What did you do in the reloading room today?

[jdfoxinc]

Finished loading .25 acp for now. Ran out of bullets first. Going to set up to cast a few more, then switch to GC.224 55 gr.

Snow front is moving in and all my old injuries are screaming. But a good time to cast.

[Walter Laich]

modified my oven so I can bake two racks of PC bullets

doubles output to 200 or so

[popper]

Tinkering again. PC the base of PB boolits for the BO. Will BLL, size, then BLL again. BLL is excellent sizing lube. Compare with GC version to try preventing gas port from cutting the bases. Best I've gotten @ 100 with a harder alloy and uncoated bases is 1" circle - pretty sure the port is cutting the base.

[Victor N TN]

Gathering brass to swap with a friend of mine. He offered to swap for his farm raised food products.

[Smoke4320]

Saturday is opening day for muzzleloader .
getting the gun , ammo, powder and primers staged for the out the door trip
Rubber boots cleaned up , hunting clothes set out
check, check and double check

[Reverend Al]

Another big batch of fired brass is going into the ss pin tumbler shortly. (I spent yesterday up at the range turning ammunition into fired brass ...)

:Fire:

[dragon813gt]

Was going to mount a scope on the newest rifle. But I had to move three air conditioners out of the way. Then I pulled the potatoes from the garden. Needed a place to put the buckets so I went through boxes of reloading items I bought from a friend of the family a long time ago. Now I have room to work but the baby woke up and the 3yo is acting like a baby.

[15meter]

Made a Lee style case trim gage for a .400/350 Nitro Express. Converting cases from 9.3x74r, they need to be trimmed after reforming.

[texassako]

Range day today; so wet tumbling brass this evening. Always feels good to come home with more brass than I took with me, especially cases I can use.

[jdfoxinc]

Cast more 51gr.251 pills. Then switched to .224 55 gr GC. Casting bullets thatweigh less than the sprue is tedious. Finished decapng .25 cap range brass.

[lightman]

I plan to sort more wheelweights today. In the shop though, not the loading room, although they will eventually wind up there!

[KrakenFan69]

Went to the range to harvest some more lead from the berms before heading to the Gun Show to help out at the Club's booth. Pulled in another 30 pounds in about 45 min. Expecting snow soon so I'm grabbing what I can while I can.

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[lightman]

I'm planning for today to be a cleaning/organizing day. May make it out to the shop to sort some more weights.

[OS OK]

I'm planning for today to be a cleaning/organizing day. May make it out to the shop to sort some more weights.

Put one of your favorite CD's in the stereo and crank it up...maybe a cold 6-pack or two and the time will pass quickly...all of the sudden your done...:bigsmyl2:

[owejia]

Moving my lead ingots into the basement today, about 1500 lbs.

[lightman]

That will be a good workout! Hope you are young and in good shape. Luck to ya, My Friend!

[15meter]

No loading this weekend, but made lots of reloading opportunities, 400/350 N.E., 375 H&H, 303 British, 35 Remington, 470 N.E., 416 Rigby, 8x50r, and 318 Westley Richards.

Forgot 50/70, found the brass when I went to polish the weekend's remains.

Another great weekend.

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[quail4jake]

Finished trimming .22-250 brass, ordered moulds from NOE, started gathering metals to start an age hardening and expansion study on four alloys that I will be making soon.

[Michael J. Spangler]

http://i.imgur.com/8IFDou8.jpg

[shell70634]

Loaded cast bullets in 35 Whelen, 30-30, 32 Win Spcl, and 45-70 for upcoming deer hunting trip. Still trying to decide which to take.

[County Hunter]

^MJS, those look good! I organized some brass that needs to be cleaned up.

[Michael J. Spangler]

^MJS, those look good! I organized some brass that needs to be cleaned up.

Thank you! Hoch 459-550 nose pour

[308Jeff]

Resized and wet tumbled about 1,100 pieces of 45ACP brass yesterday.

[Moleman-]

Was trimming/reaming cases with my Forster case trimmer and finally had enough of the skinny .216" handle on the collet closer and replaced it with a piece of 5/8" aluminum. Drilled a .228" hole though the 4.5" piece of aluminum then milled a 5/8" (couldn't find a 9/16" endmill) recess for the collet closer body. Deburred it, tapped out the skinny handle, slipped on the aluminum cover and then tapped back on the skinny handle to hold it on. Works great and much easier on your hands if you're trimming/reaming a bunch of cases.

[copdills]

general cleanup and putting stuff where it needs to be

[Tom W.]

Pharted around and loaded about 50 more 9 mm rounds.

[RED333]

No time this past weekend, Son got hitched on Saturday, broke down the tents on Sunday and am now dog sitting at his place while the new married couple is do the honeymoon thing. Man life is so good!!!

[jdfoxinc]

Absolutely nothing.

[62chevy]

Absolutely nothing.

Same here so don't feel so bad.

[lightman]

Hopefully sort the last bucket of wheelweights. 19 down, 1 to go! :drinks: Prolly going to buy more in a few days, oh boy!

[KrakenFan69]

Scored another 30lbs of roofing lead. Hoping to get one more good ingot party before Winter takes over. Gonna swing by later this week and see if they have any more.

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[retread]

Mounted my new to me RL550B. Straighten up the bench a bit getting ready to set up for 44 Mag.

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[lightman]

It looks good sitting there!

[JBinMN]

I wish my bench & loading area was that neat.
Looks great!
:)

[Soundguy]

Tell me about it!

[Walter Laich]

reloaded 25 brass shotgun shells with APP

bit bullet and when on and ordered the RCBS 12 gauge die set as several have been stepped on an otherwise are no longer round

[Tom W.]

Half emptied my Lee pot, turning the molten material into boolits for my 9mm. Since I started sizing both the 9mm and .357 to .358 it makes life a bit easier.......

[lightman]

Wu Hu, Finally finished sorting 20 buckets of wheelweights! Just in time to go buy some more.

[Jal5]

Started to get my Loadmaster changed over to do 9mm. Then I have a lot of 38 spl to do too.

[mwells72774]

Wu Hu, Finally finished sorting 20 buckets of wheelweights! Just in time to go buy some more.

Where do you get them? I can’t find anywhere that’ll sell them

[taco650]

http://i.imgur.com/8IFDou8.jpg

Beautiful pic!! What are they?

[Grmps]

I started doing what scares us the most.....I started cleaning and sorting my casting area and shop.
I found several hundred pounds each of monotype and Lyman #2 I didn't remember I had. :groner:
This is a good thing but the forgetting, --- not so good

[RogerDat]

Still plugging away at trimming .223 brass. I'll stop at 500 cases. That is enough to have on hand in case I get a yen to try a load different than the ones already loaded. Prepping used crimped brass has me giving the eye to commercial new brass. But since I have a couple 5 gallon buckets of 1x fired already I can't make myself spend the money on new brass.

[lightman]

Where do you get them? I can’t find anywhere that’ll sell them

We bought these from a fellow caster that is downsizing. They are still pretty plentiful around here though. These were pretty much sorted but I sorted them again. Picked out maybe 5 pounds of iron and zinc from nearly 2800#. All in all, very happy!

[daniel lawecki]

Separated my brass found about 2,000 of loaded ammo. It took 6 hrs to clean things up.

[quail4jake]

lubed 14 and 20 bore felt wads for muzzle loading shotguns, cleaned and moved casting stuff inside for the winter and gathered, sorted elemental metals for an alloy study to be started in a few days...stay tuned for the study!

