What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Jal5]

Decapped a bunch of 38 spl and 45-70 brass and washed with SS pins.

[KrakenFan69]

Yes he is!



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

So I am casting Lee 358-158 RF's in anticipation of purchasing a S&W 327 TRR8 this Winter. I picked up 2,000 pieces of brass already. You guys that are sorting by head stamp, were you seeing much issues with group size prior to this or was this strictly a proactive measure?

Thanks,

Kraken Fan #69

[JBinMN]

So I am casting Lee 358-158 RF's in anticipation of purchasing a S&W 327 TRR8 this Winter. I picked up 2,000 pieces of brass already. You guys that are sorting by head stamp, were you seeing much issues with group size prior to this or was this strictly a proactive measure?

Thanks,

Kraken Fan #69

"Proactive" for me, mostly. I sort everything by head stamp, age/amount of firings, etc.. I like to know what I am using, & what might be different should something change. Trying to maintain "consistency" when it matters. Stuff like that...

I keep track of that info most of the time so I can try to accurately keep track of things I use & do as I go along. Helps when trying to figure out issues if/when they happen.

I am a firm believer in having as much info as possible to go on, when I want to either repeat or improve what I am doing. Like keeping the same recipe for what I do when I make a soup, smoke a rack of ribs or a venison shoulder, etc.. and then I know what I may want to do to repeat that recipe or what I might do to change it...
:)

As they say, " YMMV". Do as ya like.
:)

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Today in the reloading room...

Still working on my Alliant Red Dot testing for handguns....

Today, I loaded up 25 - 38 spec. cases ( G.F.L. head stamp) , once fired, "as cast" ( Ave. .3565" - .3575" after 4 months storage), 124gr 2R ( ave. weight 126.1), tumble lubed 45/45/10, with CCI #500(SPP),
5 cartridges each ranging from 3.0gr. - 3.4 gr., using Alliant Red Dot, (total 25 cartridges) for some sandbagged/bench rest/tripod accuracy testing @ 25 yds. with that load in colder weather(0F -25F deg.).
:)

[EMR]

About 280 rounds of 9mm Christmas cheer. Don’t judge me. [emoji23]
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171207/ec40dc43223845c1945d4d13b876f0b5.jpg

[OS OK]

Very cool EMR...use that for your AVATAR in the month of December and get into the drawing to win a chronograph.

Merry Christmas to you also!

[JBinMN]

About 280 rounds of 9mm Christmas cheer. Don’t judge me. [emoji23]
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171207/ec40dc43223845c1945d4d13b876f0b5.jpg

That is really cool!
:)

Thanks for doing that & sharing!
:)

:drinks:

[Texas by God]

About 280 rounds of 9mm Christmas cheer. Don’t judge me. [emoji23]
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171207/ec40dc43223845c1945d4d13b876f0b5.jpg
On the contrary- we judge you guilty of Christmas Spirit! Well done!

[EMR]

Very cool EMR...use that for your AVATAR in the month of December and get into the drawing to win a chronograph.

Merry Christmas to you also!

Wow I didn’t realize this was a thing! That’s very generous of you to do that. Thanks for the heads up!


That is really cool!
:)

Thanks for doing that & sharing!
:)

:drinks:


On the contrary- we judge you guilty of Christmas Spirit! Well done!

Thanks guys!

[62chevy]

Wow I didn’t realize this was a thing! That’s very generous of you to do that. Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks guys!


Awesome picture EMR !!! Wish you luck in the contest.

[skeettx]

EMR, wonderful and Thank You
Have a very merry Christmas
Mike

[tazman]

I like that.

[KrakenFan69]

About 280 rounds of 9mm Christmas cheer. Don’t judge me. [emoji23]
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171207/ec40dc43223845c1945d4d13b876f0b5.jpg

Judge you!? We're ONE of you!

Love the pic. Merry Christmas!!

Kraken Fan #69

[Grmps]

I have a good idea how long that took and the artistic talent involved.
Great job EMR

[EMR]

Thanks again, everyone! LOL wait until I figure out what to do for the 4th of July!

[Tom W.]

I didn't do anything. Too cold and rainy to venture out to the shed.






Very attractive display!

[Retumbo]

I didn't do anything. Too cold and rainy to venture out to the shed.






Very attractive display!

Last week my shed hit 95

[jonp]

About 280 rounds of 9mm Christmas cheer. Don’t judge me. [emoji23]
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171207/ec40dc43223845c1945d4d13b876f0b5.jpg

You win the coolest picture of the Christmas Season so far. Great Job

[jonp]

20 300blk using H110 under 150gr Hornady fmjbt's. Still fooling with my newly built by me AR. I think I might have to buy some more 296/H110

[JayT]

First try at handgun bullet casting. Got some molds in the mail today from Reed1911, so I figured I’d give it a shot. .40 cal Lee mold. 175gr SWC. Powdercoated HF red.

209122

[Cleatus]

My backup "Drip o' matic" arrived today, so I remelted all my failed Hi-Tek boolits back into ingots, so I can cast tomorrow and give Hi-Tek a 2nd go. :)

[texassako]

Cast some plain base oddballs today. A handful of Ideal 311257 and some Modern Bond D-311-955 & 1145 out of a combination mold.

[Cleatus]

Cast 95gr & 126gr bullets for 380 & 9mm. Ended up with 275 95gr and 300 125gr after culling by size and weight. Used my culled bullets to practice Hi-Tek process since I plan to remelt them anyway :)

[10gaOkie]

Cast 250 .351WSL 174gr bullets, then 45/45/10 tumble lube, lay out to dry overnight. In the morn, add gas check, size to .352 and relube. /Chris

[KrakenFan69]

Made a couple of 25 round 12 Ga Shot shell loading blocks last night so I made 10 more Lyman 525 Slugs to test drive them.

Kraken Fan #69

[tazman]

Loaded up 100 rounds of 38 special with the Lyman 358091 wadcutter over 3.1 grains of WST.
Plan on punching some holes in paper tomorrow.

[labradigger1]

Carried gun show goodies to it.
4 lbs H110
1 lb IMR 4227
1 used brass large Dillon primer flip tray.
All for $125 out the door. YAAHHH!

[308Jeff]

- Loaded 50 rounds of 40 S&W with 135gr Noslers and Longshot. They should haul butt.
- Processed 50 pieces of new Remington 308 brass.

That's about it. I was slacking today.

[jdfoxinc]

Made and seated Al gas checks on Lyman 55 gr .224 cast.

[Walter Laich]

wet tumbling another batch of .45 Colt and .45 ACP

using STM's Rebel 17 with 1/4 tsp of Lemishine and 1 oz Armor-All wash and wax.

