What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Newtire]

Hi Taz, We got together one time and successfully traded that kind of stuff between the bunch of us. So, if you have other friends close by, you might try that. Besides, it's a good excuse to get together.

[Went2kck]

Today I melted down the stash of pewter i have been collecting for awhile. Had to beat it down with a hammer to get it to fit into lead pot. I also made a few bullets like about 100 plus or so mostly 30 cal HP out of a noe mold. I weighed it all wen done. Ended up with 13LBS of pewter. Should sweeten a lot of bullets. Makes the HP's fill out better to.

[RedlegEd]

I cast about 20 pounds total... 7# of Lee C309-200, 7# of Ideal 311413, and 6# of Lee TL314-90-SWC. Now, all I gotta do is GC, size and lube them.
Ed
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[Texas by God]

Don't care about the car, How's the reloading room? Or is the car just parked there?
Just parked there waiting;-) My reloading/gun work area is one wall of our shop. Thanks for asking!

[Dieselhorses]

I perfected a basket to afford powder coating many more bullets LOL. I know anybody can make these but...

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[KrakenFan69]

Cast 30 lbs of Lee 401-175 TC, 30 lbs of Lee 358-158 RF. Trimmed 100 Winchester 38 Specials to 38 Med Colt (0.900"), Built a Moon clip rack to sit in a 50 Cal ammo can, built a Moon Clip loading tool, Pulled the projectiles from a whack of 38 Med Colt mistakes. Loaded 100 38 Med Colt. Not a bad day all in all!

Kraken Fan #69

[cwlongshot]

I reformed 50 338 Winchester Magnum into 358 Norma Magnums and trimmed them to length!

I also sized 20 416 Rem Mag into 358 NM thanks to IMPERIAL SIZE WAX!! Funny lookin with that long 358 neck before trimming!! :p

CW

[Tom W.]

Sized and cleaned the last of my 30/30 brass...

[Newtire]

Converted, trimmed/deburred and cleaned 185 30 carbine to 5.7 Johnson Spitfire. No wrinkles or lube dents-nickle plated even. Can't explain how that happened.229255

[Tom W.]

Just wandered back into the house from coming out of the shed. I loaded just 10 rounds of 30-06 A.I. w/180 gr GameKings and 47 gr. of Varget. That's the most accurate load I've found for my #1.

[jdfoxinc]

Sized the last of the .380 ACP brass. Now to prime 500.

[cwlongshot]

Got a batch of 7MM Rem Mags ready to load for test Saturday.

The rifle is gonna be a rechamber/re barrel project. But might as well see ifnit shoots!! ������

CW

[McFred]

I'm starting work on some cedar handles for some HSS LR/SR primer pocket reamers I picked up the other day. Getting the cedar trimmed down to 1-3/8" diameter and assembling the hardware I intend to use is as far as I got today.

https://i.postimg.cc/3Jh3d3tG/handles.jpg

[McFred]

Converted, trimmed/deburred and cleaned 185 30 carbine to 5.7 Johnson Spitfire. No wrinkles or lube dents-nickle plated even. Can't explain how that happened.

Those look awfully familiar Newtire! I've been helping a buddy with his 5.7 Spitfire Kurz boltgun project:

https://i.postimg.cc/mkcpQKm7/new_Spit.jpg

They just need to be trimmed and neck-turned. What are you feeding them through, Newtire, an M1 or something else?

[Michael J. Spangler]

Loaded a couple of these. 358156. 50/50 alloy.
C Blue lube
3.5 grains bullseye.

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[lightman]

In the shop not the loading room. Started stamping identifying letters on a 3000# pile of wheel weight ingots. Probably about half through.

[Walks]

Loaded about 300 .44MAG Cowboy Loads.

Finally set up the 1st set of HORNADY L-N-L bushings for those dies. Set up the dies for .44SPL, then used the REDDING .44 cal spacer washers to raise the dies up to load .44MAG. Those washers for .44 & .38/357 are fantastic.
Do the .38/357 next.

[The Governor]

I loaded some cast.45 ACP lubed with Johnson's Paste Wax for the first time.

[KrakenFan69]

Hi-Tek Coated 1,000 Lee 401-175 TC to add to the horde. I think I have around 5,000 ready to load now.

Kraken Fan #69

[jdfoxinc]

Started depriming 800 + 16 ga compression formed hulls.

[trixter]

Turned the light off. (I wanted to stay long bur work beckoned.)

[DxieLandMan]

Powder coated, sized and loaded 100+ rounds of .41 Magnum.

[cwlongshot]

Loaded up 20 7MM RM rounds for testing after the Monsoons forcast for tomorrow...

CW

[Tom W.]

Sorted and trimmed 30/30 brass. The Winchester brass is now trimmed, but still have a pile if R-P and Federal brass to trim.....but that will be later....Did I ever say that I HATED to trim brass?

[jonp]

Load and test some Acme 100gr RNFP in my Ruger 32H&R Mag's. I used Unique at 2.5gr and they were well under the expected velocity. Going to bump them up some and see what happens as the recoil was very light. I did crimp them long in the groove so that may be the answer to why they were slower than expected.

Almost forgot, one of my bosses gave me a Folgers Coffee Can full of .40 Brass and most of a pound of Power Pistol. I am tumbling the brass now.

[Ironnewt]

Worked with my Redding Turret press and a universal decapping die. De-capped about 100 pieces of .300 Blackout brass. Going to clean them tomorrow, load them Monday.

[mac60]

Converted 277 pcs. of 5.56 LC into .222 Rem. for my Savage 340, resized 1,000 pcs. 9mm. 'Bout wore me out.

[wendyj]

Melted about 800 bullets I no longer shoot and casted about 200 45-70s. Loaded up about 50 rounds of 357 to shoot a little tomorrow.

[Tom W.]

Flared my Winchester 30/30 brass , so now it's ready to load. I have a LOT to prime and load. It will keep me busy for a while. My Federal and RP brass went back into storage.

[fralic76]

Finally got around to size and gas check 450 113gr 30 caliber bullets. Next to powder coat. Also did a little cleaning and organizing of the reloading bench.

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[Wis Tom]

Nice slow drizzle for most of the morning, gave me the time to belly up to the reloading bench, and load up some 150 gr. 308, that I had tested through the week.

[robg]

Sized decapped expanded and sonic cleaned some 308/357/45-70' brass .I'll polish it when its fully dry in my tumbler.

[Tom W.]

Poured some 160 gr lee gc boolits from that old single cavity mold that I have. It shoots better in my 30/30 than the RD boolit.

[Proudprado]

I cast around 1000 9mm 125g. Slowly getting the hang of this. It promises to rain here for the next two days, so I'll PC over the weekend. Sunday maybe, as I'm shooting a league match on Saturday.

[KrakenFan69]

Cast some more 40 and 38 Special pills a couple days ago. Hi-Tek coating them tonight.

Kraken Fan #69

[lightman]

Today is a cleaning day. It stormed last night and still raining a little today. About too nasty to get out. I messed around outside some and hauled off a load of trash, got good and wet. Planning to spend the afternoon inside looking outside! Got bullets and brass to sort, sweep the floor, may start getting some things together for deer camp.

[popper]

Cast another peanut jug of 40SW.

[Soundguy]

Great to see so many getting soo much casting done lately.

Where is everyone getting their lead from now.

Wheel weights are like unicorns in my area now. My last big batches of lead came from purchased range scrap, and a lucky find of dr office xray shielding. Very dirty, lots of glue, etc.
Our recycle centers will buy only, no sales :(

Weather is turning cooler and id like to be casting more, but getting under my comfort threshold on lead.

[Ironnewt]

Worked with my Redding Turret press and a universal decapping die. De-capped about 100 pieces of .300 Blackout brass. Going to clean them tomorrow, load them Monday.

Lather, rinse, REPEAT.

[lightman]

Great to see so many getting soo much casting done lately.

Where is everyone getting their lead from now.

