What did you do in the reloading room today?

[jimb16]

PCed450 125gr 9mm bullets and sized/lubed and GCed 300 7mm 130 gr bullets. Loading will begin tomorrow!

[Grmps]

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[sigep1764]

Surfed Ebay, caught a Lyman NIB 280473 2 cavity. The Finance Committee said you just bought dinner and that lasts a few hours, it lasts longer than that just buy it and be happy. Got home and bought it. BrassMagnet set me upon this road.

[lightman]

I talked to an electrician about getting some new light fixtures and two or three receptacles installed...I need them desperately.
He needs some renovation and addition plans drawn for his house project ...and I need some electrical work done in mine .....
We going to help each other out....he can't draw building plans and I can't wire electrical stuff !
Gary

That sounds like a good trade. Barter is a pretty good system.

[autopilotmp]

Packing everything up in an attempt to remove the carpet from my room and install the laminate flooring purchased from a black Friday sale last year. Need to knock it out while the kid is at camp and my bench and boxes reside in her bedroom. Also sized and lubed some week old 356402 boolits for my glock.

[MOA]

I figured I would give the new 50 cal press mounted wad cutter a little more exercise today with some felt from duro-felt, and some sheet cork I got from Hobby Lobby to bolster the ready supply of black powder components for the Swede rollers.


The sheet of cork was about 14 inches by 20 or so.

https://s19.postimg.cc/60rl2q0b7/Photo0722.jpg (https://postimages.org/)


The felt was a strip about 3 inches by 36 inches.

https://s19.postimg.cc/xo4aguo2r/Photo0728.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[KrakenFan69]

Spent the day shooting clays with a 4H shooting sports club I'm leading and then home to put all those hulls back into rotation. Cleaned my son's G17 that the barrel had been soaking in Ed's Red all day. Cleaning 3 shotguns that were used today now.

[Tripplebeards]

Fixed a lee HP .429 mold so the halves would line up and tested it out. I also GC some of ones I PC'd the other day.

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[9.3X62AL]

I am putting stuff away that I hauled to NCBS 2018. Also cleaning guns, and considering how to best put a new-to-me mould I scored at NCBS (Lyman #452423) to use and whether to add another war toy in 45 Auto Rim to the collection.

[Texas by God]

The barrel band/ hand guard retainer on my wife's Howa .30 Carbine Sporter needs help. It's plastic and the threads for the main screw are stripped. It's going to be a feat.....

[Jkrem]

Loaded 50 rounds of .38 special with 358311 boolits, and 10 rounds of .30-30 with 31141 boolits sized to .309 for a test.

[am44mag]

Made three quarts of "simple" lube, and finally got my Lyman 45 set up.

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Also had this happen...

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So I fixed it. The old wood handle sucked. It was REALLY tiny, didn't look nice, and had been chewed on at some point. I had a piece of Padauk lying around, so I made a new handle for it. I also welded the head back onto the shaft (get you mind out of the gutter!). I'm not the best welder, but this thing isn't meant to look perfect anyways. The head is rarely that clean.

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[Tripplebeards]

Casted up 10 lbs if 50/50 mix lee 310’s today. I’m loosing sleep figuring out what color to pc them

[15meter]

Polished a batch of 22 Hornet then a buddy and I made a bunch of reloading opportunities in 8x60s, 9.3x74r, 300 H&H and 400/350 N.E.

[tazman]

The barrel band/ hand guard retainer on my wife's Howa .30 Carbine Sporter needs help. It's plastic and the threads for the main screw are stripped. It's going to be a feat.....

Any way you can get a longer screw and put a nut and lock washer on the other end to hold it? You might be able to hollow out a spot on the outside of the threaded part to help hold/hide the nut.

[Rossiter93]

Loaded up .38 special for the first time. 150 rounds, using Lee 120gr truncated cone projectiles I cast and powder coated the other day. Charged with 4.2 grains of Red Dot, they should be plenty fun out of my new S&W 686.

[Texas by God]

Any way you can get a longer screw and put a nut and lock washer on the other end to hold it? You might be able to hollow out a spot on the outside of the threaded part to help hold/hide the nut.Thanks, Taz. That's where I'm leaning, inletting a nut to bridge the stripped hole and provide a bite for the screw. It's going to be tight and no way is a new part to be found.

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[44Blam]

I trimmed / prepped 50 .223 cases and PC'd 42 240 grain .430s. :) Just a little stuff.
I also FINALLY ran out of blue powder and am on to RED. :D I think I'll stay at red for a while.

[wendyj]

Cleaned the AR. Prepped about 200 pieces of 223 brass. Measured and culled out some 45 cast. Watched this forum. My daily routine.

[Outer Rondacker]

Added a 35 Whelen to the gun cabinet. New to me cal. I hope its a good one.

[Soundguy]

I hear they are powerful!

[OldBearHair]

Added a Hi-Point carbine 4595 to my list of firearms. After a few shots, took it in the shop and worked on the rear sight, moving it in-line with the rail. Tightened the screws and now ready to try sighting in again this afternoon. Have some bags of corn in my truck for the feeder at the lease. Squirrels opened a bag and it led me to get the .177 pellet gun out. Resighted it to point of aim at the same distance that the shot at the squirrel is sitting on a limb to see if I will really come out the door before he leaves. Oh, the carbine has a little manual in the box that starts of by saying if you shoot anything but f...fa....factory bbullets in it the warranty is void. Do not shoot reloads. Only high quality factory rounds. Do not use the offbrand hi count magazines as that will void the warranty. The warranty is only good to the first owner All this could could alter the sales of the carbine. It does have a good reputation of shooting everything you feed it well. Might work pretty good with a red dot sight.

[OldBearHair]

My SCCY 9mm has a warranty that follows the gun to whomever owns it. It has not missed a beat yet! Only shot about 150 -200 rounds.

[OldBearHair]

The barrel band/ hand guard retainer on my wife's Howa .30 Carbine Sporter needs help. It's plastic and the threads for the main screw are stripped. It's going to be a feat.....

I wonder if you could carefully wrap Saran-Wrap around the screw, put a small amount of J-B Weld in the hole and turn in the screw and let it set up. Check for results.

[lightman]

Started prepping another 1000 round batch of 223's. About 75-80% finished trimming them. My fingers aren't as tough as they were when I was working! Hopefully I will get them in the tumbler later today.

[rmark]

Reloaded a few 45-70 and 30-30, wondered why I have two 45-70 Lee quick trim dies.

[lightman]

Finished trimming the 223's that I started on this morning and just got them out of the tumbler. The Wife and I have plans for tomorrow but I plan to load them Friday.

[Bookworm]

Working on some 7.62x54R brass.
Annealed, full length resized, trimmed, chamfered, deburred 50 pieces.

[Dale B]

I have 40 cal boolits just like that. I can't use them in my Star lubesizer as the lube gets on the front and rear, but not in the grease groove. I try adjusting the ram up, and down with no luck. I took the die out and plugged up 3 of the 4 holes with no difference. I don't know if these boolits should be tumble lubed or not. I like using the Star, but these boolits won't lube the groove. Anybody know why?

[Grmps]

procrastinate about having to dig out my loading bench AGAIN :killingpc:groner:[smilie=b: cant see a 2 square inch clear space on it. I really need to build more shelves.

[tazman]

I sized and lubed 150 452374 boolits with my Lyman 4500 and loaded 100 rounds of 9mm.

[Tripplebeards]

Sorted 10 lbs of lee 310's in one grain increments and PC'd them

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

I had fun with three 304gr


http://i.imgur.com/7hDRJd8.jpg

[sigep1764]

Used my new Lyman 280473 and recent Lee 277-135 to cast up a hundred of each. Trying to find a top punch for the Lyman, got an email out to Buckshot, but no response yet. They discontinued the top punch when they discontinued the mold. Id like to do some load development with Red Dot for the 473.

[lightman]

About to start priming that 1000 round batch of 223's that I have been prepping. I also plan to load them today or tonight.

