothing like rolling out of bed and walking to your tree stand any morning you like with no drive time.

[robg]

Took my loading gear to our club today to give one of our newish members a basic introduction to reloading .loaded some .223 with 55 g sierra blitz jktd bullets .when he finished loading shot them at 100 yards nice group and happy guy .he bought a basic set up, Mr Lee's breech lock press kit .good day.

[Michael J. Spangler]

melted two 5 gallon buckets of wheel weights to yield a measly 110 pounds of lead.
damn you zinc.

[RED333]

Loaded up my 32 cap and ball, sounds like a big cap gun with 10 grans of BP. Shot 50 or so out of my little 25ACP pistol.

[lightman]

Resized 100 223's for a project, degreased them and put them in the tumbler. Went out to the shop and sorted a 5 gallon bucket of wheelweights. Came back in and primed the 100 223's that were in the tumbler. Fired up the grill and cooked a steak and some chicken and had a couple of beers. Playing on the computer now!

[Crash_Corrigan]

I assembled my RCBS upgrade kit from my2ndright.com. This includes a lid to keep the heat in and a neat alum platform with adjustable side rails to make casting from this big bottom pour melter easy. The mold guide that came with the RCBS is a metal rod. That is the problem it is metal. Not aluminum. My aluminum molds gall on the steel rod and it makes getting the stream of alloy into those teeny tiny holes in the sprue plate very difficult. Now with this aluminum shelf it should be smooth casting.

[dansedgli]

Bolted a new lee classic cast press to my bench. The Dillon 1050 roller handle is a perfect fit. Solid steel too.

[JeffG]

Did 2 heat and cool cycles on a new NOE H&G 51 replica mold received today.

[Tom W.]

Loaded up what few .357 empties I had.

[KrakenFan69]

Went to the range to build some props for the club. While there I scooped up 2,500 9mm, 600 40 S&W and a few handfulls of .45 ACP brass from the weekends Steel Challenge match. Also pulled 30 lbs of projectiles form the berm to melt back down and test for hardness to see if I can use them for slugs. Got home and decapped all the 9mm brass and SS tumbled it. Ready to roller size.

Kraken Fan #69

[Reverend Al]

Sorted more clean brass, put another batch of dirty brass in the tumbler, sized, trimmed, and primed about 80 rounds of 7mm Rem Mag, ran another few hundred rounds of brass through my Annealeez machine ...

[DerekP Houston]

I assembled my RCBS upgrade kit from my2ndright.com. This includes a lid to keep the heat in and a neat alum platform with adjustable side rails to make casting from this big bottom pour melter easy. The mold guide that came with the RCBS is a metal rod. That is the problem it is metal. Not aluminum. My aluminum molds gall on the steel rod and it makes getting the stream of alloy into those teeny tiny holes in the sprue plate very difficult. Now with this aluminum shelf it should be smooth casting.

Hmm thats a pretty nifty upgrade kit. Thanks for the link I'm going to add it to my christmas wish list

[KrakenFan69]

Melted my berm harvested projectile lead and a bucket of previously cast projectiles back down into ingots. (Separately) 15 lbs of ingot form the berm and 30 lbs of ingots from my culled misshapen casts over the last couple of years. Ordered another 60 lbs of #2 Hardball too. Giggity Giggity

Kraken Fan #69

[Wayne Smith]

Cast total of 149 .395" round balls of pure for the coming flintlock. New Lee mold, worked well. Did this in two sessions - had maybe five of the first session that I threw back, mold not completely clean. Still warm here, but tropical low offshore so good casting weather.

[KrakenFan69]

Not in the room but for the room. Picked up 5 boxes of Winchester WAA12 wads in the old box $8 each. From Townpost. 1,250 in all. Vintage stock. lol


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[JBinMN]

Tumble lubed some 44mag boolits & the sized them, then tumble lubed them again. Also sized about 100-110 more that I had pan lubed. Citrus and tumbled cleaned 50 cases, primer pocket cleaned & chamfered them, then flared & primed them. They are just sitting in the block waiting for powder & boolit seating. Later tonite/early AM if I can't sleep & hoping to do some shooting tomorrow. I have a bunch of different calibers set up for ladder testing & choreographing. Been waiting for a decent day to do it.

[lightman]

Not at the loading bench but I sorted another bucket of wheelweights. The more you do the easier it gets. Kinda boring though!

[Crash_Corrigan]

The last time I posted that I had installed my2ndright.com upgrades on my RCBS Pro Melter. Since then I have cast about 2,000 boolits with it. I am convinced that this is a worthwhile investment. I had recently bought a Mihec 8 banger mold designed to make a 130 gr 357 dia mold without lube grooves to make powder coated boolits. Wow what a great mold! Once I got it heated up enuf it rained those little boolits at an insane rate.

When I had made about 500 or so I took into my kitchen and powder coated about half of them. The came out looking neat and clean in a coating of Smokem's Bacon Grease. Kinda looks like a rich cream color but much too fat for 9MM's. They will require sizing.

I put away the PC'ing stuff and went back to cast for a few days. With a Lee 6 banger I cast about 600 230 GR Round Nosed .452 boolits and then turned to the NOE Mold which produced 255 GR Keith style WFN boolits. Yesterday I spend the whole day powder coating all those cast boolits. When I got done I realized that all of them were needing resizing as they came out anywhere from .4525 up to .462 in diameter. I do not have any weapons that utilize a .462 boolit. I also cast 172 boolits in a RCBS two cavity mold that produced a 98 gr boolit in .312 dia of the SWC style. These also came out fat and will require sizing as well.

So today the effort will be to mount my Star Lubrasizer onto my inlinefabrication plate so I can utilize it on my ultramount and size those boolits down to a useful diameter. I do not expect to hook up the air pressure system to lube these as they require no lube. I just wonder if all the work of powder coating and then having to resize these boolits is any easier then just sizing and lubing them in one shot? I can expect less smoking when firing these rounds off but is that worth all the trouble?