[texassako]

Loaded some BP cartridges for my Italian Vetterli carbine while today's range trip brass was wet tumbling. I really need to get around to making more cases for that rifle.

[15meter]

Loaded 60 400/350 Nitro Express. Cool old round.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Beautiful pic!! What are they?

Thank you.
Hoch nose pour 459-550
After I cleaned the gunk from the vent lines and upped the alloy temp she worked like a dream!

[WFO2]

Running the steel pin Rebel17 cleaning up last years brass .223/.300/.44/.45/9mm/38 . Getting ready to load for next years shooting .

[762X51]

Powder coated some Lee 358-158-RF projectiles and now to test them in various loadings in a Contender carbine.

[myg30]

I started doing what scares us the most.....I started cleaning and sorting my casting area and shop.
I found several hundred pounds each of monotype and Lyman #2 I didn't remember I had. :groner:
This is a good thing but the forgetting, --- not so good

Don't be to hard on yourself Grmps, it's much worse when you find a Brand new reloading item still in the package. But you already had a new one and a used spare that you bought cause it was a deal and you thought you needed it !

Today I separated some boxs of 10mm brass that I purchased long ago. I just recently loaded up a few to shoot at a friends house that never fired a 10mm before. The flame was impressive.
Next is prepping brass for future reloading.

Best to all,

Mike

[Tom W.]

Being retired has some advantages. I primed some more 9mm and rooted around and found my 315 gr. 44 mag loaded rounds. Most of my loaded rounds are 245 gr PB cast. Well, all of them are cast......

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded 25 12 gs shotshells while the Lee pot got up to temp. Then cranked off a bunch of 9mm and .357 Mag and .223 in a casting session while enjoying an audiobook.

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[quail4jake]

0114, alloying and initial physical testing complete. Drinking whiskey now. Studying 4 alloys: 1% Sb, 3% Sb, 5% Sb and 4% Sb with .25% As all with 2% Sn and all air cooled versus quenched. 28 day study of BHN and diameter over time also melted boolits from the Missouri Bullet Co. to compare with known standards. Don't touch that dial!

[sharps4590]

Loaded some 196 gr. cast & gas checked bullets from an Accurate mold for my Strover 8 X 57I in preparation for our upcoming deer season.

[Michael J. Spangler]

lyman 457658
https://i.imgur.com/b1l8Spal.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/boQA6s9l.jpg

[JBinMN]

Beauties!
:)

[OS OK]

Beauties!
:)

"WhooHoo! . . . they sure is!"

[jdfoxinc]

Cast a bunch more Lyman 22415 .224 GC bullets. The hornady GCs I have are very tight and hard to seat. The Freecheck III sample checks made from the .008" Al strip that came with the die are lose before sizing. I'm waiting for my .225 & .224 H&I dies than I'll see if I need thicker material.

[captaint]

So, not exactly in the reloading room, however, out back I poured up 19+ lbs of NOE 135 gr RNFP's. The calculator says it totaled 1,011 boolits. That ought to hold me for a little while !! Love those Al Nelson molds..... Forgot to mention - 9mm they were..

[quail4jake]

Day 2 alloy study...Sb alloys hardening as expected, all diameters unchanged...stay tuned!

[Tom W.]

More puttering. I loaded another box of 9mm, this time with Green Dot, and just five rounds of 30-06 AI with165 gr Gamekings and H380 iirc.

[nitroviking]

Sorted, trimmed, prepped and swaged the primer crimps on a few hundred .223 cases. Thanks to the case prep center and swager, otherwise I don't think I would even load rifle anymore... Arthritis is a cruel mistress

https://i.imgur.com/dwscpuD.jpg

Oh, and spent way to much time on C.B... :coffeecom

[Greg S]

Dropped 100 Lyman 452651s and 75 or so Lee 475 325wfn. Checked and sized them all.

[centershot]

Put together a hundred rounds of 12 gauge round ball loads for deer season (and practice!) and made up some Bruce B softpoints for my .375 Winchester. I usually hunt with the rifle but on those rainy/snowy/wet/sloppy days I prefer to take the shotgun, no optics to mess with and shots are generally inside 30 yards.

[TXGunNut]

Nothing! It's hunting season so I went in there to get some hunting ammo for a sight-in session. Found about half of my missing 45acp ammo. Hunting ammo performed very well. :-) I remembered why I don't enjoy long plinking sessions with my Marlin 45-70's and RD hunting ammo. These rifles and boolits seem to enjoy ammo loaded very close to the edge of where I no longer enjoy touching them off, lol. Seems I'm a glutton for punishment, decided I better sight in one of my 35 Whelen rifles for a bad weather gun.

[blikseme300]

Assembled another 50 loads of 458WM. Tomorrow I'll do some field position shooting practice in preparation of the hunting season. Was over 90* here today and after a tiring week was not in the right frame of mind to go and shoot.

[Soundguy]

What are you hunting with 458 winnags?

[TXGunNut]

Looks like I was mistaken, got to spend some quality time in the loading room after all. Too windy to verify scope settings after the fog cleared so I loaded 30 38-55 hunting loads and 50 32WCF plinking loads. That session wrapped up those two projects; not sure what's left but thinking I need to continue my 32WS, 30US, 300Sav and 35Rem projects next time I get bored, lol.

[KrakenFan69]

Went through the cycle of loading 25 12ga shot shells while waiting for the Lee pot to heat up then can a pot full to the rim of 9mm using a Magma Engineering 124gn and a Lee 356-125 2R mold. I figure if I keep to this every so often I will be in good shape come spring.

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[quail4jake]

Day 3 of the alloy study, added a 1% Sn arm of the trial. Cast .32 WS 165 gr boolits in an original winchester mold, difficult to use but really neat to use winchester factory mold boolits in my 1894 SRC from 1926!
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[Grmps]

I love reloading BUT sometimes forming cases can get a little old. I'm in the process of converting a bunch of 223 to 300 AAC BO.
Got them all rough cut, de-primed, wet tumbled, lubed, formed. I have 1 blue tub left to trim to length and de-bur. Next, I have a large batch of 9x19 to 9x18.
https://i.imgur.com/831dB9k.jpg

[15meter]

Loaded 2 boxes 470 N.E. Clean the benches up(some).

[TXGunNut]

Day 3 of the alloy study, added a 1% Sn arm of the trial. Cast .32 WS 165 gr boolits in an original winchester mold, difficult to use but really neat to use winchester factory mold boolits in my 1894 SRC from 1926!
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Do you have a thread about your study or are you going to wait to post your conclusions? My shooting buddy has a very similar Winchester mould and loading tool, both look like new. Very good workmanship.

[lightman]

Sorted and stored away a bunch of brass. Added a few cartridges to my collection and updated my list.

[jdfoxinc]

Inspected and weighed the .224 52 gr bullets and started seting hornady gas checks. These pills are so small thatmy fingers cover them when I'm attempting to line the up with the seating die and top punch. Split the Nose on 3 bullets that Wernt aligned.

[KrakenFan69]

Cast another 1,000 9mm and 400 .357 mag projectiles today. Also did my 25 12ga shot shells while the pot warmed up again. I had better start Hi-Tek coating some of these soon.

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[Jal5]

Started loading my practice round in 9mm. Need to load about 500 total so it will be in several stages

[Tom W.]

I was going to cast some 310 gr. Lee boolits but rooted around a bit and found some, so I sized and lubed and put gas checks on a few and loaded up my remaining .44 mag brass with 10.5 gr of True Blue. I'm gettingto like that powder.......

