What did you do in the reloading room today?

[David2011]

Moving right on, it started out that I went into the reloading room with no particular plans so I sat around and just relaxed for a few. I need to start preparing for a major move and might not have access to reloading for several months. Decided to do something with some of those rounds that accumulate that ya gotta deal with "later." Some had been sitting 3 years or more. There weren't very many; they were just ignored sitting in foam trays in the way of the Rock Crusher and the Charge Master. Probably 10 just needed to be put in a proper home and the rest needed to be broken down and the components either savaged or put in the scrap box. Better already! While that was going on I had some previously sized brass still in the polisher so I decapped some .223 brass, emptied and refilled the polisher with the .223. I don't care what that .223 looks like. Some of it was fairly brown while some was still pretty bright. As long as it's clean and slick it will feed reliably. It's going to be loaded and stored in the "hope I ever need it" stash. OK, all that didn't take too long and I wasn't tired yet so I loaded the primer magazine in the Dillon 650 and then loaded 6 more small pistol primer tubes. Dug out all of the conventionally lubed .40 boolits I had and made ammo with them, about 250 rounds.

The next day I powder coated about 600 boolits for .40 S&W and sized 'em. They'll get loaded up in the next dew days and stored for USPSA once we get moved. I should make up some steel plate rounds while I can as well.

[44Blam]

Resized 180 new 240 44 pbs, resized/decapped 180 cases, reprimed 120 of those 180 before I got tired...

[greenwart]

350 30-30 annealed, deprimed and sized, cleaned and expanded.
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[cwlongshot]

Removed old two piece alloy Rem bases and mounted a new, 20MOA, one piece, steel base, on my Project Howa 6.5 Grendel. Then I sized and primed, 50, 6.5 Grendel Cases.

CW

[lightman]

Just finished sorting 2 partial buckets of weights for a buddy. Was pleasantly surprised to still be getting a good yield of lead around here. Prolly 75-80%. Also please to see that steel seems to be replacing zinc to some extent.

[sigep1764]

Tested the ladder loads of 748 with the 227-75 in my 1/7 twist PSA AR15. All fired, ejected, and locked back on the last round from 14.5 grains to 16.5 grains! All fired with open sights, 15.5 grains was the most accurate. It is gonna get a red dot on a riser after I practice and get better with the open sights.

[Loudy13]

Finished 300 rounds of 180 grain 40 cal coated bullets over bullseye

[Tom W.]

Well, lessee..... I took one of my ammo cans that just had a a couple hundred cleaned and sized 9mm loads and tried to prime them using an RCBS hand primer. Evidently they were military brass, the primers would not seat. The regular commercial brass seated just fine. I dug out my RCBS primer pocket swager and read the instructions. I don't remember how many years ago I bought it to work on some Greek 30-06 brass. I got it figured out, the first primer pocket swaged just fine, and the instructions said if the primer wont fit the primer pocket is too shallow and the brass needed to be discarded. Ok, so I put a primer in the arm on my press and proceeded to seat said primer. No go. So I had a pile of really shiny once fired brass that needed discarding. Into my scrap brass bucket went almost 100 pieces. The commercial brass got primed and flared and put into a loading block. Then it hit me.... The primer arm that I had on the press was for Large primers. I picked the scrap bucket up and thankfully there wasn't a whole lot of truly bad brass. I tried again swaging a primer pocket After changing the primer arm I tried to seat another primer. It did like it was supposed to. I dug around in the tub and found all of the brass I had thrown away, swaged all of them, then treated them like normal.I loaded up all of the brass, plus a few to fill a 100 round box, made sure all the rest were primed and flared, and called it a day. Brain farts happen when you get older.....

[Conditor22]

sized a bunch of 9MM boolits to .359 for my European 9's and tried out a new mold

[shell70634]

Cast 2000 or so 452 185gr swc
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[Jal5]

Started to clean it so I can see the workspace and do some work! Separated a couple hundred pieces of range brass- 4570, 357 mag, 223 rem, 22-250, 300 blk.

[Tom W.]

Just got in from the shed. I emptied a 20 pound Lee pot casting the Lee 120 gr tc boolit. I haven't inspected them yet, as they are still a tad warm to the touch.

That six cavity mold is a dream once it gets good and hot!

[Conditor22]

Working on a boolit and seating depth that will work in all of my friends 9MM.
I'm experimenting with the TL356-124-2R and TL356-124-TC.

[The Dar]

Just got in from the shed. I emptied a 20 pound Lee pot casting the Lee 120 gr tc boolit. I haven't inspected them yet, as they are still a tad warm to the touch.

That six cavity mold is a dream once it gets good and hot!

If you don't already have one, get a hot plate for the mold. I get good bullets from the first pour.

[sigep1764]

Cast 600 227-75 Nato boolits with it snowing outside. Gotten 12 inches so far here in St. Louis. Have a three day weekend so I plan on loading all of them up today and tmro and shooting them on Monday.

[Tom W.]

Loading all those on your little Lyman, or something else?

[sigep1764]

All on the Lyman! I need a quick change for the 550, but just blew my little cash stash I had on a new PSA AR kit. I sold a couple 6 months ago to free up cash for my new truck. Now gotta build it back up.

[jdfoxinc]

Finished 200 9x18 on my Lee turret 4 hole. I have got to get my Dillon 650 up and running.

[Texas by God]

Starting to size ALL my .45 ACP brass, do 25 or so every time I walk by the press. Throwing away Tulammo headstamps because of loose primer pockets. Putting all the spp brass in a coffee can to give away. Seems like twenty different headstamps so far:-)

[EMC45]

Sized a bunch of 32-098s

[sigep1764]

300 rounds of 223 loaded today. Ran out of W748. I really need a quick change kit, im whooped.

[toallmy]

I loaded up a bunch of 223s with jackets yesterday afternoon for a ar . So I got to play with a 550 that a member passed on to me a wile back , I only load 223 on it so it's only used 3-4 times a year .

[cwlongshot]

Saturday morning I found three boxes of 7Mag brass mixed in with small calibers... In the tumbler it went. Later on Sat Night, I pulled it out and sized and primed 60 pieces for later loading!

LOVE finding stuff I previously purchased! Its like its free! :)

CW

[Conditor22]

↑↑↑ That's what happens when you clean your reloading area :) ↑↑↑

[sigep1764]

Cleaned my reloading bench and storage. Picked up 1k Winchester small rifle primers to try, 2lbs of W748, and a Dillon Quick Change for the 550. Dug down deep and made the budget stretch without touching "house" money.

[robg]

Trimmed sized/expanded and primed 20 45-70 cases I shot on Sunday .only got to do some casting now.

[Tom W.]

↑↑↑ That's what happens when you clean your reloading area :) ↑↑↑

I tried that once. Never could find anything afterwards.....

[EMR]

Only had time to load up 12 rounds of .44mag. Better than nothing, right?

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[cwlongshot]

↑↑↑ That's what happens when you clean your reloading area :) ↑↑↑ AMEN!

Im packed in like a sardine can... I "find" stuff all the time! :)

Yesterday I "found" 5-600 LC 30/06 Brass I knew I had but couldn't find... It was labeled 8MM Mauser with about 100 8MM Mauser that I reformed ON TOP!!!

I tumbled it, but its pretty badly tarnished. Times like this I could use the steel pins. But haven't gone there yet. I de-primed about 200 this AM, annealed them at lunch time.

Tonight I'll finish Uniforming the pockets, deburing the flash holes and form 6.5/06's out of them!

CW

[Tom W.]

Primed and flared 12 30/30 a.i. cases and when my lubrisizer finally heated up I lubed and sized some 9mm boolits with CR to .357 diameter. Then I got a call from my oldest son saying that his current GF ex husband fell out of a treestand and ended up dead. I suppose Lori & I will go to the viewing tonight.....

[Boolseye]

Experimenting with .45 ACP loads.
Everything is accurate with the NOE HG-68. Also prepping for some .223 loading.


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[fralic76]

Loaded 20 rounds of 303 savage.

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[cwlongshot]

Finished fifty cases into perfect and completely prepped 6.5/06 Brass

Another 60-70 outside cleaned and annealed. Waiting to be de primed and swadged then uniformed and deburred. Finally re formed/sized Trimmed and primed. ������

Time for dinner...

CW

[KrakenFan69]

loaded up 300 12 ga 1-1/8 oz 7-1/2 shot shells.

[lightman]

After nursing a hurt back for a week I ventured back to the loading room for a little while today. I started resizing a gallon can of 380's. Prolly knock off in a bit and continue tomorrow.

[cwlongshot]

After nursing a hurt back for a week I ventured back to the loading room for a little while today. I started resizing a gallon can of 380's. Prolly knock off in a bit and continue tomorrow. GREAT therapy!

Hope ya feel better, little depilates more then a bad back!