Lead is still pretty plentiful here. Its sad to hear about states where its hard to find. I strongly believe in networking and its worked well for me. Ask your friends, family and coworkers to watch for you. Watch crags list and the classifieds. Watch our Swapping and Selling section. Sometimes a caster quits the hobby and wants a quick face to face sale. Watch for sales from RotoMetals. Good Hunting!

[tward]

Yesterday was 45 and sunny. I made 470 Lee 90 gr .314 Boolits and 170 Lee 113 gr .309 bullets, not bad as they are both 2 cavity molds. Tim

[Chainsaw.]

I cleaned the very last of my brass, happened to be 38. This makes 10 gallons of 9, 8 gallons of 40, 20 gallons of 223, 2 gallons + of 38, ~1000 peices of 357, ~800 pices of 44mag, ~400 peices of 44 special, 200 6.5, 60 30-30, 200 10mm etc etc etc all cleaned, as shiney as a new penny and ready to load. Shew! It sure is good to have it done so I can just crank em out when reloading time comes around.

[therealhitman]

Cut crimps and prepped pockets and mouths on the last two coffee cans of previously trimmed Lake City 5.56 brass. This was an all week job as I had trimmed six cans worth with the WFT II last week. I trimmed and prepped two .30 cal cans full of my Dad's LC brass a week or two ago and am looking at two coffee cans of converted 300AAC under the bench that still need prepped. This trimmer has been a trooper for at least two years of this sort of abuse but I notice it almost chatters a bit now and then and I hadn't noticed that happening before this week. I got to wondering...have any of you ever worn out the mill bit on a WFT?

[sigep1764]

Loaded 100 270 Winchester with Lee 277-135RF over 10 grains of Red Dot with a Lee dipper and a 310 tool. Using that tool is relaxing.

[GregLaROCHE]

Cleaned up reloading shop. Got to get some rat poison. Cats aren’t doing their job. All seven. Why does the wife feed them so much?

[bullseye67]

Good afternoon,
Well, now that fall is here and indoor Bullseye is back in full swing it was time to get at some 32S&W Long reloaded. Pulled the handle for a few hours this morning and went through a full box of primers. Enough for practice and match for 2 weeks.
The Lee LoadMaster just keeps cranking along. I figure it must be somewhere around the 200K mark by now. Best gift my wife ever gave me!!

Have a fantastic weekend!!

[lightman]

Yesterday I helped Biggin stamp "WW" on the rest of his ingots. I think he moved them into his cave today. Today I cleaned some more in my loading room. I also started getting some gear out for deer camp. Actually got the room looking pretty neat!

[Hossfly]

Started on new lead melting pot project, 50# Freon bottle cut down with ears to rotate and pour ingots. Set inside old SS bar b q stand with top to close and keep rain out, plenty room for storage of ingot molds.

[Green Frog]

Yesterday I finally got around to depriming and FL sizing something over 250 cases in 32 S&W L I had stashed around the shop. I used the Lyman TC die tha lives on my All American press so it can be used for cases from 32 S&W to 327 Fed Mag. I’ll probably prime them tonight as I watch NCIS Los Angeles. Keeping my newly built Model 16-3 homage fed is such a challenge! :mrgreen:

Froggie

[robg]

Primed some 357/308/45-70 brass I'd cleaned and tumble polished earlier.

[Loudy13]

Started cleaning my reloading room then got distracted and loaded 150 300 BO...it happens

[Tom W.]

Sized and cleaned the rounds I shot yesterday, about 25 30-06 A.I. cases and maybe 60 or so 30/30 A.I. cases. Well, All I did to the 30/30 A.I. cases was punch out the primers and clean them, as I still haven't gotten any dies yet...

[Texas by God]

You can load 30-30 Imp for YOUR rifle with .300 Savage dies if you have to. Kind of a neck sizing deal.

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[mart]

Not today, but last week before I headed to the slope for my two weeks at work, I got in 2-3 hours casting and turned out some 450 grain, .511 SWC, some 420 grain .477 WLN and some 240 grain .403 WLN, all from LBT four cavity molds. After sizing and lubing the next day I loaded 100 rounds of 500 Linebaugh with the 450 grain SWC and 9 grains of Trailboss. I also sized and lubed a couple hundred of the 240 WLN for a friend to try in his Buckeye 38-40. I shoot them in a 401 Powermag. Great bullet in the 401 and ought to work well in his 38-40.

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[robg]

Loaded 50 x308 and 50 x45-70 with boolits I cast last week .

[Tom W.]

I loaded up 20 more 30/30 rounds with the fire forming load of Bullseye, then loaded 15 with 1.0cc GreenDot and the 160 cast bullet.

[Texas by God]

Sized and lubed some Lee 379-250fp to .375" to chamber easier in my 38-55. Also using a medium load of IMR 3031 in hope of flattening the trajectory a bit. My Unique load drops more at 100 yards than my 44-40......:-)

[lightman]

Washed and deprimmed a tub of range brass that I picked up. I love deer season, I find calibers other than 9mm, 40 S&W and 223! I don't need it, just can't help it! My Wife and I enjoy riding around to the local shooting spots looking for brass. We enjoy the time together and see a lot of wildlife. Saw a Red Fox the other day. Usually see deer or Coyotes. Also the Ducks and Geese have arrived and I know several places where Eagles have nested.

[sigep1764]

Loaded 200 rounds of 380ACP with 105 swc and 2 grains of Red Dot. LCP eats this thing up especially with the fiancé carrying it every day now. She actually shoots the tiny pistol pretty well.

[Tom W.]

Going to go and get the stuff I'll be shooting at the range tomorrow. My range bag, ammo, stuff....

[Reverend Al]

My shop was well overdue for a big cleanup, so I started yesterday. Sorted and boxed tumbled brass in several different calibres and cleaned up a bunch of junk to toss out in the garbage. (Surplus cardboard ammo boxes, plastic bags, etc.) Still need to clear the reloading bench itself and put away several sets of dies and other reloading accessories. Several more days work ahead of me to get things looking a bit better down there ...

[Tom W.]

If I were to "clean it up" I'd probably never find anything again. It wasn't too long ago that I found a bunch of once fired 30/30 brass that I didn't know I had. And I've been at this address for over six years!

[KrakenFan69]

Made up a batch of Ben's Red. Overheated the Lucas Red 'N Tacky and got Ben's Brown instead. Oh well. Pan lubed some Russian Paradox slugs to do some testing against Hi-Tek Coated versions. Loaded up the test rounds. Hopefully I can get out to test this weekend. Cleaned up a bit. Just hung out in the reloading room. It's my happy place.

Kraken Fan #69

[jdfoxinc]

Sized and deprimed more 20 ga AA hulls. Then started trimming 9x19 to 9x18, first belling the case mouths with my Lee multi caliber expander die, then trimming with Lee case trimmer and electric drill, then chamfering inside and outside case mouth with my RCBS tool. This is as tedious as I thought it would be. Case dimensions and wall thicknesses all over the place. (Multiple head stamps.)

[Texas by God]

Finished some 38-55, started on 44-40, 10mm for my brother after that. Need to resume "Cast Quest" for the .300 BO as well.

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[triggerhappy243]

Went thru all my molds and took pictures............. Going to sell a bunch of them soon. 15 of them

[David2011]

Cast about 600 each of Lee 358-158-RF and .40 180 gr TC.

[cwlongshot]

Im tumbling 6.5 Grendel and 25/45 Brass...

[Combat Diver]

Picked up one wheel weight and half a cup of spattered lead on the range today. Its addicting even when down range in Afghanistan. Think I'll have my wife mail me my small RCBS casting pot.

CD

[Reverend Al]

Still in the midst of a major clean up down in my reloading / gun room. Got so bad in there that you could barely move little lone work so it was time to finally do something about it. I've been sorting and packaging cleaned and annealed brass, misc bullets and boolits, and since I have far more dies than jacketed bullets these days I'm going to reorganize my dies to the space where I had the bullets stacked on the back wall of my bench and relocate the bullets to the smaller space where I had the dies stacked. A friend of mine owns a local "cracker barrel" style LGS where many of us go to BS and visit on weekends and he has a table full of odds and ends for sale by donation with the funds going into the shop's coffee fund. (He always has free coffee on the go at his shop for the customers.) I'm going to sort out and donate a bunch of my odds and ends, mostly left overs from my tables at local gun shows I've attended and I will put them onto his donation table. Only about half way done cleaning up my shop so far, but I can almost walk around in there now without knocking something over or off the benches and table!