[ThomR]

Earlier this week I cast up some 124 grain 9mm. Last weekend I sorted, cleaned, and deprimed all of my 9mm and .223 brass. I have a three day weekend this week so I will be spending a lot of time in the garage casting, and loading ammo.
I also have around 700 9mm bullets that need pulled apart. I'm really not looking forward to that.

[DickelDawg]

Walked in.....walked back out. No time for reloading right now. Grass growing too fast, weather good for honey-dos (durn it)

[Tom W.]

I puttered. Sorted 30-06 A.I. and 30/30 brass by headstamp, flared some 30/30 that's ready to load, and loaded up a few 30-06 A.I. with some 180 gr. GameKings. Going to the range tomorrow....

[RogerDat]

The barrel band/ hand guard retainer on my wife's Howa .30 Carbine Sporter needs help. It's plastic and the threads for the main screw are stripped. It's going to be a feat.....

I'm another that thought of JB Weld first off. It bonds well to all sorts of plastics, can take a tap to cut threads. JB Weld is a prime tool for fixing those black plastic ABS holding tanks on RV's and campers. Which reminds me of the thin glue that is black and made for the black plastic pipe. It hardens into plastic with good bond and is used to patch larger tank holes with plastic screen as a backer. This might also coat and bond to existing worn threads partly filling the hole and allow for running a tap through to cut new threads.

[15meter]

Loaded a batch of 400/350 N.E. Hope they chamber, using a different boolit and don't have the rifle to test chamber.

[Bookworm]

221850

NOE 316-213-RN, Al's version of the 312299/314299, but with a larger diameter for the giant bore on my 91/30.
CWW + 1% Sn. These drop at .3165-.317.

Cast a full pot, then decided to run another. Ended up with 27 pounds of these, about 850-900 boolits. This should hold me into next year. I shoot about 100 per month, for practice and at the monthly Military Bolt-gun Match at the club.

This NOE mold is such a pleasure to use. It's a 5-cavity, and makes piles in a hurry. I just run at a leisurely pace, the mould stays at a good temp, and I'm not rushed.

[robg]

Loaded up 80 45-70 with my cast Lee mold boolit of 405 gr or when I cast them 415. gr .range tommorow . have to do some casting as I'm out of boolits for 4570 now.

[wendyj]

Been lubing and sizing what I cast last week and today.

[am44mag]

Loaded these for the first time. Also the first time I've used Hornady Custom Grade Dies and I really like them.
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[captbligh]

Sweated!!!!
Reloading equipment is in the garage. Only 115 degrees in the garage today.
Didn't spend a lot of time there.

[Retumbo]

Loaded up a bunch of 25acp and the last of my PC 9mm. Maybe cast some more today if I can sneak away without the wife noticing. High of 71 today ;)

[No_1]

6000+ replies, 509,000 views. This one is a sticky!

[fralic76]

Smelted COWW & SOWW for a rough total of 220 of leads.

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[15meter]

Loaded these for the first time. Also the first time I've used Hornady Custom Grade Dies and I really like them.
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Funny looking boolits.

I too have a couple of Hornady dies, sleeve in the seater die work great with jacket
bullets, did have a little problem with 311284 in 06. Nose was just a hair too fat, kept seating too deep. Switched to an RCBS seater and the problem went away.

[am44mag]

Funny looking boolits.

I too have a couple of Hornady dies, sleeve in the seater die work great with jacket
bullets, did have a little problem with 311284 in 06. Nose was just a hair too fat, kept seating too deep. Switched to an RCBS seater and the problem went away.

Yeah, they have these new fangled things they're calling jackets. Think they're made of copper or something. I figure it's just a fad. At least the tip is still lead. :D

The sleeve worked perfectly for these. Those bullets were a TIGHT fit in those reformed cases, and they are just flat based with almost no chamfer to them. I had no problems seating them straight though.

[Tom W.]

Resized and cleaned the brass that I fired at the range yesterday.Then I loaded enough 30-06 A.I. loads to finish out the 50 round box. I don't know why, as I don't hunt anymore, just punch paper and long range steel.....

[fralic76]

Loaded up 10 test rounds for the 1895 Savage chambered in 303 Sanage.

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[Savvy Jack]

Had a little fun with some melted lead!! Now time to get them to the range.

44-40

221895
My new Accurate Mold 43-208A. slightly heeled bullet.


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Left - 43-208A
Right - Ideal 42499 HP


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Accurate Mold 43-208A

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[ThomR]

Sorted through 18 pounds of brass from an indoor range. It was roughly 70% 9mm, which is what I wanted. I got quite a bit of 22lr cases too.
After I sorted the 9mm, 22lr, and 223 brass from the rest I dumped some of the 9mm cases into my tumbler and let it do its thing for a while. After those were clean I sprayed them down with case lube and started depriming them. Got another batch going in the tumbler while I was depriming. After I got the first half of them deprimed I ended up coming in the house and relaxing.

[Soundguy]

Yeah, they have these new fangled things they're calling jackets. Think they're made of copper or something. I figure it's just a fad. At least the tip is still lead. :D

The sleeve worked perfectly for these. Those bullets were a TIGHT fit in those reformed cases, and they are just flat based with almost no chamfer to them. I had no problems seating them straight though.

them are really, really long gas checks!

[Tom W.]

Loaded up 50 rounds of 9 mm, and 12 rounds of 30/30 with 5 gr. of BE and a mag primer. Then I cast some 150 gr 30 cal.
Even with the A/C on in the shed it was a tad warm....

[pastera]

Cast up some Lee 356-120-TC from range scrap (1% tin added) - they dropped .356 @ 125 grain (a few were oversize at 127 grain and .358+ so I need more practice casting)
221968

And tried my hand at Hi Tek coating for the first time
221967

I only did two pounds to start out but could easily do three or four pounds at a time in my $12 Walmart toaster oven - if I grab two more trays, I could have them going continuously.

[fingers284]

I walked into a room in my basement tonight and just started throwing $h!t...after a couple of hrs. danged if I didn't find a gun repair desk on one side of the room and a loading bench with couple press's, 30 or 35 sets of dies and some powder measuring machines on the other side... now I can enter and make use of the room without getting sick to my stomach for letting it get that disorganized.

[docbrown]

Tumbled some 9mm and 357 brass and worked on going through some of the estate sale truckload of reloading equipment I have in there. Hope to get some of the brass de-primed tomorrow.

[taco650]

6000+ replies, 509,000 views. This one is a sticky!

Thank you #1!! A couple years back when it first started I chimed in that it should be a sticky along with others but it was... declined. I follow it everyday and have learned a lot of good things over the time since it was started.

Stuart

[Tripplebeards]

Played with my Lee factory crimp collet die and crimped some devastators to feed in my 77/44


http://i.imgur.com/pZ8qq2o.jpg


And loaded up 2 different HP styles for it.

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[Smoke4320]

Loaded some NOE 311247 hps in 300 blackout
Next is 458 socom 500 gr subsonics

[Smoke4320]

Loaded some NOE 311247 hps in 300 blackout
Next is 458 socom 500 gr subsonics

[MOA]

Tried out some handles I ordered from eBay to hopefully fit a old Ideal mold I bought from a member on this forum. Was lucky on the first try and got a set of handles for twenty bucks that were in perfect shape and were the correct size for the mold. Now if it will stop raining for a day I can get some nice round nose 45 cal boolits made.


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[taco650]

Played with my Lee factory crimp collet die and crimped some devastators to feed in my 77/44


http://i.imgur.com/pZ8qq2o.jpg


And loaded up 2 different HP styles for it.

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

Do these style of bullets cause feeding issues with your 77/44?

[DxieLandMan]

Primed 60 8mm Lebel cases and fixing to load them today.

[Tom W.]

Went out and cleaned some rifles and a pistol. It's humid!

[MOA]

Located a home for my new 44 cal spire pointed mold. It's a old Ideal mold #429 303. Was real surprised when I saw it up on ebay, so I jumped on it. It just arrived today, so next non-rainy day it will get the hot lead treatment it so richly deserves.