Run for 2 hours and set them out to dry in sun

[Walter Laich]

^ also deprimed them before their bath

[RogerDat]

Cross mixed 3 batches of linotype spacers into 90# of consistent alloy, using the heat from the burner to make cleaning and straightening the garage a bit pleasanter temperature wise. Sorted .308 win by headstamp while watching Christmas shows. Managed to cast up some .575 round ball using a new Lee mold. I like casting RB they always drop so easily. Think wife is getting suspicious of my claims of "running those just for the heat". :-)

[popper]

jonp - I've tried CFE blk under some 185gr GC in the pistol, works fine and I get lots more under the heavies as it is a fine powder. Lilgun supposedly burns pretty hot.

[308Jeff]

jonp - I've tried CFE blk under some 185gr GC in the pistol, works fine and I get lots more under the heavies as it is a fine powder. Lilgun supposedly burns pretty hot.

You certainly caught my attention with this one. Glad to see the powder is good for other things as well.

[KrakenFan69]

Sorted one of 4 55 lb buckets of wheelweights. Ended up with 25 lbs useable WW and 10 lbs purish lead. 3 more to go. ugh...

Kraken Fan #69

[Grmps]

Just keep telling yourself that you are having fun :)

[JBinMN]

Tumbling a couple hundred 9mm cases for reloading tonite or early tomorrow morning.
:)

I have not shot for a couple weeks. Time to get out again, now that the firearms deer hunting is done.
( I shoot at a couple of "Public Land" areas. So, I leave off to let the firearms hunters have the place until after the firearms season. Bow hunters don't seem to mind, as I am closer to the parking lots & they are not. ;) )

Looking forward to shooting again. Almost feel "rusty".
;)

[enloe]

209380My son just traded a rough 150 dollar shotgun for a model 19 Smith and 1 just bought a 6 inch Dan Wesson 357.
Now I am getting a bunch of 38s and 357s ready to shoot.
Here is a pic of the DW

[Soundguy]

Nice trade!!

[RogerDat]

Sorted one of 4 55 lb buckets of wheelweights. Ended up with 25 lbs useable WW and 10 lbs purish lead. 3 more to go. ugh...

Kraken Fan #69 Yep a good times for sure! Well not yet, but when they all be a pile of shiny ingots then you'll be doing the tired but happy dance. And post picture of big stack and say, smelted WW's today...

[Cleatus]

Installed new LED workshop lights over my reloading bench.

209417209418

[15meter]

Primed and belled a batch of 416 Rigby, profiled the nose on a batch of 416 boolits on the lathe to ensure smooth feeding from the magazine. Sized lubed and gas checked a batch of .375's. Started to lube a batch of 380/200 boolits until I disassembled my lubesizer to see why it was turning so hard. Galled shaft/top nut. New ones on the way from RCBS.

[Soundguy]

Can you post a pic of your 416, including mold# if the are cast lead.

Thanks

[Texas by God]

enloe- your son wins Gun Trade of the Year!
I epoxied a one piece Weaver base to my very rough SMLE. Once it cures, I'll D&T the front and drill and pin the rear. I'm going for low.

[KrakenFan69]

Cast a Lee 4-20 pot full of 158gn .357 Magnum & 125gn 9mm's tonight.

Kraken Fan #69

[taco650]

209380My son just traded a rough 150 dollar shotgun for a model 19 Smith and 1 just bought a 6 inch Dan Wesson 357.
Now I am getting a bunch of 38s and 357s ready to shoot.
Here is a pic of the DW

The DW's are one of the most under appreciated double action revolvers. Love my .44 DW!

[Walter Laich]

sorted and cleaned more brass--not the most exciting job in the world

[Jal5]

Cast almost full 10# lee pot into WC for 38 spl. Starting my winter casting!

[bscapt]

melted pure lead one to one with Lin O Type...BHN 15...30lbs. of ingots

[15meter]

Can you post a pic of your 416, including mold# if the are cast lead.

Thanks it's a noe mold, too large a meplat to feed from the magazine. I ground a form tool to convert them to a round nose. I'll post pictures when i get home, delivered an old propeller blade to my nephew that had been taking up space in the shop. He's going to use it as decoration for his office. 6'4" and not a clue what plane it came from. Too cool for me to just toss.

[KrakenFan69]

Won a gift certificate at a local hardware store that sells reloading supplies. Finally got around to picking up a Hornady collet bullet puller. Went to work on over 100 .223 rounds I have collected over the year that needed pulled. I should have got one of these sooner! So much easier than that stupid hammer! Now to grab the 9mm and .308 collets too! I have most of a shoe box of 9mm to pull that's at least a year old.

Kraken Fan #69

[RustyReel]

Modified a few 50/70 cases to fit in my new to me 12.7x44R rolling block. Don't have a lathe but the cordless drill worked ok....
209502

[Soundguy]

did you rebate the rime a little?

[jdfoxinc]

Deprimed more .223 brass. Got tired of not "feeling" if the pin was in the flash hole. So started using the shell holder and a spare Lee universal depriming pin like a Lee hand deprimer. Went faster.

[RustyReel]

did you rebate the rime a little?

I did have to reduce the diameter of the rim a bit and did take off a little near the base of the case...very little actually. Shortened the length a bit but probably did not have to do that.

[Jal5]

Another round of casting 38s done.

[whisler]

Priming 38 Special cases.

[hc18flyer]

Cast 500 NOE 45-230TL boolets for our .45 Colts. Just got it last week on their 20% off sale. Took me about a 100 to get the temp and timing right, then the new 3 cavity worked like a champ. Need to write out some notes for next time! hc18flyer

[lightman]

Started about Tuesday moving all of my 9mm brass into the house to process. Started washing it, tumbling it, resizing it and sorting it by head stamp to store away, or load. I think these guys reproduce if not separated! Over the winter months I plan to do all of my pistil brass. The 40's are next.

[Walter Laich]

rebuilt my wooden shotgun shell loading blocks. Made the base below the holes removeable so when I drip the water glass on the top of the brass cases and some gets down in the hole, oops, I can take bottom off to dremel sand the dried lump off.

[KrakenFan69]

rebuilt my wooden shotgun shell loading blocks. Made the base below the holes removeable so when I drip the water glass on the top of the brass cases and some gets down in the hole, oops, I can take bottom off to dremel sand the dried lump off.

That is a great idea. Wish I had thought of it. I just built a set last week. It would have already been useful to be able to separate them.

Kraken Fan #69

[Wayne Smith]

That is a great idea. Wish I had thought of it. I just built a set last week. It would have already been useful to be able to separate them.

Kraken Fan #69

Just drill through and add a plywood base.

[taco650]

Put a box of 9mm in the tumbler for cleaning. Then they will be loaded up.

[The Governor]

Ran some .38 Spcl. anticipating my S & W 64

[KrakenFan69]

Just drill through and add a plywood base.

It's already 2 layers of 3/4" MDF. 9"x9". Don't think I want to add more weight. lol

209589

Kraken Fan #69

[KrakenFan69]

I did however, manage to load 500 rounds of 9mm with Lee 356-125 2R casts Hi-Tek Coated Black Cherry yesterday.