[rmark]

Not in the room, but yesterday I did melt down 100 lbs of sheet and pipe into ingots outside the room.

[RogerDat]

Not in the room, but yesterday I did melt down 100 lbs of sheet and pipe into ingots outside the room. I made ingots out of around 75 pounds of ISO lead containers and 30 lbs. of print spacer strips. Oh and 1.5 lbs. of pewter. I decided not to melt the mug with a whistle as the handle, at least not melting it for now. Has initials and a 1968 date engraved in it but not too deep, I'm thinking about seeing if I can give it a "brushed" finish that erases the engraving.

Due to the paint on the ISO containers I had to do those with garage open at both ends and a fan going so I figured I better do that now rather than when it was freezing out.

[jdfoxinc]

Started sizing 750 .32 acp brass.

[Ateam]

I spent a little range time, sighted in the the tikka in 300wm, tried a few more loads in that confounded winchester model 100, and patterned a new grouse load in the 12ga. It was a beautiful sunny day at the range, and I was the only one there, great! I also scrounged a bunch of brass, about three gallons of .223 from the guys that like to stand 10feet from the pistol berm and turn money into noise with their AR, god bless them for leaving me so much perfectly good brass. I also picked up thirty or so pieces of 22 hornet, never seen it before, neat looking little cartridge.

[15meter]

Loaded 2 boxes 470 N.E. Clean the benches up(some).

Loaded some test load 350 Rigby magnums then unloaded them plus the above-mentioned rounds and batches of 416 Rigby, 35 Remington, 450/400 N.E., 400/350 N.E. and 22 LR.

Came home and loaded about half in the polisher, the rest will go in tomorrow.

As silly as it sounds, my back feels the best it has in a year.

[nitroviking]

Loaded up 100 .357's for ringing the gong :Fire:


https://i.imgur.com/t2ci2C8.jpg?1

[bruce drake]

I cleared off the top of the workbench and organized the ammo boxes on the shelves underneath and then loaded up fifty 6.5 Creedmoor cases with 100gr Hornady Poly-tipped match bullets for National Match practice. 35.5gr of Varget should get me around 2650fps out of a 20" barrel according to the Lee Precision reduction formula.

I plan to do some casting for 9mm, 38 and 40 caliber in pistol bullets and some 6.5, .30 and .50 caliber rifle bullets this weekend.

Bruce

[KrakenFan69]

Slow night. Loaded 25 more shot shells and then switched gears to spin up 50 Lyman 525 gn slugs loads. I really need to pick up a universal charge bar for my MEC Sizemaster. I don't currently have the correct bushing for 17gn Clays and so I'm using a Hornady Auto Charge to weigh out the powder. Certainly slows down production. If I had the Universal bar I could really be banging them out.

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[lightman]

Mostly a bunch of tinkering type stuff! Cleaned a bunch of loading dies and sorted through a box of odd cartridges and cases that were given to me. A lot of them were duds picked up at the range and I'll pull the bullets, dump the powder and deprime them.

[lightman]

Not in the loading room but me and Biggin just finished unloading the 2800# of lead that we bought over the weekend. We loaded it by hand but used my tractor to unload it. Having a beer now!

[Tom W.]

I had a slow brainstorm. Because of my neuropathy I have trouble holding on to things. The Lee 310 boolits that I had left over needed gaschecks. I used my arbor press to seat the checks that wouldn't snap on easily, then lubed and sized them. Did good.

[murf205]

Melted about 60 lbs of soft roofing lead. Nasty stuff. Probably had 3 or 4 lbs of dirt, dust and just junk in the melt but now I'm waiting to add tin and lino for the final product. I used some Marvelux to help separate the trash and now it looks like silver cornsticks! I'd post pics but they wont load.

[Texas by God]

Installing a Timney Sportsman on my 1916 Spanish custom. A great rifle deserves a great trigger to release that sixty second lock time!

[jdfoxinc]

Finished sizing approx 750 .32 acp. Then aporox 299 .25 ac. Then primed 250 new .32 acp. All of the (?) once fired brass ad been deprimed then cleaned.

[Tom W.]

More rooting around and found my freechex II. Then I cast more of the 310 Lee boolits and as usual got a splash burn. Nothing serious, just a small place on my little finger. Now to find some aluminum and make some gas checks. Not that I need any, as I have several boxes in various sizes

[texassako]

Found a random container on the shelf full of .400" round balls; so I ran some through the .379" sizer and loaded them in 9.4 Dutch to see how they do. Also worked out the kinks in converting 8mm Lebel military berdan primed brass to 209 primers after discovering my old method used on Kynoch commercial brass did not work well on military brass. These are for converting to 10.35 Italian Vetterli.

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded up some new slug rounds for testing as one of the gas seals I have been using is no longer available. Realized I have 200 Lyman 525gn slugs loaded at this point and still itching to crank out some more. Hope to get some testing done this weekend.

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[KrakenFan69]

Well I have ran myself out of shot shell components. I spun up another 50 and ran out of wads. I have been using CB WAA12F114 clones for shot and slug. I had recently bought some Original Winchesters off Kijiji that were Winchester WAA12's and WAA12F114's but the Win WAA12F114's are different dimensions than my CB clones. I did another 25 to test with before I get too carried away. I have some CB Clones of the 12S3 and 12S0's too but the load I have been running is working great so I'll probably just buy more of those. I have over 500 1-1/8 oz &-1/2 shot shells on hand and there is snow on the ground so I should be ok for awhile. More testing to do. Back to casting and I think I'll switch gears back to .223 for a bit.

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[robg]

Loaded 150 357mag with some 195 gr gc boolits over 11.5 gr 2400 ,then 50 308 with Lee 160gr GC boolits over 18 gr of 2400 .getting low on boolits so a casting session is the next on the agenda.

[KrakenFan69]

Picked up 2,000 38 Special cases today to be able to begin loading my 358-158 RF I've been casting. Also finished my shotgun shell conditioning tool. Works like a champ!

$20 CAD!

Kraken Fan #69

[Walter Laich]

cast 15# of bullets and loaded 100 .357 . . . in two hours (doesn't count time for pot to heat up)

[308Jeff]

Cast a couple hundred 170gr Lee TC .401 bullets today. My first real attempt at casting. Going to post pics later so you folks can let me know what you think, and if I should keep the ones I think I should put back in the pot.

Didn't think that casting would be hard on the back! :lol:

[RED333]

Not in the room but for the room.

[McFred]

I'm working on a pile of copper accent pieces for a kitchen table. I'm going to have a lot of surplus and I read a thread here along time ago about plating cast projectiles. I rigged up an old server power supply and got some copper sulfate to tinker with:

https://s8.postimg.org/6mhggrpkl/Cu_Plate.jpg

It works well enough on one that I'll retrofit my grill rotisserie and find a home for my scrap copper. I've come into a pile of dead-soft lead and was hoping a thin copper wash and some BLL would get me to ~1700fps without much effort. This was a good read on a similar project:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?236015

[SeabeeMan]

Not boolits, but loaded 100 135 FTX for my 300 blackout for the WI deer season which starts in 6 days. Going to check zero this afternoon out back and hopefully put some meat in the freezer.

[blikseme300]

Wanted to load some more 30-30 but noticed I was running low on CB's. Cast about 600 311041's according to my calculation as I needed to add 15# of alloy to top up the pot when done. I then cast about 260 265gn CB's for my 444, another 10# of alloy used. Having a large casting pot and 6-cavity molds sure helps to produce a lot of CB's during a session.