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:bigsmyl2:

[9.3X62AL]

That has always seemed like a shag-nasty bullet design to me--along the lines of the KTW bullets.

[Reverend Al]

Did a batch of .45 ACP and .44 Magnum brass in the ss pin tumbler. They're in the dehydrator drying right now while a 2nd batch of mixed rifle brass is spinning in the ss pin tumbler ...

[autopilotmp]

Got my shipment of lube 5 sticks of bac and 2 sticks of 2500+. Loaded the bac in my Lyman 45 I use for pistol boolits and lubed up the 450 9mm boolits I de-lubed earlier this week. Had some leakage from some leftover Felix lube I made a while back that I tried to salvage.

Decided I checked the "make your own lube" box so I'll just order some of Lars great lubes. Must say the lubes are great and the customer service is outstanding.

[44Blam]

I decapped/trimmed/primed 40 8mm x 57 mauser cases and gas check'd/lubed 40 boolits.
I cast these boolits about a year ago and I am amazed how hard they are at this point. Resizing/lubing was a chore!

Anyway, I'm going to load them tomorrow and shoot them on Saturday.

I've never loaded 8mm Mauser let alone loaded my own cast boolits! These guys are 185 grain and a NOE design. I'm going to ladder varget and compare to some PPU factory rounds.

[skeettx]

Loaded 30 22 CHeetah cartridges, off to the range :)

[MOA]

Well was hoping it was not going to rain, but I was wrong. Decided I was tired of being run out of outdoors on account of rain, (like four weeks of rain) so, I decided to take over the kitchen stove to get some casting done. But first, off to home depot to get some special equipment for the job, a containment for any runaway lead or a stuck pour stem on the bottom pour machine, and the rest I had already. Here's the outfit and the results from finally being able to cast today.

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[RedlegEd]

I sized, belled and wet tumbled 75 pieces of .45 Colt and 200+ pieces of .45-70 brass, which I also annealed using my PID and salt bath. Ed
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[Outer Rondacker]

This thread is what is going to keep me going while I move. Since my reloading room will be in shambles. Oh today I boxed up 7 more totes full of stuff in the reloading room.

I also picked up my PC9 I ordered months ago and gave it a good cleaning. While I was at the shopping waiting on the NICS check I found a set of RCBS 35 rem dies asked how much and the kid said five bucks. This was a welcome find since I had just brought home a Marlin in 35 Rem that had been sitting at an old friends place for years.

[15meter]

Consolidated a stack of pewter plates, candlesticks and odd vases into one easy to store 4 lb. ingot. Starting to free up some bench space. Two or three more 4 lb. ingots and I'll have this winter's pewter scrounging into a storable form.

[15meter]

Nothing in the reloading room but drifted through a Salvation Army today and walked out with 3 Lbs. 15 3/4 ounces of pewter for $5.83. They had more but the price was way out of line on the items I left. This will get the big ingot treatment. Current, in use pewter gets cast into boolit size pot sweeteners. Easy to throw in how many I think I need to get what is in the pot to cast well. Got enough in boolit form to last me into next winter.

Uncluttered the bench of part of the stash of pewter yesterday, filled the space back up today. It's a never ending battle.

[9.3X62AL]

Since my return from NCBS 2018 I have had an attack of the Lazies. So, yesterday I set about storing the unfired ammo and fired brass from that excursion. Today's missions (to commence in a few minutes when the CFL games come on TV in the garage) will be to process 100 new 303 British brass for its first fill-up. The fired brass from NCBS will get a tumble while this is under way. The fired guns from NCBS need cleaning as well. Always lots to do at the gun/reloading bench--I need to give it more of my time.

[MOA]

Well after casting up a small pile yesterday in the kitchen I am going to load them up in some new brass thats been waiting to become cartridges. Did about half of them today and will finish up the other half tomorrow. No sense getting in a hurry to do it all in one day, it will be raining again all day tomorrow so I have saved some so I can mess around with it while it's raining. I wanted to load some of the new 44 cal that I cast up yesterday but found out that I was out of gas checks for that caliber, so will have to wait until the order from Midsouth arrives.

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[robg]

Sized ,expanded ,sized ,lubed ,cleaned 80 45-70 cases ,I'll put them in the tumbler when they dry out .

[RogerDat]

.....Starting to free up some bench space...... Opposite direction for me. Cleaned and polished a Pacific DL-105 while digging through scrap wood to find some plywood to mount press on so I can clamp to bench. Started removing the press dies for 16 gauge and installing the ones for 12 gauge. Showed daughter the difference between single stage, turret, and progressive press. And Lee Loader She has seen me reload but almost always on a Lee Turret.

[ThomR]

Yesterday I loaded up a bunch of 9mm, and started priming 223 cases in preparation of the bullets that I ordered.

[15meter]

Reduced the incredibly ugly pewter tray and two candle sticks to a more manageable 5" round 3/4" thick ingot to store. I think I did the world a favor by melting down that tray. Made 8 new seats for the rifle range stools at the club. I made the old ones 15+ years ago and they are getting pretty rough. Next time it will be somebody else's turn.

[Tom W.]

Nothing. I went to the newly opened Academy Sports in Columbus to check powder prices... they were not nearly as high as Bass Pro....

[OldBearHair]

7:30 this am was at the Vertigo therapist evaluation. She was very thourough .Found some problems with me that she can fix..
Got home and began shooting my 45 Bersa Thunder Pro working up the ladder with a Lee 45 acp Lrn 236 gr, Hitek Gold and CFE Powder. Probably two more series of four shots each will get me near, then play some more with the load chosen for verification. Ran out of bullets. Cast 395 ( actual count) and first coat of Hi-Tek Gold. Now they get to dry all night long. It is too late to cook them after they are dry. Did some smoothing and such on the two banger Lee mould and maybe they are closer to 230 grains than before when they weighed 234 grains to 237 grains. Maybe pictures later.

[autopilotmp]

Set up and used my new checkmaker from pat marlin. Made quite a few tiny 223 gas checks. They look good, sized a few noe 225-70gn with my aluminum checks and some carnuba blue cast from cu enriched 50/50 ww/pb alloy. Can't wait to put these down range.

[sureYnot]

Primed 20 cases in prep for some test loads tomorrow. Turned 32 pounds of range scrap into 24 pounds of ingots.... In my bottom pour.... Devil be ****ed.

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[robg]

Sized and preped 100 357 mag cases ,now must cast so up as my boolits stock of them is getting low.

[KrakenFan69]

Decapped and SS tumbled 4,000 .40 S&W on Sunday.


Kraken Fan #69

[Dunkem]

90ea. 44 mag (i only had 90 primers for some reason).

22ea. 250gr. Keith boolits cast from COWW sweetened with 2% tin in a Lyman 429421, then Powercoated red. Seated over 20gr. of 2400.

28ea. 245gr. Hollow points of my own design cast in a DIY modified Lee 429-240-2R mold from 50/50 Coww/pure w/ 2% tin. Powercoated zombie killing green. Over the same charge of 20gr. of 2400.

40ea. Same hollow points, coated blue and set on top of 8gr. of W231 to make a nice plinking load.

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[robg]

Loaded up 100 357 mag cases I preped yesterday .

[RogerDat]

90ea. 44 mag (i only had 90 primers for some reason)...............
Sent from my vs990 using tapatalk eeeeeeeek! :shock:

A truck full of lead and all the powder that would fit in a steamer trunk won't do you any good without primers. If recent events have shown anything they have reinforced the concept of components will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no components.

Buy it cheap and stack it deep. We are but one event or election away from wishing we had twice as much on hand. And of course after the event or election everyone will be trying to do that at once so.... yeah. BTW - 5000 count primer bricks save money :-D

Ran a few 12 gauge hulls through a press trying to get it set up for reloading a few boxes.

[Tom W.]