[jonp]

Last night I loaded up 10 32 H&R Mag using newly cast 90gr Lee 50/50 boolits over 3gr Promo. Dug out some Win spp to load up some 40cal as the S&B primers looked strange to me after firing. Loading over 7.0gr Power Pistol using a 150gr Nosler HP

[brass410]

been there , still doing that, some day I will change but for now its just organized confusion.

[odfairfaxsub]

Yday I tossed some of my tumbled cases out and got the media out of them; my 450 bushmasters, hand full of 38-55, and some 30-06 I already sized and trimmed.

Decided to load my 450 bushmasters w test loads. Aa9 w my accurate 45-280 gas checked. While doing that I remembered why my imr 4198 load fouls. When I did that ladder test awhile back my best loads were at the high end and that’s when I started fouling so I said I’ll just deal w it. Turns out I can’t so hopefully the aa9 will take care of “a good load” without the fouling

[Reverend Al]

Well, I continued with the cleanup of my reloading / gun shop today and got things cleaned up and organized a bit further. Still got quite a ways to go, but it's improving and I can almost see some light at the end of the tunnel. Finding a few treasures that I'd mis-placed or lost which is a bonus!

[donald duck]

When I obtain 5.56 brass I de prime it with a Lyman Universal de priming tool(die) and then ream the primer pockets and the mouth, next lube and size. Put them in small plastic bag and label until I need them. I have discovered it pays to label all containers. Reamed, sized, ready to prime, and so on. I have never drilled out the hole under the primer, maybe this wouold be a good idea.

[Texas by God]

I opened the west bay door and loaded 44 WCF in the warm November sun.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181115/1b3c3ec7f41fe14213c25f97bf510508.jpg

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[Tom W.]

Too rainy and cold for me to wander out, plus my health hasn't been the best this past week. Maybe tomorrow or Monday....

[DxieLandMan]

Loaded up 40 rounds of 30-06 for deer season which starts Saturday. Going to load up for different calibers in hopes of harvesting a deer with each weapon I am bringing.

[Green Frog]

Finished decapping and FL sizing (Lyman TC die) the last of 250+ rounds of 32 S&W Long brass I had laying around. Went to use my early model Lee priming tool (with screw in shell holders) but the *@#&% thing was nowhere to be found... it had disappeared into the vortex! [smilie=b:

Being the packrat that I am however, I located another of my old Lee priming tools and went into the box of odd shell holders to retrieve the proper (CC) one. Once again my inner hoarder came through for me!! :mrgreen: Primed all of the cases while watching TV. Ran into an oddity, though... about 20 or so of the cases (marked GFL 32 WAD CUT) had retained part of the primer cup in the recess when I decapped them! Now I have to go back with a PP reamer and clean out the remnants of brass before I can finish repriming the last of this batch. I've never had this particular event take place, certainly not in over 20 rounds of brass out of the same lot of brass. :?:

Anyway, today will hopefully see batches of these cases get belled, charged with light loads of Bullseye powder, then finished off with some of the swaged Hornady LSWCs and HBWCs I've been saving for a rainy day. I may also size and lube some of the TLWCs friend Dale53 gifted me on his last visit... I have a .313 sizing die from Lyman that I've been wanting to try out. My K-32 and my little I-frame snub will be well supplied for their next visit to the range! :2gunsfiring_v1:

Froggie

[The Dar]

... about 20 or so of the cases (marked GFL 32 WAD CUT) had retained part of the primer cup in the recess when I decapped them! Now I have to go back with a PP reamer and clean out the remnants of brass before I can finish repriming the last of this batch. I've never had this particular event take place, certainly not in over 20 rounds of brass out of the same lot of brass.
Froggie

Any chance the brass in question got wet? I've had brass that I picked up after a rain, months later deprime it and the head of the primer comes out leaving the sides in the pocket.

[Tom W.]

Cleaned some fire formed 30/30 A. I. brass and loaded 20 rounds of fire forming 30/30 brass with 1 cc ( by the Lee scoop ) of Green Dot.

[The Dar]

Trying to sort through the nearly 2 five gallon buckets of brass from the range today. Gotta love it when they leave behind brass, not only put back into the boxes, but in a Wally World bag tied up for easy carrying.

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Another oddity, I wound up with more 45 Colt brass (107) than 38 Special (about 30).

[44Blam]

Cast about 4-500 44 cal boolits:
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[Soundguy]

Trying to sort through the nearly 2 five gallon buckets of brass from the range today. Gotta love it when they leave behind brass, not only put back into the boxes, but in a Wally World bag tied up for easy carrying.

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Another oddity, I wound up with more 45 Colt brass (107) than 38 Special (about 30).

Nice.. when i used to range shoot more, you could see this.. the box, divider and brass all neatly packaged.. usually older shooters.. not the 'gangsta' types shooting the gun held sideways.

[lightman]

Nice.. when i used to range shoot more, you could see this.. the box, divider and brass all neatly packaged.. usually older shooters.. not the 'gangsta' types shooting the gun held sideways.

I love deer season! I find calibers other than the usual 9mm, 40 S&W and 223. Those Gangster shooters make it hard on an old brass rat, walking around shooting everything in sight and spraying brass everywhere.

I deprimed, tumbled and dried 2 loads of brass yesterday. I've loaded the first load for today while I sort and store away yesterdays clean brass.

[Tom W.]

Loaded ten rounds of 30/30 a.i. with 35 grains of IMR 3031and a 165 gr. Hornady interlock spire point.

Going to see how they shoot......

[Texas by God]

Loading 10mm auto with 180gr XTP/8grs PowerPistol for older bubba's Glock m40 Longslide. I'm still not a Glockophile- but this one's pretty cool......

[McFred]

I got my tool handles finished.
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I'm starting work on some cedar handles for some HSS LR/SR primer pocket reamers I picked up the other day. Getting the cedar trimmed down to 1-3/8" diameter and assembling the hardware I intend to use is as far as I got today.

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[44Blam]

Cast about 4-500 44 cal boolits:
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These are pb and gc .44s. After sorting and counting, it was 282 PB and 249 GC.
I was kind of favouring the PBs since I shoot them in contests... Anywho, 531 boolits in a go is a good haul. ;)

[Combat Diver]

Nothing but went scrounging here in Afghanistan. Walked out to range and picked up lead splatter off the steel plates. Going to have my wife mail me my RCBS casting pot. USPS not going to like my flat rate box sent stateside. Stopped by the metal dump and found a M14 mag which was there because it has a dent in the side. Then walked over to one of the firing points for vehicles as I need some 7.62 links. Found the links and about 200 rds of 7.62. Relinked that for testing firing Mk48 and M240 after I fix them.

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[Walks]

I cast using 3 1cav ancient IDEAL molds. Slow and easy. Reminded myself how I started 60yrs ago.

Don't know how many I cast, but it wasn't many. I'll find out when I cull them.

[OldBearHair]

Today I found my grandfathers bullet mold he made. Drilled holes in maple to use for handles and poured a few .44 call balls all the while talking to him like he was present. He passed before I was born. Put a new rivet in the hinge holes. He probably made the mold in 1870 to 1890s. I still have the barrel and lock. It has five point corners instead of lands and grooves. Similar to Glock barrels.

[OldBearHair]

Today I found my grandfathers bullet mold he made. Drilled holes in maple to use for handles and poured a few .44 call balls all the while talking to him like he was present. He passed before I was born. Put a new rivet in the hinge holes. He probably made the mold in 1870 to 1890s. I still have the barrel and lock. It has five point corners instead of lands and grooves. Similar to Glock barrels.

[DDriller]

Prepped 400 .223 brass

[waltherboy4040]

Hosed off my scales with brake cleaner.