CW

[Hossfly]

Melted 162# of SOWW and COWW into ingots got about 1500# to go.

[Tom W.]

I made a pile of 160 gr. 30 cal boolits and another of 120 gr TC 9mm. I also loaded up 4 rounds of 30/30 A.I. w/ 33 gr of Varget and some 160 gr. Lee cast.

[Texas by God]

Dug up some forgotten .45 230gr XTP hp so I'm stuffing them over Unique in .45 ACP for SD/ hunting loads. I also found a LOT of 230 fmj to load. Come fall I'll cast some 200 swc and 230 tc and resume normal life.

[mikwat]

Sized and loaded a bunch of .35 Remington boolits that I had cast last week. Sized and primed a bunch of 44 Mag brass as well. Would have loaded them too, but the powder coat formed a giant boolit glob and they kept jamming up my sizing die. Might just cast some more...darn.

[cwlongshot]

IM BUILDING MORE STORAGE SHELVES!!!

I also loaded up a hundred 357 Sig 147g with Blue Dot.

CW

[Tom W.]

We were having terrible weather today. Tornadoes and now heavy winds and rain. I stayed in.....

[Reverend Al]

Loaded up another 55 rounds of .38-55 to test in the Ballard Pacific that I bought recently and then loaded about 100 rounds of .30-06 for my 1929 vintage Springfield 1903 with 3 different cast boolits. I'll try to load a few more rounds tomorrow for at least one other rifle since we're heading out for a range day on Tuesday ...

[RP]

Well I had big plans for doing stuff out in the reloading/shop this winter but life stuck hard.
I was at work removing some plywood about 8 feet above the cement floor when some wood came loose before expected causing me to step back and lost my footing causing me to fall. I landed on my feet just to break my heel in several places aggggg.
Hoping for a sprain got a x ray and sent to a foot doc he sent me for a cat scan then to see a surgeon on this Monday. So I been sitting around the house with ice packs and pain pills hoping the swelling will go down in case they can work on it Monday.
The stock I ordered for my XHR rem 700 is coming in Monday as well along with a few other items I have order for the same rifle. My plans were to add pillars and bed the stock. I also picked up a torque screw driver and scope lapping bars for mounting the scope and action.
My youngest son also got a stock for his savage 110 and we planned on working on the rifles together.
I am not a gun smith so I was going to take my time and do more research as I moved along with the process and turn my own pillars since I got a lathe now.
Along with that I picked up three dillon square deal presses that needed new priming systems that came in this week as well plan was getting them mounted and up and running.
Plans are the same I have a lot more time to do it but I will be a lot slower right now I can not do anything without my foot been up in the air.

my typing skills and spelling skills suck pain meds do not help sorry for the poor write up

[lightman]

Resized a coffee can of 380's that I started yesterday. Stumbled onto a nearly full coffee can of 44 specials that I resized also. Messed around and knocked over my shell holder rack so I had 20 something shell holders to sort!

[JBinMN]

RP,

Bummer to read about your heel. Wishing you a speedy recovery!

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I was getting ready to do a run of 150 - 9mm in 124TC & RN, but got called away to do something for the missus. I am hoping to get on them tomorrow.

I have some more 38Sp. & 45acp brass to clean & tumble as well.

Always something....
;)

[flyingmonkey35]

Daaang. Those are preety.

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[cwlongshot]

Sorry to read RP!!

Fast mending my friend!!

CW

[toallmy]

I have been sizing some 7x57 brass to begin playing with different powders .
Tomorrow's high is going to be in the low 20s , so I think I'm staying in the house for a day or two .
I should cast a few boolits .

[sigep1764]

Put together an AR kit from PSA. Set up the Lyman Universal Trimmer with the power adapter for a drill. Watching the Chiefs now.

[obssd1958]

I actually got into the reloading room yesterday, and assembled some ammo!

Loaded 25 .500 S&W with Lil' Gun and Hornady 300gr FTX. I'll run those through an H&R single shot.

Also loaded 10 .300 BO with 2400 and 110 gr. VMax for an AR pistol.

Not cast boolits, but it's something!

[EMC45]

Worked on my 105 year old Remington Model 11.

[Sig556r]

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Recently read on this forum that PMC headstamped .40S&W brass can be converted to .357Sig, so I did...loaded them with PC'd 125g LRFNs up to crimp groove on top of AA#9...

[mikwat]

Time to sit down and figure out why my cartridges made with my own casts won't chamber consistently. Everything appears to be in spec.

[sigep1764]

Made 300 loading opportunities for 223 at the range today. All fired through a PSA AR, functioned, and 3 inch groups at 25 yards with open sights (I need practice, scoped is much better). Tried Rem Oil sprayed into the bag of opportunities to use for sizing and it worked. No more wiping Imperial Wax on cases! Then neck sized and expanded the 270 brass I annealed last Sunday.

[T_McD]

Got my new turret press bolted in. Ran out of time to get it setup, but that’s next... never enough time.

[cwlongshot]

New shelf for dies...(Most used sets anyhow! )

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[Soundguy]

do? not much.. but did pick up 2 old round ball scissor molds from dixie, and a lee .358/158 swc hp mold.

[trixter]

I am working on a batch of .223 with my trusty Lee Classic Cast Turret press having more fun than should be allowed. :grin:
Armscor bullets, Ramshot TAC powder and CCI primers

[flyingmonkey35]

My wife found this for me

Extra large metal ladle found at winco for 6 bucks.

This should be great for smelting https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190123/22759847f240360dc28c88055d482511.jpg

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[RedlegEd]

Hi all. Had a few minutes, so I PC'd some 330 Goulds I cast last weekend. I'll down size these to .452 and shoot them out of my TC G2 Contender. The different colors represent weight groups +/- 0.2 gr. Ed
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[hlvabeach]

Watched a video from Fortunecookie45LC on how to fix issue of shaving lead when seating 38 spc wadcutters when using 38/357 seating dies. Fix was to use a 44 mag seating die. Worked like a champ!!!! Loaded about 100 rounds using my new old Dillon 550 I just picked up from Offerup for $175.

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[RP]

Well I got a little mobile today and my wife went back to work with no one to pamper me I got bored and out the shop I went. I got my new boyd stock out and started fitting it to my action. I guess I got about 30 mins worth of work done and it only took me 4 hours lol,

[nawagner]

Put stuff in its place that I purchased last week and said goodbye for a few days!

[rancher1913]

milled out a 80% lower and assembled a new ar on it. word of advice, have 2 spring kits cause you will lose a spring.

[David2011]

Installed a new extractor and spring in an old Savage Model 23A for a friend. I love making old stuff work again.

[flyingmonkey35]

milled out a 80% lower and assembled a new ar on it. word of advice, have 2 spring kits cause you will lose a spring.What kit did you use?

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[sniper]

CASE PREP!
After reading a lot about trimming, with the responses running maybe 60-40% against, and a lot of experienced and credible reloaders on this and other forums saying "I never trim", and after reading Patrick Sweeney's book on reloading, where he quoted one of the Gurus of match shooting, (Found the quote...a bit more exclusive than I remembered...) "...if your shooting skills allow you to shoot groups that are three to four inches in size at 25 yards, trying to sort out charges that may or may not vary by half an inch in their performance is a fool's quest." Needless to say, I was a bit discouraged!

I will never be a Jerry Miculek or Brian Enos, with all the marvelous stuff they do with handguns...that's for sure! But. IMNHO, they take stuff too seriously! For their level of competition, they have to.

For me, and I would wager a significant portion of forum members, It's all about the fun, and challenge, not to mention the search for "the" load! 8-)

I'll probably never shoot 1,000 rounds per year, and think all except serious competitors who brag about their numbers are like the guy I once met at Photography seminar. The first words out of his mouth were; "How many rolls to you shoot a month?" I never played that game, but it is more serious now, in the Digital era where Pixels are Cheap! My buddy, the Canon shooter brags he can do 4,000 exposures in a day at the race track! I tell him, with some certitude, "If you're good, you don't need thousands of exposures!" I am satisfied with my 250 per day. But, I digress!

I figure if I even want to approach figures I am satisfied with, I do need to be concerned with consistency, and that's why I spent some hours in the reloading room, trimming cases to within +- .003, uniforming flash holes, performing plunk tests of several hundred reloaded rounds in my Dillon Case gauge (No discards!:-D) and performing other procedures of Ballistic Proctology. Some, I will only have to do once!:bigsmyl2: So, as much as possible, having removed some variables I can concentrate on producing a personally satisfactory level of accuracy while enjoying myself!:D YMMV!

[JBinMN]

:goodpost:

:drinks:

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I did not do a thing in the reloading area today , nor did I smelt or cast. But I should have...