Put gas checks on the boolits I cast the other day. After I did, I weighed some and they all ran around 157.1 or 2. Micrometer said 311 as cast, so I put another coat of JPW on them and stood them up to dry. It was really warm, even with the a/c on. I'm going to wipe their noses off and load them for my 30/30.
I also perused my powder stash to see what was available..... and found a pound of H110 and a half pound of 2400! My .44 will be happy!

[Hogtamer]

Loaded 50 - .270 Win with 130 gr Nosler ballistic tips over 48 gr IMR 4064. Prepped some 9mm to load with 122 gr fp hi-tec coated. All in the AC!

[Bazoo]

Been loading 45 auto recently. Before that..... it was casting 45 auto in the form of lee TC.

[MOA]

eeeeeeeek! :shock:

A truck full of lead and all the powder that would fit in a steamer trunk won't do you any good without primers. If recent events have shown anything they have reinforced the concept of components will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no components.

Buy it cheap and stack it deep. We are but one event or election away from wishing we had twice as much on hand. And of course after the event or election everyone will be trying to do that at once so.... yeah. BTW - 5000 count primer bricks save money :-D

Ran a few 12 gauge hulls through a press trying to get it set up for reloading a few boxes.


You got that right RogerDat. One cannot have enough components.....Period.....
I can remember the first time that happened after I got started in reloading, it was the summer of 86 and everyone was looking for primers and powder and non to be had. When we did get any in there were always people in the store waiting for us to get it out of the boxes and price it, gone in sixty seconds.

[MOA]

Well I got my 44 gas checks in the mail yesterday so today it was time to make up the Nasties.
Only issue that slowed me down for about 15 minutes was how I was going to seat these pointies. No real seater with this sharp of an angle and of workable diameter and length. So I used the Lyman expander M die with the size plug removed and I used the Lyman top Punch that was made for the profile that also arrived with the gas checks yesterday. Here's how it went in my reloading room today.



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[15meter]

Made a Lee style trim gage for the 9.3x74r, trimmed a batch, sized, lubed and g/c'ed a batch of 9.3 boolits then loaded them.

Got a good start on an 8x60s trim gage. Used a piece of stainless bolt I had, brought back bad memories of drilling and tapping epoxied in stainless steel inserts in granite machine bases back in my machine building days. Now I remember why I always started with several NEW drills and several NEW taps on each job. When done those used drills/taps got thrown out. Wasn't going to risk breaking a dull drill/tap.

After supper going to get out the shotgun stuff just in case it doesn't rain and I can shoot a little sporting clays.

[Texas by God]

I loaded 120 44-40 Win., most with the unidentified 213 gr av. Boolit on the left. I got them from a member here. The 185gr Noslers are there because I didn't have enough lubed boolits ready. Same load in both-9.5 grs of Yuneek.
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[Grmps]

Loaded another batch of 50 AE

[Walks]

TexasbyGOD,
That "unidentified" bullet looks like a LEE .429-200-RF. By weight listed they might be a bit soft. I thing LEE uses a HARDBALL alloy for checking their molds.

I finally got around to fixing up some messed up .44WCF ammo I loaded several years ago.
First time I used a LEE collet crimp die. Used according to the directions, the cases were over crimped and bulged so they wouldn't chamber in anything.

I pulled the decapping rod assembly out of an old LYMAN Sizing Die. Screwed the die just far enough down in the press, so that the ram shoved the loaded round into the die to barely make any contact, about 1/8"-1/4" or so.
I lubed each round with a bit of that good IMPERIAL SIZING WAX. Wiped off each case clean with a bit of acetone on a rag.
I tried each round in an old COLT & then cycled them through one of my 1873's.
Success. They all fit without a problem.
Two boxes of .44WCF ammo back on the shelf, ready to shoot.

If you DON'T follow the instructions by LEE for their collet crimp dies, but rather adjust by feel as you would with a reg crimp die. Then they will work fine.

[MOA]

Had so much fun casting indoors the last couple of days I decided I would cast up some 45 Colt 250 gr for the first time from a newly acquired Lyman mold #454190 from forum member GoodAlloy, and I had so much fun with the pointy boolits the other day and I already loaded just about all of them up I thought I would make a few more. Had a great day.

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[Texas by God]

Thank you Walks. Pending accuracy tests, that may be the mold for mine.

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[skeettx]

Unloaded a BUNCH of lead today :)
Rifle, pistol, shotgun
Boy Scout Camp
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[15meter]

Made 8 boxes worth of 12 gauge reloading opportunities, loaded a box of 7.62x39. Set up the square deal for 38 special and loaded some test loads.

A good day by all accounts.

[sigep1764]

Tumbled 200 380ACP cases and loaded them with 1.9 grains of Red Dot and the Lee 358 105swc. Got the girlfriend carrying the LCP and she is actually enjoying the snappy little pistol. I enjoy her carrying it!

[Smk SHoe]

Removed a old plywood work bench that my Dillion 650 was mounted to. Rebuilt and framed it much stronger and laid a 3/4" sheet of OSB as a base and laminated a 3/4" sheet of oak veneer plywood as a surface and trimed with red oak. Now the 650 will have a strong and sturdy mounting surface dedicated to it. Will be able to mount my RCBS current press at the other end of the bench. Pictures to follow when finished.

[sigep1764]

Bought a hundred new 270 cases while at Graf's today. Full length resized, trimmed, chamfered and deburred, and tumbled. Now running a brush through them to make sure they are clear of sizing wax and corncob media.

Also picked up a lee powder funnel and dipper set. I am putting together a portable kit with a 310 tool to load 270 Winchester while on vaca with the girlfriends parents. I get bored reading on the beach. I need to fire all my loaded brass to increase the amount of "work" to be done at the beach...

[Tom W.]

Those dies working well for you, are they?

[Texas by God]

Bought a hundred new 270 cases while at Graf's today. Full length resized, trimmed, chamfered and deburred, and tumbled. Now running a brush through them to make sure they are clear of sizing wax and corncob media.

Also picked up a lee powder funnel and dipper set. I am putting together a portable kit with a 310 tool to load 270 Winchester while on vaca with the girlfriends parents. I get bored reading on the beach. I need to fire all my loaded brass to increase the amount of "work" to be done at the beach...
I love it. I had a kit with a Lee hand press and ram prime; Bullets,powder, dies, primers and a
loading block - all fit in a wooden surveyors transit box. I loaded ammo during lunch at work among other places!

[sigep1764]

They are getting a regular workout for sure! Ive already loaded and shot around 500 cast boolits through the rifle!

[sigep1764]

Thats the plan! All in a 50cal ammo can. Gonna be around 300 270Win cases, 300 lubed and checked boolits, primers, 310 tool and dies, a powder funnel, travel size Advil bottle filled with graphite for neck lube, and a container of powder. Im thinking Tupperware for the powder container, but I'm open to suggestions. All my powder is bought in 8lb jugs. The loading block is a styrofoam insert from a box of factory 45ACP.

Is there anything else I might be missing or that might make my time easier?

[Dvedw]

Thats the plan! All in a 50cal ammo can. Gonna be around 300 270Win cases, 300 lubed and checked boolits, primers, 310 tool and dies, a powder funnel, travel size Advil bottle filled with graphite for neck lube, and a container of powder. Im thinking Tupperware for the powder container, but I'm open to suggestions. All my powder is bought in 8lb jugs. The loading block is a styrofoam insert from a box of factory 45ACP.

Is there anything else I might be missing or that might make my time easier?

I use these for BP in the field. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079X3BJFH/ref=sspa_dk_detail_6?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B079X3BJFH&pd_rd_wg=A4hri&pd_rd_r=N1GDXEP4D1Y15ZR8PPGG&pd_rd_w=ya7F3

Might work ok for powder in your portable reloading kit.

[cwlongshot]

I have been trying to expand mine for almost two years... I have one corner of the basement, but its gotten quite full. :) I built a pantry/ storage room of sorts for the wife two years back and bought extra lumber. I built that storage in opposite corner and it left 17' between the two walls along one end of my basement. I have it framed. (One 17' wall) My plan is to move one cabinet and knock a hole in the will of existing loading room for access to this new room. I want drenches all around the walls. Narrow, like a lab room, as the room is only 10' wide. My hope is to gain a dedicated cleaning area (Cabinets/shelving above) and another progressive/ test load, loading bench.