Kraken Fan #69

[Jack Stanley]

Seated some more RCBS 22-55-FN over a charge of Herco in some .223 Remington cases .

Jack

[Black Prince]

Continued breaking down the 4400 9mm cartridges I loaded before I discovered they leaded the barrel on my Hi Power. I've been at it for two days now and only have another 4000 to go. It ain't much fun though.:| Progressive presses can make about as many problems for you as they solve by being able to make a lot of ammo quickly. Lesson learned. MAKE SURE that ammo is what you want and will work in your gun BEFORE you make 4400 rounds of it. HAW!!!:oops:

[tazman]

Continued breaking down the 4400 9mm cartridges I loaded before I discovered they leaded the barrel on my Hi Power. I've been at it for two days now and only have another 4000 to go. It ain't much fun though.:| Progressive presses can make about as many problems for you as they solve by being able to make a lot of ammo quickly. Lesson learned. MAKE SURE that ammo is what you want and will work in your gun BEFORE you make 4400 rounds of it. HAW!!!:oops:

That's a mistake a person usually only makes once. 4000 rounds is a lot to disassemble.

[skeettx]

Why not leave them assembled and use Lee liquid Alox Lube on the outside,
https://www.brownells.com/reloading/bullet-casting/bullet-lubricant/lee-liquid-alox-4oz-bottle-sku100010160-54241-103496.aspx?cm_mmc=cse-_-Itwine-_-shoppingpla-_-100-010-160&utm_medium=cse&utm_source=ecn_pla&utm_campaign=itwine&utm_content=100-010-160
Give a few a try
Mike

[tazman]

skeettx just gave you a good piece of information to try. I remember reading about different people trying that very thing and it worked for them. It might for you as well.

[kayala]

Continued breaking down the 4400 9mm cartridges I loaded before I discovered they leaded the barrel on my Hi Power. I've been at it for two days now and only have another 4000 to go. It ain't much fun though.:| Progressive presses can make about as many problems for you as they solve by being able to make a lot of ammo quickly. Lesson learned. MAKE SURE that ammo is what you want and will work in your gun BEFORE you make 4400 rounds of it. HAW!!!:oops:

That's a lot of ammo to disassemble. I usually do small batch of 20-50 rounds and make sure they work in my guns before I commit to 1k+ on my 650.

[Jal5]

Started casting Lee TL 358148 WC using 6cav mold. Made a bunch in a short time. Hi number of rejects but it was a new mold first use.

[Walter Laich]

today I turned 120 rounds of .45 Colt into reloadable brass

Went cowboy shooting and for once didn't die of heat exhaustion

[KrakenFan69]

Got started early and cast 1,000 9mm with a Lee 356-125 2R, A couple hundred 9mm Magma 124 BBNLG, and 400 Lee 358-158. Then I built a Shot shell trimmer, and started on a shot shell vice for roll crimping. I would just buy the BPI ones but the cost of shipping to Canada is just to much for small things like that. Go a buddy to grab me another 1,000 Win AA hulls and he is willing to take some old 9mm I had laying around as payment. Another buddy scored me a Lee FCD for .38 Special / .357 Magnum and he is willing to take some slug rounds as payment. Pretty good day for reloading and got to top it off by going to see the new Star Wars movie.

Kraken Fan #69

[lightman]

After lunch I'll get back to sorting, sizing and tumbling 9mm brass. My goal for the winter is to get all of my pistol brass organized and a lot of it loaded.

[jdfoxinc]

Primed 500 PLC. 357 sig brass. 1000 7.62x25mm is next.

[Bookworm]

Over the past few days, I cast 33 pounds of range lead into Lee 358-125 RF boolits. Roughly 1800 of 'em.

I run them thru all the 38's, over 4.3g HP-38. Nice play load.

All the 9mm's run them too, I have some old Trap 100 I'm using up with those.

Got 1 coat of BLL on them, and sized 'em all to .358. Got another 2 VERY light coats of BLL on most of them after sizing, still another 4-500 to go.

[dragon813gt]

Moved approximately 650# of lead from my front porch into the reloading area. The PO did me no favors by actually delivering it to my house. They usually leave the orange slip w/ one box because they don't want to lift it. This time they delivered all ten over two days.

[15meter]

Load a batch of .318 Westley Richards, resized a batch of 6.5x53R--in polisher to spiff-up before being annealed. Reassembled my RCBS lubrisizer after the replacement parts arrived today. Need to size some 6.5's after I anneal the brass.

[Jal5]

Poured about 350 TL 358148 WC Over the last two days

[Jack Stanley]

Resized and decapped a few hundred .223 cases and put them in the polisher . When they are done I can get back to finding a load for Herco powder .

Jack

[goryshaw]

200x rounds of .30-06, Nosler 168 gr Custom Comps over 46.5 gr of IMR 4166. Gotta find another box of once fired brass, then load another 100x. That will finish up my stash of that bullet, and will give me enough loaded to last out the 2018 Garand/vintage military season.

[Walter Laich]

wet tumbled 15# of 45 Colt and ACP brass

drying under the ceiling fan right now

[JBinMN]

Loaded up a ladder test of Red Dot 3.6 to 4.0 gr, (7 each) sitting under some 124gr TC for some 9mm accuracy testing. Gonna try to shoot them tomorrow with some other ladder tests before the snow storm front works its way into the local area.
:)

[308Jeff]

200x rounds of .30-06, Nosler 168 gr Custom Comps over 46.5 gr of IMR 4166. Gotta find another box of once fired brass, then load another 100x. That will finish up my stash of that bullet, and will give me enough loaded to last out the 2018 Garand/vintage military season.

I like your style. 168gr Nosler CC's fly beautifully out of my LR-308.

[shell70634]

I taught an 18 year old young man how to reload. Granted, it was J words. but small steps. I hope he stays as excited as he was tonite.

Shelly

[Budzilla 19]

Loaded some 230 grn Hornady XTP in some .45 acp brass to have for hollowpoint loads to carry hunting. Then some .223 Remington with different bullets to check load development. Cleaned up the room, I can actually see the reloading bench!

[KrakenFan69]

I taught an 18 year old young man how to reload. Granted, it was J words. but small steps. I hope he stays as excited as he was tonite.

Shelly

Great job!! Keep passing the knowledge on!


Kraken Fan #69

[lightman]

Great job!! Keep passing the knowledge on!


Kraken Fan #69

Yup, Great Job! Gotta teach the next generation to load and cast!

I didn't do much today. Got up early and hunted this morning. Came in about noon and cleaned off the bar in the kitchen for a party that we hosted tonight. I use the bar and counter space for sorting and washing brass and most of the stuff on the bar was mine! Now tomorrow, I'll hopefully finish tumbling the last of my 9mm brass and probably start washing and depriming 40 S&W brass.

[Soundguy]

I taught an 18 year old young man how to reload. Granted, it was J words. but small steps. I hope he stays as excited as he was tonite.