[cwtebay]

CASE PREP!
After reading a lot about trimming, with the responses running maybe 60-40% against, and a lot of experienced and credible reloaders on this and other forums saying "I never trim", and after reading Patrick Sweeney's book on reloading, where he quoted one of the Gurus of match shooting, saying that if you can't shoot little groups at 25 yards, any attempt at changing components, etc., with the idea of improving groups as much as 1/4 inch, is wasted effort, I was a bit discouraged!

I will never be a Jerry Miculek or Brian Enos, with all the marvelous stuff they do with handguns...that's for sure! But. IMNHO, they take stuff too seriously! For their level of competition, they have to.

For me, and I would wager a significant portion of forum members, It's all about the fun, and challenge, not to mention the search for "the" load! 8-)

I'll probably never shoot 1,000 rounds per year, and think all except serious competitors who brag about their numbers are like the guy I once met at Photography seminar. The first words out of his mouth were; "How many rolls to you shoot a month?" I never played that game, but it is more serious now, in the Digital era where Pixels are Cheap! My buddy, the Canon shooter brags he can do 4,000 exposures in a day at the race track! I tell him, with some certitude, "If you're good, you don't need thousands of exposures!" I am satisfied with my 250 per day. But, I digress!

I figure if I even want to approach figures I am satisfied with, I do need to be concerned with consistency, and that's why I spent some hours in the reloading room, trimming cases to within +- .004, uniforming flash holes, performing plunk tests of several hundred reloaded rounds in my Dillon Case gauge (No discards!:-D) and performing other procedures of Ballistic Proctology. Some, I will only have to do once!:bigsmyl2: So, as much as possible, having removed some variables I can concentrate on producing a personally satisfactory level of accuracy while enjoying myself!:D YMMV!Well said, hats off to you. I often think of how a simple post about personal preference can incite a torrent of admonishing remarks and belittling of one's own tried and true practices. The proverbial cat has been successfully freed of its hide by more methods than can be tallied, and I think that is often lost in the quest of newest/sexiest/"best".
I learned to reload as a youngster out of economic necessity, and continue to do so out of fond memories of my mentors taking the time to feed me that knowledge.
Long story short; be safe to the nth degree, be courteous of our colleagues, and seek to reap knowledge from the collective to better ourselves.

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[Jal5]

Finally did some reloading. Needed more 45/70s for my trip down south and a potential pig hunt.

[mold maker]

Would I like to shoot smaller groups?
Heck yeah!
Am I able to put in the time and expense to improve?
Not enough time or money to make a measurable improvement.
Just how important is perfection?
The most important thing to me is defending my family. Beyond that, if it isn't fun, it's a waste.
My 77 yo eyes have had the benefit of surgery and protection, but will never see any better. My hands shake, and that will only get worse, neither of which allow much improvement, no matter how many rounds I fire. The time spent preping brass is a necessary evil, but a necessary extension of the time spent shooting. Besides, I don't have to wait on favorable weather and can process brass a few minutes at a time between Dr visits.
To me, it's just a matter of perspective.

[Spruce]

Started sorting, mil. comm., and prepping 45acp. Labeling brass containers as to what is inside and general clean up and organizing.

[Tom W.]

Sized and lubed a few 30 cal......

[cwlongshot]

Last night was a test... I have a few plastic stocked rifles that should be re stocked... But frankly I don't want to out the $$ into them. Sweat equity is fine tho.

SO, I bought some carbon Fiber rods and tubes on eBay for cheap. The plan is to hog out the forends and drop in these tubes bedded in epoxy for the added strength and rigidity.

Last night I started on a Savage B mag as I have two stocks for this one. So far so GOOD!!

Was easy to snap off the ribs in the forend with needle nosed plyers. I trimmed the 8mm solid rods down with a dremil and dry fit them. Mixed some Devcon epoxy, then the rods followed by more epoxy. Filled to the top of the center rib I left in place. I did have to remove the plastic "tower" that was for the forend screw. But no worries, I'll re drill into the epoxy once completed.

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This AM, the stock was cool and STIFF!! NOT much weight added either. I used maybe a 1/4 cup of epoxy. 2 minutes with a 3/4 rough file and the 2/3 high spots where flush.

Tonight or this weekend, I will fill the butt with something...Its hollow and also flexable.

Then I will install the action and bed the rifle to the stock. NOT a full bed as there aint really a "full" stock here. :bigsmyl2: Rather, I'll bed the front of the barrel in front of the front action screw, float the barrel and a tiny bit at the tang at the rear action screw. This rifle as no recoil lug. Might need to go back and add barrel support as it is a skinny barrel...but that's easily don't later. :?

This was a pretty good shooter even tho a pencil barrel. Mostly I didn't like the flex in the stock. But surely this will enhance accuracy or at the very least be favorable towards it.

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[robg]

Helped a mate sort his brass stash then started him sizing trimming and priming his 223 brass.had a few crimped in primers ,showed him how to use chamfer tool to remove crimp . put the world to rights while I supervised his work .range tomorow .

[Tom W.]

Cast more 30 cal and 9mm boolits. Also loaded 4 30/30 cases w/.7cc of Bullseye for fireforming.

[44Blam]

Cast some 240 grn PB boolits for my 44 mag and a TON of 85 grn 30 cal for my tok...
The timing is totally different when casting these.

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[flyingmonkey35]

Was loading 45acf on the Lee load master and blew another primer. This time it fed upside down. And James it in the next primer. *** .

Their was no extra force needed.



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[sigep1764]

No brown pants moment like FlyingMonkey, but the power adapter for the Lyman Universal Trimmer is a limb saver! Trimmed a few hundred brass in a couple hours and my shoulders feel awesome. Then finished prepping them with the chamber and deburring bits in the drill.

[44Blam]

Cast some 240 grn PB boolits for my 44 mag and a TON of 85 grn 30 cal for my tok...
The timing is totally different when casting these.

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Turns out, a "TON" of the 30 cal boolits is about 500. :)

[scotner]

Actually PC'ed them yesterday afternoon and then sized them today. A quart jar of 300 BLK and a few 45. Eastwood V Twin Orange. Then loaded 150 9mm cast.

[sniper]

Installed a set of LED lights over the workbench. Great improvement! Got it on sale at Costco for $20 +tax. Now the wife wants the two-light fixture I took down over the washer-dryer and another one like I installed in another area of the basement! Oh well, win some, lose some! ;)

[McFred]

I picked up a little rotary table for my little mill. Made some aluminum T-slot nuts and added a 1/2" plate to the top of it and drilled and tapped a pile of holes in it (I miss CNC). I just have to get some hardware to permanently hold down the plate and support a dedicated set of hardware to hold the rotary to the mill table.

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[cwlongshot]

After much deliberation I ordered a Lyman All American 8 press! My Redding press po’d me for the last time. Its front bars make getting my large mits in to feed bullets nearly impossible. I wanted a T-7. But for 1/3 the cost I cheaped out and ordered the Lyman. :bigsmyl2:

Than loaded 100 357 Magnums. 50 with a 158g Lyman PC bullet and 50 with a 185 Ranchsog GC bullet.

CW

[44Blam]

Loaded 30 Tokarev rounds in a ladder of W296 to test to see how the tok shoots with W296... I recently got an 8 lb keg of it and I know the tok likes 2400 so we'll give the 296 a go.
Then I deprimed, trimmed and loaded 131 308s...
Was a good way to spend a rainy Saturday.

[cwlongshot]

I bedded the entire barrel channel on my Savage B-Mag.

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Then cut pillars for my new Boyds stock for my Howa Grendel

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CW

[wolf3006]

235186
Cast some 30 cal.

[jdfoxinc]

Played with my BT SNIPER one step 9mm to .40 die and my hornady blank making die. XD bullets look out.

[cwlongshot]

Finished drilling my stock for the pillars.


Scarified the outside of the pillars and JB Welded them in!

Had some troubles, jeeping the epoxy out of the inside of them pushing them inoto the stock..
Hope I got enough release agent on everything!!

Ill pop it out in the morning but wont know till then!! :popcorn:

[Butler Ford]

I tumble lubed some RCBS 32-170 bullets, repaired a mold, drained and cleaned my Lee casting pot, refilled it with Lyman No 2 and it still works! Tested the drained alloy @ 13.4 BN, thinking it should be around 15 after sitting for day or two, at least I hope it does. Did a little cleaning around the casting area and the tools that go along with it. Pulled a few "gifted" rounds and got them deprimed and sorted. Gathered and sorted several small containers of brass and have some of them tumbling as I type this. All and all, not really a lot accomplished but a pleasant day anyway.

[lightman]

Resized about 800 9mm cases and started tumbling them.

[Plate plinker]

Tumbled the last of 7000 pcs of 9mm brass.

[Tom W.]

Trimmed and flared 35 pcs of 30/30 brass to get ready to fire form them.