Well if not then I really am not out a lot of money since I did not have over $75 invested in the powdercoating adventure. However I did learn something along the way. Maybe the lack of smoke and the lessening of the necessity for cleaning my reloading dies (every couple of hundred rounds) and the cool look of colored boolits will make up for the extra steps in the P/C process. Anyhow my wife declared that she wants her boolits in RED once she saw some of my experimental boolits.

I started out with Harbour Freight's dark red PC and then added some of their Yellow to the mix and obtained a reddish/orange boolit which is pleasing to the eye but still required sizing. I still have Traffic Orange and Yellow along with John Deere Green to play with............

[jimb16]

Sorted and cleaned around 500 pc. of LC .223 brass. Will figure out later what I'm going to use it for;.223, 7TCU or .300AAC. or maybe all three.

[waco]

Got 20lbs of COWW plus 2% Sn in the pot now for some NOE SC311-165-RD boolits for the 30-30
Blacktail deer season opens next weekend.

[DerekP Houston]

Back home finally and had a bucket of evaporust waiting for me at the door! Going to start working on some more of Terry's tools and getting them scrubbed up for return, results were pretty awesome with the smaller bottle I had tried so looking forward to some nice looking gear again.

Took inventory of my remaining rounds to load and noticed I'm out of 38 spec HP wadcutters. The last batch accuracy was "ok" but I think I went too light on the charge. Going to cast up some fresh ones this weekend and get them coated and loaded up.

[KrakenFan69]

Went back to the range and farmed another 40 lbs of recovered lead from the berm in about 45 min. Came home and loaded 700 rounds of 9mm for an IPSC match and Canadian Steel Challenge Nationals this weekend.

Kraken Fan #69

[JBinMN]

Cleaned & reloaded 50 9mm rounds ( 356-102 -1R) for a couple I know who wanted to try shooting some cast boolits in their Glock. I already had some (TL356-124-2R) loaded for them to try.

I am also going to take some of my handguns over to let them "Fam. Fire" them.

Been overdoing using my right arm since my surgery & it is starting to ache pretty bad, so I am gonna take a break from the reloading press using that arm. I have been doing things "lefty" , but I started using my right arm as a sort of PT(Physical Therapy), and along with everything else I have prolly bit off more than I should have so soon.
:???:

[DerekP Houston]

Stomped around on the roof of my reloading room does that count? Had to replace the chimney siding with some hardie board. Surprisingly easy to work with, was kinda fun.

[KrakenFan69]

Decapped and SS pin cleaned 2,500 rounds of .223 brass. Next up is hitting it with the Super Swage then size, trim & chamfer. Ugh. I hate that part.


Kraken Fan #69

[Moleman-]

Started cleaning it, then got distracted by a partially used bag of 9mm boolits. So to "clean up the work bench" I ran them through the progressive press and filled up a medium coffee can with plinking ammo. The reloading room still needs cleaning, but that Ziploc bag is off of the bench now!

[RED333]

Started cleaning it, then got distracted by a partially used bag of 9mm boolits. So to "clean up the work bench" I ran them through the progressive press and filled up a medium coffee can with plinking ammo. The reloading room still needs cleaning, but that Ziploc bag is off of the bench now!

I thing this line is the most posted in this thread.

[Texas by God]

I'm one handed for the time being. I dug around and found 50 sized 30-30 brass.
I used the Mequon (Lee) little priming tool to prime them. I'm using Lee scoops to load 25 rds with 150 Speer fp and W748 for my 94 Win. And 25 rds with IMR 4320 and 150gr Nosler SBBT for my 93 Mauser.
Gonna take a while but wth.
Best, Thomas.
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[Reverend Al]

Sorted more cleaned brass and then ran it through my Annealeez ...

[waco]

Loading some 429421's with 8gr of Unique! One of my favorites in my S&W 29 Classic 5"!

[lightman]

Sorted yet another bucket of wheelweights! The non lead weight count is so low on these that I'm tempted to just melt them down. But, I'm pretty picky. OK, I'm very picky! Being retired, I'm using these as something to do. The guy we bought these from said he pulled out all of the junk and he missed very little junk.

[jdfoxinc]

Deprived more of the 5gal bucket of range .223. Next reaming the primer pockets on my new RCBS trim mate. The old one was ruined in the fire.

[taco650]

Cleaned and organized it. It has been my rifle building bench for the past few months (built a Traditions Kentucky Rifle). My BIL and his wife are coming into town for the first time and my wife is an organization freak so...

I give her props because most of the time she overlooks by reloading bench because she's used to it being that way (she has 31 years of practice too). Anyway, got some junk thrown out that I didn't need and got some of my boolits organized and labeled so it was a beneficial exercise.

[texassako]

Prepped some brass to try some cast in my new Hi Point .380 carbine, Lee 356-102-1r and Saeco 371 are up first. It ended up having a short chamber, which threw me for a loop at first testing dummy rounds until I trimmed some brass down to minimum spec.

[Crash_Corrigan]

Finally got around to setting up my Dillon Square deal press to load some .45 ACP's. Cast the boolits last week and got them powdercoated a neat HF Red and HF Red/Yellow mix that came out a nice Orange. Then I had to size them in my Star but NOT LUBED. I gave 'em a shot of lube (aerosol) and that sped up the process and saved my shoulder.

Got the Dillon set up and ran a few dummy rounds thru to set my COAL, amount of powder (AA#2 5.3 Gr) under a 235 GR LRN boolit and they look like small lipsticks that you may find in your woman's purse when you a taking a set of keys (with her permission of course).

Ran them into the cage gage and all is OK. Loaded the press with 100 primers and a half tube of powder and off to the races. Except I kept on getting a problem with difficult priming. Rather then mess with it I decided to prime the cases by hand and run them thru without the decapping wire in the end of the stem. All that took place Saturday. Sunday is my day of rest and I did just that. Monday will see me priming and getting the ancient Dillon back to work. All I want is about 800 completed rounds. Then I will start on the 45 Colt and 327 Fed Magnum cartridges.

[Wayne Smith]

Getting the abused TruLine Jr set up and trying to use. The six hole steel turret does not index (of course - four holes!) and adjusting to this. The shell holder was drilled out to 1/2" - and Froggie suggested a Hollywood shell holder might fit. I have some spare Bair (1/2") shell holders (switched the Brown Bair to CH4D) and need to trim one of these to length. I'm considering dedicating this one to the 9x18 Mak, but discovered I need to cast some more boolits!

