What did you do in the reloading room today?

[15meter]

Wow, fun day in the reloading room. Started using the two Lyman lube/sizers I refurbished last march and what a surprise I got. Went to load the top punch into it's dedicated location on the main shaft after opening up the lock screw and found that there was no hole drilled in it for the top punch. So had to change out for the other luber I had and got the job done. Just sent email off the Lyman along with this and a few other images of the problem. lol



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Curious if this is a custom spindle, doing big flat/wadcutter style boolits, just having a flat spindle in there may work as well as a top punch.

With the set screw being an end-of-stroke stop on the up-swing.

Just guessing here.........


Post above beat me to it while I was typing, day late, dollar short, story of my life.

[15meter]

Tried to form some 7x61 cases from 300 Win Mag, ugly results, may try a very light anneal on the neck tonight, then try again. I anneal at night, with the lights outs only light is the torches and a TV with an old film noir movie going (dim screen, dark music, great for a little reloading alchemy). Never have had any luck annealing before reforming before always crumpled the shoulder. This case may be the exception.

Did have some success converting 7mm Remington Mag. Takes almost as much effort as 300 Weatherby to 300 H&H.

LIGHTLY annealed some 300 Win Mag and some 7mm Remington Mag, then tried to re-form. The 300's appears to be too much, too fast but I don't have any intermediate dies to step it down sequentially. The case is too fat/long to fit into anything I have. Not sure there is any standard dies that will fit the bill.

The 7 mag work very well:
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As a plus it formed much easier than the shells that had not been annealed. Figure I'll make up 20 of them, just because I can, then go back to the factory brass.

Plus I inventoried both primers and powder while I was waiting for it to get dark enough to anneal. It was time to update my excel spreadsheets. Should have done this last week, I would have ordered another case of small rifle primers while there was a group buy at the club.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Cast up about a Dillon Akro bin of both 358156 and RCBS 44-255K
Lubes half of each batch with carnauba blue and coated the other half with Hi-Tek

[MOA]

Curious if this is a custom spindle, doing big flat/wadcutter style boolits, just having a flat spindle in there may work as well as a top punch.

With the set screw being an end-of-stroke stop on the up-swing.

Just guessing here.........


Post above beat me to it while I was typing, day late, dollar short, story of my life.

Na, 15meter. Not a custom spindle. Bought two handle conversion kits for my two lyman 450's. One just somehow missed getting the top punch hole drilled and it got missed in the inspection process

[MOA]

boy do I like that!

What kind of velocity are yo getting from them? What weight?

Not sure since I have not run them over a chrony. But likely in the area of 1250-1280 at the muzzle. That's with a 390gr boolit. This cartridge was loaded at the arsenal with a 3.89-4.09 gram black powder load for a 1266fps velocity. I'm in the same area maybe. Don't know what granulation they used, 1F, 2F?????? So, the finer one goes to some degree, velocity might increase.

[sigep1764]

Cast about 1000 Elco boolits and another 1000 227-75Nato. Loaded 600 9mm. It was a pretty good day off.

[Texas by God]

Sized and primed some 7.62x39 for boolits and bullets, rubbed another coat of Truoil on the 870 stocks, painted the steel parts on the new River Rat so it won’t rust riding in the Mule. Then I fed the dogs and ran the tractor in and out of the back door to pack down the ramp I built.

[15meter]

Made a 220 Swift case gage to use with the Hornady cartridge length gage. Fired case and drill and tap for the gage, 5/16-28 thread. Had to order the tap off Amazon. The tap's cost was about equal to one of the Hornady shells to work with their gage. Now I can make case gages for any of the oddball cartridges I load with out the drama of trying to get a custom case from Hornady. Plus the case gage was given to me by a buddy.

Won't work with the 22 Hornet though. I don't know if there is enough meat on a 221 Fireball case to work. May try that tomorrow.

[cwlongshot]

I fit a Mark X mauser stock for a Timney trigger. Then two coats of tru oil.

CW

[Tom W.]

Sorted a few w/w until the heat got too much to endure. It looks like 80% so far are steel, zinc and some rubber looking stuff...

[cwlongshot]

Sorted some tumbled brass.

Re mounted and bore sited two scopes.

Sized trimmed and primed 60 7mag cases for loading later.

CW

[brass410]

Started looking around to see if I could find a place to sit down and do some reloading. I think its time to invite George for a fishing trip, an adult, beverage or three, and see if there isn't something that catches his eye, hand or pocket. There is definetly an excess of goodies and stuff in there.

[15meter]

Still shooting weather, not reloading weather, buddy and I made reloading opportunities in 318 Westley Richards, 275 Rigby, 350 Rigby Magnum, 416 Rigby, 7x61 Sharpe & Hart and 375 Flanged Nitro Express.

Glad he's can afford the rifles, I can't even afford the ammo. But I will load the ammo if I can ring dingers with it.:grin:

When the weather turns.....

[MOA]

Still shooting weather, not reloading weather, buddy and I made reloading opportunities in 318 Westley Richards, 275 Rigby, 350 Rigby Magnum, 416 Rigby, 7x61 Sharpe & Hart and 375 Flanged Nitro Express.