Shelly

J words are a good start.. less hassles with neck shavking. Once he gets that solid.. then he can start reloading boolits, if he likes that, he can start making his own.

[Jack Stanley]

Finished cleaning up some .223 cases . need to fine the time to start loading .

Jack

[Walter Laich]

loaded 200 .38 Sp for cowboy shooting

don't you just hate it when a .357 cases sneaks in? Dillon makes short work of turning it into a pretzel

[autopilotmp]

Loaded exactly 73 200 gn SWC for my 1911. Ran out of lubes boolits and had to pull out the Lyman 45 and lube some naked ones with Felix. Last time I tried to load 45 I ran out of prepped brass and had to get out the cheapo Lee and deprime then run them through the tumbler. Been having too much fun shooting single stack. This time I also ran out of naked boolits, gonna have to set up to cast soon or I'll be having to sneak swmbo's 1911 in 9mm to the match.

[Tom W.]

Called around to see who would buy my scrap brass. One place wouldn't take shells, the others said they would. I went to a place that wasn't in a rough part of town. I had 20 lbs of brass that I've been collecting for the last ten years or so. I got a few bucks, not enough to get excited about, but now I can start over again.
They also have W/W and pure lead for sale. I still have a large amount of W/W that I have yet to transform into ingots, but at least I know where I can get some. The guys there were really friendly too, always a plus!

[Grmps]

gun brass was going for $1.30 a pound last I checked

[Hootmix]

Took some "very,very" ugly looking lead,and turned it in to some beautiful ,210gr. bullet's,,that will joyfully be shot in my 40/60 chaparral,,(.406 dia.) w/ 26" oct.barrel .


Coffee's ready,,,,Hootmix.

[Walter Laich]

changed out the SDB from 38 to 357--4 bolts and it's done

next up the 357 loads

[autopilotmp]

Finished lubing the last of my 45 boolits, then loaded the other 23 rounds left from last night. Still trying to figure when I'm gonna fire the cast in pot to make some more 45 boolits.

[dragon813gt]

Took the Rowell #5 ladle out to the reloading room.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4646/38496688784_6e27a37a82_b.jpg

A lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. The #3 didn't have enough capacity to pour one ingot in one pour. And the #4 wasn't available through Prime. Looks like I'm going to have to make it work.

[toallmy]

Well I didn't do it in the reloading room , but I finely cooked down the lead I have been collecting this summer , came up with 179 lb coww and 140 soft plumbers lead . I have been putting it off until the weather cooled off but I'm afraid if I waited much longer my poor little burner wouldn't have been able to melt it . I just feel better when it's ready to be cast with in the basement . Life is good

[jdfoxinc]

Primed 700 + .32 ACP brass. Load it tomorow.

[NC_JEFF]

Straightened it up and it looks great now, it's again ready to start loading in.

[The Dar]

gun brass was going for $1.30 a pound last I checked

$1.45 here, last time I cashed in my 10 buckets filled a 55 gallon drum.

Loaded up 50 rounds of 223 with Hornady 55gn SP. Santa gave me an early present, an RCBS Chargemaster Lite. I should have had one of these years ago.

[afish4570]

Yesterday I reamed a 44 mag sizing die to size .451.5 It was the first time I tried something like that so it look a while.
I went out to my new heated casting room (in my pole barn) and cast 400 good 286407 and 200 good 7mm Hammer of Thore's. My wrists are paying for it this morning.
When did I get old? Kevin

My wrists kill me when doing any long casting sessions with dipper.....So I use my old Lee drip-o-matic and refill it with an old Lyman pot to keep production going. In 5 or 6 hrs. you can whip up 50# of 180 gr. .40 for my IDPA & USPSA shooting.....afish4570

[EMR]

Just 100 pieces or so of 358-130. Only difference is I finally jumped on the hot plate bandwagon. Holy cow what a world of difference!

It’s a Oster 1000w. On medium I was starting off with frosted boolits.

[KrakenFan69]

Hi-Tek coated 1,500 9mm. Next up the .357 stuff.

Kraken Fan #69

[trixter]

Just 100 pieces or so of 358-130. Only difference is I finally jumped on the hot plate bandwagon. Holy cow what a word of difference!

It’s a Oster 1000w. On medium I was starting off with frosted boolits.

Yeah, what a difference it makes. Merry Christmas.

[Walter Laich]

painted the top of my powder container day-glo orange so I can find it easier on my messy bench.

[MUSTANG]

Collected all of the odds and ends .30 cast boolits laying around the reloading shed and "In House" reloading area that were sized and lubed or Powder Coated. Loaded about 130 .308 Winchesters using 2400 Powder (311299, 311290, 311644, RCBS 165 Sil, RCBS 200 Sil, and some Paper Patched .300 170 grains swaged in a Corbin .301 Swage Die.

[lightman]

I've been informed that the loading room is closed until after Christmas! :( I started about 1-1/2 weeks ago with the goal to get all of my pistol brass sorted, sized, tumbled and stored away and ready to load. I started with 9mm. This involved using some of the counter space and the kitchen sink. Due to the extra cooking going on, I got banned from the kitchen. Oh well!!! I did finish the last of the 9mm late last night. I'll start on something else next week, probably the 40's. I needed a break anyway!

[Bookworm]

Fired up the casting pot down in the barn, ran a couple classic 38/357 molds. These are old Ideal 2-cavity molds, and after running Lee 6-cavs and NOE 4-cavs, those doubles seem to take FOREVER to make a pile.

About 16 pounds of 358-156, a gas-checked SWC. 50/50 CWW/Pb.
These drop about 160 grains, so that's roughly 700 boolits.
For when I want a full power 357, which admittedly isn't as often as it used to be.

Also, 13 pounds of 358-477, a plain base SWC. Range lead + a touch of tin.
These drop about 150 grains, so approx 600 boolits.
These are for full power 38s, and midrange 357 loads.

I'd post pics, but I'm having serious problems with pic posting on this site.

[15meter]

Loaded a small batch of 480 Ruger snake loads for a buddy. Probably going to set up the pot and cast something after supper. Don't know what yet, need 475, 410 358, 375, 6.5, 7mm, 8mm, 45, 9.3, that I can think of off the top of my head.

[Retumbo]

Nother 100 340 grain .457...soon to be powder coated

[Cleatus]

Hung up the 2018 Dillon calendar :)

Also cast about 25lb of lead into TL365-95-RF & 365-125-2R. About to spend the rest of the evening powder coating a couple thousand bullets I've cast over the past few days.

[gwpercle]

The past few days it's been in the 80's...this is after a 4 inch snowfall no less, I knew it was warm enough for the Lithi-Bee lube in my 450 to flow so I lubed and sized a bunch of boolits I had cast and hadn't had time to finish up. NOE 357-124-TC GC.
A cold front has started moving in so after a couple hours I shut down operations and came into the warm house.
Gary

[308Jeff]

Processed another 500 or so pieces of LC 308.