[KrakenFan69]

Started running the .223 brass I prepped last week through the Super Swage 600. Slow process but its something that can get done while you watch TV. Made it through about half (1,250) of what was decapped and cleaned last week. Lots left to decap and clean, lots left to swage...

Kraken Fan #69

[Bookworm]

Was given about 1/3 bucket of wheel weights a few weeks ago. Got tired of walking around the bucket, so I sorted and rendered them down.
Got about 30 lbs of CWW in ingots. Tossed the SWW in the bucket with the rest, I'll get to them eventually.

Had a can full of Zinc weights, I figured I'd go ahead and render those down also. They sure take ALOT more heat to render than do the lead weights. I poured the liquid Zn into a homemade mould, one which nets about 2.25 lb ingots with lead. I'm curious to see what the weight of the zinc ingots are.

When they cool down enough to handle, I'll weigh them.

[KrakenFan69]

Finished all the clean .223 brass Swaging. Sized it all and and started the process of trimming. Should be done tonight.

Kraken Fan #69

[Grmps]

I PC'd and baked 1100 357-125's and 250 452-252's in 43 min.
http://i.imgur.com/BcMO21L.jpg (https://imgur.com/BcMO21L)

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[Harter66]

I turned a new pin for the primer pocket swager die I think one of my Little Helpers got heavy handed with some of the last batch .204940

[Tom W.]

I loaded a box of 9mm then deprimed and sized some .38 /.357 brass. I have it in the tumbler now. I hope I don't forget it.

[jdfoxinc]

Cast a bunch of .25 50 gr for .25 ACP. Sized and lubed some 9mm lee TL cones. All while doing my laundry. Howes that for multitasking?

[DerekP Houston]

Searched through all my shelves looking for my expensive SD ammo....I found a few boxes but not nearly as many as I remembered ordering. Apparently I shot a lot of them for the brass ;). Plenty of 357 magnum has been located now and a ammo can full of 45acp which I thought I was out of. Inventory is always amusing to see what I'd squirreled away.

[jdfoxinc]

Bookworm do you have plans for the zinc?

[sparkyv]

Sorted over 5# range brass. Had quite a bit of 40 s&w PURPLE nickel cases with WMA headstamp.

[Bookworm]

Bookworm do you have plans for the zinc?

Well, my initial plans are to try to cast some heavy sinkers with it, 3 lbs or so each. I still need to figure out how to make a re-usable mould.

The sinkers are for trot-line weights, for catfishing. I don't do much fishing myself, but some fellows that I know are heavy in to it, and those same fellows have access to wheel weights. Instead of them using the wheel weights to cast weights, I want to use the zinc weights as bait, to get those wheel weights away from them.

I'm hoping that me giving them pre-cast trot-line weights will induce them to trade me the wheel weights they do have.

That should give me some lead, and some more zinc to cast more fishing weights.

If the plan works.

Unless you have a better plan ?

[ammohead]

I loaded 40 250 Savage cases with 44.5 grains of Superformance and 75 gr. old Barnes X bullets. I have a desert big horn ewe tag next week and I am taking my model 99 as a backup for a 1908 model 94 in 32 win special with cast boolits.

[OS OK]

Well, my initial plans are to try to cast some heavy sinkers with it, 3 lbs or so each. I still need to figure out how to make a re-usable mould.

The sinkers are for trot-line weights, for catfishing. I don't do much fishing myself, but some fellows that I know are heavy in to it, and those same fellows have access to wheel weights. Instead of them using the wheel weights to cast weights, I want to use the zinc weights as bait, to get those wheel weights away from them.

I'm hoping that me giving them pre-cast trot-line weights will induce them to trade me the wheel weights they do have.

That should give me some lead, and some more zinc to cast more fishing weights.

If the plan works.

Unless you have a better plan ?

Have you tried a tuna fish can or a cat food can? They would be one time moulds but they ought peel off the zinc leaving approximately a 3 lb. weight. You could form an omega shaped heavy wire to embed into the weight for tying the weights to the trot line...

[jdfoxinc]

I cast 1" round balls for my cannon.

Humm sinkers cannon balls. 6 of one half a dozen of the other. Go for the ww trade.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Cleaned up a bit.

[Grmps]

I sized these, now my elbow hurts :)
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[Harter66]

Loaded some more 45 ACP with 454424 NOE copy and loaded up 10 clips with it .
Ran some 380 with the 358-88 NOE .

I had the big pot empty so I tossed in about $20 in pewter ware that I've been scrounging up for a yr or 2 . About 10# in neat little 1/2 # Lee ingots .

[Tom W.]

I moved my RCBS base plate to to where I had my RockChucker. I bolted down the press and it seemed mighty sturdy. I might order another so I can mount my powder measure and ( dare I say it? ) case trimmer when needed. I also emptied my tumbler and sorted the brass.....

[JBinMN]

Loaded up 50 45ACP TC & 50 RN for plinking rounds. Wanted to go out & do some shooting, but not in the rain. Looked over the supply of cast & I need to get moving on some more boolits before it gets colder here. Either that or get a ventilation system for the garage set up. Little bit every chance I have the time.
:)

[OS OK]

Loaded up 50 45ACP TC & 50 RN for plinking rounds. Wanted to go out & do some shooting, but not in the rain. Looked over the supply of cast & I need to get moving on some more boolits before it gets colder here. Either that or get a ventilation system for the garage set up. Little bit every chance I have the time.
:)

I'm thinking of using an old venta-hood hanging from fixture chain (my pots are on an island in the shop) and flex duct it across the ceiling outside of the garage.

[Soundguy]

Good idea!

[Buzz64]

Gas checked, lubed and sized some .32 90gr. on the Lyman 4500. One size fits all for my .32-20, 32 H&R Mag and .327 Fed. Makes me appreciate the star for the 9mm and 45's :grin:

[JBinMN]

I'm thinking of using an old venta-hood hanging from fixture chain (my pots are on an island in the shop) and flex duct it across the ceiling outside of the garage.