[CASTING MACHINE]

Sized and lubed 18,000 148 wadcutters for a local group buy

[obssd1958]

Separated and counted .380 ACP brass for a possible trade.

[L Erie Caster]

Absolutely nothing, unfortunately.

[wolf3006]

Lube a bunch of 30 cal.

[brass410]

looked in at the mess, shook my head, turned the light off and closed the door. There's better days ahead besides I've got new moulds to try, lead plates to smelt down to ingots, 9 5gallon pails of weights to sort wow its hard to get the time in.

[lightman]

A friend came over today to cast. I got to use a new Accurate 45-70 mold that I got at Christmas. Today may have been one of those brain cramp days. My buddy went off and left his wallet at home. Right next to a small cooler of beer! I plugged up my pot and turned the PID on. And forgot to turn on the pot! Bad start!!!

The mold cast great, once I learned a little about its personality. I have not cast with an aluminum mold since I bought and discarded a 2 cavity aluminum Lee mold, 40+ years ago. My lead temps may have been a little hot but I didn't want to reprogram the PID so I just adjusted my casting speed. It was a joy to cast with but maybe not as forgiving as a seasoned iron mold. It took a little getting used to the pour times as each bullet weighed about twice what I normally cast. All in all I like the mold. I cast about 1 gallon of 405 grain 45-70 bullets out of wheel weights.

[BigAlofPa.]

Not much today. Just changed up my media in my tumblers. I pulled a muscle or something in my upper back. Was a take it easy day.

[tucumcari_kid]

Loaded 30 Tokarev rounds in a ladder of W296 to test to see how the tok shoots with W296... I recently got an 8 lb keg of it and I know the tok likes 2400 so we'll give the 296 a go.
Then I deprimed, trimmed and loaded 131 308s...
Was a good way to spend a rainy Saturday.

Let us know how those go. I got some 296 a while back but i have never used it (too much 4227 on hand). I want to try it in the Glock 30 Luger so your loads might be close. What are you doing with the 2400 in the tok? I've seen a couple loads. I'm going to try aa #5 which I think is going to be the shtuff... - Mike

[tucumcari_kid]

I received some starline 9x23 super comp brass and test forming it into 30 luger to build some hotter /moderner rounds for my barsto glock(s). G17 with a g19 barrel on the way. Dang post office. Takes longer to go 30 miles than it did to get here from Sturgis.

[RogerDat]

SS pin tumbling assorted brass. The good 80 cnt of PPU 8mm mauser brass is cleaned and polished. The bad have about 3 pounds of other brass to de-prime before I can clean. The ugly a mixed coffee can of this and that that makes me run around finding the container with that caliber of brass for as little as one or two cases. The can was full it was time. It is dry so time to scavenger hunt the odd caliber containers.

Last weekend I finished casting 12 lbs. of .310 round ball as #1.5 buckshot. Getting ready to cast similar amount of #00 buck using a new MP 8 cavity mold from the group buy. Hopefully noticeably faster with the 8 cavity than the #1.5 was using a 6 cavity.

Total sympathy for the dang not enough time to enjoy it all comments. Seems like as I get one task done I notice 3 or 4 others that I have forgotten about in addition to the 5 or 6 I knew I wanted to do.

[Walks]

Cast about 1000 bullets using my old faithful RCBS Pro-Melt.
Used my new N.O.E. #453-247-SWC 5CAV, well used N.O.E. TL432-240-RF and a new to me Lee #452-225-TC. One of the smoothest casting sessions I've had in a long time.

That new N.O.E. 45Cal SWC mold dropped perfect bullets by the 3rd fill.

The Lee 45cal TC that I got from Wrench dropped perfect bullets 1st fill.

A good hot plate makes all the difference.

[Rustynails]

I got two dummy cartridges stuck at different times in my XD 45 while trying to find an OAL for RCBS 82048 230gr RN bullets I made before my eye surgery. Then I did something and got the XD stuck open and had to research how to get the slide to work again... 7/16" wrench and some prying worked great. Spent most of the day wondering why my dummy cartridges would all test ok for head space, then I would seat the bullet to 1.240 or what ever and they would then fail the head space gauge. As you can guess, I'm still leaning and it's my first time reloading 45 acp. Hope your day was better.

[skeettx]

Hello,
WELCOME on your first posting :)

What is the diameter of your cast bullets?

Sometimes a deeper seat will flare the brass, maybe go a BIT longer??

1.25" as a baseline but there's no substitute for the plunk test.

[RedlegEd]

I loaded up 50 rounds for the Tubb Final Finishing kit I bought from @Loudenboomer for my newly rebored .260 REM. When the weather cooperates, I'll go do the "shoot 10, clean barrel, repeat" routine until it's done. Ed

235536

[Boomsticks Firearms]

Powder coated some 35 cal. That I casted yesterday from my new MP mold while I let the lead pot heat up. Once I loaded up the oven I then casted some 45.235537

[Texas by God]

Boxed up a pif, re-converted my 38-55 to 1/2 mag for grins, checked chamber depth on a Krag barrel with a new brass case. It's too cold out there today.

[44Blam]

I loaded 150 tokarev rounds... ;) This is a challenging round to load...
235544

[cwlongshot]

I Began setting up My new Lyman Press!

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[Rustynails]

Hello,
WELCOME on your first posting :)

What is the diameter of your cast bullets?

Sometimes a deeper seat will flare the brass, maybe go a BIT longer??

1.25" as a baseline but there's no substitute for the plunk test.


Thanks Skeettx, My cast bullets are from the .452 RCBS 45-230 RN mold. I sized them using a .452 (and) .451 sizer to try to solve the problem to no avail. My barrel is .451 from a slug test.
When I seat a bullet further, my case bulges just at the body by the the head and it then fails the plunk test and my head space gauge. The bullet drops in, but when I press on it with my thumb, it gets stuck. I'm using brass that was given to me. It is from: India, South Korea, Brazil, and the US. I've only tried the Winchester brass thus far for my dummy cartridge. I'm using the Lee 3 Carbide die set and I've even tried the Lee Factory crimp die. Nothing is working. I have a FNX 45 that seems to accept the .452 and .451 sized bullets with the plunk test, but I haven't tried to rack the slide with the dummy cartridge yet. I can't shoot a new factory round yet and try that brass because I had eye surgery two days ago and am limited with what I can do.
I'm doing something wrong that is probably something stupid, but haven't figured it out yet. (All cases were cleaned, trimmed, inspected and checked for head space prior to trying to load the dummy cartridge. I'll send pictures if I figure out how. Should I post this somewhere else in the forum for help?

[woodbutcher]

[smilie=s: Just a bit of a guess here.Your barrel might need to be throated.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Rustynails]

Solved my 45 acp head space problem. I reset all dies and believe that I had too much flair. I sized to .451 and adjusted the flair and also used the lee crimp die and it worked. I'm now at 1.238 OAL for RCBS 45-230 RN boolits in my Springfield XD. A good day.

[skeettx]

YEEEE HAWWWW!
And if you still have some loaded ones with an issue,
remove the de-capping rod from the carbide sizing
die, and just bump the cartridge a TAD bit to round out
the case and straighten.

[mikwat]

Pulled and reseated 50 rounds of .450 bushmaster. No they all pass the "plunk" test. Now for the work up!

[robg]

Did a bit of casting 60x45-70 405g,110x308 150g, 110x357 180g .some days it all goes smoothly, 1.5 hours then tumble lubed .

[JBinMN]

More 9mm in progress. Then after they finish tumbling, more 38sp & 45ACP.

I "need" to straighten out/organize some shelves down there. I have put it off too long. Calling it a "Mess" is an understatement.

[Gunslinger1911]

Bought a boat load of once fired pistol brass. Vibrator is really getting a workout today ! (get your minds out of the gutter guys !)
600 45 Colt cleaning as I type, yay !
Finished up loading 200 22TCM.
1500 new to me once fired 45 acp brass just calling to be loaded !

[Tom W.]

Lubed,sized, and cleaned 50 pcs of 30/30 A.I.brass that I fired at the range this morning. Then I loaded 20 rounds of 30/30 with some Herco and the 160 gr Lee cast boolit.

[Conditor22]

cast a bunch of Tl314-90-Swc
and .405 .458

[EMC45]

Sized a bunch of bullets for the .308 and 30-30.

[BigAlofPa.]

Loaded 50 30.06 and 50 7.62x54r light loads for tomorrow's range trip. Weather permitting.

[Mal Paso]

This is the new MP 432 Hammer. I cast a few hundred with the penta pin and loaded a hundred today. 10g of N350 for about 1000 fps. Cast weight 250g.

[Michael J. Spangler]

This is the new MP 432 Hammer. I cast a few hundred with the penta pin and loaded a hundred today. 10g of N350 for about 1000 fps. Cast weight 250g.