[fralic76]

Powder coated and sized 600 round for 3 different calibers.

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[RogerDat]

Tried out sulfur to remove zinc contamination using a cast iron pot at the burn pit. Have XRF from before sulfur will get one post sulfur and see how much good it did. Cast some premium alloy into .310 round ball to use as buckshot. Have some soft lead already cast to use to compare patterns. See if heavy and soft or lighter weight and harder work better.

[ak_milsurp]

I tucked away 800+ lbs of lead ingots I scored for FREE!! They tested at 14.9 bin. My guess is they're smelted from wheel weights years ago... Woo hoo

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[JBinMN]

I tucked away 800+ lbs of lead ingots I scored for FREE!! They tested at 14.9 bin. My guess is they're smelted from wheel weights years ago... Woo hoo

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Nice Score! & the price was certainly right!
;)

[2manygunz]

Received a "new to me" lubrisizer last night. Not sure of the brand. I cleaned and removed most of the old lube (what a mess!) and installed a .309 sizer die. Ran about 40 Lee 180gc just to work the rest of the old lube out.
P.S. While I know guns & bullets are not always P.C. in public, being labeled "That Gun Crank" has resulted in more than a few really useful donations over the years. This sizer as an example. If you discreetly spread the word, you may be surprised what shows up at your door.

[tazman]

I sized and lubed 300 pieces of 452374 boolits. Loaded a few rounds of 9mm while I was waiting for the lube to warm up(cold basement).

[ak_milsurp]

I tucked away 800+ lbs of lead ingots I scored for FREE!! They tested at 14.9 bin. My guess is they're smelted from wheel weights years ago... Woo hoo

Sent from my LM-V350 using TapatalkI was amazed when a buddy turned
Me on to these. It was his next door neighbor. She's the widow of a dedicated hoarder, and the city was doing a forced clean up of her property. Talk about a "Black Friday" deal!
He asked her what she planned to do with them. She said if you can haul them off, they're yours. Buddy isn't a caster, but wanted to use the lead for Winter traction ballast in his truck. He got 400 lbs, I got the rest! Nice early Christmas present, EH?! LOL

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[Texas by God]

I'm still trying to find a happy place CB wise for my 1-7" twist .300 Blackout. L to R C309113f, C312155pc, C309170f. I've got the test rounds going around 1700 fps across the board. The 170gr(actual 180gr) flunked out yesterday with a 5" 40yd group.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181125/7d80b3b80666b3056f8a70128161e36e.jpg

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[mattw]

Made a bunch of Arsenal 124 TC 9mm's and a few 81 grain 32acp's this weekend. Smokes powders really do work well! I would guess around 1000 9mm's.
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[Bookworm]

Gathered up the various spent 44 Mag brass. De-capped, washed, dried, tumbled. Maybe a couple hundred pieces.

Now to sort by headstamp, and get it back to firing condition....

[mac60]

Spent the morning at the range yesterday. This morning I got everything reloaded:
50 rds. 32 s&w, 50 rds. 38 s&w, 50 rds. 9x19, 30 rds. 6.5x55, 30 rds. .303 Brit., 30 rds. 30-30 Win., 30 rds. 8x56r., 10 rds. 300 WSM. Gotta love it.:cbpour:

[Budzilla 19]

Shipped out two boxes of stuff sold in s and s section, started boxing up some high brass 12 gauge empties, put up about 40 pounds of soft lead from some melting activity, and prep some .243’s for loading tomorrow!!! Other than that, not too much.

[Ironnewt]

Room is storage and cleaning area as well. Cleaned my Remington 870 from the last hunting trip. Shelved some ammunition, de-capped about 50 pieces of .300 Blackout Brass prior to cleaning.

[Bookworm]

Had to empty the bullet trap. I'm using two 5-gallon buckets partially nested, and filled with rubber mulch. The bottom has a disc of 3/4" plywood to stop the heavy loads.
It didn't.
I was shooting loads too heavy for it the handle, and the bottom of the bucket got knocked out. I harvested less than 4 pounds out of it. Dang.

Now I have to make another. I need to go back to the drawing board on this. Perhaps come up with a duplex design, with rubber mulch to stop the lighter loads, backed by a sand trap for the heaviest.

I'll cogitate on it for a spell.....

[dansedgli]

Repurposed by bullet coating oven for the day and learned to cerakote.

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[Bookworm]

Went to load up some 44 Mag to replace the ammo I shot up last week, and found I had no boolit supply !

Went down to the barn and fired up the pot. Poured ~15 pounds of Lee TL430-240SWC from 50/50 +1% alloy. I started tumble lubing in BLL, may be able to load some tomorrow.

[dragon813gt]

Rearranged the powder supply to fit a few more jugs on the shelf. I need to start shooting more to use up what I have.

[Tom W.]

Not much. I did load up some fire forming loads for my 30/30 a.i., enough to fill the empty holes in my box...

[ak_milsurp]

Well then.. 7.0 Eathquake at 8:30 am in Anchorage....

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[Czech_too]

Did some more prep on recently acquired brass, .22 Hornet, .222 Rem & 22-250
All that's left to do is trim the Hornet to length, that'll get done today
By the way, some Hornady Hornet brass has smaller than normal flash holes!

[Loudy13]

finished 100 rounds of 300BO 150FMJ's with CFE BLACK, and primed another 100 cases for tomorrow.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Organized, tumbled a bunch of brass.
I haven't cast in weeks maybe longer so I'm just about out of every type of boolit I cast.
Sad situation

[JBinMN]

Little "blizzard" coming thru. Took a break from muzzleloader hunting to let the winds do their thing & drop. Tomorrow, Sunday, or MOnday I will go again.

Until then, 150 rounds of 9mm, with some 124 & 125 gr. TC & some 124 RN are going to be the next go round...
:)

Then, back out in the field & woods.
;)

[rmark]

Processed range lead, ended up with 58 pounds of ingots.

[44Blam]

Cast some 30 caliber boolits today with my new NOE mold. That mold took about 4 or 5 casts to start making nice boolits, but after that it was like magic,
Love NOE molds.

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[Tom W.]

Cast a bunch of 30 cal from my s/c Lee mold.

[whisler]

Yesterday cast ~ 500 Lee 358125 RF from WCWW. Today sized all at .358 and lubed 50 with Speed Green and 50 with Ben's Liquid Lube. These are to test in my 9mm for accuracy and lack of leading.

[Bait O' Eggs]

Loaded about 275 rounds of 300 Win Mag, and deprimed what I am guessing is about 3500 223Rem/5.56 in prep to debur primer pockets

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[Tom W.]

I was thinking that I probably have more brass and boolits ready to load than I'll ever shoot, but just can't stop.

Maybe a marathon session at the range, but then I'd just be picking up brass and starting over again, not to mention berm mining....

[obssd1958]

Tom W.

You are my reloading hero!
I have tons (almost literally!) of reloading components, and dozens of platforms to reload for, but never seem to have any time to actually reload and shoot. If there was ever any hope of retiring, I might think I could do it then, but that tunnel is still pretty dark!
So, I reload and shoot vicariously, through you and the members of this forum. Please keep posting!!

Don

[Tom W.]

I AM medically retired. Plenty of time, but it seems to no avail.....

[sundog]

I'm working my way through the rest of the RD 9mm-130s that are GC'd and PC'd, loading in Win 9mm cases (free range pickups that have been pin washed and inspected) and loading over 4.0/Universal (from Ranchdog's load notes).

When that's finished I'll start on some 45 Auto Rim with boolits (200ish gr) that were cast several years ago, recently sized and PC'd. They were cast from some old Lee 1-cav moulds that were gifted to me a long time ago and make very good boolits (but slowly). Should make for good plinking in a M1917. Probably load them with Bullseye.

Then onto some 45 Colt loads from the other old Lee 1-cav (255 gr sized to .454) - planning on loading them for a lever gun. That will use up all those boolits that have just been sittin' around for a long time. If they shoot good, I'll keep some load notes for future reference. Some of those old Lee 1-cav moulds are a little treasure in and of themselves, even though they are slow going. Taken care of they will cast a lot of good boolits.