Getting ready to load up a bunch stuff to try out in the new T/C Compass and the LR-308. Hoping to maybe find something they both like.

[ammohead]

I broke the shoulder screw that holds down the shell plate on my Dillon Square Deal B. Parts were easy enough to order from their website.

[robg]

Loaded 50 357 mag cases with 180 grgc boolits .then sized and cleaned 100 308 cases.

[Seeker]

Sized 300 new Starline .45 Colt cases that i took in on a trade for a few .243 win. cases. Puts my cases on hand count to about 1500. Nice feeling.

[brass410]

getting ready to cast tomorrow, moulds out and cleaned, lead rounded up, coffee maker moved to loading room dog chewed up smart tv remote last night no tv till replacement comes. Will have lots of time to do those pesky chore jobs now!!

[quail4jake]

Pound slugged the throat and bore of Ruger New Vaquero and Uberti S&W No.3 .45 Colt. After drawing dimensions it's not hard to figure which boolit and size will work best!:razz:

[S.B.]

Sized about 100 30.06 to 7.7 Jap waiting for the hacksaw trim die to cut them to length.
Steve

[labradigger1]

Began the loooong process of cleaning, organizing and straightening up. I feel a few hundred 300 grain 44 hp's being swaged in the near future.

[jimb16]

I really took it easy. I just boxed up 15 boxes of already loaded 20 ga. shells. Talk about lazy....

[15meter]

I broke the shoulder screw that holds down the shell plate on my Dillon Square Deal B. Parts were easy enough to order from their website.

Hopefully you ordered a couple of spares, I have had these pop for no apparent reason. Don't know if they are intentionally weak to act as a shear pin kind of safety.
Couple of spares in the drawer is a good plan.

[15meter]

Can you post a pic of your 416, including mold# if the are cast lead.

Thanks

Noe 418-356-RF


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[15meter]

Cast another batch of 475's and 410. 475 for a 470 N.E. the 410 for 450/400 N.E.

You hear a giant sucking sound coming from the pot when you cast these flying door stops.

[DCM]

Try to remember where I stashed the wife's Christmas present! :( [smilie=b:

[Grmps]

Finished casting about 1,000 45-70's-- 500grn, 485grn gc, 405grn

[Jal5]

Loaded up a box of 38 spl for my wife’s Christmas stocking!

[Harter66]

Ran 105 of these .
454613 . This is the 285 gr Minnie version .
210198
Lotta fun in a Trapdoor .

[dragon813gt]

Wrapped Christmas presents. It's truly a multipurpose bench. One of them was full of all the parts and pieces for an AR that I'm giving to my 8mo son [emoji2]

[45workhorse]

Powder coated some 45 colt, 327 mag. Loaded some of the same from an earlier run. Both boolet molds are from Mihec.
Merry Christmas.

[KrakenFan69]

Picked up a new collet for my Hornady bullet puller and pulled 3 years worth of mistakes and adjustments that weren't quite right. This thing is awesome but after that many my hand was a bit sore. I think I'll take some 3/4" aluminum rod and make a handle to slip over the factory one. I also noticed that the PC bullets tended to slip out of the collet a lot more than the Hi-Tek coated ones did.

Kraken Fan #69

[lightman]

Not much of anything. I finished up with washing, resizing and tumbling all of my 9mm's late on the 23rd and decided to knock off for the holidays. I did wander out to the loading room today and store away a few bullet puller collets that I got for Christmas.

[jonp]

Finished sizing, trimming and reaming the pockets on 200 300blk I made from 223 this week. Going to go load up a bunch of them with both 150gr and 110gr jwords then use up a bunch of Hunters Supply 38cal SWC's I found that I'd bought a few years ago for a range session this week.
I also mounted a new 6x24x50 Osprey scope on a T/C Compass 6.5 Creedmor. Going to test that out, too.

[KrakenFan69]

Sized about 1,000 358-158 RF and 1,500 356-125 2R. ready to go to the press!


Kraken Fan #69

[copdills]

today was Slug day at my house LEE 7/8's and 1oz and a few 690 RB

[Mr_Sheesh]

Last replacement parts came in so I started case forming about 400ish cases for 45 ACP shot shells; Found that the Lee Hand Press will DO it, but, it takes Yeti Arms (which I have, fortunately) to manage forming the cases. I think it's time to get the B&D Woodworking Table rig set up for the RockChucker and use that, that's going to be a LOT less exercise to form those cases on that press... Looking forwards to having some of those around again.

[labradigger1]

Swaged 250 240 grain jhc 44 mag bullets.

[Pumpkinheaver]

Just sized a bunch of Starline .32 H&R brass and Win .45acp brass.

[KrakenFan69]

Cast around 1,000 9mm Lee 356-125 2R.

Kraken Fan #69

[Michael J. Spangler]

Cleaned and organized.
Drew up plans for a second 8’ bench. Need it mostly for storage and probably a couple MEC 650s.

[Grmps]

PC'd some 45-70
https://i.imgur.com/uFZI0nX.jpg

[jdfoxinc]

Finished loading the 250 New pup. 32 cap brass with 85 gr .311 over 2.3 gr green dot. Want to use 2.6 gr but don't have my adjustable little dandy roster yet.

Castpics.com has all of the Hercules and Alliant load manuals in photo form. Lots of pistol data for several powders.

Then I started resizing the .312 to .311. The .312 would not plunk.

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded my final 50 gas seals into lyman 525 slugs. Need to order some more.

Kraken Fan #69

[Soundguy]

Not in the gun room but at the range. Made a bunch of empty 38/357 , 5.56 9.3x74r & 470 nitro express cases.

[Randy C]

210482 reloading in my apartment.

[jonp]

Busted down some reload mistakes. Primed 150 300AAC altough I'm wondering about them as the first 20 I made didn't go bang. The pin snapped hard but didn't seem to hit the primer at all. Going to pull the bolt apart tomorrow. and see if I can figure out what is going on.

[Grmps]

I check primers in the backyard (in town) -- sounds like a cap gun.
Got a batch of bag magnum primers a while back, returned them to the store.

[Walter Laich]

froze my butt off

was a short trip with nothing to show for it

[brass410]

looked outside and said if I have to snowblow a trail into the range so be it I need some empty brass to reload

[mold maker]

After USPS and FedX delivered I took some Christmas sale items to the bench. Not anything I NEED to do immediately and it was cold down there. A quick look around and it was back up to the fireplace to warm my buns. Priorities are different now days.

[Rich/WIS]

In process of casting Lee 452-200 SWC for my 45. Mold has been milled down to produce a 190 gr flat base using range lead. Have a few over 300 now, waiting for the pot to come up temp after adding more lead, mold keeping arm on hotplate. Hope to get about 1000 before I run out lead and have to go to the shed for more.

[pls1911]

Polished a couple of hundred each 30-30 and 45-70 cases
Cast 150 Ranch Dog 350 grain, and about 200 Saeco #315 160 gr and heat treated.
Gas checked and lubed every one of 'em.
Taking a break now before setting up the Dillon to load 'em all.