Love it!
Is that magnum or special?

I’ve been thinking of trying to trade my 629 for a 624. I like the idea of a special.

[Mal Paso]

Love it!
Is that magnum or special?

I’ve been thinking of trying to trade my 629 for a 624. I like the idea of a special.

Those are new Starline Magnum Cases.

Vihtavuori N350 44 Special loads max at 7.5g for a 250g bullet and Magnum start at 11.5g. This is somewhere between but it was great fun with reactive steel without beating it up.

[Boomsticks Firearms]

Got some new powder coat colors and coated some bullets.235767235768

[sigep1764]

Loaded 60 rounds of 38 Special with 3 grains of red dot and 105 swc.

[lightman]

Taking a break now from depriming a bunch of 9mm's. I started last week on 2 20mm ammo cans of 9mm range brass. I'm maybe 75% through that batch. Too bad that they are not worth anything right now!

[dubble winger]

Old ,new guy here. Second post actually, first one in wheel guns. Been lurking a long time. Just received my Mihec .314 140/135 gr.brass with pins. Wondering if anyone has info regarding same. Prepping mold, loads for same. Have gp100 , in 327 mag. and love it, but have not seen much on loads or bullet pouring . Have learned a ton from you guys, hoping there are some other 32 nuts out there. Thanks in advance.

[EMC45]

This is the new MP 432 Hammer. I cast a few hundred with the penta pin and loaded a hundred today. 10g of N350 for about 1000 fps. Cast weight 250g.

Do the "petals" break off on the lines with these Penta HPs?

[farmrboy]

Bought an old Lee pot for salt bath annealing. I spent a snowy afternoon in the shop shining it up a bit. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190212/b82554fc7acce29d8ed1ec36fadafb9c.jpg

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[David2011]

Ugh! Started getting the reloading room ready to move to the new house. Packed up most of the powder, delaying the 748 and Unique to the last so I can stockpile some .223 and .38 rounds. Got to powder coat the .38s so I can load them up. I may not get my reloading equipment set up for several months after the move. I'm moving the powder and primers myself since commercial movers won't handle them.

Loaded a bunch of .223 using the 62 grain SS-109 steel core penetrators. The first bag of SS-109s were very inconsistent in shape. It took a long time to find a seating die setting that would keep all rounds at 2.260" or less. The second bag was a totally different class of bullets. They are very consistent and OAL varies about 0.005" in random sampling of the first 150 or so rounds with no chasing of dimensions.

[Harter66]

Been absent a lot lately . Not much loading happening . Half of the loading stuff is still in the moving trucks too .
I did cast about 15 pours in and H&G #130 ....
I loaded some the 45 ACP I shot the morning my Dad passed way .
The lead I cast was some that we had scrounged at the recycling place about 5 yr ago .
The 6.0 gr of Unique was from the 12# he bought in 1968 , we had shot a few birds a couple of seasons out of that can also .
Some of the brass was out of his stash from long ago too mixed mostly RP and FC , a little bit of Winchester which was his .
The CCI #300 were all me .
I got 90 keepers from the pour a couple of weeks ago so that's what I loaded.

[sigep1764]

Cast 200 LEE277-135, about 500 MP227-75, and 200 LEE356-95 in a new to me 6 banger. Forgot how fast they drain a pot.

[Tom W.]

Cleaned my 30/30 and looked around at the mess..... I had to cut a limb off of the cedar tree next to my shed so it wouldn't damage it. Then we had a serious amount of straight line winds, it didn't damage anything in my yard, but not too far away both to the west of me and across the river to the east it did a lot of damage to buildings and trees. We lost power about 1300 and it came back on @1600.....

[sigep1764]

Gas checked and lubed the 227-75 boolits I cast today. Changed dies and lubed the 95RF and loaded some with 2, 2.2, 2.4 grains of red dot to test again tmro.

[Iron369]

Not nothing

[Tom W.]

If "not nothing" then what? You know that's a double negative.......:kidding:

[Iron369]

If "not nothing" then what? You know that's a double negative.......:kidding:

Ehhh. Just resizing some cast. Nothing worth mentioning. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190213/5fe4e3237fc70e66cb36bac2e772d304.jpg

[44Blam]

Ehhh. Just resizing some cast. Nothing worth mentioning. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190213/5fe4e3237fc70e66cb36bac2e772d304.jpg

Those look like green beans...

[Iron369]

Those look like green beans...

lol. True.

[Iron369]

Those look like green beans...

Prefer the purple ones?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190213/8ceb3733faf9edb6cc8032aeb7a6ecae.jpg

[Bookworm]

Loaded up some 7.62x54r to test in a Sako-barreled M-39.

Lee C312-185-1R with varying charges of IMR4895, from 28 to 31 grains. Hopefully I can try them out Sunday morning, if the weather cooperates.

Supposed to be in the 30s, with 25mph winds from the north. The way the range is laid out, I'll be looking directly into the wind. Ugh.

[Tom W.]

Iron369, you gotta remember that my late wife and my current wife, plus the lady I was dating between were or are all teachers.....[smilie=1:

[lightman]

Deprimed a couple thousand more 9mm's. Tumbled the 30-30's, 308's and 30-06's that I deprimed last week.

I also tumbled something new. A buddy came over with a Styrofoam coffee cup full of corroded and gummed up coins. The kind of stuff you find in the ash tray or down in the console. These were out of a tractor, so were probably even worse. Stuck together with coke, coffee, cigarette ashes, ect! I tumbled them for a couple of hours in stainless media and Dawn. They came out pretty good!

[lightman]

Back to depriming 9mm's and tumbling.

[max it]

oh I just reminisced with the guys after a match;
we don't cast lately but keep an eye on it,
and keep the pot dusted off.
and I just ordered 2,000 x 124 9's from Wideners.
cheers!

[sailcaptain]

Added two new pull out, under the counter shelves.
Long overdo project. Once I completed the second shelf I stood there wondering how I had gone so long without them. They'll Probably never be pushed under the counter again.

I've had the hardware for over 2 years. Sounded like a good idea when I bought the brackets, just never really got around to doing the job.

Get on that project you have in mind. You'll be left standing there wondering how you did without it too.

[DxieLandMan]

Loaded up 40 rounds of 165 grain .30-06 for a hog hunt

[Texas by God]

Look for a holster I have misplaced. I hope my dog doesn't have it!

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[Budzilla 19]

Tuned up one Dillon SDB in 9 mm for my cousin, drove me crazy yesterday till I called Dillon tech services!!! Disassembled it, cleaned it, fresh lube, runs like it should now!!! You would think with 5 of these things in my immediate family, I’d know how to fix a problem by now!!! Hahahaha

[jonp]

Moved some stuff around and off to make make room for my new to me .416 Ruger. Got out the surplus powder from Jeff to start working rounds in 350 and 400 grns.

[cwlongshot]

Just starting to set up My new Lyman Press! Tomorrow or Saturday, I need toLoad some Grendels for Sundays range trip!!

CW

[sigep1764]

Which one did you get CW? I got the BrassSmith C press last year for my birthday and it has done a lot for me. Loaded at least a thousand each of 270, 38 special, and decapped as many 223. Workhorse for sure and a good companion to the 550.

[cwlongshot]

Which one did you get CW? I got the BrassSmith C press last year for my birthday and it has done a lot for me. Loaded at least a thousand each of 270, 38 special, and decapped as many 223. Workhorse for sure and a good companion to the 550.

I bought the American 8. There turret press, so far seems great.

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CW

[lightman]

Just finished depriming 2 20mm ammo cans of 9mm's that I started on last week. The whole time I had the tumbler running. I wet tumbled the 223's, 30-30's, 308's, 30-06's, 40's, 44's and 45's that I deprimed earlier this month and got them sorted and stored away. I also went back and resized the straight wall cases after tumbling. Just now got everything put away and cleaned up. I'll start tumbling all of those 9mm's next week.

I have not seen the floor in my loading room since Christmas until today!

[Texas by God]

I cast some Lee 379-255F, some TL314swc, and some 451-230tc till the pot was empty. Most for the .38-55 that I'm loving. The 314s are destined for 30-30 plinkers.

[Soundguy]

Today I actually cleaned up a bit and found some floor space in my reloading room

[Cast_outlaw]

Over the week I loaded some test loads of 44-40, a ladder of 303british for subsonic test, a ladder of 9mm 158gr pb, another 200 9mm with 124gr lee Lrn. Tumble lubed some lee c240-430 swc sized and crimped gas checks on. Started decaping and resizing some 44 mag brass got distracted when I only sized about 3/8 of one and took it out of the die and thought to my self they gee it sure resembles a 44-40 at witch point I realize I was late for a bank appointment I forgot about an the rest has nothing to do with Boolits

[Buck Butcher]

Yesterday I took a look at the brass I ordered from Everglades and was pleased that the headstamps appear to be LC! This morning I was reading a thread about press ram lube and had to go clean up the old single stage Lee. I’ve kept it lubed over the years, but never did a deep clean/lube. It needed it after doing a bunch of decapping.