I have been pondering on it for some time now. I already have the ducting & a inline fan a buddy gave me for the purpose. I just have to figure out a hood & a good location in there. If I can't find old stove vent like ya mention, I may just cut a hole an old baking pan and fasten it up above the pots & have it attached to the ducting till I find a range hood for it.

Thanks for sharing your suggestion, for sure!
:)

Gotta do something though. The winters here get pretty chilly to be doing casting outside.
;)

[Tom W.]

Flaired some .38 Special brass. I was a bit confused,as I again had to adjust the die. I have a suspicion that when I use that die with the washer under it for my .357 that I'll have a trumpet if I'm not careful. Dunno why......been doing it for years and now this.......

[OS OK]

I have been pondering on it for some time now. I already have the ducting & a inline fan a buddy gave me for the purpose. I just have to figure out a hood & a good location in there. If I can't find old stove vent like ya mention, I may just cut a hole an old baking pan and fasten it up above the pots & have it attached to the ducting till I find a range hood for it.

Thanks for sharing your suggestion, for sure!
:)

Gotta do something though. The winters here get pretty chilly to be doing casting outside.
;)

Thanks for your reply...it made remember a brand new 8" duct fan I have out in the barn! That would do it fine...all we have to do build is a frame out of 1X4" and cover one side with some 1/4" like a door skin or a piece of paneling. Hang it with some jack chain and we gotter done!

[jdfoxinc]

Cast more .25 51 gr pills. Boy do I need to convert these new to me 2 cavity lyman molds for my master caster.

[bstone5]

Cleaned the 223 small base loading dies after loading 600 rounds of 223 with bullets left over for many years of shooting service rifle in NRA high power matches. Trying to load up a lot of different bullets collected over the years. The 243 loading next with lots of 6 mm bullets in the cabinet.

[trixter]

About a month ago I ordered a neck sizing die for my 30-06, and was so impressed with it I ordered one for my 223 activities. I only shoot these in 1 bolt gun so it is very convenient not to have to lube and all that goes with that. At about case 155 everything came to a screeching halt. there was something blocking the primer hole and of course (if a little does good, lots will do better) I applied more pressure and SNAP. Broke the pin off the bottom of the decapping mandrel. Bummer, well not too bad. I jumped onto the Lee site and filled out a ticket and guess what, next morning I get an email stating that there will be a new one in the mail for just paying shipping. I jumped over to PayPal and took care of that and now waiting for a new one. Wow, great service.

[ole_270]

Loaded 120+ 25-20WCF for my old M94 Marlin. 9.2gr 4198 under a 260283, PC'd bullet from a plain base NOE mold. Just under 1300 fps and is very accurate in this old rifle. Works great for small game and backyard gongs.

[Smoke4320]

Cast and powder coated 264 NOE 311247 HP's
Ready for the Zombie squirrel attacks, Night of the killer fawns or just walking scum

[JBinMN]

Tumbled 50 .357 cases to prep for a ladder test of Red Dot. I think it is my last handgun ladder test with that old powder. I am almost done with that pound of powder, although I do have enough left to load up some 30-06 & .308 too if I feel like using it up on them.

Likely start de-priming, sizing & flaring tonite, maybe priming. Then load with powder & bullets tomorrow when I return from working on one of my oldest sons properties down his way.
:)

[Tom W.]

I loaded up some .38 specials with red dot. I got lazy and used the Lee Dipper that corresponded with the load book. Just didn't feel like weighing all the loads on my scale today. I probably won't feel like doing anything after Thursday for about a week or so.

[62chevy]

I loaded up some .38 specials with red dot. I got lazy and used the Lee Dipper that corresponded with the load book. Just didn't feel like weighing all the loads on my scale today. I probably won't feel like doing anything after Thursday for about a week or so.

Got your 6 Tom. Many prayers sent.

[Tom W.]

Thanks! Can never get too many.

[woodbutcher]

:grin: Hi Harter.Do your"Little Helpers"go by the name"Hercules"or"Wonder Woman"?[smilie=1:
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Swede 45]

Made some test loads with various powdercoated boolits that was sent to me to try..
Also prepped about 3000 boolits for powdercoating tomorrow..

[Texas by God]

I can't cast for a while yet or shoot with two hands but I managed to shoot one arm left handed on the bench yesterday.
Sorry- 22-250 j-words. I settled into the bags onthe top group (45 gr Barnes TSX) then got lucky on the bottom group (55gr Vmax).
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[skeettx]

Well done, thanks for the picture

[texassako]

Cleaning brass and pulling down with my whack a mole puller a couple dozen .380 Bluedot loads that were to light to cycle the action (or burn the powder).

[jdfoxinc]

De primed 1k 380 brass. Punched discs for 9mm PB gas checks. Both booring, but necessary.

Smoke4320 I didn't know squirrels could zombie. What fun!

[jeepguy242]

cleaned all the junk off the bench and listed some dies i no longer use here in the classifieds

now time to start loading again....

[taco650]

Not today but a couple days ago I loaded some .38 Special practice loads with some Lee .358-158 SWC-GC (which drop at ~163 grains for me). My alloy is water dropped range scrap. Powder was 3.2 gr of Trap 100 with Win small pistol primers.

[Bookworm]

Not today but a couple days ago I loaded some .38 Special practice loads with some Lee .358-158 SWC-GC (which drop at ~163 grains for me). My alloy is water dropped range scrap. Powder was 3.2 gr of Trap 100 with Win small pistol primers.

I still have about 3/4 pound of Trap 100. I use it for light 9mm.

I'll miss it when it's gone.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Cleaned up again... seems like I can't stop moving stuff around.... so I can move it around again.
Loaded some 44 mag while up there. RCBS 44-250 (263 grains) over 19 grains of 2400. 20 grains was a good load too but I toned it down a bit.

[jdfoxinc]

Turned those discs into cups and seated them on Led 90454 BULLETS.

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded up 50 12ga shot shells to round out the 100+ I already had done to do some practice tomorrow and busting clays on Sunday with the family. Loaded up some more Lyman 525 gn Slugs too.