[scotner]

Dropped a few pills for the 357 Sig. I am tempted to try these in 9mm and the 357 Mag.
Looks like a marathon PC session coming up soon.

[mwells72774]

Dropped a few pills for the 357 Sig. I am tempted to try these in 9mm and the 357 Mag.
Looks like a marathon PC session coming up soon.

What’s the weight on those?

[Texas by God]

Fitted a barrel on a Ruger.
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[wv109323]

Clean up.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Waited about 45 minutes for my lube to flow in my sizer.
Wondered what was taking so long to heat up.
Realized I had ran it dry exactly when o finished the last batch of lube sizing.
Dropped a partial stick of old NRA lube I found in a box of stuff and quit for the night.
I’ll try again later this week

[kevin c]

I loaded 400 rounds of 9 mm.

But far more worthy of comment was that I had a powder spill. The powder measure retaining bolt worked loose and eventually the whole measure reared up as the empty case riding up the ram pushed on the powder/flare die. Then the fail safe return rod tilted the whole shebang over; nearly a whole pound of powder ended up on the floor.

Well, fortunately the spill was directly away from the open element heat dish I use to heat my basement reloading area (still, I need to think some more on fire safety, here). I swept it all up, ending up with powder mixed with floor sweepings. Maybe I should have dumped it all into my wife's garden plot, but I'm a cheap SOB, and did my best to salvage that $35/pound imported powder.

First thing was to run the powder through a sieve to get out the hair and large shreds of paper and wood shavings. Then I put everthing in a big plastic shallow pan and shook it up repeatedly. The light debris rose to the top over this extruded short grained powder, to be picked out laboriously after each shaking. The small heavy dirt particles stayed on the bottom of the pan, but also tended to stay behind when the pan was tilted and the powder granules rolled downhill, to be taken out by dabbing with adhesive tape.

What was left looked OK and loaded fine. Retesting of velocity and accuracy pends.

[scotner]

What’s the weight on those?

125 grain

[jdfoxinc]

Trimmed another 40 9X19 to 9X18.

Just received my BT Sniper one step 9X19 to .40 jacketed bullet swaging die. The brass on the samples extends slightly past the lead so I may have to keep trimming for those as well. I like a jacketed soft nose.

[Tom W.]

I loaded 400 rounds of 9 mm.



Well, fortunately the spill was directly away from the open element heat dish I use to heat my basement reloading area (still, I need to think some more on fire safety, here).



Check into an EdenPure heater. They work exceptionally well.

[whisler]

Primed a few 9mm cases.

[Mal Paso]

Sized and primed 1,003 new Starline 44 Mag cases. The Cyber Monday Starline Hat is nice. Loaded 200 #503s over 20g of 2400, my regular diet.

[tazman]

Loaded 100 rounds of 200 grain RF in 45acp cases.
Cast 500 Lee 452-200-RF.
Loaded 100 rounds 9mm with 120TC.
Took the 45acp cases out of the tumbler that had been going during the rest of the stuff.

[David2011]

Getting ready for the big move to the new house. We've been doing little moves for a while, things that either the movers won't move or that we don't want them to handle. I set up the Magma Case Master II to full length size a collection of .40 S&W brass, both range pickups and some I had purchased here, hoping to get a jump start on getting back to reloading after the move. I added a support to the base the Case Master II is mounted on that will hold the case feeder off of the Dillon 650. It really speeds up the process. I need to fun maybe 3000 pieces through the Case Master II. The Case Master II utilizes a modified Dillon carbide sizing die that has the taper ground straight. It pushes the case all the way through the die much like some of the press mounted dies but is based on an arbor press with a mechanism to load the cases into the sizing area quickly. It will size about 15 cases/minute.

Forecast in a couple of days is pretty bad so I hope to get to some powder coating and more full length sizing and then load up a few thousand rounds for USPSA matches before moving.

[David2011]

Sized and primed 1,003 new Starline 44 Mag cases. The Cyber Monday Starline Hat is nice. Loaded 200 #503s over 20g of 2400, my regular diet.

Sounds like you're back up to full speed. Congratulations!

[dansedgli]

Spent a few hours loading a few 9mm.

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[jdfoxinc]

Local mans basement found to contain an arsenal and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

That's the headline if the MSM got into my basement. Looks like Danedgli is in that same league.

I trimmed another 50 9X19 to 9X18mm.

[lightman]

Yesterday morning I switched the dies in my Star sizer and started sizing a couple of gallon jugs full of H&G 68's. After I got tired of sizing I started in to organize my loaded ammo stash. I've slowly started moving the loaded rounds from directly in ammo cans to ZipLoc bags in ammo cans. And counting/labeling them. While empty I'm also spraying the lid gaskets with silicon spray.

Today I'll start back on the bullet sizing.

[jdfoxinc]

Primed 500 10mm auto starliner brass. I will probably trin another 50 +- 9X19 to 9X18.

[toallmy]

This week was all about a couple different cast boolits in the 30-30 . So wile the little darling was out of town for the week I spent a lot of time working out 2 different NOE cast boolits . The first is a plain base 311-165 that I want to shoot pop cans with and after trying multiple powder charges with a couple different powders I came back to where I started - yep a light charge of unique keeps the group's tight out to 50 yards , but I still had fun shooting a hundred rounds or so trying to better it . My second project was to get the NOE 311-180 FN gas check boolits to run a bit faster so I played with imr 4350 and it is showing promise , I just wish I got along better with that side mount scope it just feels wrong . But I'm having a blast - I have put more rounds through my Sears model 54 this year with cast boolits than the last 25 years all together .

[Bookworm]

Loaded up 200 rounds of 44 Mag.
Lee TL430-240SWC, sized .431, tumbled with BLL twice.
13.5gr AA#7, S&B LPP, new Starline brass.

~1125 fps from my 9.5" Super Redhawk, and almost a one-hole group at 50 yds. Need to practice more ��

[David2011]

Got 2000 more .40 S&W cases push through sized on the Case Master II. I think 2000 is my daily limit. This is the most strenuous reloading activity I've ever done. I've had the Case Master II for 10-11 years but in the past have sized hundreds at a time, not thousands. Tweaked my technique and have the cyclic rate up to 30-32/minute but due to having to do other things it takes over an hour to do 1000. Hope I don't trash my right arm doing this. I still have a bunch to go.

[Mal Paso]

Sounds like you're back up to full speed. Congratulations!

Thanks! I still get overwhelmed by the work left to do but this was a sunset last week.

[slughammer]

Got 2000 more .40 S&W cases push through sized on the Case Master II. I think 2000 is my daily limit......Hope I don't trash my right arm doing this. I still have a bunch to go.

Are you lubing the cases first? I understand the die is carbide, but it really helps. I started lubing pistol cases when I did some marathon reloading sessions a few years ago; saved my arm for sure. It's so smooth I have continued even on batches of 200-300.

[bruce drake]

I loaded up 18 more .32 Smith and Wesson cases for the wife's purse pistol. Which meant trickling 1.1 grains of Bullseye onto the scale to go with the 85gr cast bullet....truly hand-loading...

[Maineguide]

Worked this week end to add another reloading bench. I really need the expansion. I now haw 22' of continuous bench. In addituibm adding a vent system so I can cast indoors out of the cold.

[Maineguide]

Hello neighbor, from Va Bch.

[Texas by God]

Put a pocket grip/clip on my sweeties Christmas present. A NAA derringer in 22Mag. The PUG http://northamericanarms.com/firearms/minis/pugs-1.html

Last year I got her a Judge. This year a Pug. Talk about different sizes! Not sure about next year but she keeps pointing at the 454 Raging Bull or the 460 SW in the case every time we go into the lgs
Can't speak of the S&W; but my brothers.454 Raging Judge(notBull) spit hot cylinder gap powder projectiles impossibly straight in my face. After 3 shots of this and sorry accuracy I handed it back and recommended he send it back. He did, got it back and sold it. Get her a 4-3/4" Blackhawk .41 Mag. She'll love you more for the portable power than carrying a crew-served revolver:-)

[Dre_sa]

I got a batch of .43 Mauser together over the weekend.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181210/4a1c69d506920ba33dba6ae058cc808d.jpg

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[Soundguy]

Nice!!!