Mark

[EMR]

Slugged my barrel off my new to me SW 52-2 only to realize it’s got the 5 groove barrel that’s difficult to mic. Well shucks!

[robg]

Cast some boolits 45-70/357/308 .those big 405 g boolits empty a pot fast.I'll do some loading once lubed and gas checked .

[lightman]

This morning I was reading a thread about press ram lube and had to go clean up the old single stage Lee. I’ve kept it lubed over the years, but never did a deep clean/lube. It needed it after doing a bunch of decapping.

Mark

I'm just curious what you used. I wipe of the exposed part of my ram pretty often and wipe on a thin film of light weight oil. I'm just finishing up a marathon session of depriming and plan to break mine down soon. Thinking about a coating of STP or wheel bearing grease on the pins and sticking with the light oil on the ram. I'm thinking about drilling and tapping a few places and installing grease fittings. I'm still undecided about that.

[Michael J. Spangler]

loaded some 38 special with 358156 bare bottomed cast from 50/50 COWW and pure. Sized to .358" lubed with White Label 2500+ Over 3.5 grains of bullseye.
My favorite plinking load.

[cwlongshot]

40 pcs of 35 Remington for a friends birthday.
Assembled on the new Lyman press. Worked great!

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CW

[WheelgunConvert]

Trimmed brass.

Boo

[Iron369]

Cleaned up my bench a little. Mounted a 3-hole turret press I got a few months ago to speed up production of 9mm. I single stage everything since I’m still new, but I got the press nearly free and figured it was time to speed it up

[goryshaw]

Brought my Lee Classic Cast turret press on a Lee reloading stand in from the garage. Left it up at the cabin all spring/summer/fall, and never got around to loading anything. My usual at home reloading area (den)has been disassembled to use as a old computer workshop, so the portable setup in my living room for a few days works out great. So got around to doing 250 rds of .38 SPC LSWCHP +P'ish. Hornady 158 gr swaged LSWCHP. 5.5 gr of Alliant Power Pistol. Next up is 200 rds of .44 SPC 240 gr LSWCHP over 7.5 grs of Hodgdon Universal, then found my can of Universal was about 80% empty. Need to run over to Cabellas tomorrow and see if they have any Universal, Unique or AA 5 in stock.

[44Blam]

Cast about 650 boolits from my new 35-125yg mold.

236171

Then powder coated/sized about 120 for testing.

Then deprimed/resized/trimmed about 100 44 mag cases...

[Bookworm]

Deprimed, annealed, and tumbled 145 pieces of 7.62x54R.

Then I cleaned the primer pockets, and brushed the inside of the necks. Will it help at the monthly Military Bolt-gun match ?

I have no idea....

[lightman]

Tumbled and sorted 4 loads of 9mm yesterday and plan to start back again today after breakfast. About 1200 at a time.

[44Blam]

Loaded those 44 mag cartridges as heavies with w296... And now it's of to the range!

[flyingmonkey35]

Did I go back in time?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190218/f434e99c8bdfe7d60f04b039c9988a4e.jpg

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[DW475]

Finished sizing and prepping a 5 gallon bucket of 22-250 brass. Now to get it loaded and ready for the spring ground grizzlies!

[taco650]

Mounted a homemade rear sight to my latest muzzleloader creation.

[Hossfly]

Assembled 5 cat sneeze 06, with 6 gr. Of tite group, over drilled out flash hole, seated Ppb, pc boolit. 160 gr projectile, fired out front door of horse barn, hit hay barn which I wasn’t aiming at. Made a nice round hole in said barn tho. Felt like 22 magnum recoil. I’m going to love playing with this when can get to my rain soaked range maybe next week. Seed potatoes got planted to.

[lightman]

Started tumbling 9mm brass again today. Put the first load in about 0600. I'll dry and sort that load while another one tumbles. In between, I'll keep a fire going in the fireplace for Mama and Kitty and watch it rain!

[Hossfly]

Powder coated a Lymon 1# ingot for the wife to use holding her art paper down and doesn’t get lead marks on her paper, and its raining hard and lightning severely. Hope power stays on.

[flyingmonkey35]

Decap and resized a few thousand pieces of brass. 45 acp. 38sp and 44 colt

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[cwlongshot]

Dropped 50 new .450 Bushmaster cases on the bench top and locked the door...

[Texas by God]

I'm taking my time loading 50 38-55s. I decapped and reprimed them unsized, dropping 22.8 grains of IMR 4198 (.45ACP case dipper) in, and seating Lee 379255F( sized .377"-250 grs)on top with a medium crimp. I may finish today. A friend made the push thru sizer for me and this is the test.

[robg]

Loaded 50 x 308 with 154grfngc Lee boolits and 50x45-70 with 405 gr Lee boolits .

[cwlongshot]

Loaded up 15 450's Bushmasters with 3 each, of four different bullets, all with 10G of Trail Boss powder (85-90% loading for deepest seated bullet) for the chronograph!

HOPING to see 14-1500 fps, but thinking Ill be few hundred short of that...

CW

[Rustynails]

I broke by Lee single stage press handle. Set up a hand me down RCBS reloader special 2 press and loaded 100 rounds of 45 acp.

[lightman]

Its another rainy day here and looks like a good day to stay inside. I'll probably put another batch of brass in the tumbler and head out to the shop to sort that bucket of weights that I scored yesterday.

[jonp]

Deprimed and ran 8 of the .416 Ruger through the sizer then primed them.
I then put the primed brass in the tumbler [smilie=1:

[trixter]

I'm in the midst of prepping about 1000 .223. I will have something to do this weekend while the weather does it's thing.

[skeettx]

Loaded a bunch of 45 Colt on Hornady Pro-Jector
Melted range scrap and cast up 150 one pound ingots

[robg]

Sized/expanded and sonic cleaned a couple of hundred 357 mag cases.

[MOA]

Rendered down 5 pounds of beeswax for future use in my boolit lubes.

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:grin::grin::grin::grin

[lightman]

That sure is purdy!

[cwlongshot]

I bedded the Tang & Recoil lug on my Mossberg MVP.

I swapped two scopes and added a scope to a third rifle.

CW

[eric123]

Cleaned my dad's Remington 760 30-06...

[Harter66]

I did some really hard work today . I have a 1916 DWM Gew 98 I bought 2 barrels for , a 7×57 and a 257 Roberts thinking I might do the Roberts just because my Dad lusted after one for so long and it would have been nice to have given him that even if only for a short time ...... Days from it being ready he passed away ......
Today I made dummies for the 7×57 barrel from some FN 49 that he bought me about 5 years ago , major hang fires with the first 3 rounds in another rifle so I had figured to just pull the FMJ and load it back ......
The best laid plans . The brass is Berdan primed ......

Some total for the day I sat and mourned as I fussed with the 7×57 dies we worked up my first reloads while my dog with end stage lymphoma tried to cheer me up and I made 2 dummies 1 for 120 HP Hornady and one for the 7mm-168 RCBS which hits full lands on half the nose and just touches the front drive band .
Took a picture of it .
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[44Blam]

I did some really hard work today . I have a 1916 DWM Gew 98 I bought 2 barrels for , a 7×57 and a 257 Roberts thinking I might do the Roberts just because my Dad lusted after one for so long and it would have been nice to have given him that even if only for a short time ...... Days from it being ready he passed away ......
Today I made dummies for the 7×57 barrel from some FN 49 that he bought me about 5 years ago , major hang fires with the first 3 rounds in another rifle so I had figured to just pull the FMJ and load it back ......
The best laid plans . The brass is Berdan primed ......

Some total for the day I sat and mourned as I fussed with the 7×57 dies we worked up my first reloads while my dog with end stage lymphoma tried to cheer me up and I made 2 dummies 1 for 120 HP Hornady and one for the 7mm-168 RCBS which hits full lands on half the nose and just touches the front drive band .
Took a picture of it .
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That's a cool pic.

[Budzilla 19]

Reloaded 400 out of 500 LC 13 prepped brass for my .308. Getting these little projects out of my way. Set up the Dillon RL 550B, prime them, charge them, seat the bullet,done!

[owejia]

Been powder coating 358 swc boolits cast last summer, about a 1000 a day still have about 3000 more to go. Have several test loads to shoot when we get some dry weather.

[cwlongshot]

Sorry to read about your dad Harter66!!