Kraken Fan #69

[Reverend Al]

Loaded about 150 rounds of .38-55 ... still have another 150 or so to go tomorrow ...

[DerekP Houston]

Cleaned up and got my new classic cast turret installed right where the old one went. Setting it up to crank out some new 380 rounds now, testing golddot and hornady xtp.

[white eagle]

farted

[The Governor]

I changed the coal, crimp and charge on my .38 specials, and ran 100
our so to try

[texassako]

Loaded up 246 rounds of .380 for paper punching with a Hi Point carbine using up a tub of Ranch Dog 100 gr boolits that have been sitting around since I sold the mold a few years ago.

[WFO2]

Loaded a few 38's for an upcoming range shoot .

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded up 100 Lyman 525gn 12 ga slugs yesterday. Fiocchi 2-3/4" clear hulls, BPI 12ga powder cup, CB 1114-12 wad and 30 gn WSF. Roll crimped and ready to party.

205454

Kraken Fan #69

[ToolmanTaylor]

Loaded some 38 spl rounds. 3 gr of 700x under the Lee 358-105 swc. Light recoil and fun to shoot out of my s&w airweight.

[jdfoxinc]

Smelter approx. 150 lb of 6%-2% alloy in prep for the snowed weather predicted for tomorrow.

[RED333]

I picked up a Llama Especial .22 1911, has a few issues. 1st was a very dirty chamber, could not "plunk" a round in, was tight. Cleaned the chamber well. It is easier to push a round in but still no "plunk". Now a CCI mini mag will fall in very easy, but cheap bulk needs a push.
2nd is the feed lips of the magazine. very worn, did the best I could and did get the pistol to fire and cycle 100% with the CCI ammo. Still have troubles from the cheap stuff. I feel if I can get the chamber reamed just a bit it would help a good bit. The mag is a different story, they are few and far between and a bit on the high side. All and all I am happy with the little 22 1911.

[JBinMN]

Finished the .357 Mag loads I was working on that I mentioned a few posts back. Set them up for a ladder test. 10 rounds Red Dot at 5.0/5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4 each . Hoping to test them & some others tomorrow if I can.
:)

[David2011]

Not much today. Separated 9mm//.38/.40/.45 brass after a match and some practice sessions, separated my previously marked .40 cases from unknown .40 cases so I can run the unknowns through the Case Master Jr. getting ready to load my first run of PCed boolits.

[Walter Laich]

wet tumbled over 8 lbs of 45 Colt, 44 Mag and 12 brass shotgun shells
two batches
started at 11 and done by 5:30

dried in good old Texas Sun

[DerekP Houston]

Loaded up 2 dozen or so each of the 90 gr GoldDot and Hornady XTP rounds for my 380. Both just under the max charge advertised in respective manuals of n320. Would be nice to have another use for that powder.

[Reverend Al]

Finished up the last of the .38-55's ... now I need to start on about 500 rounds of 7.62x39mm ...

[Eddie17]

PCd boolits.205504205505205506
Ready for Halloween!

[KrakenFan69]

Melted 30 lbs of Roofing Lead into ingots and another 30 lbs of Range scrap into ingots as well. Starting to cool off here. It already snowed last week and I wanted to get these done before winter so I can cast more slugs.

Kraken Fan#69

[dansedgli]

Ran a cable underground to the house for wifi. :D

[adam_mac84]

Ran a cable underground to the house for wifi. :D

Ran a wire for wireless? Have you been inhaling the fumes? [smilie=1:

[dansedgli]

lol I ran a network cable from the garage to the house so I can have a wifi router in the garage. I was out of reach before.

[Bowhunter73]

I sized about 4lbs of cast .22 I'd cast for my Huben K1 pcp air rifle and annealed couple 100 22lr hulls.

[62chevy]

lol I ran a network cable from the garage to the house so I can have a wifi router in the garage. I was out of reach before.

Why didn't you buy a repeater?

[dansedgli]

Why didn't you buy a repeater?

It was only $20 worth of cable and my trench was already dug out for power. My garage is tin so it struggles to get a good signal at the best of times.

[Patricklaw]

Nothing this evening. Watching Star Trek with my wife. But my last night in there yielded about 1,400 rounds of 38 special with different cast bullets: 148 WC from my 10 cavity H&G mold, 158 SWC from LaserCast, Lee 358 105's, and Lee 356-124's. All but the LaserCast were PC'd and sized to 358. Two milestones: I finished by last of two 4 pound jugs of Winchester AA lite that I was able to obtain when I could find nothing else. Secondly, I crossed the 100,000 mark in the cartridges loaded in my log book. Oh happy day.

[JBinMN]

Not quite "in" the reloading room, but pertinate.

I went out & did some ladder testing for accuracy with the missus LCR .357 using some lighter loads of .38. Found that 2.2 gr., 2.5gr. & 2.9 gr. Red Dot seemed to be the most accurate loads off the sandbags. Gonna repeat the test in a few days I think & also use the chrony next time, I think. Started to test some .357 mag loads, but instead of one of my bullet traps decided not to be able to take the stress of being hit after being used for 100-150 rounds over the last few times I used it. I just brought a lighter bullet trap backstop made of 3 foot long cedar 6x6s screwed together this time instead of one of the heavier ones that use that rubber mulch inside & this one split. I had a good time though.
:)

[trixter]

Walked by on the way to work, but I'll be back there again tonight, yeah baby!

[iwottopq]

Today loaded about 100 slug cartridges (12GA) for training at the next italian championship...

[texassako]

Loaded up 100 test rounds of .380 for a Hi Point carbine with the 124 gr RN Lee and some Unique, Vectan A0, and Blue Dot for tomorrow's range trip. I also loaded a few with a shortened 358432 115 gr wadcutter to see if they will feed just for grins. It doesn't seem to care what I put in the magazine; as long as it fits in the chamber it feeds and fires.

[plainsman456]

Finished up 300 rounds of 9MM.
Only have about 800 to go.:grin:

Just waiting on the new N.O.E.mold to come in.