[jonp]

Finished putting the 300BLK together and took it for a test drive. Light primer strikes and no bangs so took it back to the reloading room, took the bolt apart and cleaned then much lube. More lube on the springs and tried it again. Success! but still a couple of light strikes. With use I think it will break in.

I still have another lower and am thinking 6.5 Grendel just for kicks

[skeettx]

Did NOT watch pro football today!

Did finish up reloading 600 rounds of 20 gauge shotshells
with home-make dribbled shot.
WHAT FUN!
Mike

[Kraschenbirn]

495 .38 Spl plinker/practice loads. Cleaned out the last of the PC'd 150 gr. RNs. I had on hand getting ready for winter casting.

Bill

[tew45]

Today I found my old Ideal bronze .257 mold #257418 and due to an injured knee and bad weather I decided to see if I was still able to cast smaller bullets. The mold worked great as long as I could keep the mold hot enough but with a small lee bottom pour half full I could just barely get the corner into the melt. I could pour 3 bullets and the bullets would start to wrinkle. I still had excellent results with the mold so I filled the mold and put it aside. I don't even have a .25 caliber rifle. I decided that two things were going to happen before I put my 6 cavity Hensley and Gibbs .45 cal to work. First I will need a larger melting pot and a little help with keeping the mold to proper temperature. I remembered that I bought a small travel iron when the USMC demanded that I had pressed uniforms. I'm surprised I even found it for that was 60 years ago and it still worked. I have a 4x8x3/8 inch aluminum plate with enough room to set the mold flat down on it or an insulated cooling stand to set it on when the mold is too hot. I don't need a thousand bullets at a sitting but the multi cavity molds get very heavy quickly. The Lee's aren't too bad but the SACO and Hensley and Gibbs are killers during a long session. There is no problem here in the summer heat but this will help during the cold Texas winter.

[Jack Stanley]

Finished loading another batch of .303 Brit ammo , most all of my cases for that round are now full .

Jack

[Texas by God]

I loaded some deer ammo to replace the ones I've shot sighting in and grouping. Luckily just 12 rounds because when I was putting everything away- I noticed I had used large pistol primers in the 22-250 with 45 gr Barnes TSX. Yikes, thought I. I had to know; I fired 3 rounds into a 1-1/4" group with same poi. No leaks so far so I'll file this away in Things I Got Away With. I'll not do it again unless I have to!

[Tom W.]

Cleaned two revolvers and a rifle that I took to the range yesterday. My fired brass is in the back of my car and my wife took that to work today.

[TXGunNut]

My efforts in the loading room awhile back helped me take a deer over the weekend so today was spent in my kitchen, not my loading room. I'm OK with that!

[JBinMN]

My efforts in the loading room awhile back helped me take a deer over the weekend so today was spent in my kitchen, not my loading room. I'm OK with that!

Just about the same for us. All that is left since this time last night is the rest of the scrap to be ground for veni-burger & sausage.

;)

Reloading room again tomorrow night. Need to make up some more shotgun slugs as well as some cartridges.
:)

[Tom W.]

Cleaned and sized what I fired yesterday....

[kayala]

Made a ladder 36 to 39 gr of 4227 with 330 Acme for my 500 S&W. Going to try it tomorrow at indoor range - gonna be fun :bigsmyl2:

[44Blam]

I loaded my new Lube-Sizer with Ben's Red...
Doing a lube/load session probably Wednesday - I've got several hundred rounds of various boolits to load!

[RogerDat]

Tried out the used RCBS Berdan primer removal tool I picked up at a gun show. Works really well. Pulled primers on 50 8mm mauser cases and from same source as tool I have a little over a 1000 Berdan primers of correct size. Looking at 250 1x cases that just became useful.

I may post a thread on using the tool because the YouTube stuff I found just wasn't very complete. Shows person using it, not how one uses it.

Starting to read up on slug loads for that same Lyman 525 12 Gauge mentioned in prior posts. Found a good thread on it, where else but on Castboolits. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?174745-Official-Lyman-12ga-Sabot-Slug-Mould-525-grain-Load-Data-Thread/page3

[quail4jake]

0150, great night of casting. 5 new molds from NOE, now all broken in and casting great! Thanks, Swede!
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[Greg S]

Hit the race track looking for 2400 and MP300 to load some 357 for the 1892. The search will continue tomorrow.

[nitroviking]

Loaded up a hundred rifle rounds, mainly because I wanted to play with the new RCBS Chargmaster, (talked the wife into getting my Xmas present early, while it was on sale with a rebate and free shipping) Only to save money of course... [smilie=1:

https://i.imgur.com/YWRz0so.jpg

[Bookworm]

Emptied the 5 gallon bucket boolit trap. Got about 5 pounds of my alloy back.

Normally I don't empty the trap that soon, but there was a split in the side, from an errant round. I had to replace the bucket.

I wonder who it was that shot so badly that the side of the trap got knocked out ? Couldn't have been me.Makes me wonder who else is shooting here at my place ?

Seems that George came by and dropped off some few things for a young man I'm mentoring. He picked up a few things on his way out too.
And, he rifled the liquor cabinet.

My story - George was shooting down there behind the barn when I wasn't around. He's a notoriously bad shot ( could be from raiding the liquor cabinet). He's the one that shot the side out of the boolit trap.

Yeah, that's what happened.

[OS OK]

Sounds to me like ole George needs his 'sights readjusted'...if you get my drift!

[Reverend Al]

There is a another big batch of brass rolling around in the ss pin tumbler as I type this ...

[KrakenFan69]

HI Tek coated around 20 lbs of 9mm this weekend. Next up is to size them. Made some dummy shells for a buddy and asked him to keep an eye out for some lead as payment. Texted me yesterday saying he has around 200 lbs of WW's he scored for me. Sometimes things just work out.

Kraken Fan #69

[Soundguy]

Wow! Excellent trade!

[JBinMN]

Made another 10 Lee slug shotgun shells, put away the makings & then cleaned up a mite. Made up some shelving for some storage & later tonite/early AM, I have some pistol rounds to make up for later.

Took a bit of inventory too & see I have some casting to do before it gets cold enough that I have to start working on that spot in the garage for casting in Winter...

All in all, quite a productive afternoon.
:)

[Grmps]

Repaired my HF storage shelf that collapsed under the weight my cast boolits waiting to be coated.
I cut a short piece of 1/2" angle welded a foot on it and welded it to the shelves. not pretty but it works :)

https://i.imgur.com/fX9iflX.jpg

[jdfoxinc]

Seated .22 cal gas checks while waiting for .32 cal 85(82) gr bullets to cool. Some people use 2 mods I do 2 different stages of bullet making.

[RogerDat]

Repaired my HF storage shelf that collapsed under the weight my cast boolits waiting to be coated.
I cut a short piece of 1/2" angle welded a foot on it and welded it to the shelves. not pretty but it works :)

https://i.imgur.com/fX9iflX.jpg Nice problem to have. Great selection of pretty projectiles. But I'm not jealous :mrgreen: Not much anyway.

[Beau Cassidy]

Made a few different test loads using the NOE .44 SWC HP Keith mold I powder coated.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/737d4d67805d855d10f9737a846ba1da.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/25232a2e5ceca31813178738d06bb385.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/ec6566694b6c7c617ef6ca4b548d8ffc.jpg

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[enloe]

Nice!
What are the weight of those?