[44Blam]

Nice box of .308...
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[taco650]

Loaded up a box of .44 mag with Lee 240-SWCGC (weigh about 250 in my alloy) over 9 gr of Unique. Just looking for a solid, everyday practice load.

[jdfoxinc]

See my review of Lee case trimmer in reloading equipment.

[ghh3rd]

I wanted to cast a bunch of 452460’s but it decided to rain all weekend.

[Wis Tom]

It has been cold for most of Oct through Dec, but today is in the 40's, so I am firing up the turkey fryer, with a batch of range pickups, to float off the copper, and make into ingots. I have 4 5gal. buckets of them, to do, so with work until I have get tire.

[Kevinakaq]

Setup a used 550b I picked up for 44-40.

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[Tom W.]

I loaded up 10 rounds of 30/30 w/ 33 gr of H380, and 10 rounds w/ 30 gr IMR 4895 and the same RD boolits. I dunno how they will shoot, and it's probably a moot point as the rifle is reamed to 30/30 A.I.

But I had to do something in the shed today. It's nice, sunny and warm so far today....

[lightman]

Still sizing bullets and moving loaded ammo around. Got a half of a bucket of weights to sort after while. I smelt in batches of 350-400# and I almost have enough for another smelt.

[cwlongshot]

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[jdfoxinc]

Scratched my head over setting up my induction heater. The power supply is made for being mounted in parallel in a rack of similar supplies for computer networks and has no instructions period much less for powering the ZVS.

So I annealed a fist full of 9mm brass to swage .401 I words with my new BT die.

Then I emptied my master caster of alloy so I can cast pure lead cores in the AM.

[lightman]

I won't be doing much until after Christmas. We have a 3 day gun deer hunt after Christmas and I usually do it. Today was kind of a clean up day although I did sort through some range brass. Got all kinds of company coming over for the next few days.

[cwlongshot]

Loded up thirty test loads in 223 for my Savage 24F.

10 40G Speer w/H322
10 40G Hornady VMax W/4198
10 55G Bator Lead bullets with Trail Boss powder.

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Just to test, its been a while since I had a slow twist barrel.

CW

[trixter]

Peeked in as I walked by on my way out the door to go to work, but after work I'll be setting up to sort through a coffee can fill of various 9mm empties ( i know already know there is a few with berdan primers), and after that I'm going to set up the press to load up the 55gr 223 lead boolits that I just ran through the Lube-sizer. And if the weather cooperates send a few of them, from the bolt gun. Then I am going to try out my new brass catcher I just got for the AR.

[Hossfly]

Got repurposed 3-9 scope mounted on in line ML 50 cail. To test for ML 7 day hunt starting the 15 th of January. Bore sited hopefully on paper first shot tomorrow. Haven’t taken this one out in about 8 years, we’ll see how it goes. 65’ clear and sunny should be good fun.

[kevin c]

Didn't load, but did set up two pet feeders, one on either side of my SDB, with the left hand side for boolits, the right for pistol brass. Much greater capacity with a smaller footprint on my bench top compared to the trays I used before, and with the advantage of self replenishment of the holding areas.

[robg]

Helped a mate set up to load his 30/30 then loaded up 50 x150gr sierra game king over 32 gr of tac .when got home loaded up a 100 x 357 mag for myself .another mate is coming to my place on Thursday so I can show him how to load for his 308 howa .I've got to do some casting soon as I've hardly any boolits left,just as well I got a week off !

[robg]

Checked the size of my marlin slb bore ,according to my calipers its got a.456 diameter bore .happy with that as my Lee mold is 457 .maybe the new rifles have a tighter barrel as most comments seem to be on how they have larger bores than that or I've got lucky?

[jdfoxinc]

Experimented with expanding .40 S&W brass to .452 by pushing it into a .444 marlin sizing die with the decapping pin removed. The expanders ball is not .429 in diameter, bought used. Using the die to seat the 175 gr core expanded an annealed case to .460+", didn't move a non-annealed case. It would make a nice HP but the expander ball keeps hitting the core off center. Then running it into a .243 Win. Sizing die gives a nice ogive. Now to make both FN & HP center punches.

[EMR]

Fired up the furnace for the first time in months. Was able to make and powder coat 120 rounds of 432-250 for my brand new (to me) S&W629. Can’t wait to take that baby out for a spin.

For anyone interested in seeing the various stages of using clear powder coat.

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[Tom W.]

I just took my step son to see my mess,,,,err, I mean set up. He recently bought a Kel-Tec bullpup 5.56 and is getting a Glock 19 Gen 4 with the rear sight removed and milled out for a reflex sight. Where he shoots he has to use factory ammo.
That's way outta my budget!

[lightman]

Deprimmed the latest batch of range brass while listening to some 60 and 70's music. Straightened up the shelf that holds my cartridge collection and updated the master list.

[EMC45]

Deprimed and resized some .308 brass. 150gr. RNFP Lee over 30gr. IMR-3031 does quite well for me.

[Texas by God]

I was gifted some swaged pc .224" 40 gr boolits along with other cool stuff. I'm going to load some .22 LR level 22-250s for Christmas Day fun. 3.5 grs of Red Dot.
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[GARD72977]

Fired up the furnace for the first time in months. Was able to make and powder coat 120 rounds of 432-250 for my brand new (to me) S&W629. Can’t wait to take that baby out for a spin.

For anyone interested in seeing the various stages of using clear powder coat.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181224/8eb3e293ea572adfb7072df651ab01c5.jpg

Very Nice! What mold is that?

[mac60]

Yesterday I loaded 30 rds. .308, 30 rds. .222 Rem, 20 rds. .303 Brit., 50 rds. .32 S&W, 50 rds. .45 ACP. I don't know which I enjoy more - shooting or reloading. Sometimes I think it's the reloading, but one feeds another so it's all good.

[EMR]

Very Nice! What mold is that?

It’s Mihec’s 432-250 WFN. It was the group buy from a few months ago here.

[Texas by God]

I had to share this.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181225/010f2f261792be186d5fabaf2df6bf53.jpg

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[Bookworm]

Deprimed some 9mm.
Santa brought an SCCY 9mm to Mrs Bookworm, and we went down behind the barn to try it out. She likes the firearm, but it's going to need some shooting to loosen it up a bit. The first loading of the two mags, she could get only one or two in each. I managed to get a total of 4 rounds in each of the new mags. By the time she had fired a hundred or so, I could get 7 in each mag.
Long trigger, but fairly smooth. Long reset bothers me more than her, she doesn't know any better. Practice will help.

Then, I dealt with some of the 'oops' rounds in the "deal with it later" can. Mostly just hammer them apart, and dump the contents in the mixed powder/fertilizer container. The lead goes in the remelt can, punch out the good primers for reuse. Toss the brass in the appropriate 'to be cleaned and proccessed' bin.

Boring work, but it's gotta be done.

[Walter Laich]

I had to share this.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181225/010f2f261792be186d5fabaf2df6bf53.jpg

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must be those new PC (political correct) friendly targets used around Christmas ��

[Walter Laich]

loaded 100 45 Colt for Marlin rifle

hope to start working on 300 need to do for pistol

been sick for a week and ready for it ♪ to move on down the road ♫

[Drifty4]

Loaded some .44 Mag with 4100

[cwlongshot]

PUT THINGS AWAY!!!

I havent seen the top in sometime. Shifting things left and right to make a load and Im tired of it!!

Christmas afternoon was quiet here so I took advantage!!!

I need to build some shelves, too many cast bullets in ziploc bags and boxes on the floor... That and these darn round LEE red “boxes” that are bullet sizers take up valuable room sittin ON my bench...