Glad he's can afford the rifles, I can't even afford the ammo. But I will load the ammo if I can ring dingers with it.:grin:

When the weather turns.....

Sounds like a sweet deal. Would like to see what some of these rifles look like, they have got to be sweet looking toys.

[cwlongshot]

Last night I loaded 50-308’s, 50 more 30/06’s and 60-7Mags.

Then I case prepped fifty 357 Maxi and tumbled about a hundred 350 Legend brass to load today.

CW

[Michael J. Spangler]

Tumbled a batch of 45 Colt brass. I was all excited to load some up and I realized I already used up all of my boolits.
Guess I need to cast some more now.

[15meter]

Sounds like a sweet deal. Would like to see what some of these rifles look like, they have got to be sweet looking toys.

Only took a short video yesterday, no stills of the rifles. I have in the past, when I get to a real computer, not this tablet, I'll post some of his rifles. Most of them are works of vintage English gunmaker art.

[Bookworm]

... I think its time to invite George for a fishing trip, an adult, beverage or three, and see if there isn't something that catches his eye, hand or pocket. There is definetly an excess of goodies and stuff in there.

Be careful what you for. George's pockets are Tardis-like; larger on the inside than the outside.

Turn your back on him for a second, he'll abscond with anything portable.

[MOA]

Only took a short video yesterday, no stills of the rifles. I have in the past, when I get to a real computer, not this tablet, I'll post some of his rifles. Most of them are works of vintage English gunmaker art.

Super, thanks.

[Barman54]

Loaded up some J bullets in .223 for some testing, prior to loading a Whole Bunch.
Barman
Out

[cwlongshot]

I loaded ALLOT!

218bee, 308, 30/06, 357 Maxi, 350 Legend, 8mm Mauser and 450 Bushmaster. Some just size trim and prime. Ill finish off some More tomorrow then hit the range later!

Cw

[15meter]

Super, thanks.

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Just a little gun porn:drinks:

[robg]

But mine back together after spending a couple of days painting the hall and landing .been putting it off for ten years but swmbo put her foot down.

[taco650]

Worked over the lock in my Traditions Kentucky rifle and lightened the pull poundage to a good level. I don’t have a way to measure it but it’s way better than before!

[cwlongshot]

Broke a Simmons Whitetail Classic scope today...

The bugger still shoots MOA!! But the reticule has spun in the scope to be more like a X now! Hahahah

Back to the factory tomorrow!

Cw

[44Blam]

Cast about 500 240 grain 44s... :)
Around 1/2 are PB and the other 1/2 are GC. Need to cast a few more of these but I also need to cast a bunch of 40s too...
Gonna be casting for a couple days at least.

[15meter]

Sorted and cleaned a bunch of the used reloading stuff I bought over the weekend, fired up the Lyman model 61 pot that came with the pickup load of reloading stuff I bought, it works great. I think it heats up faster than my 3 year old RCBS.

Now to get a manual for the Model 61.

[cwlongshot]

Annealed 50 6.5/06 & 308 cases after tumbl cleaning them.

Resized then trimmed the 308’s.

CW

[44Blam]

Had 92 .357s left... So - loaded up 92 357 Sig for the steel match this week.
Those little 127 grn boolits sure do smack the steel!

[cwlongshot]

Love the lil sig round!!

I prepped 55 more 308 cases. Tumbled trimmed & annealed.

CW

[15meter]

Made an ivory (wart hog tusk) front bead for a buddy's rifle, sorted more of the reloading stuff I bought over the weekend. Loaded some test loads with the H380 in 243. Loaded some test loads for 30 carbine with some of the stash. Going to have to start shooting more to burn up some of the stuff from the last batch.

[NBraun]

Put together some 357 mag loads with 2400, and picked it up.

[44Blam]

Cast a big pile of 40 cal boolits...
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[trixter]

I switched my Lee Classic Cast Turret press from 45ACP to 9mm and ran a few to be sure it was ready to go. Then got ready and went to work.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Ran a 4 cavity NOE 453423 and a 2 cavity RCBS 45-255K side by side to empty a pot and a half.
Lubed and sized with carnauba blue till it ran out and switched to carnauba red which started to fill the lube grooves at the last 3 or 4 bullets in the batch.
Cranked out 100 38 special 3.5 grains of Bullseye topped with a bare bottomed 358156 seated to the bottom crimp groove. My favorite load.

[Green Frog]

After a Summer of not being able to go to the shop in the basement due to my knee replacement surgery in July, I'm finally able to get up and down steps again, so one of the first things I did yesterday was fire up the old Lee 4-20 and cast up a hatful of Minie Balls and bullets for my Maynard Carbine in preparation for my return to North-South Skirmish this weekend at Ft Shenandoah, Winchester, VA this weekend.