[Jal5]

Worked out some bugs reloading 9mm on a Loadmaster. That press sure gets temperamental now and again. Primarily with cast boolits

[dragon813gt]

Started melting down some lead into ingots.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4688/38670403094_c2bb014fd8_b.jpg

Planned on processing all 650#s but I ran out of propane. Weather didn't help as it was barely over 20 today. Ended up w/ three more rows than what's pictured.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4640/27601640879_fa9059a6a9_b.jpg

Pot is completely full and ready for when I get propane tomorrow. I won't have much time so 260#s is staying as cores.

The #5 ladle really sped up the process. But it's to large for the pot and really on the heavy side when full. A #4 would have been perfect. But being able to pour two ingots w/ one dip into the pot is sweet.

[S.B.]

Received a Redding trim die in post for 7.7 Jap so hacksawed and filed the 30.06s I'd already sized then annealed them.
Steve

[taco650]

210482 reloading in my apartment.

Been there, done that! :-)

[MOA]

Finally got the workstation for the Dremel. Now I can start on putting together the shorty shells and utilize the shells that are starting to wear out a bit.

https://s19.postimg.org/c29aj5amb/new_images_Dec_29a_2017_003.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/uhtrgjoqn/)

https://s19.postimg.org/go5erhgpv/new_images_Dec_29a_2017_002.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

:bigsmyl2:

[marek313]

I'm thinking Harbor Freight little saw should be perfect for this too. I use it with a small jig for cutting down 5.56 to for m 300AAC.

[KrakenFan69]

Made use of Satan's Gunsmith (Dremel) to open the loading port up on my Rem 870 for 3-Gun. I can actually quad load now. Coated another 1,000ish Lee 356-125 2R with Hi-Tek. Cleaned up a bunch. Organized a little. Lots of dryfire practice between all that with the shotgun and the AR.

Kraken Fan #69

[dragon813gt]

Humped around 500#s of lead into the attic of the garage and stacked it in a foot locker. It has a lock on it to prevent family members from relieving me of it.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4693/27601665719_372de06a68_b.jpg

[Soundguy]

Nice ingots!

[robg]

Sized some 223 brass.now ive got about 300 to prep and clean .if I can get rid of this cold I've had all Christmas.

[lightman]

Humped around 500#s of lead into the attic of the garage and stacked it in a foot locker. It has a lock on it to prevent family members from relieving me of it.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4693/27601665719_372de06a68_b.jpg

Nice looking box! I saw the pics that you posted in my thread about storing lead. Yeah, I remember you posting about loosing a bunch of your stash to a theft. Thats gotta be tough!

[lightman]

I'm not doing anything right now. Me and my stuff has been banned from the house until after we do Christmas for the Wife's family, which is today. But, I plan to use the next several days of forecast cold weather to continue washing, sizing and tumbling my stash of pistol brass. Prolly going to order a brass sorter and a heavy duty lead skimmer tonight. Getting prepared for a big smelt early into the new year.

[Rich/WIS]

Just got done casting 1100 +/- NOE clone of the 311291. I cast 1000+ of the LEE 452-200 SWC a couple of days ago and with what I have on hand I have about 3K 45's and 2.5K for the 06 and 30/40. Now the real chore, getting them sized.

[JBinMN]

Tumbling 75 45ACP & 50 38spec. for some 700x load development. Will be depriming & loading tonight.
High today of -5F, after a low about -16F on the NOAA website for this area. I live by two rivers confluence, so it is even colder here where it is lower down than the airport where their thermometer is. Usually by about 10deg. F. So spending much of the day inside. When I was younger I would be out in it like a champ. Older now & the joints don't play nice in the cold, so inside I stay for now.
;)

[robg]

Cleaned a few hundred .223 cases in my new sonic cleaner .once they have dried fully I'll put them in my tumbler to polish them up .no more being teased about my filthy cases at the club .now if they shoot better I'll be delighted!

[swheeler]

Impact coated another hundred .315" 193 gr pc bullets with white graphite, neon pink this time, for the ladies!! Ha

[Texas by God]

Disassembled an incorrectly assembled and grossly over lithium-greased AK47 and due to the very cold weather tested it by mag dump only. That white grease is tenacious- B12 barely cut it. It runs like an AK now!

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[smoked turkey]

I've got a new caliber to feed. Loaded up a box of 9.3x74R stoked with 56 grains of IMR 4831 under a Hornady 286 gr. SP J-word bullet. I got a box of 50 of these bullets with the rifle. I plan to use them to do a barrel break-in of sorts and then I plan on cast exclusively in this Ruger No.1. I think I am going to really like this rifle. I plan to use it to make meat from the local whitetail population next season. That's a ways off but that is my current plan.

[Soundguy]

How much do your deer average in weight?

Florida deer, with son exception for mules, are small critters.

[woodbutcher]

[smilie=s: The big reason for that is the stupid Game and fish people,who for decades had a policy of NO DOES.Only bucks.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[MOA]

I've got a new caliber to feed. Loaded up a box of 9.3x74R stoked with 56 grains of IMR 4831 under a Hornady 286 gr. SP J-word bullet. I got a box of 50 of these bullets with the rifle. I plan to use them to do a barrel break-in of sorts and then I plan on cast exclusively in this Ruger No.1. I think I am going to really like this rifle. I plan to use it to make meat from the local whitetail population next season. That's a ways off but that is my current plan.

It's real good on hogs too. I use a RCBS mould for my 375 Win run thru a .369 sizer after lubed an gas checked at .375 for one of my cast boolits in my No.1. :bigsmyl2:

[Cleatus]

PC 100 95gr in Cadillac Blue for ladder testing with Titegroup and 100 95gr in ODG for ladder testing with CFE Pistol.
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[autopilotmp]

Plunk tested about 300 45acp 200gn swc. Found about 4 that would not fit and 3 with high primers. Seems some of the boolits are going in slightly crooked and bulging out one side of the case just enough to prevent proper feeding. Also did some weapons maintenance while watching the winter classic, man what a game.

[Tom W.]

Nothing, too cold to be playing out there. Besides, Alabama was playing
in the Sugar Bowl, Georgia in the Rose Bowl, and Auburn in the Peach Bowl. And we're having two SEC teams playing for the National Championship! Roll Tide!!!!!

[trixter]

Cleaned up from a long weekend of reloading and casting. Boy, I sure had fun. Then went to the club this morning and got off bout 100 rounds of 45, 9mm and 380. I so love this hobby, addiction, sport; or whatever it is. There is never time to be bored, too much to do.

[Larry Gibson]

On December 30th I cast 5-600 NOE 30 XCBs and 400+ 314299s.........

210916

The XCBs mostly for use at 2900 fps in DAWN, my 30x60 XCB rifle.

The 314299s will be used mostly in my Finn M39 7.62x54R I shoot CBA military rifle matches with.