I just need the drive to finish... told myself last winter was the time... I was very busy at work and when I got home, I was out of "gas". :)

CW

[Texas by God]

I started 200 .38 Specials for July 4th. Just 158 and 105 swc's and Bullseye.

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[Tom W.]

Expecting some border jumpers, are you?:kidding:

[RKJ]

I set up a set of Hornady 308 dies for a new 700ADL I got. Fought those for a couple of hours but finally got them right. Loaded up 20 rounds with BLC-2 and 20 rounds of H4895.

[Dvedw]

After a long day of work to unwind... De-primed 200 .357 Mag and wet tumbled them to start preparing for my new 357 lever rifle. Cast and pc'd 200 45 colt 255 gn boolits for my New Vaquero. Loaded 150 125gn plinking rounds of 38 spl.

[Tom W.]

Loaded up a few 30/30 rounds. I'll take them to the range the next time I go just to have something to shoot.

[Texas by God]

I wet stretched a holster for a Colt Govt .380 until it fit my new Star BM. Fits good.
Hornady One Shot case lube was all I used to protect the pistol from the moisture- not a hint of rust in 2 days.
I need primers.

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[Tom W.]

Severe storms in the area kept me from heading into the shed today.

[sigep1764]

Cast around 300 Lee277 135 the other day. Checked and ran about half through the Lyman 4500. Tumbled the brass from the range the other day.

[Walks]

Chamfered & deburred 300 new Starline 44mag cases ( out of 1000 ) using my LYMAN CASE PREP EXPRESS. went really fast.

When I set that up behind my LYMAN motorized case trimmer I can trim, chamfer/deburr, ream & clean the primer pockets on more than 100 once-fired G.I. cases in less then an hour.

[retread]

222842

Converted a treadmill I found on Craigslist for $50. Now I have the speed control I need plus I can built a little larger drum for bigger loads. :D

[Soundguy]

Neat!

[Dvedw]

222842

Converted a treadmill I found on Craigslist for $50. Now I have the speed control I need plus I can built a little larger drum for bigger loads. :D

That's cool. Those dc treadmill motors with speed control are excellent for many home made projects too.

[mwells72774]

222842

Converted a treadmill I found on Craigslist for $50. Now I have the speed control I need plus I can built a little larger drum for bigger loads. :D

Now that is awesome

[Loudy13]

Used my recently purchased Dillon 550B to turn out 100 rounds of 9mm, it went fairly well considering I have 2 RCBS Piggybacks that I have been using for 15+ years and the silly Dillon press rotates the other way and has to be manually indexed. All in all a nice addition to the Reloading room especially for the 75 dollars I paid for it.

[MOA]

Powder coated my first batch of boolits.

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[cwlongshot]

Powder coated my first batch of boolits.

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Looks good and nice picture content too!

CW

[MOA]

Thanks CW, hoping it's not beginners luck.

[sigep1764]

You paid $75 for a Dillon 550B???? You sir, are either a shrewd negotiator or the luckiest man in Minnesota! I thought the manual indexing might be a problem for me coming from an auto indexing SDB, but as promised by the guys at Graf's, its a non issue after a couple hundred rounds. You find another 550 under $300, give me a call!!!

[brewer12345]

Set up everything to load up some 9MM Makarov with cut down 9X19 brass. Got everything adjusted and loaded a dozen or so rounds and the garage got too hot on this 95 degree day. Will pick it up again tomorrow.

[Tom W.]

Sized and lubed some 9 mm boolits....

[goryshaw]

Setup Lee Reloading Stand and Classic Turret Press. Planning on taking it up to family cabin for weekend reloading. In the meantime I'm loading 100x 7.65x53 with NOE 31499 and 10.0 gr Red Dot. Running them through Lee Universal Expanding Die then bullet seater using the auto advance is much quicker than doing steps separately on single stage press.

[Minerat]

Finished 100 al 45 cal gas checks, set up the RCBS Piggyback for some 357 mag, cleaned and tumbled 200 chromed 357 ww super cases. They're going to get some full power loaded 158 gr j word Hps.

[The Governor]

I loaded several K .38 special.

[15meter]

I loaded several K .38 special.

I'm a rank amateur, set up the square deal B and loaded up a couple hundred .38 specials. Trying to clean up small partial batches of boolits--load 2 different round noses and 2 different truncated cones. May get into the wad cutters before I run out of brass.

[Loudy13]

You paid $75 for a Dillon 550B???? You sir, are either a shrewd negotiator or the luckiest man in Minnesota! I thought the manual indexing might be a problem for me coming from an auto indexing SDB, but as promised by the guys at Graf's, its a non issue after a couple hundred rounds. You find another 550 under $300, give me a call!!!

It was one of those right time right places a friend had bought someone's reloading equipment for 100 bucks and he just wanted the turret press. He said there's a blue press in the box yet and I said I will buy that without hesitation. Not sure what I was gonna end up with I figured for 75 bucks it didn't really matter it was going to be a Dillon. He brought it in and it was pretty much complete with 9mm dies and a baggy of parts. I offered a hundred and he said that's what I paid so 75 bucks it was!

[Texas by God]

Loading .38 Special on a Rockchucker in 100 plus degrees. I'm turtleloading in 15 min increments. Using up Hornady swaged hp, then Lee 105swc, 150 swc Lees if I still have brass. Bullseye and Unique crunched through my old Redding measure.
Good times.

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[Jack Stanley]

Sorting cases and making a few new ones .

Jack

[MOA]

I had so much fun powder coating yesterday I thought I would try my luck today and see if my results from yesterday were just beginners luck, plus I wanted to use another thermometer to see just what was going on with the new oven that did not want to go over 350 degrees.
Well used another thermometer but was giving same reading that the other new one was giving me yesterday. Guess I'm just going to have to get this PCing to work at the lower temp. Here was today's results until the rain came.

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[ThomR]

I did some good things, and some bad things.
I cast up some more TL356-95-RF boolits for my wife's new M&P 380 EZ. My wife says that is the nicest pistol she has ever shot.
Cast less than a dozen 356-125-2R boolits and decided that mold was pretty well done for. It was my first mold and I've cast several thousand rounds with it. Since it was pretty well shot I decided I would try removing the lube groove with my trusty dremel tool. That didn't work out so well, so I ordered a TL356-124-TC mold to replace it. All of these molds being 2 cavity so they are dirt cheap.

[Gtrubicon]

My sons first dear season is this year, we loaded 60 rounds of 250 savage. We will have a couple months to get him dialed in. He will be using the rifle my dad bought for me when I was 13, I packed that thing to hell and back, twice! He is 12, almost 13 and is very excited. Prolly not as his a Papa!

[hodg0610]

Loaded up some 30-30 with 120 grain round nose boolits. Stripped some old crusted on alox off a batch of old boolits to resize and lube for later. Gasoline works like a charm for that. Got one of my lube-a-matics working again. The plunger came off the rod. Had a heck of a time getting it back on for some reason.

[bruce drake]

I swaged some PC Coated 356402 Truncated point bullets into Semi-wadcutter .357 bullets for use in a 9mm Largo pistol later then loaded up 106 6.5 Grendel cartridges for a rifle match and then I rebuilt the magazine box on a 98 Mauser to feed and load a .308x1.5" wildcat cartridge for a fall deer season rifle project.

[Texas by God]

My sons first dear season is this year, we loaded 60 rounds of 250 savage. We will have a couple months to get him dialed in. He will be using the rifle my dad bought for me when I was 13, I packed that thing to hell and back, twice! He is 12, almost 13 and is very excited. Prolly not as his a Papa!Perfect choice that your dad made, huh?
The .250 Savage is legend.
Good hunting to you.

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[Walks]

I chamfered & deferred the last couple of hundred new .44Mag cases. Then primed 600 cases with REMINGTON #2 1/2 LP Primers.
Now I have 1000 new cases ready to load. Just have to get my bullets organized, & maybe cast some to get to 1000.