[Beau Cassidy]

They are 270 grains. 50/50 WW/Pb

[nitroviking]

Made a few different test loads using the NOE .44 SWC HP Keith mold I powder

Looks good, and I like the PC on those, they have an industrial look to them

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[Beau Cassidy]

It is sage that I got on sale a while back from Prismatic powders. I shook the bullets in airsoft BBs. They coated pretty good. I put a little red on a few of some .41s I cast for a friend of mine and it looked pretty cool.

[Beau Cassidy]

Here are some of the .41s I did for a friendhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/54a0d64fb8b618a0f6d9640f81fcbe60.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/e8d78ae0667625f3fa273aa9dfa97760.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/71f47bc4009005d209b9200bab1dd333.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/35cd9ec8265c94de1eb463fa778d2fd2.jpg

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[OS OK]

I use a Q-tip to do that.

[RogerDat]

I use a Q-tip to do that. Me too, or a tooth pick, I call the ones I make that are gloss black with bright colors flicked on them Jackson Pollack bullets. Wife has these Q-tips that are sort of pointed and compressed a bit, I borrow them when I can. Dip tip in powder and tap above bullets, it feeds my creative side. Such as it is.

[OS OK]

We have either...too much time on our hands or we are slowly loosing our minds . . . :bigsmyl2:

But in my case . . . prolly a bit of both!

[Soundguy]

Made a few different test loads using the NOE .44 SWC HP Keith mold I powder coated.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/737d4d67805d855d10f9737a846ba1da.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/25232a2e5ceca31813178738d06bb385.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171117/ec6566694b6c7c617ef6ca4b548d8ffc.jpg

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Most impressive!

[Grmps]

50/50 black clear
https://i.imgur.com/dVgnvQB.jpg

[KenT7021]

I put a set of handles on a new Lyman 311008 mold and cast some bullets.All I did to the molds was spray with brake cleaner.Alloy was 50-50 linotype and isotope lead.I had good bullets almost immediately from a warmed up mold.Cast size was .3142 and weight was 112 grains.Mold was made 11-15.Very nice performance.I have yet to get a bad mold from Lyman.

[Reverend Al]

Emptied the tumbler and put the rinsed cases into the dehydrator last night. Took them out of the dehydrator today. Big batch of .30-30's and .303 British brass. (Covered 5 of the 7 trays in the dehydrator.) I'll do some more tomorrow ...

[Cleatus]

Had a new gun safe delivered and resized, flared and primed 300 9mm brass. Also put some wall control behind my reloading work bench.207954

[nitroviking]

Had a new gun safe delivered and resized, flared and primed 300 9mm brass. Also put some wall control behind my reloading work bench.

Nice, I'm happy and sad at the same time to say "I need a bigger gun safe" Mine is really on the small side, and there's seriously no room left for anything

[Grmps]

sized 9x19 to 9x18
https://i.imgur.com/iTLemtA.jpg

trimming
https://i.imgur.com/uItvdZs.jpg

finished
https://i.imgur.com/tnSXBG3.jpg

I have a long way to go.

[nitroviking]

sized 9x19 to 9x18
trimming
https://i.imgur.com/uItvdZs.jpg

I have a long way to go.

How do you like that trimmer Grmps? the shell holder portion in particular... any issues with it? I've been interested in that one for a while, but wasn't sure how well that universal shell holder would work

[Reverend Al]

I FOUND GOLD! (In my dehydrator after ss pin tumbling some brass ...)

:bigsmyl2:

https://i.imgur.com/LoNayFW.jpg

[Soundguy]

How do you like that trimmer Grmps? the shell holder portion in particular... any issues with it? I've been interested in that one for a while, but wasn't sure how well that universal shell holder would work

The work great, I have a motorized trim pro -2, I also have the old trim oro that uses shell plates. I like the universal better.

[Bookworm]

Finally got around to loading up some from my RCBS 429-240-SIL mold. This is a gas-checked silhouette projectile - flat point, rounded ogive, bore-rider nose band. Not quite a SWC, not quite a RNFP. Tried tom get some pics, but couldn't get any co-operation.
23.0, 23.5, 24.0 grains H110. Gonna try it in my 9.5" Ruger SRH.

Used the pin gauges the cylinder throats on my recently acquired S&W 14-3. Two throats would not accept a .358" pin, the rest would.
The two that had trouble, the pin would go up to the very end of the throat, just wouldn't go thru - maybe a burr. Got out a small oval diamond file, and just lightly stoked the very end, putting a tiny chamfer on the openings. Really, just took the burr off.
Worked like a champ ! now, to go shoot the thing.

Pic of my S&W 14s - top is the 14-3, bottom is a 14-6.
https://s19.postimg.org/784eh6zib/P1010131.jpg

[Cleatus]

Cleaned some 380 brass and received 32lb lead from Acme.

[quail4jake]

I pound slugged 4 S&W .38 S&W revolver chambers and bores and 2 .32 S&W revolver chambers and bores, really learned alot. Now to call Swede at NOE!

[JBinMN]

Loaded up 20 - 12ga. Lee 1oz. Slug loads & 20 - 12ga. 00 Buck.
:)

[skeettx]

Today
I went to the un-reloading room
and shot 45 ACP, 38 Special and 22LR
Very satisfying
Mike

[David2011]

I made stocking stuffers in the reloading room. Black PC coated 9mm in brass cases for a niece, red PC coated .40 S&W in brass for another niece and her husband, red .38 RNFP in nickel cases for my brother and his wife. Total of 750 rounds.

[Soundguy]

Nice!

[EMR]

Cast 230 rounds of 9mm (100 pictured).

Nice way to spend my Thanksgiving AM!

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171123/3c9a20dc42b02ce1b5339d685a92df0a.jpg

[tinhorn97062]

I made summa deez...158gr, 5.6gr Power Pistol, .38 Special

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[Grmps]

almost completed my RCBD Trim Pro drill jig. This thing works great now keeping the drill in line.
Had a friend sharpen the cutter (he owns a saw and tool sharpening shop) and sharpened it on his end mill machine.
Now I can trim 9x19 to 9x18 in 3 seconds (after putting the brass in the chuck) with no burs

https://i.imgur.com/YZ7Ga7n.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/tD0ZWst.jpg

[Skunk1]

Broke down unknown rounds. Shotshells and metallic. Always interesting how other people reload and live. Ok yeah, made a new shelf for powder cans.

[OS OK]

Use a short allen head screw for the threaded part to attach to the cutter shaft and weld a small nut driver tool to it. Use the small one that has the same size diameter as the allen head screw...here I had to grind a groove in it so the driver drill would snap it's chuck onto the hex shaft so I can push/pull the cutter shaft in and out of the brass without disconnecting the drill driver from the new driver adapter.
Heck, I think RCBS even sells these little adapters too.

This driver drill is small and lightweight so I didn't need to make a wood slide to align & carry the weight of the driver. I think Home Depot sells various brands in the 7.2 VDC version, they have plenty of power & torque as they are designed for drivers and not particularly as drill motors.



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Sure makes short work of trimming brass!

[EMR]

Cast 100 of 452-230 with my Lee 2 cav. Makes me appreciate my 6 cav mould!

[lightman]

Sorted 2 buckets of wheel weights while waiting on the ball games to start. Gonna cheer for Arkansas even though they are having a bad year!

[NavyVet1959]

Spent Turkey Day with wife's siblings, family members, and acquaintances about 2.5 hrs WNW of here at my BIL's place... Helped my nephew with a problem he was having with his Hornady LnL where it was crushing the shoulder .300 WinMag brass he was trying to reload. He just had the bullet seating die too far down so that the portion that went over the neck of the cartridge was pushing down on the edge of the shoulder right by the neck. Interestingly, even damaged that bad, they were able to be restraightened by running them through the normal sizing die. Considering how bad that looked, I was expecting them needing to be fire formed to get back in shape (assuming they would even chamber considering what shape they were in).