This am with much anticipation, I popped the action out of the stock and it came right out! Both the Tang and the recoil lug are 100% supported with solid JB weld. Hornady one ahot was again proven good for something! :kidding:

CW

[dragon813gt]

Had some flat rate boxes full of lead that were in the way. Was going to just put them in the foot locker as is but I decided to make ingots instead. Forgot how much nicer it is to convert large isotope cores. The smaller ones have all sorts of paint and glue on them. Cleaning them up takes time and stinks.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7886/47145290462_88bb882e4c_b.jpg

[lightman]

Trying to finish tumbling 9mm's. Started the tumbler about 0700 this morning and I'm drying and sorting the first load as the next is tumbling.

I've had years of brass stashed away that I have been trying to sort and store away. The results of a very demanding job over the last years that I worked.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Had some flat rate boxes full of lead that were in the way. Was going to just put them in the foot locker as is but I decided to make ingots instead. Forgot how much nicer it is to convert large isotope cores. The smaller ones have all sorts of paint and glue on them. Cleaning them up takes time and stinks.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7886/47145290462_88bb882e4c_b.jpg


I'm jealous. Weather is too nasty for smelting.

[tazman]

Reloaded a couple of boxes for my 357 rifle and handgun. Hope the weather gets better. Right now it is cold and very windy.
I also cast up 300 Lee 358-125rf.

[tucumcari_kid]

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NOE 503-354-HP for 50GI. Covered with Eastwood copper penny. Still perfecting this cast but I'm good with this first effort. These are manstoppers
-Mike

[Texas by God]

Today I loaded some .243s with H4895 and Remington 80 gr PowrLokt hp. The powder and Bullets date from the 1970s. The brass and primers are MUCH newer. Yesterday I loaded some 30-40 Krag in yellow box Western brass(I annealed it) with equally old IMR 4350 and Sierra 180 gr sp and C309150F.

[mattw]

Loaded up some NOE 385 shallow hollow points and some old Ideal 357466's and I am going to revisit my Unique load in 38 Special once the weather breaks. The NOE is kinda a bugger to load in 38 Special cases for my old S&W revolver. I have to seat the deeper due to the long ogive and then taper crimp them This will be their first test for accuracy in that gun.

L-R - NOE, 357466 PC'ed and 357466 naked.
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[sigep1764]

Full length sized, tumbled, then trimmed the 300 cases of 270 Win I received the other day. Chamfer and debur will have to wait for Thursday.

[Walks]

PC'ed about 600 bullets today.

This was the 1st time I PC'd in a Production mode. Before it was only test batches of 50 or so. And small .32 cal RN's.

The batches of big 225-250gr bullets in qty of 50 - 75 bullets is a learning experience.

But they all came out really pretty with full coverage and no puddles from too much powder.

So I'm pretty happy. Learning with every session of PC'ing.

Now I just have to get MY cheap *** Lee Bullet sizing dies polished, so they don't scrape off the PC.

Tried the new mini cookie sheets My Fantastic Wife bought for me. T. O. has 2 racks and came with only one cookie sheet. My Wife found 3 more that fit so perfectly. And only 5bucks each.

Made a foil template. Cut a folded piece of non-stick foil, for each cookie sheet. So I'll have a piece I can turn over as needed.

I used Smokes "Flame Red" for the 1st time. Did 75 bullets at a time in my Zip-Lock 6"x6" shaker box, 5 tablespoons of BB's and teaspoon of powder to start.

I did 200 N.O.E 453-247-SWC, A brand new mold, got it from the New Year's Sale. Casts Beautiful bullets with sharp clean edges, drops from the 5cav mold with only a tap or two.

Then 200 from a Lee 45-225-TC 6cav that I bought here from Wrench last Month. GREAT Casting mold, drops all 6 with only a shake.

Then a last 200 with Eastwood "Squirrel Gray". PC'd the N.O.E TL432-240-FP 4cav, I got it from last year's New Year's Sale. JEEZ ! what a FANTASTIC casting mold. They all drop without even a shake.
They're for My Chiropractor's COWBOY .44mag loads.
Can't have bright colored bullets for Cowboy Action Shooting. Might embarrass then old man.

[Coyote3]

Spiffed up the "ol' bench" after painting, upgrading to LED lighting and installing vinyl tile flooring in the reloading room.


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[goryshaw]

Rendered about 3 lbs of raw beeswax. Current project is now to clean up all the wax spatter on the range, walls and floor :)

[MOA]

Rendered about 3 lbs of raw beeswax. Current project is now to clean up all the wax spatter on the range, walls and floor :)

Yup, I did 5 lbs last week, but only got the stove top. I took lighter fluid and a paper towel and it cleaned up real nice and quick.

[44Blam]

Setup my new 357 sig dies and made a dummy boolit with an accurate 125 yg style boolit.
Got it setup for a COL of 1.140 and they plunk perfectly.
I kept the boolit that cast the fattest when I was resizing this batch and made the dummy with that one.

I read about boolit setback, crushed necks, etc and I had no problems. I was also able to push my dummy boolit down on a scale at about 35 lbs and there was no setback.

Should be making some test loads in the next day or so. I need to be ready with about 150 by next Thursday so I have a week or so to work up a nice load... Seems like a long time, but it can get away from you if you fart around too much.

[cwlongshot]

Setup my new 357 sig dies and made a dummy boolit with an accurate 125 yg style boolit.
Got it setup for a COL of 1.140 and they plunk perfectly.
I kept the boolit that cast the fattest when I was resizing this batch and made the dummy with that one.

I read about boolit setback, crushed necks, etc and I had no problems. I was also able to push my dummy boolit down on a scale at about 35 lbs and there was no setback.

Should be making some test loads in the next day or so. I need to be ready with about 150 by next Thursday so I have a week or so to work up a nice load... Seems like a long time, but it can get away from you if you fart around too much.

I bought the Lee 358/125rf mold just for the lil sig round!

I just cast my first bullets from it Sunday, Ill powder coat later this week and maybe load some this weekend. I havent used cast in any of my 357sigs yet. Hope the bullet is a winner for me. Others have said it works for them.

Good luck with yours!

CW

[lightman]

Spiffed up the "ol' bench" after painting, upgrading to LED lighting and installing vinyl tile flooring in the reloading room.


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Thats a nice looking bench! I like the stack of storage containers on the left.

[44Blam]

I bought the Lee 358/125rf mold just for the lil sig round!

I just cast my first bullets from it Sunday, Ill powder coat later this week and maybe load some this weekend. I havent used cast in any of my 357sigs yet. Hope the bullet is a winner for me. Others have said it works for them.

Good luck with yours!

CW
I think casting and reloading is really the only way to shoot a lot of sig... Otherwise, it's like $0.75-$1.00 per round!

Good luck with yours too. Those little fast rounds sure do fly pretty flat and straight.

[cwlongshot]

I tell ya what!! My first two sigs where barrel swaps into 40 guns. BOTH times the guns where appreciably more accurate in sig than S&W!!! Im very impressed to say the least!

I bought a New G24 and a KKM 357Sig barrel to get a 6" 357 Sig!!

CW

[goryshaw]

I bought the Lee 358/125rf mold just for the lil sig round!

I just cast my first bullets from it Sunday, Ill powder coat later this week and maybe load some this weekend. I havent used cast in any of my 357sigs yet. Hope the bullet is a winner for me. Others have said it works for them.

Good luck with yours!

CW

I charged 100 9x19 with 3.8 gr of Power Pistol then tried seating the Lee 125 RF in them as cast. Won't chamber in either of my 9mm handguns, Star BM or Firestar M42. Have a Lee .356 sizing die arriving Thursday, will try them again after sizing and another coat of BLL.

[Butler Ford]

I got a 20mm ammo can to store them in so I'm on my second day of cleaning and oiling my moulds. Also making an inventory list to keep with them.

[kevin c]

I build two 18" X 30" screens out of lath and 1/4" hardware cloth, reinforced with metal rods under the mesh. Now I have four, and no excuse not to HiTek the 10K 9mm and the 2K miscellaneous slugs a friend asked to coated.

[Coyote3]

Thats a nice looking bench! I like the stack of storage containers on the left.

Thank you! The bench has served me for the last 40 years and the storage stack was my kid's idea. He had some leftover 3/4" plywood from a job, so we put it to good use.

[44Blam]

I tell ya what!! My first two sigs where barrel swaps into 40 guns. BOTH times the guns where appreciably more accurate in sig than S&W!!! Im very impressed to say the least!

I bought a New G24 and a KKM 357Sig barrel to get a 6" 357 Sig!!

CW

CW -
I just bought a Glock 35 (40 S&W) and the KKM .357 Sig barrel! :) Shot it with factory Jword bullets to sight in some aftermarket sights just this last Sunday.

Anyway, I loaded my first test loads this evening.

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[cwlongshot]

My G35 is one of my fav Glocks for sure!! KKM makes a AWESOME BARREL!!

Enjoy!!