[therealhitman]

Realized that I somehow need more toolheads and little blue stands for them... again.

[Grmps]

Realized that I somehow need more toolheads and little blue stands for them... again.

I feel your pain, you go from 1 set of dies and a rock chucker press too 10 tool heads with 2 more on the horizon :groner:

[cwlongshot]

Last night I emptied the tumbler of once fired LC 556 brass. Its brite and shiny now.

I ran it thru the .256 mandrel die. Then thru the mighty decapper die and directly into the Dillon 600 to remove the crimp. Last steps where to the primer pocket uniformed and then flash hole deburr.

Lastly it went into the pretzel tub labeled 25/45 Sharps for future loadings.

CW

[Texas by God]

A neighbor brought over a Savage Bmag .17WSM that was loose in the stock. Ugly-even for a Savage. He also brought a box of .17 HMR with it that the LGS told him would fit.........luckily there are 5 rounds of correct ammo in the magazine. I handed one back to him to show the guys when he takes the HMR ammo back!

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[mdi]

The other day was having trouble casting 38 cal bullets with my Lacmiller 160 gr. SWC mold, certified Lyman #2,; .005" out of round. I got out an old Lee mold, 158 SWC and cast up a couple hundred. All measured .359"-360" and mebbe .001" out of round. God old Lee "junk" comes through again...:wink:

[Tom W.]

I got some shelves from my neighbor in a trade and am looking to see where they will be most handy. I hope to put one for powder and the other for dies...

Today I cast more T/C boolits for my 9 mm....

[sigep1764]

Tumbling the last few hundred empty 9mm cases. Loaded 100 380ACP. Found out a 50 cal ammo can will hold everything except the powder needed to load 300 270win with 10 grains of red dot...

[pls1911]

HAH!!!

Wished I could see the bench through the summer house clearing...

[RichardF]

I would love to see my bench after making room in the house for one of my sons and his family to move back in for a while. [emoji51]

[Bookworm]

We have out of town visitors for a few days. All that stuff that was stashed in the guest bedroom is now stacked in front of my miniscule loading bench. I won't even see that bench until sometime after next weekend.

[RichardF]

We have out of town visitors for a few days. All that stuff that was stashed in the guest bedroom is now stacked in front of my miniscule loading bench. I won't even see that bench until sometime after next weekend.

I’d give that comment a “Like” but I don’t have a button to press![emoji16]

[Loudy13]

Mounted my new Rock chucker supreme and sized a couple hundred 9mm boolits, the kid finally built his own bench and took the press I gave him years ago with him. Sooo I had to buy anther one right.
One of the local stores which usually is not known for decent prices had them on sale for 129.99

[cwlongshot]

Sized 300 LEE 309/230's and 200 .401 145SWC cast bullets...

The LEE push thru sizer is FAR faster then the LYMAN 4500 for this powder coated sizing procedure!

CW

[Chad5005]

Cleaned my loading benches,set up a new casting table,then cast a few 240 grain 44s and 228 grain 45s

[gavlan]

Today I had to dispose of some old reloads of 32-20 so made another burn barrel "holy".
Tumbled the brass for about 9 hours , (I forgot I was tumbling brass) , deprimed , loaded another batch and tomorrow i'll dispose of those and write this thread again until I get bored of shooting the old Marlin 94 and move on to some other gun I found a bunch of old reloads I made.
Ain't this fun ,,,,,:guntootsmiley:

[Texas by God]

I'm turning reject 25-06 and .270 brass into 8x57 brass. Actually a lot of it is once fired Federal so yeah, reject brass��

[Tom W.]

resized and cleaned some 9mm and 30/30 brass, then cleaned the pistols that I too to the range. Gotta get my 30/30 cleaned soon. I only shot 20 rounds from it, and 12 of those were mouse fart loads. Mighty fine group from those! Well, all the loads grouped well.

[robg]

Preped 20 45-70 cases cleaned and tumble polished 100 308 cases.to hot to do any casting here at the moment high 80s run out of 309 and 358 boolits.got enough loaded to keep shooting but I like to have supplies.

[Bookworm]

.....to hot to do any casting here at the moment high 80s .....

It's in the mid-80's here at 8 in the morning. Usually on it's way to much, much uglier temps.

And in a month (mid-August), when we're looking at another day in a stretch of 105 degree days, we'll be wishing for the coolness of mid eighties.

[Beau Cassidy]

Over the past month or 2 I have been working on some
357 sig ammo with my powder coated bullets. I seated primers on over 6,000 cases. This is about half of what I loaded this weekend. So far I am probably about half done with this run of ammo.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180716/69feddb75610844140627d9e9d185e70.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180716/16dd426ff0fea44a72aab26f38a90234.jpg

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[mattw]

Had a good weekend. Resized some 32acp slugs to .310, loaded 8 test magazines and found a goodish load. Cleaned my presses and oiled them, Partner that I prime on, RC2 that is my workhorse and RC IV that is for resizing lead bullets with the push thru adapter that someone here makes that takes H&I dies. My room is humid and hot in the summer and cold and dry in the winter, unless the diesel heater is running. So things skim with rust quickly, have to oil moulds often, even in a cabinet with tons of silica dry.

[Reverend Al]

Put another big batch of mixed rifle brass in the ss pin tumbler last night so I'm heading down to the shop now to empty it out and put it in the dehydrator to dry off. I should spend some time cleaning up in there today so that I can actually move around in the shop ... it's getting a bit out of control down there!

:roll:

[ThomR]

Sorted a bunch of wheel weights. I loaded up some 223 last night. Need to run out to the range and test them for accuracy.

[cwlongshot]

I sized 550 ish .401 145g 10mm’s.

200, 120g .313 32/20’s.

Lastly, about 650, 90g .357, for the lil 380 acp.

CW

[Tom W.]

Flared some 9mm and flared and reprimed a few 30/30 brass. I also tried my hand at putting a paper patch on three boolits for the 30/30 but I dunno how that's going to work.

[EMR]

I was supposed to be casting with my new NOE 360-148 HB mould only to find it missing from my locked mailbox after seeing USPS tracking states delivered yesterday (Sunday). Super frustrated right now....

[adcoch1]

Set up 458 SOCOM dies and sized 25 new cases to make sure they are in spec. Made a dummy round for two different bullets, need to get the rifle built to go shoot some, but they sure look cool.

[Tom W.]

Loaded three 30/30 rounds with the paper patch boolits. I ran them through the Lee sizer , dipped them again in JPW and put a mild load of H380. I dunno when I'll get to try them. I also loaded a box of 9mm, using sr primers instead of sp primers, and will load another box tomorrow if all goes well. I gotta shoot up the loads with the .358 diameter boolits in my Ruger as my CZ 75 SP-01 does not like them.

[Texas by God]

It's 108° out. After working outside all day its hard to stay in the shop with just fans blowing.
So - not much. I did play with my new mini chop saw a bit.

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[KrakenFan69]

Cast 1,200 Lee 401-175 TC for my Glock 35 last night. Now to Hi-Tek and Load...

Kraken Fan #69

[robg]

Cleaned my Lee pot ,first time in 20 years because it was blocked up then it was constantly dripping .the crud that was in was amazing ,then lapped the rod to the spout .like a new pot now so cast 150x358 180gr. Boolits ,tumbled lubed them .good day today .

[sigep1764]

Primed, neck sized, and flared 250 270win cases with my 310 tool in the hotel room.

[KrakenFan69]

Got all 1,200 .40's coated. 300 loaded. Been busy planning / running matches so the reloading has been sporadic at best. Rimfire today, 3 Gun tomorrow!