[max it]

im still looking for a .005 piece of shim around here somewhere; gunny told me to put a piece between the toolhead and the press on my Dillon 550 to take up slop.
other than for that:- i am depriming .223's cases to prepare for reloading more of those. today it cost me $90 at the reloadoc store. 2 X $2.99 for decap pins on my lee Universal decap die plus a # of H335 (i wanted H322) and 500 x 55gn projectiles.
not a bad start and its only 3:30PM. ate more T day pie too!

[Soundguy]

Soda can is .003. X2 .006

A little tap with a flat face hammer can thin that...

[robg]

Loaded 100 164 gr rngc 309 boolits over 18 gr 2400 for my 308. And 50 160gr pb over 7 gr of true blue for my win94 357 mag just to use up some odd boolits .

[308Jeff]

Sorted 38 Spec brass by headstamp. (Why?!)

Loaded 10 rounds of 38 Spec with 158gr Zero bullets and 4.2gr of Unique to try in the Taurus.

Cast about 300 175gr 40 cal bullets.

[Victor N TN]

I boxed up some brass to mail to a friend. Merry Christmas Mike.

[dragon813gt]

Took apart a LAM1 a member was kind enough to send me for just postage. Boiled it in a pot to remove the lube, it was covered in it. Just waiting for the pot to cool so I can remove the pieces. Then it's a matter of removing any residual lube and putting the small parts in Evaporust.

[308Jeff]

Also found out the Lee Perfect Powder Measure doesn't like throwing Unique consistently. Might have already known that, but forgotten it. :smile:

[texassako]

Ran out of time for any real reloading work. I did manage to confirm I don't need to size the Lee TL356-124-2R for my new to me Star Super A and BLL'ed the 10 pounds I cast the other day. I hope they work well because it is so easy using as cast boolits.

[skeettx]

What caliber is your Star Super A?
Mine is in 9mm Largo, and I would like
to find a 9mm Luger barrel.
Mike

[texassako]

What caliber is your Star Super A?
Mine is in 9mm Largo, and I would like
to find a 9mm Luger barrel.
Mike

It is 9mm Largo, which I already load for in some Destroyers. I almost passed it up because of the bore, but glad I did not as it is from the same year (1950) as my favorite Destroyer. A 9mm Luger barrel would be nice, but Largo brass is available and easy to load.

[skeettx]

Yes, and I also can shoot the largo in my 38 Super guns though some require a lighter spring
Mike

[Michael J. Spangler]

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MP 356-130
Hi Tek Black Gold

[15meter]

Did a case conversion in reverse, had 5 range pickup 300 Weatherby Magnum cases in the orphan case bucket. Ran them through my 300 H&H sizer, then trimmed them to length, converting them back to the parent case. Chambered perfectly. Next anneal and load.

[quail4jake]

Day 24 of alloy ageing study. Cast 6,5 boolits NOE 270-149 RN GC....

[Bookworm]

Loaded 412 rounds of .38 Spl.

Lee 358-125-RF, 4.3gr HP38. My new go-to
38Spl round for casual shooting. About 825fps from a 6" S&W M-14.

412 rounds, because that's how many boolits I had. I'll fire up the pot this week, and get out the 6-banger.

[KrakenFan69]

Sized many pounds of 9mm 124gn and .357 158gn Hi-Tek Coated projectiles. Ordered 2,000 more wads for shot shell and slug loading. Finished a DIY Chest rig with pockets for AR mags and Molle webbing to mount a shot shell carrier to.

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[MOA]

Got a few boxes of hornady Win 405 j words for loading in my 450/400 N. E. last year and never got around ordering the Lee push thru sizer in .410. The Win 405 is a .411 dia as Hornady makes it and since Ruger made the grove dia for this No.1 in .410 I figured it would be a good idea to at least get the J words in the same dia as the grove before I go around stuffing them in shells for trials. Lots of standard stuff at Hornady for this caliber, but it is nice to have something other than a 210 grain pistol j word to shoot out of this rifle. This 300 grain j word should be a good compromise I think, at least it is constructed for rifle parameters in the field.

The Lee sizer did a great job and just a few rolls on the lube pad with RCBS lube made them go through the sizer without one sticking at all. Of course I was only taking them down .001

https://s19.postimg.org/o756j8lir/resizing_the_Win_405.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

https://s19.postimg.org/hgop9sqn7/box_of_resized_Win_405.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/tvbha4i5b/)

[15meter]

Got a few boxes of hornady Win 405 j words for loading in my 450/400 N. E. last year and never got around ordering the Lee push thru sizer in .410. The Win 405 is a .411 dia as Hornady makes it and since Ruger made the grove dia for this No.1 in .410 I figured it would be a good idea to at least get the J words in the same dia as the grove before I go around stuffing them in shells for trials. Lots of standard stuff at Hornady for this caliber, but it is nice to have something other than a 210 grain pistol j word to shoot out of this rifle. This 300 grain j word should be a good compromise I think, at least it is constructed for rifle parameters in the field.

The Lee sizer did a great job and just a few rolls on the lube pad with RCBS lube made them go through the sizer without one sticking at all. Of course I was only taking them down .001

https://s19.postimg.org/o756j8lir/resizing_the_Win_405.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

https://s19.postimg.org/hgop9sqn7/box_of_resized_Win_405.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/tvbha4i5b/)

Cast is fun to shoot in the 450/400, I use boolits intended for the 41 Mag. Gas check them and have a mirror handy so you can appreciate the grin you'll have shooting them.

[MOA]

Cast is fun to shoot in the 450/400, I use boolits intended for the 41 Mag. Gas check them and have a mirror handy so you can appreciate the grin you'll have shooting them.

How right you are 15Meter,
Here are some of the cast I shoot in it.
https://s19.postimg.org/5e2mc37gj/450-400_395_gr._cast_boolits_003.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
Lyman 395 gr plain base

https://s19.postimg.org/nshc67zf7/450_cast.png (https://postimages.org/) 285 grain plain base

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded up 300 Zombie Green Hi-Tek Coated 225-61 Elvis cast for the AR. Decapped and SS tumbled 2,000 38 Special cases.

Kraken Fan #69

[lightman]

Nothing yet, I'm still drinking coffee. But I plan to put some of the range brass that I sorted last night into the tumblers. While they are running I will be sorting wheel weights.

[Soundguy]

Loaded up 300 Zombie Green Hi-Tek Coated 225-61 Elvis cast for the AR. Decapped and SS tumbled 2,000 38 Special cases.

Kraken Fan #69

gas checked?

[Reverend Al]

Heading down to the shop shortly. A friend just bought a 99 Savage in .300 Savage at a recent gun show and I found him a cheap set of used dies. He's heading over this morning so we can load him up some test ammo.

[15meter]

How right you are 15Meter,
Here are some of the cast I shoot in it.
https://s19.postimg.org/5e2mc37gj/450-400_395_gr._cast_boolits_003.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
Lyman 395 gr plain base
https://s19.postimg.org/nshc67zf7/450_cast.png (https://postimages.org/) 285 grain plain base



What load are you using? Always looking for loads other people have had success with, tough to find any data for these old war horses let alone for cast.

[KrakenFan69]

gas checked?

That's a big negative Ghost Rider. The pattern is full.