CW

[NC_JEFF]

"What-did-you-do-in-the-reloading-room-today", replaced a depriming rod in a Lee 30-06 full length sizer die. The fun part was a few days ago, that's when I stuck 2 cases that I tapped out using the original depriming rod, causing it to bend. The lesson I learned is, only run your case into a resizing die 2-3 times max because anymore tha n that and your case lube is probably rubbed off.
Jeff

[triggerhappy243]

I have been sorting thru all of my excess brass. Running it all thru the wet tumbler to clean and polish it so I can post it all in the S&S section. I will never use it all, and would rather sell it all than to see whoever finds my dead body, throw it all into the trash.

[Tom W.]

I walked in, looked around, then sat on the stool for a few minutes. Scratched my head and left........

[cwlongshot]

CW -
I just bought a Glock 35 (40 S&W) and the KKM .357 Sig barrel! :) Shot it with factory Jword bullets to sight in some aftermarket sights just this last Sunday.

Anyway, I loaded my first test loads this evening.

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Loaded up some dummys with a 358-125rf Boolit!!

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[taco650]

I walked in, looked around, then sat on the stool for a few minutes. Scratched my head and left........

I walk past mine everyday but rarely stop anymore. Haven’t been shooting in months & the only round I’ve fired since summer was the ONE cartridge I took my deer with in December.

[Jlw6636]

Not in the reloading room but took some time today to make a 4 ingot mold out of 2” stainless angle. Hope to try it out soon.

[Conditor22]

Jlw6636 we'd love to see pictures of that 4 ingot stainless ingot mold

[tucumcari_kid]

Not in the reloading room but took some time today to make a 4 ingot mold out of 2” stainless angle. Hope to try it out soon.

++1 awesome idea

[cwlongshot]

Loaded some test 357Max Ammo

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[trixter]

Last summer, a friend gave me a metal 'gallon' can of 9mm brass. it was pretty dirty stuff, so first thing I did was run it all through my wet tumbler and let it dry in the sun (hot) for a whole day. then I put it back in the can. Last Saturday during the snow storm I brought it into the reloading room. Sorting through it, there is some head stamps that I've never seen before and they have berdan primers; those were added to my brass can to go to the recycler. Most of those left have military primers so after depriming those, I've been working through them with my RCBS primer swage and then putting them into a bin to reload. I also found about 1000 bullets that I had lubed with Lee liquid alox and put away when I started powder coating. So after work through the week, (rain and snow) I've been running a few every evening before bed. I know it might be cheaper to just buy ammo at the store, but I already have all of the components, and lotz of time (better than staring at the tube), so I am filling my time and filling the ammo boxes for better weather. I love this hobby.

[lightman]

I have been sorting thru all of my excess brass. Running it all thru the wet tumbler to clean and polish it so I can post it all in the S&S section. I will never use it all, and would rather sell it all than to see whoever finds my dead body, throw it all into the trash.

This is exactly what I have been doing, every since Christmas! How did we accluminate so much stuff!!!

[lightman]

Not in the reloading room but took some time today to make a 4 ingot mold out of 2” stainless angle. Hope to try it out soon.


Add me to the list that wants to see this! Awesome Idea!

[tucumcari_kid]

I tried the citric acid brass cleaning on some old (1940s) 30 luger brass, new once fired brass and some recent reused brass. It literally cut the time down from hours to minutes.... looks great, or at least good enough...

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[tucumcari_kid]

Made some 30L high pressure brass out of starline 9x23 Comp brass ....and 38 super (work in progress). I broke my modified shell holder and now I'm just waiting on some hornady dies. Hopefully they will work with standard shell holders...

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[Mal Paso]

Yesterday was my first day using the new shop. I hadn't been to the range in ages and stayed long enough to put 170 rounds down range. I cleaned the Redhawk and 629 then deprimed all the brass from yesterday's shoot and a few more and got the tumbler half full of brass to process today. It's running right now along with the heater to make the room comfortable. The shop is fully insulated so a 1500W heater gets it warm in a few minutes. Already I can see a need for a shelf for the scale and racks for cleaning rods. It's supposed to rain for another week so I have time to work on it. We are 400% of normal for rain so far. It great to have a shop again!

[robg]

Primed 170x 357 cases and 10 x 45-70 cases.

[ukrifleman]

Loaded a batch of 30-06, 170gn cast for my Remington model of 1917.
ukrifleman

[lightman]

Nothing for the last few days. Been busy helping the Wife clean out the kitchen cabinets in preparation for a remodel starting Monday. Temporally, some of the overflow is going into my loading room. :-(

[44Blam]

Got some new colors yesterday... I like this one - it's translucent booger green:
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[JM7.7x58]

I mixed up a batch of 45/45/10 tumble lube. It was my first time mixing up these chemicals. I did it in a double boiler setup on a Coleman stove, out in the backyard. I used a large soup can inside a sauce pan i had picked up at a thrift store. I used a steel ruler as a guide for how much Xlox and thinner to add. The metric side of the ruler worked out better for the amount I was trying to make, 2.25 centimeters of Johnson's Paste Wax (cooked down), 2.25 centimeters of the White Label Xlox, and .5 centimeters of paint thinner. I cheated by using paint thinner, but figured that if it didn't work I could always add a little naphtha, later.
When I was done I tumble lubed a test batch of 38 special 148gr wadcutters that I cast last weekend, the first cast boolits I have ever made. I will load some of these tomorrow.

[JBinMN]

I mixed up a batch of 45/45/10 tumble lube. It was my first time mixing up these chemicals. I did it in a double boiler setup on a Coleman stove, out in the backyard. I used a large soup can inside a sauce pan i had picked up at a thrift store. I used a steel ruler as a guide for how much Xlox and thinner to add. The metric side of the ruler worked out better for the amount I was trying to make, 2.25 centimeters of Johnson's Paste Wax (cooked down), 2.25 centimeters of the White Label Xlox, and .5 centimeters of paint thinner. I cheated by using paint thinner, but figured that if it didn't work I could always add a little naphtha, later.
When I was done I tumble lubed a test batch of 38 special 148gr wadcutters that I cast last weekend, the first cast boolits I have ever made. I will load some of these tomorrow.

Welcome to CB.GL Forum!
:)

Great topic to post up a 1st post!
;)


I use 45/45/10 a lot for my handguns. I hope it works out well for you too!

Easy components to find, not all that much cost & time to put it together & it will cover quite a few batches of boolits. A whole lot easier than pan lubing as well.
I pan lube rifle boolits mostly, and when ya first start in, they like to tip over, and like dominoes, when one falls, more like to join in, but once I have the holes left from the first batch, it goes much easier. Still like TL better though. ;)

Please take the time to let folks know how your 45/45/10 batch ends up working for you as well!
:)

[JM7.7x58]

[QUOTE=JBinMN;4590304]Welcome to CB.GL Forum!
:)

Great topic to post up a 1st post!
;)


I use 45/45/10 a lot for my handguns. I hope it works out well for you too!

Easy components to find, not all that much cost & time to put it together & it will cover quite a few batches of boolits. A whole lot easier than pan lubing as well.
I pan lube rifle boolits mostly, and when ya first start in, they like to tip over, and like dominoes, when one falls, more like to join in, but once I have the holes left from the first batch, it goes much easier. Still like TL better though. ;)

Please take the time to let folks know how your 45/45/10 batch ends up working for you as well!
:)




Thank You for the welcome.

I checked the 45/45/10 tumble lubed 148gr wadcutters this morning. They had just the smallest hint of tackiness, after about 18 hours in a 55 degree basement. I believe I can load them just like this.

The cooled lube, same basement temp, in a recycled dishwashing liquid bottle, is acting just like Hersey's syrup. I think that the lube is a success.

The next step will be to see how these work in my revolvers. All the talk of "Leading" on this forum has me worried. Fingers crossed.

Josh

[taco650]

Got some new colors yesterday... I like this one - it's translucent booger green:
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More like Incredible Hunk green! ��

[cwlongshot]

I loaded 50, 357sig with my 125g LEE hard cast.

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Loaded 50 45Colt with my 270 SWC Hard cast.

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Loaded 100 450 Bushmastets with my 300g Lyman Cast.

Out in the Garage, I cast up nearly 50#of 35’s in 125, 158 & 190g varietys.

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[sigep1764]

Loaded 200 rounds of 223 with MP 227-75 boolits with 15.5 grains of 748.

[skeettx]

Yesterday and today, loaded 44 Mag (250) Pro-jector , 9mm (100) 1050 , 38 Spec (200) Star , 45ACP (300) 1050.
Sure is nice to have a shop that I can leave locked and set up to load as the moment presents.
Also re-springed a Martini Cadet in 17 Ackley Bee.

[44Blam]

Loaded 150 357 sig for the TWO matches this week. 50 was the old standard red I use a lot and 100 were GREEN:
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