[Joby]

Over the last few days I cast some soft lead 50 cal REAL slugs to finish up the PA flintlock season.
Put together 400 300 BO cast loads with the lee 155 grain PC'd. Over 15.0 grains of Lil Gun for plinking.
Another 300 300 BO 125 grain jacketed loads. And a few hundred 20 gauge light target loads for the kids and the bride. And me.
Now if we can just brave the temps to use them.

[Grmps]

Cast a batch of 500 grn 45-70 and 93 grn tokarov.--They look funny next to each other
https://i.imgur.com/IGrPJkj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FUhG75r.jpg

[lightman]

Still processing pistol brass. Put the first load in the tumbler about an hour ago. I got interrupted by the holidays, and Duck Season ain't helping any either, so I'll be a while.

[adam_mac84]

Got my PID wired and tested. Now just have to get it mounted in a metal box... Holding 700* nearly perfectly

[Texas by God]

Last night I opened the shop doors, turned on the fans, and made ignots. My daughter gave me a cast iron egg poaching pan that works great. Pure lead eggs are spray painted back on the flat side; wheel weights are painted blue. I did find a couple of ww's that a torch would not melt. I don't know WHAT those are.

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[Edward]

210482 reloading in my apartment.

After looking at your loading room ,guess I should spend this month cleanin up mine :bigsmyl2:

[lightman]

After looking at your loading room ,guess I should spend this month cleanin up mine :bigsmyl2:

This probably applies to most of us!

Anyway, I'm still processing pistol brass. I've been trying to run 4 loads a day through the whole process including tumbling and sorting them.

[OS OK]

Last night I opened the shop doors, turned on the fans, and made ignots. My daughter gave me a cast iron egg poaching pan that works great. Pure lead eggs are spray painted back on the flat side; wheel weights are painted blue. I did find a couple of ww's that a torch would not melt. I don't know WHAT those are.

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Them are called 'leverites'...'leave them right there' cause they ain't good for nuthin!

[mold maker]

My stamping tools are on the bench and I had several new replacement keys made. The family expects me to have spares for any lock they own. I did the coded name on the new keys and hung them in the cabnet behind the RCBS supreme. Burr it's cold down there.
Does that count?

[autopilotmp]

I got the chance to set up my new Lee auto drum powder measure. Holly cow where has this thing been! Instead of struggling with running h4895 through the double disk setup I had before and questioning not only if the charge was right but if there even was one, it worked beautifully. Got about 300 rounds of 223 loaded up for my ar.

Setup the other drum for 4.4 grains of bullseye for the 1911. Gonna run out of boolits at this rate and have to cast again. Found out that my Lee pot' s temperature swings pretty wildly and at it's lowest setting is still trying to push 900°, so I'm at an impasse on the casting front. I foresee a PID being added to my casting toolbox.

[Grmps]

Looked for my packet of different grit sandpaper to enlarge my lee .458 to .4595. Spent 2 hours cleaning my reloading room, found 15 Lyman mold handles I'd forgotten I had, abox of hanging bins and several bags of ready to load brass BUT No sandpaper soo I went out to the shop but the finest sandpaper I could find was 600 grit, it worked. Sized 600 45/70 to .4595

[toallmy]

Do to the weather , I have been hanging out around the house for a couple days , so I decided to load all of the 45 auto boolits I had cast left over from last year , one more coffee can to go then I can cast some more . A can of each 185 swc saeco , 200 swc saeco , and last one is 230 tc from lee .

[robg]

Sized and trimmed 50 308 cases then cleaned in my new song cleaner .will polish in tumbler when they dry .

[jdfoxinc]

What is a "song" cleaner. Dont you love auto correct.

I finally, after many false starts, finished loading all my .25 ACP brass. I really dislike having to hand weigh all those 1.3 gr loads of green dot. My adjustable rotor for my little dandy measure arrived today, but it's hex screw cavity looks bigger than an RCBS #1. I might have to buy #0 & 00 to get down that low.

[Grmps]

Is a song cleaner another word for Q-Tip or is it a welsh thing? :)

[The Governor]

Loaded .44s and then shot some and like it so much i loaded and then cast some more.

[Soundguy]

Is a song cleaner another word for Q-Tip or is it a welsh thing? :)

Ultrasonic cleaner?

[Jal5]

Loaded some more 9mm. Plan is to load up all I need this winter for shooting the rest of 2018

[Texas by God]

Lined up my moulds for the first casting session since shoulder surgery! I'm going to cast RCBS 35-200 FN, LEE C309113F, LEE C309150F, and LEE 35-105 SWC.

[Walter Laich]

loaded 100 ea 44 Mag and 44-40

was a fun day all around

[Valley Forge]

Spent much of Saturday with a very capable and experienced shooter exploring hand loading and casting. This is the second of our "classes" together and he is loving it. In a couple of weeks we will proceed to the range with some of the rounds we are creating and find out what works best. In the meantime I am enjoying his enthusiasm for paying attention and doing it right and allowing me to belabor the basics as a foundation for a safe and enjoyable future. He is really a fine young man and just a couple of years older than my adult kids ( that have no interest in hand loading) so I'm having fun too.

[toallmy]

Well done Sr

[Soundguy]

Agreed, good job passing on those skills!

[rmark]

Reloaded 45-70 this last weekend, cleaned up the mess a bit, first time since end of last summer.

[curdog]

I sized and trimmed 100 35 Remington cases and I am going to load them with 200 grain boolits and IMR 3031 for my old marlin. They shoot great.

[Scorpion8]

Replaced some parts on a MEC 600 Jr (pre-82') that I acquired and am rebuilding. Still waiting mon more parts from MEC.

[lightman]

Not in the loading room but the shop. Started moving some lead and stuff around to get ready to smelt this weekend. Its looking like the weather may be lousy but I bet that my 500,000 BTU burner will keep us warm!

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded like 50 12 ga 1-1/8oz shot shells. Didn't get much time in there before a 4H meeting I had to get to. Starting a Shooting Sport project in the local club.

Kraken Fan #69

[kmrra]

Talked on the radio for a couple hours this morning, thats about all I did out there today, got to fix a couple revolvers tomorrow.

[Soundguy]

73's
De KE4RRD

[Grmps]

Loaded 12 different ladder tests for 7.62 - 25 93 grn. boolits with BE

[popper]

Boxed up the HF ES gun & put back on shelf. Found a couple bags of fired cases behind it and all the other junk on the work/casting bench. I can actually see the table top now.

[robg]

What is a "song" cleaner. Dont you love auto correct.

I finally, after many false starts, finished loading all my .25 ACP brass. I really dislike having to hand weigh all those 1.3 gr loads of green dot. My adjustable rotor for my little dandy measure arrived today, but it's hex screw cavity looks bigger than an RCBS #1. I might have to buy #0 & 00 to get down that low.