[tazman]

Spent a little time with a new mold. NOE 402-180-RN.
Cast up 375 boolits. Now I need to finish them up.
205650

[15meter]

Loaded a batch of 30-40 Krag and re-melted a 50 lb. block of range lead down into 2 lb. usable muffins.

[Tripplebeards]

205699

I broke in my new lee 20lb pot and new lee 45 cal 255g mold. The pot smoked all the oil off for a good 15 min. What a stink. I made 10lbs of 50/50 w/2% pewter added.

[Texas by God]

I loaded some .303 British with donated .316" rn 175 gr. Sized the necks on some and didn't on others. Without gc I used 7 grs Red Dot. With the gas checks seated with channel locks on the unsized lla boolits I used 11 grs of Red Dot. I hope to try some out after supper. I can almost get my repaired arm up to the
forend.......

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[JBinMN]

I loaded some .303 British with donated .316" rn 175 gr. Sized the necks on some and didn't on others. Without gc I used 7 grs Red Dot. With the gas checks seated with channel locks on the unsized lla boolits I used 11 grs of Red Dot. I hope to try some out after supper. I can almost get my repaired arm up to the
forend.......

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Please pass on your findings.
:)

[RogerDat]

I loaded some .303 British with donated .316" rn 175 gr. Sized the necks on some and didn't on others. Without gc I used 7 grs Red Dot. With the gas checks seated with channel locks on the unsized lla boolits I used 11 grs of Red Dot. I hope to try some out after supper. I can almost get my repaired arm up to the
forend.......

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Take it easy on that arm. I pushed a shoulder faster than I ought to have post repairs and "re-healing" takes twice as long as healing. Sounds like a job for a shooting rest stick. But I too am interested in your RedDot and 303 Brit results.

[Texas by God]

Yes Sirs; I'm going to shoot one handed on the sandbags with the 7 gr load. This weak side shooting is weird but fun. I'm respecting the fixed shoulder!

[texassako]

Took inventory of my oddball cast bullets to see what obsolete caliber is next on my list to load. Looks like 7.35 Carcano is the winner this week. Ugh, that means I need to do some neck turning.

[Moleman-]

Spend the last couple days making 250 or so 357AR cases from 5.56 cases.

[Reverend Al]

Since I finished up the .38-55 I needed to load I've started processing 7.62x39 brass. I have about 600 rounds of brass to work through and have about half of them sized, primed, and ready to load so far. 300 left to go. 100 of them are brand new Winchester cases and I'll load them with 123 grain Hornady soft points for hunting. The balance are once and twice fired Lapua brass will be loaded with 123 grain fmj's for target practice. These are all for my wife's favorite rifle which is an old Interarms mini-Mauser (Zastava mfg) that I bought over 30 years ago as a barreled action, and then glass bedded into a black Bell & Carlson synthetic stock, adjusted the trigger to about 3 pounds, and then topped it off with a Leupold scope. Nice little light weight hunting carbine that came out at 6 pounds total all up and ready to race. More than adequate cartridge for our little Columbia Blacktail deer.

[Texas by God]

My .303 results. It took 3 shots to get on the plate. Looks ok as I'm shooting weak side weak eye. That's my story & I'm sticking to it.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171012/3654d5bd9a9bac26d7fb4bd3c842a725.jpg

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[JBinMN]

My .303 results. It took 3 shots to get on the plate. Looks ok as I'm shooting weak side weak eye. That's my story & I'm sticking to it.

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You are doing just fine considering & at least you are DOING!
;)

Keep it up & you will improve. Besides, it is good therapy for ya.
:)

[skeettx]

Yeeee Hawwww
Keep on keeping on, well done, well done
Mike

[goryshaw]

Sized and gas checked 200+ NOE 314299 with Lee .314 sizer and vulcan checks. Then did a 2nd coat of BLL to relube the driving bands. Another 200x 311299 are next, then I'll need to order more checks.

[LazyTCross]

Fired up the Woodstove in the barn For the first time this year! 24degrees last night!
Picked up 6-7lbs of beezwax from a bee keeper in town, going to make an attempt at Simple Lube tonight.

[Shopdog]

Straightened up a bit,got one of the sons coming over tonight to swipe...errr handload,so cleaning up and putting away things to help keep his klepto in check,haha.

[KrakenFan69]

loaded some 9mm ammo for a match tomorrow.

Kraken Fan #69

[jdfoxinc]

Set up my 450 and turret press to size & load .25 acp. Decapped the batch of .32 acp I received yesterday.

[Tripplebeards]

205793

Casted 10 lbs of Lee 200g 358s for my 35rems and powder coated 10 lbs of 255g Lee 45s...and made 2 Gallons of turtle soup!

205794

[Tom W.]

Turned on the a/c in the shed, when it cooled a bit I cast some bullets for my .357. Sometime next week I'll sort, size and lube them.

[Tom W.]

Today I sized and lubed most of the boolits I cast yesterday. I got to snooping around and found a bag with a whole bunch of "as cast" 170 gr gc boolits. I put a check on ten of them and loaded up some .357 rounds with .7cc of Herco. Still have to get my revolver from the gunsmith as he's finished fixing my rear sight.......


Edited due to numb fingers and a cursed tablet!

[RED333]

Today I sxed and lubed most of the boolits I cast yesterday. .......

Pervert!!![smilie=1::-D

[jdfoxinc]

Finally got to assemble some ammo. Not just prep components. Loaded about 50 .25 acp lyman 51 gr boolit a/1.5 gr green dot. Did this by sizing & living some boolits then loading, sizing then loading etc. Kept the boredom down.

[BPCR Bill]

500 rounds of 45 Auto. Now to shoot them!

[JBinMN]

Cleaned up the bench, shelves, & room, a bit.....:groner:

I do not enjoy it though... It is a chore. Rather make rounds instead, but it has to be done on occasion.

[Tripplebeards]

205857

Separated 10lbs of Lee 200g .358's in 1 grain increments and PC them

[dragon813gt]

Finally got around to putting my A2 press back together.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4476/37652666516_f9fdd99d90_o.jpg

Now I need to get around to ordering parts so I can get the LAM1 back together.

[15meter]

Didn't load today, but I made reloading opportunities in 380/200, 30-40 Krag, 30 carbine, 30-06, 450/400 N.E.,
416 Rigby, 470 N.E. and 480 Ruger.