CW

[JBinMN]

^ I NEED to do this^

[Texas by God]

Assembling an AR15 lower receiver, waiting for the bcg and A2 stock assembly to arrive.

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[Dieselhorses]

Decapped some 400 45 ACP brass in under 20 minutes :-P Now gotta separate the LPP from the SPP's

[cwlongshot]

I annealed some '06 Brass for making 7.65 Mauser brass..

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This one flashed with green flames!! (Corrosive powder residue??)

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Loaded up a function dummy with a 200g Lyman #313299 boolit.

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CW

[jdfoxinc]

Experimented with making .45 I words from .40 brass. Got the first one stuck in the .243 die. Duh.

So I played with different length trimed 9x19 cases to .40 I words with BT's one step die.

[robg]

Help a mate load up some 223 rounds .down to a gun shop to get him started with his own press etc on Saturday .then I stripped down my slb after I had a round misfire just enough to push the boolit into the rifiling so when I ejected the case a load of unburn powder fell into the action .it was fairly easy to do but not as easy as a win 94 .

[Conditor22]

I just took my step son to see my mess,,,,err, I mean set up. He recently bought a Kel-Tec bullpup 5.56 and is getting a Glock 19 Gen 4 with the rear sight removed and milled out for a reflex sight. Where he shoots he has to use factory ammo.
That's way outta my budget!

That looks like a golden opportunity to get a bunch of brass from your stepson

[Littlewolf]

sorted 10gallons of range brass, vibed the 40S&W and the 45acp, deprimed 400 40S&W, cast 40lb of 311329 and 10lb of 311-165 NOE ranchdog, clean scrubbed and re-smoked two 1cav 311329 a 4cav 311329 and a 3cav NOE311-165. was a busy night last night, got started around 1600 gave up around 0400.

[Bookworm]

Mixed up about 50 pounds of alloy. It's supposed to be very close to Lyman #2.

I wonder if it is.

[sureYnot]

Bored out my bullet sizing die another .001. Way easier and faster than I expected. A guy could over do it pretty quick with a drill.

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[Conditor22]

sureYnot -- that's why we do it by hand

[jdfoxinc]

After getting the potential j word stuck in the .243 die I put 2 drops of Lucas Tool Box Buddy in it and let it sit.

The next day 3 whacks and out it pops. I then annealed 48 9x19 cases (lost coun) and dropped them in lemi shine solution.

Today I annealed another 52 cases. Let them soak while I added lead to the. 40 cal j words that I didn't weight before swaging. I had to drill small amounts of lead out of 2. Then put all 100 cases in the purple tumbler to dry out & semi polish. Going back down after my break to trim those cases to expose some lead at the tip.

[cwlongshot]

I took that 30/06 brass that I annealed yesterday, and re formed it to 7.65. Then trimmed and loded it with 17g 5744 and a 200g cast gas check bullet.

Ill shoot them in a very old 1889 Mauser.

CW

[fralic76]

Loaded up 50 12 gauge round ball slug rounds.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181230/db7492525e3f2c541741b64d61561001.jpg

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[robg]

Sized/expander then sonic cleaned 60 45/70 cases then sized 50 308 cases.must do some casting next.

[seb2567]

Powder coated and gas checked some boolits for 45/70 loads, sized to .459

NOE 460-396RF on the left, and a lyman 62560 550gr mold on the right
https://imgur.com/a/05xjcQX

had great sucess with the NOE and VVN130, but does anyone have any experience with the lyman mold ?
I have to seat the bullet really deep and there's no more groove to crimp the bullet.

[jdfoxinc]

Today I trimmed the last 75 9x19 annealed cases. Wore out a new Lee case cutter by 70. See my review under reloading equip.

Did I ever mention that I totally agree with the member that posts he hates trimming brass?

[taco650]

PUT THINGS AWAY!!!

I havent seen the top in sometime. Shifting things left and right to make a load and Im tired of it!!

Christmas afternoon was quiet here so I took advantage!!!

I need to build some shelves, too many cast bullets in ziploc bags and boxes on the floor... That and these darn round LEE red “boxes” that are bullet sizers take up valuable room sittin ON my bench...

CW


^ I NEED to do this^

Me too!!

[cwlongshot]

MORE SORTING YESTERDAY!!!

I went thru almost five, 5 gal buckets of mixed range brass!!! My fingers where SORE!!!

But I was able to get most of a full bucket of 45’s and another of mixed small stuff. 9mm/380/32. I dont need those so they will sit for someone else and some later date.
I also seperated some 4-600 38/357 mags, a few hundred 308’s, only 66 30/06, but 3/4 a pail of 556, 200-300 40’s & 5-600 357 Sig nickle brasss!

Highlights where some 100 ish 38 supers, couple boxes of 10mm’s, a couple dozen brass 9mm Largos and even a few 50 A&E pieces.

Ooh, All but 24 of the 308’s where berdan primed. Grrr

My tumblers will keep my room warm for most of January!!

CW

[kevin c]

I modified pet food dishes for reloading (Case feeder? Boolit feeder? Wazzat?).

Two dispensers feed my press. One is unmodified for boolits. The other needed the reservoir opened up at the base so the cases will feed by gravity without getting hung up.

Using these instead of the trays I had before will free up some bench space that is much needed for shop clutter ;^D.

I also slapped together two new frames for HiTek drying. I'll put the 1/4" hardware cloth on later this week.

[mattw]

Fired up the lead pot for a few hours... 5 cavity Arsenal 124 9mm and got my nemesis NOE RG 2C 40 caliber mould to work well.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4803/45840189254_594c5e1c0e_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2cQJXdA)cast (https://flic.kr/p/2cQJXdA) by Matt Ward (https://www.flickr.com/photos/98509702@N05/), on Flickr

[b2lee]

Installed a hose reel so I can keep my work bench tidy-er and have a handy within reach air nozzle to blow the work bench down after a long session.

Sorted and posted for trade on the sister site all the brass I have collected/saved that I don't reload for.

And then I watched YouTube videos of the AMP Annealing machine and decided I'm going to eat offbrand peanut butter and out of date jelly sandwiches on stale bread so I can have one in a few months.

[lightman]

Nothing yet but I'll start back sorting and tumbling brass again after while. I had to shut it down for the Holidays but the company is all gone now and the Wife has most of her decorations taken down and stored away. Biggin came by the other day and we unloaded a load of pole top pins and a bucket of weights for a future smelt. I'll probably sort the bucket of weights for him.

[jdfoxinc]

Swaged 25 .40 j words from trimmed 9x19. Found I had to pull them out of the die relube then run them back up to get that last bit of the nose formed. Then weighs and matched cores and brass for a bunch more. I use side cutters to cut small amounts of lead off my .185" core material to bring the finished product up to 190 gr + 2 gr.

[tankgunner59]

Between yesterday and today I loaded 150 Lee 358-125-RF for my wife's 38 Special, and 100 Lee 358-158-SWC for my 357 magnum. I had to replace some of her rounds that I had tumble lubed years ago. We fired some of the same lot a couple weeks ago and her barrel leaded pretty good. They were some that I loaded back when I first started reloading. So next I'm going to pull them down and relube them and take them to the range. Never had it happen before, but I never let any others sit around this long before. But now the bullet lube will be back up to powder coating.

[lightman]

Pretty much ran the tumbler all day yesterday and plan more of the same today. Making a dent in getting my brass stash organized but still have a ways to go. Before I retired I was hopelessly behind and its taking a while to get caught up.

[McFred]

Bedded a rifle that should be shooting better than it is. Stuff takes forever to cure when it's cold out... I ended up adding a couple hot water bottles side-by-side and a blanket to incubate the epoxy. I even managed not to make a huge sticky mess all over everything.

https://i.postimg.cc/1RdGHyS0/Bedded.jpg

[KMD]

I had ~20 lbs of lead that I was going to use as a counter weight and the project went another direction so I melted in back into usable ingots.

https://i.imgur.com/ho52h9J.jpg?1

[TaylorS]

I was trying to set up my seating doe for the first batch of 45-70 I’ve cast and loaded and did this to my dummy roundhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190104/21f82c0d852adc89d55e1a1faa14d6dd.jpg


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[KMD]

Cast these 38-158 RNFP Snake bite
https://i.imgur.com/9XQuNte.jpg?1

[nueces5]

https://youtu.be/FzTuO1eg09w

In english: Mrs, the casting season opens

[lightman]

Still working on my brass stash. Resized a coffee can of 45 Colt brass this morning and loaded up the tumbler. Start sorting a bucket of weights while the tumbler is running. Just another lazy Saturday!