Sonic computer argh

[Soundguy]

I love sonic computers ;)

[Grmps]

https://i.imgur.com/vuzxxEH.jpg
to sight in a new scope on a 300 AAC Pistol

[Michael J. Spangler]

Loaded some modified round balls. The mould was cut to a pseudo collar button.
.457 in a 45/70
12 grains go unique. Shot great. I’ll see if I have some pics somewhere.

[white eagle]

other than fart again
I don't know what it is...
but I actually cleaned the room up
getting to the point where I didn't know what
bullets,boolits I have and needed to re-organize

[JBinMN]

Set up a brand new Lee 4 hole turret press that I got for myself for Christmas & installed the lee bench plate system for it & my other presses. Then mounted all the other bench type presses to plates & wood blocks I made for the bench plate.

Next, it will be time to try them all out & make some more rounds to shoot.
:)

[Soundguy]

nice! I love my 4-hole lee turret.

[Reverend Al]

After having been away for 3 weeks in Manitoba for the holidays with my wife's family we're back and I finally just started a tumbler full of dirty brass rolling around about 15 minutes ago ...

[lightman]

Melted a bunch of odd solder that I have saved up. Ended up with 24 1/2 pound ingots and 28 1 pound ingots of mixed solder. Hoping to melt wheel weights tomorrow, weather permitting.

[fralic76]

Tried my hand in making some mini slug rounds. The finish length is 1-1/2". Factory round on right for comparison. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180111/810225b2241d70333f9bf4cf0f830b47.jpg

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[Soundguy]

Nice!

[fcvan]

Cool, I am hoping to do the same, only at maybe 1 3/4" depending on the overall length of a 69cal RB in a special wad designed for same. I have the roll crimp tool already. Thanks for the inspirational image.

[brass410]

I've been wanting to make some myself any tips available? sorry bout going off topic.

[fralic76]

I've been wanting to make some myself any tips available? sorry bout going off topic.I found a powder load that worked with 2-3/4" with little recoil. This load had no signs of over pressure, so I backed the load down 1gr., cut the wad center out and loaded. Still very little recoil but now they will not extract from a pump gun. Going to drop the load another 3grs. And try again. So the tip I will give start really low and work up. The full size load was 1/2gr below min to start.

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[rdwarrior]

Loaded 100 - 9mm and 100 - 357 rounds that I cast and powder coated recently - also cleaned, deprimed, and resized my brass from the range yesterday. Why is this significant to me? cuz I have not cast any lead since the early 70's (long break thanks to the military and other situations) and I just started powder coating for the first time last week (using Smoke4320's powders).

[whtsmoke]

straighten things up and took an old 357 maximum case and necked it down to 30 caliber, don't ask me why.

[Grmps]

https://i.imgur.com/q4cjfo1.jpg

[autopilotmp]

Loaded another 100 rounds of 200 gn swc for the 1911, got a decent stockpile so I can break my bench down and replace the flooring in my room.

[carstensxd45]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180112/513dd3295fad77c87c95698e6cdeec98.jpg
finished my 3rd batch of 230 grain rounded nose 45acp
total right now approximately 2000
or 67 lbs
will stop at 150 lbs of rounds

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[Grmps]

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

[PhantomRider64]

Decapped 1500 .45 ACP cases today,,,400 in the tumbler as I type this.

I found a few cases that are stamped "Match" or "NM". Are these cases special?

Are there any head stamps that I should cull? I found close to 30 different head stamps in this batch of range brass. I will be loading these for plinking.

[DirtyJack]

I wet tumbled some 45colt brass. 2hrs later...beoootiful shiny brass inside and out.

[KrakenFan69]

Cast about 100 of my new Russian slugs and started loading for some testing. They dropped at 532 gn for use with the tail wad. 545 with the deep pin that doesn't use the tail wad. 629 with the shallow pin that doesn't use the tail wad. The 532 gn with the tail wad rings in at 585 gn.

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Kraken Fan #69

[robg]

Polished up some 308 brass and loaded 90 308 up with 150 g Lee fn boolits (154g) with my lead.

[skeettx]

I found a few cases that are stamped "Match" or "NM". Are these cases special?

Match and NM (National Match) are some of the finest cases to be had, and no military primer crimp.

Good STUFF
Mike

p.s. the only ones to cull are those with small pistol primers

[Michael J. Spangler]

Tried out a new Lee mould. 211800

[wolf3006]

Loaded 50 44 mags ,With some 200 grain wad cutters.

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded about 200 rounds of 9mm while waiting for the lead pot to heat up, then cast another 125 of the Russian Paradox mold.


Kraken Fan #69

[carstensxd45]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180114/5444e050cb8ab8154a36c50e6dba1d5c.jpg
finished up my 230 grain rounded flat nose 45acp bullets
about 4800 rounds
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[Grmps]

↑↑↑ 158 # lead :) I feel you on that. My last go around with 45's was "only" 130# ↑↑↑
Nice, how deep are you seating them and what guns are you shooting them out of?

[copdills]

Loaded up a few boxes of 000 12ga buck

[fralic76]

Loaded up some 30-30 ammo with a 110gr bullet for testing.

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[lightman]

Resized about 1250 40 S&W cases and started tumbling them. The first batch will be coming out in about 15 minutes. I'll dry them, sort by head stamp, select the ones that I plan to load and store the rest. Still have a bunch to do.

[MUSTANG]

Spent the entire day removing a stuck .308 (Chrome Plated) from sizing die. Started with digging snow out to and around the entrance to the "Reloading Shack", then a search for the elusive RCBS Stuck Case Remover. After not finding it; memory surfaced the last time I saw the Stuck Case remover it was in the RCBS Pocket Swaging plastic box, so close up the Shed and back to the house. Located the RCBS Stuck Case Remover, researched and found the directions for use (it's only been about 20 or so years since I had the last Stuck Case). After a bit I got the case out; cleaned the die and finished loading the 20 Paper Patched .308 bullets (Swaged .301 boolits using Corbin Die) with 42.5 grains WC760. Day spent & I closed the reloading session out with 20 Rounds to be tested in next few days I hope.

[MOA]

Setup a used (but new to me) shotshell reloader. Have a number of MEC loaders that I have been using since the 80's, so was elated to get my hands on this puppy. So far it has turned out some very nice reloads from a variety of shell brands. From new Federal paper hulls to Fioccohi plastic it does a great job.


AND I WANT TO THANK YOU "RICHHODG66" FOR ALL YOUR HELP IN MAKING THIS PROJECT A SUCCESS. COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE WITHOUT YOU TIME, TROUBLE AND HELP. AGAIN, MANY THANKS.


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[MOA]

Thanks again RICHHODG66.

[Texas by God]

After months of healing & waiting for the perfect day to cast, I did it today. 3 degrees this morning. Warmed up to the thirties so I fired up the Lee pot and the propane stove and rotated between the Lee C309150f, C309113f, and the 358 105 swc. Poured the whole pot and put in more egg cups when I unplugged it to go shoot some test .375 H&H loads. A good afternoon.