It was a very good day.

[Reverend Al]

Got all of the 7.62x39 ammo loaded (about 700 rounds in total) so today I'm going to re-form some brass for my .338 /.303 British Martini single shot. (It was it was a commercial large action Martini sporter with a worn out barrel that was re-bored and re-rifled by Ron Smith out in Alberta.) I'm heading up to the rifle range tomorrow to meet a buddy and do some shooting and I haven't shot this .338 /.303 Martini in ages so I'll neck expand some of my surplus .303 brass, load them up with some suitable cast boolits, and fire-form some more brass for it tomorrow.

[RED333]

Not in the room but from the room. Shooting reloads at my backyard range.
Old propane tanks are tuff, rattle cans not so much. 44 mag and reloads and a pic of some of my targets.
The spread boolit is a found bouncer, came back so slow I could track it just by eye.

[Texas by God]

Loaded my stash of REAL .358 Win brass with 10.5 grs of Red Dot and Lee 150gr swc. Onward with my 40 yard low recoil shooting. I've done the 30-30 and .303 Brit already.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171016/4b0382256f3ce479d04eb8c60b22b134.jpg

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[Harter66]

In the last week I prepped 100 380s to discover I was out of 358-88 RF .
So I ran a box of 45 ACPs , good thing I'm putting the in moon clips . Only had 49 boolits .
I took a bucket of assorted final cut rejects to the casting bench and "found" a "lost" 311-165 RD NOE I forgot I had so ........

Today I ran 200 or so ea 358-88 , 458-340 RF , 311-165 RD STD groove PB/GC , and 454424 .

I swear I have to get a list of what I have for a reference because while the pot was warming up I found 3 moulds I'd completely forgotten about and determined that I have at least 2 I'm sure have but can't find .

[EMR]

Cast and PCd 80 rounds of .45. Just started casting two weeks ago and I’m really enjoying it!
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[JBinMN]

Made more targets like Grmps makes them.. Great idea!
:)

Thnx Grmps for pointing me in the right direction!
:)

:drinks:

[Tom W.]

As I'm going to the gunsmith tomorrow to pick up my revolver I just had to size and lube some Lee .357 rf boolits.

[JBinMN]

Cast 250+/- 356- 124gr. 2Rs, and 250+/- 356 -158gr SWC

206072

And then 100+ 356-148gr.- WC, 120+ 452-230-2R & 120+ 452-230-TC before I was done.

206074

Close to 20# worth...

About 3 hours on a nice day. I enjoyed it very much & even sipped a couple brews as I went.

I am trying to build up a decent stock of ready made boolits before it gets cold here. I still have to make a casting station in the garage, as I have only been casting off the back of my Pickup endgate all Summer. Once I do that I will be able to cast in any weather. Be happier then. I may do that later this week or week end.
:)

[paraord]

I got sick of where my RCBS turret press sat so I decided to do something about it. Not being one with extra cash I went to the metal pile, got a piece of 8" I beam. Cut it, drilled it, welded on a few bolts to the back side that happen to fit some bushings I had stashed in the back of the drawer and made this press stand. It will hold 2 spare turrets on the back side and use a bit and washer to hold them down. I am pretty happy with how it turned out. And I have more than enough to outfit my 3 rock chuckers when I feel like making another.206077

[TXGunNut]

Loading room? I have a loading room? When I get some time I'll have to ask Siri where it is. I'm figuring out she's a pretty sharp gal!

[TXGunNut]

Cleaned up the bench, shelves, & room, a bit.....:groner:

I do not enjoy it though... It is a chore. Rather make rounds instead, but it has to be done on occasion.

Agreed. Last time I was in there I was trying to find a couple of the 15 or so boxes of 45ACP reloads that I think are in there. Found some cool stuff while I was looking, tho. ;-)

[texassako]

Cleaning up, cleaning out, and selling off the unused lately. I am starting to make a dent in loading or remelting all the random test bullets I had stashed everywhere. There is going to be a lot of Ruger Security Six and M28/76 range time in my future from doing that. I even found molds and die sets I did not know I owned. Also found a bunch of random, partial box .22 Target ammo I guess I need to go shoot up.

[JimP.]

Today, i loaded up a bunch of 120 Nosler BT's in my 6.5 Grendel then sized a bunch of 458 SOCOM brass for the tumbler, will load them when nice and shiny....JimP.

[swheeler]

206100 I left a lot of cars with high speed tire vibration!

[Soundguy]

206100 I left a lot of cars with high speed tire vibration!

Funny!

[jdfoxinc]

Loaded more .25 acp.

[Tom W.]

I took my tablet out to the shed as I was going to download the Ramshot load info and use some True Blue in my .357
I dunno why, but my WiFi wouldn't work out there today. It has before, but no go today. So I puttered......

[bstone5]

Building 4 foot by 8 foot deer stand inclosure on the driveway, cooler weather in Houston makes the work outside a lot better, not hot and comfortable. Still work in process hope to finish by Saturday.

[Moleman-]

Some case forming. 44x1.6" cases from 7.62x51 surplus.

[15meter]

Cast a bunch of .30, .410 and .375 boolits. Loaded some 450/400 N.E. Loaded some more .416 Rigby test loads.

[RogerDat]

Been a week of primer pocket swaging to take the crimp out of military brass in the evenings. Did 500 in .223 so last night I started trimming the brass and it was SO much fun I decided to do smaller batches and savor the joy. Only trimmed 50 but by doing 50 or 100 a night I can enjoy the brass trimming experience for a whole week! Need to cast and PC some more 70 grain to fit these cases eventually but for now these are just stock for the brass pantry.

[Tom W.]

Wandered on in and loaded the rest of my empty .357 cases with 9 grains of True Blue with the Lee 158 gr. RF that I have. The only other cast bullets I have for it are 148 gr.dewc, but I save them for the .38 special cases. I tried some of the boolits that I cast for the 9mm as I size them all to the same diameter, but didn't do so well. I still think the chemo had a lot to do with my shooting ability, as I weakened rather quickly. Doing better now that the chemo is supposed to be over.