[Ford SD]

I have been cleaning and sizing some 30-06 brass (range pickups I bought) for a M1 Garand

very dirty mixed brass and I am OCD.

Found app 20 possibel case head separation cases

after doing 3-4 large ziplock bags, I reached under the desk and pulled out a ice cream container of 300 blackout that needed a final trim

after doing 30-06 the 300 bk looks tiny ... and it took forever to do a final trim on them

I killed my old cordless drill (car battery powered) for the trimmer

[Ford SD]

BTW the cordless drill was a sears Craftsman........ not going to be able to get a replacement ;)

[skeettx]

Will changing out the brushes restore the drill??

[DW475]

Reorganized my benches and loaded up all my 357 empty brass with MP 165s I casted and all my .45 Colt empties with some nice fat WFNs!

[Mal Paso]

BTW the cordless drill was a sears Craftsman........ not going to be able to get a replacement ;)

I was at a used tool store a couple years ago and they had bins of most every brand of cordless drills, cheap.

I tore down a Makita 9.6v as I knew it was brushes to find there is no way to replace them. I also found no metal bearings outside the motor, all the shafts ran directly in the plastic body. A pair of those 9.6 Makitas lasted 22 years, so I trust their judgement on plastic and bought the 18v set. LOL

I got 450 #503s culled and sized today. These are from the Arsenal 5 cavity mold. Very consistent through the sizer, I like the mold.

[Budzilla 19]

Built and installed a 12” wide by 12’ long shelf above the reloading bench!!! One New Years resolution down!!! Just got started loading it up with stuff in the way, shoulda done this two years ago!!!

[Michael J. Spangler]

organized.
Scored some akro bins on sale at grainger for 83 cents a pop. Time to organize more!

[BigAlofPa.]

Added an extension on my bench for another press. I ordered a 0 shaped one for rifle.

[Tom W.]

organized.
Scored some akro bins on sale at grainger for 83 cents a pop. Time to organize more!

I bought some like that , but they were red, some years ago. I believe it was either Walmart or someplace in Dothan. I don't believe that they were that cheap though. I even got little labels in the front telling me what is supposed to be in them. Since I moved up here and got a shed to handload in the bench is somewhat a mess, and even with my stool I can't stay as long as I'd like.

Cancer sucks.

[Michael J. Spangler]

I bought some like that , but they were red, some years ago. I believe it was either Walmart or someplace in Dothan. I don't believe that they were that cheap though. I even got little labels in the front telling me what is supposed to be in them. Since I moved up here and got a shed to handload in the bench is somewhat a mess, and even with my stool I can't stay as long as I'd like.

Cancer sucks.

Sorry to hear that Tom. I hope you feel better and can get some more time at the bench my friend.

[Combat Diver]

Wife sent me one of my casting pots and hot plate. Have lots of range spatter to melt down to ingots. FRB sent over the ocean, USPS and Customs going to be cussing me :)

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[eric123]

Just finished reloading 394 38 Specials on my JR2 press...

[sigep1764]

Cancer sucks. You're too good of man to go out that way. Fight. I wish I was closer.

[jdfoxinc]

Annealed a batch of 9x19 yesterday and put them in small vibrators tumbler over night. Matched them up with cores and swaged .40 j words today.

[KrakenFan69]

Finally got around to casting with a couple of new Lee molds I picked up. I use a Lee 401-175 TC in my Glock 35 and they went on sale so I grabbed another. Then I picked up a Lee 358-150 1R for my revolver. Hoping for quicker reloading in my S&W 627 with the round nose over the 358-158 RF. Spun up a few of each last night and today after getting the molds broke in good. All Hi-Tek coated and ready to load now.

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[Budzilla 19]

It was a sad day in the reloading room today!! After I got it reorganized to my satisfaction, started reloading some 30/30’s , opened my last 1/2 pound of SR 4759!, now need to find a replacement powder. 😒☹️Got a lot of unique and some IMR 4198 so I’m good for now, just using up my half pound lots of different powders. Got TrailBoss also but not ready to go down that road yet.

[Ford SD]

Will changing out the brushes restore the drill??

Never thought to try... was a direct short ... I think the switch as it was shorting out in the off position..

replaced it with a even older chraftsman 12 volt drill

sears would replace the drill ... but not the batteries

Cordless drills ... cheeper to buy a hole new set than replace 2 batteries

[sigep1764]

Waiting on my NOE expander plug to arrive in the mail tmro, I primed 50 5.56 cases and emptied my powder measure of Promo. Filled it with W748 and set it to throw 14.5 grains. 748 meters SOOO much better than Promo through a Uniflow.

[Rich/WIS]

Between yesterday and today expanded and primed 500 45 ACP, sized and decapped another 100 ready for tumbling.

[Kegcaissy]

Sizing and cleaning 303 brass and searching for some advice on cast 5.56 ar reloading. We really need an ar subforum...

[Tom W.]

F**** Cancer. You're too good of man to go out that way. Fight. I wish I was closer.

Thanks. I did get to the range today. Lori took me because we needed one more day out before she has to face her class again. I enjoy shooting my two single shot rifles. I took one of my handguns, but never unholstered it.

[Conditor22]

https://i.imgur.com/f4v8rQ6.png

*** some of these loads are for Rugers and may not be safe for all firearms ***

[sigep1764]

Where'd you get the boxes and labels? Are those from the new site sponsor?

[jdfoxinc]

Just received 1k 9x18 makarov starline from Grafs. Will prime some today. Get to load those j word pills I bought months ago. Then take my makarov and Vz 82 to shoot.

[Conditor22]

Where'd you get the boxes and labels? Are those from the new site sponsor?

these boxes and labels are what the new sponsor sells.

I bought them before they became sponsors. they make for an economical compact way to store cartridges.

I have boxes for all the handgun calibers I shoot :)

here's a couple

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

[Tom W.]

I sized and deprimed the rounds that I fire formed yesterday and they are now in the tumbler getting all nice and shiny. Later I'll sort and inspect them.....again

And I cleaned the rifles that I shot yesterday. No leading on either one, but there was some powder fouling.

[Mal Paso]

200 Arsenal #503 clones over 20g of 2400, Fed 150 primers, new Starline brass.

[sigep1764]

Used my new NOE expander to load MP227-75 in ladder loads with W748 from 14.5 to 16.5 in half grain increments, 10 for each load. Gonna try to get to the range with the AR tmro.

[Michael J. Spangler]

200 Arsenal #503 clones over 20g of 2400, Fed 150 primers, new Starline brass.


Looking good!!!!

[David2011]

Got 2000 more .40 S&W cases push through sized on the Case Master II. I think 2000 is my daily limit. This is the most strenuous reloading activity I've ever done. I've had the Case Master II for 10-11 years but in the past have sized hundreds at a time, not thousands. Tweaked my technique and have the cyclic rate up to 30-32/minute but due to having to do other things it takes over an hour to do 1000. Hope I don't trash my right arm doing this. I still have a bunch to go.


Are you lubing the cases first? I understand the die is carbide, but it really helps. I started lubing pistol cases when I did some marathon reloading sessions a few years ago; saved my arm for sure. It's so smooth I have continued even on batches of 200-300.

Yes, I use Dillon case lube when sizing with the Case Master II but thanks for asking. It was a game changer when I discovered how much it helped with that device. It would be very tiring without the lube when sizing thousands. and it doesn't make the tub of the case feeder too sticky. (I made a setup that lets me use a Dillon case feeder on the CM II.) It cleans up easily. I still have 3 USPS Tyvek bags to go.