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[atr]

re-loaded 60 rounds of cast for my 30-30 !!!

[Tom W.]

Put some primers in some .44 mag brass and flared the mouths..... then said the rest can stay for tomorrow. Running out of brass to load.....

[quail4jake]

My first day of PA rifle season, loaded only 10 rounds, .30-30 150 gr Sierra J word FPs over 34 gr BL-C for a 101 year old Marlin 1893. I walked out and fired 5 rounds offhand from the magazine without dismounting and hit the 6" steel target at 100 yards with all 5. Still hunted the rest of the day and put it on 4 does and a spike buck yelling "BANG!" at them, what fun. Most of the time I spent admiring the fine old rifle and imagining deer season, 1917....anyway here's my favorite lever gun:
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[KrakenFan69]

Snow all melted and the ground dried out so I made a quick trip to the range to harvest some lead. Gets dark fast around here. Only scored about 12 lbs before it got too dark to bother. Every little bit... The RCMP (cops for my peeps back home) were practicing so after they left I did score a nice haul of 38 Special and .357 Brass though.

Kraken Fan #69

[lightman]

I've already de-primed a bunch of range brass that I have been sorting. Taking a little break, then I'll put some of it in the tumbler and sort some more weights while they are getting their bath. Basically just trying to get the loading room and storage room in order.

[jdfoxinc]

Loaded the last of my unfired .25 cap brass.

[tazman]

Got my new-to-me Lyman 4500 mounted and set up for my 45acp boolits. Plugged in the heater and after a while, started sizing/lubing some Lyman 452374 boolits.
This new sizer cured the problem I was having with my Lyman 45 sizer which was sizing a little off center(more on one side than the other).
After I had enough sized, I loaded them over 4.0 grains of Bullseye.
I am going to take them to the range soon and see how much difference it makes in the accuracy of my 1911.

[Texas by God]

I have an exploded drawing in real life of an H&R Topper on my bench. Some trigger/hammer stoning, a new firing pin, reassemble for the upcoming stub job.

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[Reverend Al]

Heading down to the shop shortly to sort another big pile of brass ...

[fralic76]

Finished up my dual PID controller. 1 controls my melting pot and the other controls the hot plate that pre heats my molds.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/72c9cff25b1c87333b8774c470ee2286.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/b36b24ea3e89e30e76635938e711e779.jpg

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[texassako]

Cleaned and prepped my 9mm Largo cases after emptying every load I had for my Destroyers through my new Star Super to see what fed and shot well, which was everything (even WFNs). Started working on my containers of 38 Special since it is about time to load some more wadcutters.

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded another 300 rounds of .223 before work then pulled a bit more range lead out of the berm at the range after work. Need to get to the dang place earlier so that I can have light longer.

Kraken Fan #69

[quail4jake]

rolled some cal. .69 ball cartridges for the 1842 Springfield...next nice day we fire, 40 rounds without stopping at a 10" steel target at 50 yds, timed!

[Soundguy]

Nice, had my 69 cal 1842 out last weekend.

What do you use for patch, powder and charge. What diameter ball ? I'm using thick cotton jersey and an old Lyman mold that drops at 67.5 or a hair larger. I'm using pyridex RS and 70 grains. We had a 40 & 80 yard target up. 40 was easy, 80 was 2/3's

[quail4jake]

2/3 on the target at 80 yards is admirable with that punkin chunker! Compliments. I use the Lyman .662 mold and load paper cartridges with 4 drams FFg as per the Ordnance manual of 1851. this is pure military loading from the cartridge box, no lube no patch, I suspect you're doing much better patching. The advantage of paper cartridges is rate of fire, my record is 3 rounds in 51 seconds and I've been outdone by youth!

[Soundguy]

Nice! 3 per minute is fantastic. I can get one off and be reloaded in the time you can pop 3!

4 drams, dang.. 110grains if my math is right. Probably good that you are using .662 @ that charge. Must be a real shoulder thumper.

[jonp]

Just cut down some 223 brass and formed it into 300blk then loaded it up and tried it out in a rifle I built a couple of weeks ago.
110gr Nosler over 15gr 2400. Can't believe it all works.

[KrakenFan69]

Picked up 2,000 CB1114-12 wads for a great price. Loaded 100 shot shells and 10 Lyman 525 gn Slugs using Fiber wads instead of Gas seals (the ones I have are almost gone and no longer made) to see if I can maintain accuracy. Ordered another 1,000 Winchester once fired AA Hulls. Trimmed a doz .38 Special down to .38 Short Colt to mock up some loads. For a guy who got started loading 9mm, I'm becoming addicted to shotgun loading. Eyeballing a Russian Savrog mold to try out. I mean, I already have 200 slugs loaded. But this is a NEW slug mold. lol

Kraken Fan #69

[MUSTANG]

Nose sized , Gas Checked, then base sized some RCBS 165Sil, RCBS 200Sil, Lyman 311644 and NOE 311290 boolits. Going to Powder Coat them and load tomorrow. Weather permitting, plan on doing some shooting middle of next week.

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded another 50 Shot Shells and 10 Lyman Slugs with the Fiber Wads for Testing. Then I ripped off 350 .223-61 Elvis .223.

Not a bad start considering I worked till noon before I could come home and get started.

Kraken Fan #69

[JBinMN]

Loaded 50 rounds of reduced load 38 Special with 158gr. LSWC for the missus. Saw I was getting low on the SWCs and the temp was fairly warm for this time of year, so I went out & cast about 5-600 more. While the pot was hot, I also cast approx. 500+ 124gr. 2Rs & 500+ 124gr. TCs. Not a bad few hours spent...

Tonight is sort cases by headstamp, & tumble clean some brass. Maybe load some 45 ACP too.

Tomorrow is supposed to be our last bit of warm weather before the temps dip to normal again, so I think I will cast some 230's for the 45 & maybe some pure lead slugs for the shotgun.

[Retumbo]

Cast another 100 .459 340 grain bullets. Powder coating tomorrow

[KrakenFan69]

Cast another 100 .459 340 grain bullets. Powder coating tomorrow

I'd like to see pics of those after you coat them.

Kraken Fan #69

[308Jeff]

- Loaded 15 rounds of 300 BO with CFE BLK and 110gr Z-Max.

- Resized 300 pieces of 308 brass.

- Started inspecting/culling bullets from last weekend's casting session.

[Retumbo]

I'd like to see pics of those after you coat them.

Kraken Fan #69

The first batch I did
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[brass410]

put together my new pro pour clearance priced (going out of business) pro pour old style (quality) and bench mount primer tool. gotta get some moulds now to feed the 45-70

[jonp]

- Loaded 15 rounds of 300 BO with CFE BLK and 110gr Z-Max.

- Resized 300 pieces of 308 brass.

- Started inspecting/culling bullets from last weekend's casting session.

How is that CFE BLK, Jeff? I've been pretty happy with 2400 under 110gr Nosler Varmeddon's so far and have not tried a different powder having a couple of kegs of 2400 to use up.

[Retumbo]

The first batch I did
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Today's batch

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[308Jeff]

How is that CFE BLK, Jeff? I've been pretty happy with 2400 under 110gr Nosler Varmeddon's so far and have not tried a different powder having a couple of kegs of 2400 to use up.

Don't know yet, unfortunately. I've yet to fire any.