[62chevy]

Wandered on in and loaded the rest of my empty .357 cases with 9 grains of True Blue with the Lee 158 gr. RF that I have. The only other cast bullets I have for it are 148 gr.dewc, but I save them for the .38 special cases. I tried some of the boolits that I cast for the 9mm as I size them all to the same diameter, but didn't do so well. I still think the chemo had a lot to do with my shooting ability, as I weakened rather quickly. Doing better now that the chemo is supposed to be over.


I hope that nasty cancer stays away this time Tom but it sure is good to see you getting it done even though you are not up to par.

[dragon813gt]

Emailed RCBS a list of parts I need to finish rebuilding a LAM1.

[15meter]

Nothing in the reloading room, on the other side of the state visiting the daughter, but I did find a brand new in box Saeco 322 mold and a brand new mold handle for $70 out the door at a pawn shop.

[Texas by God]

Cleaned my Nylon 66 because it was misfiring. Nope, there is something amiss. I disassembled & reassembled one for a week one day a long time ago. So I cleaned the bench off.

[waco]

Cast up and powder coated 350 or so .38 wadcutters to be loaded with 2.7gr of Bullseye for my 14-2.

[KrakenFan69]

Cast 600 158 gn .357 Mag, 150 9mm, 200 .224 and 175 12 ga 525 gn slugs. (the slugs were pure lead) I think I have to go back to my Lee 125-356 2R mold. It just takes way too long to cast any amount with the Magma Engineering 124gn BBNLG mold 2 at a time.

Kraken Fan #69

[kidmma]

Primed about 120, 30-06, ready to fill!!!

[texassako]

Today was to be a casting session with a my new Lee C225-55-rf, but discovered it was my first dud of a Lee mold after many good ones. A gorilla must have been in charge of tightening anything with threads. Just need to install a set screw for the sprue plate screw and see why it still will not lay flat after loosening it.

[Reverend Al]

Sorted more brass ... (it never ends) ...

[Grmps]

ongoing -- sorted 1000+ 223 for the best headstamps to convert to 300 AAC blackout ( some headstamps the cases are to thick to use without reaming the case), cut them a little over length, deprimed and polished them.

Waiting for RCBS AR Series Small Base 2-Die Set with Taper Crimp to get here
.300 Blackout Case Trimmer HMR "WCT" - World's Cheapest Trimmer - [just arrived]

researching subsonic boolits and loads

[robg]

Sized/expanded & primed 120 357 mag cases.first loading I've done in a few months ,my supplies were getting low.only 223&308 to prep next .

[Walter Laich]

loaded 150 45 Colt rifle rounds and another 150 for pistols

I've finally caught up . . . course we have a match this weekend so I can start again next week

[clum553946]

Powder coated some 165gr 44-40 Boolits!

[RED333]

While not in the room but from the room. TNW ASR 40 S&W carbine. I have both 9mm and 40 S&W barrels and bolt faces. We had the attack of the osage orange, had to dispatch them with extreme prejudice. The rifle shoots cast like there is no end. 22LR and 44mag as well.

[jdfoxinc]

Ran out of .251 51 gr pills I cast. So started loading the swagged 52.3 gr bullets that came with the mold brass and H&I die. I'm still going to have more brass than bullets.

[The Dar]

Powder coated 400 Lee TL 356 95RF bullets. Only 800 more to go.

[trails4u]

For the first time in a longer time than I'm willing to admit....I got a bit done. Nothing much, but I do now have 50 rds. of 45-70 ready to go for my KY trip in a few weeks. Much more to do.....plenty of 43 Spanish to load for the roller and the Peabody, but it felt good to be drop-tubing powder again!

[15meter]

Loaded a batch of 35 Remingtons, cast a batch of 6.5-140 grn. loaded a batch of 375 H&H and cast a batch of 416-350's.

[Soundguy]

Are your 416's gas checked? What hardness?

I shoot a 416 Rigby and have been looking for projectiles, but haven't found what I wanted yet.

[skeettx]

All I can tell you for the 416 is to draw down 40 S&W brass from .423 to .416 and you will have a LOT of
jackets for your bullets.
I would bet kutil can do this or make a die for a press
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?342537-My-little-housework&highlight=
Mike

[Texas by God]

I'm loading for Cuz Kevin as deer season is upon us. I loaded 50 6.8SPC with H4895 and Sierra 110gr sp. The .44 magnum brass is in the tumbler. I'm going with Unique and jacketed to use them all up. Then I'll talk him into using cast for that Redhawk Hunter.

[jonp]

Put a Surefire Muzzlebrake on a T/C Compass 30-06 I'm going to play with this weekend at the range

[Tom W.]

Loaded up the rest of my .38 special cases. Later on I wandered back to see about loading some 30/06 ai loads, but had so many I decided not to just yet. I found almost 200 rounds I had loaded up for fireforming. I gotta get to an outdoor range.

[15meter]

Are your 416's gas checked? What hardness?

I shoot a 416 Rigby and have been looking for projectiles, but haven't found what I wanted yet.

Yes, they are gas checked, sized 417. I don't know the hardness, 50/50 mix of range scrap and telephone sheathing. This is Noe's 416 bullet. Beautiful mold, too wide a meplat to feed out of the magazine. Started lathe turning the nose profile into a round nose. First try appears to work.

I have just started loading the 416 Rigby, like all old cartridges they are always challenging. Still trying to come up with a solution to consistent case mouth belling.

[Soundguy]

Yes, they are gas checked, sized 417. I don't know the hardness, 50/50 mix of range scrap and telephone sheathing. This is Noe's 416 bullet. Beautiful mold, too wide a meplat to feed out of the magazine. Started lathe turning the nose profile into a round nose. First try appears to work.

I have just started loading the 416 Rigby, like all old cartridges there are always challenging. Still trying to come up with a solution to consistent case mouth belling.

Wow, nice. I like wide meplats.

I'd love to see some pics of those.

At the price of commercial projectiles, I think I may have to pic up a mold for them as well.

I bet they are plenty hard.. I've used telephone sheathing before and I think it had at least 1% antimony in it.