Kraken Fan #69

[Beau Cassidy]

I finished up a big run of .357 sig ammo. BE-86 behind an accurate bullet I cast. I have already gone thru about 1,000 from this lot. I primed well over 6,000 caseshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180722/a3ea4f41f0a53f536920bf49548f4d7e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180722/83fde5bb48fb5fdcb066fef6c8ec4feb.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180722/0c9b7eddbbc07ff2ab14463c66d50918.jpg

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[Texas by God]

When the sun goes down I'm going to fireform 8x57mm ammo I made from 25-06 & .270 brass.
10.5grs of Unique and old mangled pulled fmjs. 113 degrees right now, it'll be a nippy 105 at dusk.

[sigep1764]

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260 270Win loaded with 10grains of Red Dot and Lee 277-135RF, all with the Ideal 310. Its a fun toolset.

[OldBearHair]

When the sun goes down I'm going to fireform 8x57mm ammo I made from 25-06 & .270 brass.
10.5grs of Unique and old mangled pulled fmjs. 113 degrees right now, it'll be a nippy 105 at dusk. I didn't know what part of Texas you lived until now. I think the temps you mentioned narrowed it down somewhat. I lived in Wichita Falls for 10 years and have said afterward that it is the best place to be ...FROM.

[EMR]

I picked up a NOE 360-148 HBWC on account of how many people rave about these. Made 20 of them to test. Never shot any before so I’m excited to try these tomorrow.

One thing I ran into was since I PC, the thickness ended up being ~.3637-.3640 for cylinder throats that .358 boolits fit snugly in with fingernail pressure ( I don’t have pin gauges). So I had to size them twice to get them to fit without shearing off PC. First in .360 then .358.

[cwlongshot]

Saturday, I sized 600+ and loaded 400 40's. Mostly using my "NURPLE" 40's but I did load last fifty or so with the new "ERASERS" for my Charity steel match I shot on Sunday. https://activeheroes.org/event/aiming-zero-harwinton-ct/

300+ rounds sent down range zero ammo issues. I was very pleased.

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CW

[KMD]

Sized and lubed some 38 snakebite, it's black powder lube so it's soft and those groves fold a lot and makes things a little messy but not as bad as doing 45's 8-)
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[Texas by God]

I didn't know what part of Texas you lived until now. I think the temps you mentioned narrowed it down somewhat. I lived in Wichita Falls for 10 years and have said afterward that it is the best place to be ...FROM.But our one month winters make up for it.
Almost.

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[Walks]

Just finished sizing the last of The results of JULY 4th's casting session. 700 from the N.O.E. TL432-240-RF , A FANTASTIC MOLD. My 1st TL bullet. Gonna tumble them in 45-45-10 from WLL. Have the wax paper already on the cookie sheet. Then off to sleepland.

[EMC45]

Loaded 10 Lyman 225-415s over 7gr. Red Dot and 10 Speer 52gr. HPs over H4895.

[KrakenFan69]

Loaded up 1,200 Hi-Tek coated Lee 401-175 TC for my Glock 35 for a match this weekend. Now to load 9mm for my son's Glock 17.

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[Bookworm]

Just got my K&M Neck Turning tools in. Tried them out on 82 pieces of 7.62x54R.

Annealed, full-length re-sized, length trimmed, prepped necks, trued necks, tumbled.

If this works, I've got 150 brand new PPU cases, and about 250 various used brass to process.....

[Reverend Al]

Went down to the shop, but didn't do any reloading today. Instead I sorted, priced, and boxed up some surplus items to put on my table at the local gun show this Sunday. Will take 6 or 7 guns along too just to see if people are buying. At most of our previous gun shows people seemed to be buying small and relatively inexpensive "trinkets" (dies, brass, bullets, moulds, etc.) but not so much the big ticket items like guns ...

[skeettx]

Yesterday, shot a bunch of home made shot at the skeet range :)
Today, Loaded a bunch of 6x47 Remington, and some 35-300 Rum ammo
T'will shoot some of it tomorrow.

Mike

[Tom W.]

Sized and lubed more 9mm boolits. I was going to cast, but even w/ the a/c on it was a bit warm in the shed....

[Hotrod99]

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Been raining everyday for 2 weeks... so no shooting.... but I found time to make my first blend and cast a few 200gr 45acp.

Also melt and made ingot of pewter... about 7.5lbs!

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[62chevy]

Sized and lubed more 9mm boolits. I was going to cast, but even w/ the a/c on it was a bit warm in the shed....

Capt. I need more insulation. But Tom we have to go light speed to sector lows and that could take 2 hours if ya don't get warp speed working.

[Tom W.]

I'm retired now... no hurries here. It would be nice if I put some ceiling insulation in the shed. Sometimes I go in the evening when it's a bit cooler ( a relative term here in Alabama) and cast a few hundred.....

[robg]

Loaded 50 45-70 s 415 gr. Boolits over 20 gr 2400.fitted a rifle basic trigger in my savage 116 ,then to please my wife fitted a new nozzel on the kitchen tap .range tomorrow .

[dbmjr1]

Loaded 50 .32WCF and 100 .38spl.

[Soundguy]

Nice pewter ingots!

[ThomR]

I loaded a bunch of 380 for my wife's pistol and started priming 9mm cases. I ran out of small pistol primers, now I need to see if the small rifle primers I have will work.

[marshall623]

Working on some 7 TCU 's newly formed cases out of Mil. Spec. range pick up's .
160 Lyman 287461
Sized 285" over 20.2 gr. of RL 7 . Will finsh after Church .

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[Minerat]

Finished converting 40 - 30 06 cases to 8mmx57, and polishing.

[Tom W.]

I loaded a bunch of 380 for my wife's pistol and started priming 9mm cases. I ran out of small pistol primers, now I need to see if the small rifle primers I have will work.

I loaded 100 9mm w/srp. Haven't been to shoot them yet, but I'm pretty sure that they will work. Seated just fine. I believe somewhere on this forum that there is a thread about it.

[cwlongshot]

I have been cleaning brass... I bought a large quantity of 40 Brass form a couple sources and they needed cleaning.

Then I loaded up four ladder loadings for my 6.5 Grendel that I shot last Sunday.

Then I have been sizing 40cal powder coated bullets.

CW

[rmark]

Cast a whole bunch of .30, .38, .45 caliber bullets since it was cooler due to the overnight rain.

[David2011]

Cast some 158 gr rnfp and powder coated ‘em red. Loaded ‘em into highly polished brass for a cowboy shoot. Looked like a batch of lipstick.

[EMC45]

Loaded 50 round of 9MM - 120gr. Lee TC sized to .358 over 3.5gr. Titegroup.

[15meter]

Sized/lubed/GC'ed a small batch of 6.5 for a 6.5x54. 129gr from an old/unused Lyman mold.

[Tom W.]

Loaded 20 rounds of 30/30 with 6.6 gr of Bullseye. 160 grain rn Lee boolits w/gas checks as cast w/ JPW for lube, two coats.

[62chevy]

Loaded 20 rounds of 30/30 with 6.6 gr of Bullseye. 160 grain rn Lee boolits w/gas checks as cast w/ JPW for lube, two coats.

How do they shoot? I like 3.5 grains of TiteGroup with a 90 grain lead bullet in my 308 win. No kick what so ever and if I need some kick I make it 4 grains. All good for 25 yards.

[cwlongshot]

300 40’s loaded with the “Pool bottom blue” color for a Steel PCC match Saturday AM.

CW

[Tom W.]

How do they shoot? I like 3.5 grains of TiteGroup with a 90 grain lead bullet in my 308 win. No kick what so ever and if I need some kick I make it 4 grains. All good for 25 yards.

I haven't tried them yet. Been raining for a while and the SO range is where I usually go. The ones I loaded w/ 5 gr. of BE shot into a tiny group @ 25 yards A bit high at to the right, but I didn't do ant scope adjustments, just shot to have fun. No, no pictures... altho I should have taken a few....

I was going to put the same charge as I use in my 9mm, but I'll save that for next time...

[EMC45]

Loaded some .44 Mag and .45

[avogunner]

Cast up a bunch of 169gr H&G (#20) boolets for my 1903.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180803/da5b70c95378729291a6926fea57b5f6.jpg

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[Loudy13]

Slammed 50 rounds of 5.56 together for the kid before going to the range this morning. Had a 20 minute rain delay and then all was good at the range.