I can tell you this, though. CFE BLK is a very fine ball. It leaks from my Lee Perfect Powder Measure just like AA #9 does. Hodgdon's load data indicates 22.5-23.7 grains with the 110gr V-Max with even the starting load being compressed. They're not kidding. I loaded these up at 23.0 grains and I honestly don't think I could have fit much more than that in the cases. I had maybe 1/8" of space below the case mouth. These things were compressed enough that it was actually making me nervous. :lol:

Those little Z-Maxes do look pretty cool though.

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[Bama]

Started up a Frankford Arsenal rotary tumbler with SS pins that I got on sale from Cabelas. Drum is reasonable design but it seems to turn faster than the optimum 28 to 32 rpm for that size drum. It still does a reasonable job but could do better.

[Texas by God]

Loaded a few of these. I'm out of IMR3031 so I'm trying this combo. Lee C309fp, sized .309" acww.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171203/32153006e902dbc245a4a2f17b442091.jpg

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[Texas by God]

308 Jeff- have you tried Lil Gun in your BO? Mine loves it and W296 equally with the 125 Seer TNT.

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[JBinMN]

Cast up 250-300+ 45 ACP TL 230 gr. 2R & 175-200+ TL 230 gr. TC while it was nice out today( 50F or so).

:)

[Eddie17]

Are you using a none wash recipe?
I have been using Armor-All, with a dash of Lemi-Shine. Working well for over 30,000 rds cleaned.208843

[Tom W.]

I went in with the intention of loading something and realized that I only had 9 mm brass left. I have a pile of loaded rounds for the 9mm, and as all of my other brass is loaded except for the 30/30 I went back to the house. I don't have dies for it....but have several hundred already loaded from when I borrowed my son's dies.
I could have loaded some .45 ACP or .45 Colt, but as of now I have nothing to shoot them from so what's the point? Gotta manage to obtain one sooner or later..... preferably sooner!

[Texas by God]

Sized 40 each .243 Win and .250 Sav and in the tumbler they went. The youngest daughter and the wife need their ammo supply replenished. The .243s will get 95 gr Nosler BT over Superformance and Mama's .250 gets its favorite 87 gr Speer over 4320. Both loads go 3000 fps and drop deer perfectly.

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[KrakenFan69]

Converted the 650 back over to do 9mm and started to rip off 100 or so of the 356-124 2R Lee's with the WSF load data I use for my Magma rounds. Decided to hold off loading any more until I can test them. Mounted a couple of old lockers to the wall and started filling them with Sterilite boxes of brass. loaded what I thought was my last 20 Win AA hulls for shot shell. Then found another 100 hiding.

Kraken Fan #69

[carstensxd45]

spent the past week casting some 120gr. TC 9mm
135 pounds, approximately 7830 rounds https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171204/d9e2aed61a63b3d14fffc60fe8941cfa.jpg
also started lubing themhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171204/b255dfff70914c8a072d0d8ca17661d0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171204/62984ea746215779f31321b0648fb7a2.jpg

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[308Jeff]

308 Jeff- have you tried Lil Gun in your BO? Mine loves it and W296 equally with the 125 Seer TNT.

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I haven't, but I'm actually going to pick some up this week. Looks like a great powder for 300. I have a few pounds of 296, but haven't tried that out either yet.

[Soundguy]

now that's alotta projectiles!

[Spooksar]

Loaded 400 460 Rowland, 260 357 Magnum and cast a bunch of boolits for the 45/70

[308Jeff]

spent the past week casting some 120gr. TC 9mm
135 pounds, approximately 7830 rounds

That is a metric s-ton of bullets!

You're local here in AZ, aren't you? Think I recognize the name.

[trixter]

Loaded 77 rounds of 45ACP (all of the red) 200 gr Hex hollow points, and 55 rounds of 45ACP 200 gr Semi wad cutters (all of the blue) that I had left and started playing with my new Hornady OAL tools.

[carstensxd45]

no sir? here in Texas? try to cast enough during the cooler months to last all year

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[Bama]

Are you using a none wash recipe?
I have been using Armor-All, with a dash of Lemi-Shine. Working well for over 30,000 rds cleaned.208843

Using Mothers Wash and wax with Carnauba wax, dash of citric and teaspoon of dawn. They do get clean. I had been using tumbler for rock tumbling that helt about 1 1/2 gas. Just got too heavy to be lugging outside to hose to wash out brass. Also too big to tumble 50 rounds. The RPM was calculated from design standards for ball mills which would hold brass and pins to 11:00 position before releasing. It would clean so well that you could see inside case with normal room lighting. Makes it real easy to see case head area.

[KrakenFan69]

Testing the rounds I loaded yesterday and I'm not pleased with the results. Gonna spin up some other charges tonight and do some more testing hopefully tomorrow. I want to have a few thousand of these by spring. Switching projectiles so back to load testing.

Kraken Fan #69

[Sghinds]

Loaded up some test rounds using Unique and 3 different molds. Lyman 410459, 41028 and 41026.

208902

[carstensxd45]

getting closer to being finished. about 5000 rounds lubes so farhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171205/1b0a1b21d31d3a5136bd4f570711c38f.jpg

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[Grmps]

loaded some 9X18's

https://i.imgur.com/xeyyJnt.jpg

[Walter Laich]

primered (is that a verb?) 50 brass shotshells for cowboy shooting

[Soundguy]

loaded some 9X18's

https://i.imgur.com/xeyyJnt.jpg


You sir, are an artist!

[JBinMN]

Sorted 1250 38 Special cases by headstamp. Then bagged them up into freezer bags. I am not sure if sorting cases is more boring than cleaning primer pockets, trimming case length, or de burring case mouths. Almost like watching grass grow or paint dry...

Sheesh...

Now I have to do the 1250 45ACPs next. Tomorrow or the next day, maybe. My eyes are going cross-eyed as it is...
;)

Who's next?
:)

[Tom W.]

I cast a good number of RCBS 245 gr.swc boolits. Gotta go through them and see which ones I don't like. Probably will size and lube them tomorrow...,

[RED333]

Disassembled all the ML long guns I own, then cleaned, oiled and reassembled them.

[308Jeff]

You sir, are an artist!

Yes he is!


Sorted 1250 38 Special cases by headstamp. Then bagged them up into freezer bags. I am not sure if sorting cases is more boring than cleaning primer pockets, trimming case length, or de burring case mouths. Almost like watching grass grow or paint dry...

Sheesh...

Now I have to do the 1250 45ACPs next. Tomorrow or the next day, maybe. My eyes are going cross-eyed as it is...
;)

Who's next?
:)

And I thought I was the only one lunatic enough to sort 38 Special by headstamp. Welcome to the asylum!

[trails4u]

Aaahhhh.......that dreaded task. The better half just absolutely LOVES when I go down that road. House smells like Ballistol for days!! :)


Disassembled all the ML long guns I own, then cleaned, oiled and reassembled them.

[carstensxd45]

WHEW!!!! finally finished almost 8000 rounds ready to be loaded boy my arm is tired!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171206/23804069b369840bccc393d4436b74a4.jpg

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[wistlepig1]

208968 208968Todays run of 9mm 124 grs TC ready to go down range! [/QUOTE]

[taco650]

primered (is that a verb?) 50 brass shotshells for cowboy shooting

I think the correct word is "primed" and it applies to both in singular and plural actions. English is a messed up language! :veryconfu

[jdfoxinc]

Replaced the pressure screw and piston Lyman 450. Continued lubing/sizing 95 gr .312 pills.

Experimented with making .22 gas checks from .011" Al flashing from Home Depot. I think it needs to be annealed. The Lee classic press being an O style makes it difficult to feed the free check 3. May switch to Hollywood Sr. press.