[Texas by God]

Worked on the Remington 510 project. Not restoring just adjusting the patina.....

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[am44mag]

I loaded up about 100 rounds of 357 mag. I loaded them with a 125gr Remington SJHP and 17.0gr of 2400. I'm getting about 1290 FPS out of them in my 3" SP101. This is my new self defense load. It's stout, but certainly manageable.

[lightman]

Yesterday, before it got hot, I sorted a bucket of weights. Then I cleaned up the lead splatters on the shop floor left from last weeks smelting session.

[robg]

Loaded 90 308 s with 150grwfp Lee boolits over 18gr of 2400. Then 50 357 with rcbs 190sil boolit over 11.5 gr 2400 .need to do some casting but its so hot at the moment 75-85 .which is unusual here .

[Grmps]

Cast some pure lead boolits for slugging barrels and chamber casting

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[KrakenFan69]

Sorted 5 gal of range brass. Tumbling some now as well. Having a hard time keeping up with the demand now that my son is shooting more so I went to corn cob tumbling 9mm rather than decapping and SS pin tumbling. He has offered to help but his schedule makes it hard.

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[Tom W.]

Avogunner...Those look nice! how do they shoot and what lube do you use?

[avogunner]

Avogunner...Those look nice! how do they shoot and what lube do you use?Tom, I size to .311 and lube with Thompson Blue Angel. Keeping the velocity to around 1500fps I get 3 - 4" groups at 100yds, sometimes better but my eyes prevent consistently smaller groups.
I particularly like this load for my '03 because the elevation is perfect (@ 100yds) with the leaf sight down ... for my eyes that's where I get the best sight picture.
Semper Fi.
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[L Erie Caster]

I loaded up about 100 rounds of 357 mag. I loaded them with a 125gr Remington SJHP and 17.0gr of 2400. I'm getting about 1290 FPS out of them in my 3" SP101. This is my new self defense load. It's stout, but certainly manageable.

That is one of my favorite loads. I recently picked up 1000 Rem 125g SJHPs and 4lbs of 2400.


I didn’t make any production today but I filled dozens of APS primer strips and refilled a couple of 1lb cans of powder from my 8lb kegs.

[Beau Cassidy]

Boxed up some bullets for a friend of mine. Powder coated a lot of bullets. Started sizing some .380 bullets. Still have some .44 SWC to coat. Jist did a few to see how they would coat. Need to cast more first.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/efd2ecd1750c3f92c902828fd7db1c12.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/716e546e20a9a91a88498a1300cc20a3.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/eef0b6828a4ff615e239976024e24d20.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/85c0ee649a3b8c94c9db657fd3ccf4b2.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/fd71eb2df49cea94c0b4c774c27d6675.jpg

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[mwells72774]

Boxed up some bullets for a friend of mine. Powder coated a lot of bullets. Started sizing some .380 bullets. Still have some .44 SWC to coat. Jist did a few to see how they would coat. Need to cast more first.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/efd2ecd1750c3f92c902828fd7db1c12.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/716e546e20a9a91a88498a1300cc20a3.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/eef0b6828a4ff615e239976024e24d20.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/85c0ee649a3b8c94c9db657fd3ccf4b2.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180806/fd71eb2df49cea94c0b4c774c27d6675.jpg

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How’d you keep the PC out of the HP?

[Beau Cassidy]

The HP rifle bullets in this picture were sprayed. Depending on the size of the HP I dont aleays use airsoft BBs. They get stuck in the nose of the Hammer bullet but not in the SWC HP bullets. I prefer shake and bake but the pink and blue didn't so I had to spray it.

[cwlongshot]

I sized over a thousand bullets yesterday.... Was HOT HOT HOT outside... SO, I powder coated till about 9AM. Then headed down stairs to size and seat GC's.

I still have about 15-18# of 10MM to size...

CW

[bruce drake]

On Saturday, I loaded forty .225" sized, poly-coated and gaschecked Bator RN boolits into some reformed 22-6mm Remington brass for my newest wildcat Mauser 98 rifle. I'm going to try to get to the range this weekend to try them out at 50 and 100 yards after my monthly 200/300yd NRA Highrifle Match.

Bruce

[Soundguy]

Nothing in, but a little outside. Took a friend to the range so she could get some practice with my 9mm CZ75 ( she is thinking about getting one ). I had at a few targets with a uberti 1875 breaktop in 45lc, and a Taurus Raging bull in 454 ( but shot some 45lc cowboy in it just for fun too ).

[KrakenFan69]

Cleaned 5 gal of 9mm brass. Seriously, this is getting old. lol Moving on to .40 now.


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[sigep1764]

Annealed cases for the first time ever. Got to buy a new toy, a propane torch.

[frydaddy96]

Loaded some 200 grn RN and 255 grn SWC over 35 gr of Black to try out a new to me Uberti Regulator that I found at a Gun show this weekend. Shoots pretty good for me offhand, just before sunset so didn't get to do a whole lot. Always fun to make lots of smoke and boom.

[Tom W.]

Sized & lubed about 50 160 gr Lee 309 for my 30/30 or 30-06 A.I.

[Tripplebeards]

Loaded up some silver werewolf boolits...no they're smokes clear PC on my devastators...

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You can see some little dents and scratches in them from tumbling but they are all filled in by the PC and as smooth as glass.

[lightman]

Not very much. Sorted a small batch of wheel weights that a buddy dropped of this morning. Sorted a half tub of range brass and deprimed them.

[Loudy13]

picked up 2 kitty liter containers of WW's yesterday and loaded 350 9mm today

[Beau Cassidy]

Sized a little run of NOE 92 grain .380 bullets. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180809/428940cace9bc2045c91689e5e3d1120.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180809/16479a2b1794795defa02787b75949a1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180809/bf5fff08d43309d1d320d0ab4cacad43.jpg

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[cwlongshot]

I assembled a AR lower last night... NO loading, just a lil cleanup/straighten up on the work bench across form the loading bench. Then assembly of parts to make the lower.

CW

[Texas by God]

I put more TruOil on my Rem 510 stock and reassembled the barreled action. Then I stepped outside and shot the 8x57 to fire form the brass that I made from 2506 and 270 cases. The groups were not worth taking a picture of LOL.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180810/8b1137fe920c473b32f075ee48f70318.jpg

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[Beau Cassidy]

I just realized how bad the bases looked on my little .380 bullets. I knew I had a few spots when casting them.. not too worried about it since they are for 10 yards or less. Guess i lose style points for it. I can assure it my other bullets have much better bases.

[obssd1958]

Beau,
We ain't judgin'!!

At least you're getting some casting and coating done - I haven't cast a boolit in 6 months!

[KrakenFan69]

Still cleaning 9mm brass. Holy crud will this ever end!? Maybe by the end of the weekend I will be done. But I do have a trip planned to scrounge some more... Picked up a kilo of VV N340 to do some more load testing trying to ,ake major PF with a Lee 401-175 TC in a Glock 35.

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[Tom W.]

Deprimed/ resized some 30/30 brass I found. I went in much earlier to turn on the A/C so it would be tolerable. Then just gathered what I plan to take to the range and loaded up my SUV....

[Newtire]

Beau,
We ain't judgin'!!

At least you're getting some casting and coating done - I haven't cast a boolit in 6 months!
I looked at my bench and then went back into the house.

[obssd1958]

I looked at my bench and then went back into the house.

Hey! It only got up to 108* yesterday, so I'm sure the garage was only 120* or so - with no air flow!
I need to rearrange the casting room in the basement, and you can come over here for a boolit casting day.

[Grmps]

Hey! It only got up to 108* yesterday, so I'm sure the garage was only 120* or so - with no air flow!
I need to rearrange the casting room in the basement, and you can come over here for a boolit casting day.

Find a company that replaces furnaces and get a squirrel cage fan from a dead furnace. I mount one blowing down the pathway between my benches and it allows me to cast comfortably even when the temperature is pushing triple digits.