Today is lube day...I found the remnants of an old can of original Crisco and dragged out a block of beeswax and some anhydrous lanolin and a chunk of carnauba wax to make up a couple of pounds of my modified Emmert's Lube to make the bullets slick. I pan lubed the Minies first and have just remelted the Emmert's to do the same for the carbine bullets. Tonight I'll finish sizing and loading them so I can pack the car first thing in the morning. [smilie=w:

Maybe I'll actually get on the road by mid-day. :roll:

Froggie

[Tom W.]

still waiting for it to cool a bit... the high 90's is not conducive to good loading, even with the A/C on. Plus I'm awaiting my new scale....

[MOA]

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Just a little gun porn:drinks:


15meter,
Thanks for the images. Sweet looking battery. I'd find myself at the range all the time if I owned them I can tell you that.

[Hossfly]

Poured 30, 2# ingots of close to pure lead last night, with my new set up 150 Gallon propane tank.
Only has 15% on gauge, should last a while if all I do is melt with it.

[Bookworm]

Decapped and washed a couple hundred 44 Spl brass. Got them laying out in the sun.

When they dry, into the vibratory tumbler. Then sort and load.

[Hossfly]

1st bucket of 5, ww yielded 22#13.75 oz. SOWW and 54# COWW. 2nd bucket yielded 62# COWW no SOWW 2nd bucket mostly all good lead ww very little ZN must have been quite old it was stuck way back under stairs, other 4 have more SOWW and ZN scrap. Weather finally cooled some so had to try out new set up in big shop with propane piped in and cut off 50# Freon can a lots easer to sort on large table and hooked up to larger propane at $1.46 per gallon much more economical.

[EMC45]

Dug through all my "stuff" and did a small impromptu inventory. Knives, bullets, brass etc. Nothing too fancy, just digging around.

[44Blam]

Powder coated 422 40 cal boolits with Smoke's John Deere green. They look nice.

[Green Frog]

Yesterday I shot a Carbine Team match at the N-SSA Fall Nationals with the bullets from Post #8041 (we won a minor medal) and today the musket comes out! Life is good! :cool:

Froggie

[Dale53]

Go get 'em, Froggie! Happy to see things are going well for you. Guess it's been a tough summer, for you!:drinks:

Dale53

[Bookworm]

Got the 44 Spl brass out if the tumbler, sorted and counted. Ended up with 243 pieces.

Decapped 70 pieces of 7.62x54r, the rounds fired at the military Bolt-gun match at the club yesterday.
Cleaned the primer pockets, dumped 'em in the tumbler for 2 hours.
They're ready to brush the necks, and neck size.

[AlaskaMike]

After 6 years of being in the new house, I finally built my reloading bench with the help of my 11 year old daughter recently. Last night she helped me load up 50 rds of .38 special using 150 gr SWCs that I cast and lubed about 10 years ago. It was her first time handloading, and I'm not sure who enjoyed it more--her or me!

[taco650]

After 6 years of being in the new house, I finally built my reloading bench with the help of my 11 year old daughter recently. Last night she helped me load up 50 rds of .38 special using 150 gr SWCs that I cast and lubed about 10 years ago. It was her first time handloading, and I'm not sure who enjoyed it more--her or me!

That’s cool no matter how you slice it! ��

[cwlongshot]

Sadly nothing this week... Im 400 miles away on the road for work.

CW

[Tom W.]

Unpacked my new scale and got it zeroed out. It's a bit different from my last one, but I think I'll
get used to it.....

[bigmaico]

I fired up the casting pot & used my new Lee 40Cal 170g TL mold.

Just did a quick batch of 250 rounds, Then while cleaning up I caught my thumb on the darn casting spoon:oops:

Ouch! Forgot the darn gloves again [smilie=b: Got a quick reminder..

[The Dar]

Just finished sorting the last of the bucket and a half of brass that I picked up from the range Sunday afternoon. Nothing exciting in this batch, about 100 38 Special, 6 357 Mag, and 4 44 Mag. And of course, thousands of 9mm.

[lightman]

Nothing much, just got back from vacation. I did sort a cup of weights and a cup of range brass that a friend dropped by. Felt good, even if it was just tinkering!

[sigep1764]

Yesterday, second to last day of vacation, I casted 2000 MP 227-75 Nato boolits and 1000 Elco boolits. I gas checked all the MP boolits and ran the Elco's through the Star. Then went to the range today, last day of vacation. Also weighed lubed and checked Nato boolits. Coming in at 71 grains give or take a tenth or two. Ive been cautious about the loading thinking they were in the 75-77 grain range. Might be able to notch it up a little.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Just loaded some 45 Colt on the dillon. Boy those new Starline cases size hard. I was almost about to lube the cases. The primer pockets are tight too. I kept having to remove cases from the press and finish priming on my lee hand primer.
Then I switched over to 38 specials and wow are they easy to size ahahaha. So easy I didn't notice when a 357 case made it's way in to the mix which I always tend to catch just by the increased effort needed to size the case.
Ahh well 110 45s and 100 38s to waste some time before bed was nice

[Texas by God]

Sized/ deprimed some 9mm brass, rubbed in the 13 th coat of TruOil on a stock, and cleaned the chamber on a Savage 99 .243 to analyze sticky extraction problem.

[Bookworm]

Neck brushed, neck-sized, and primed 70 pieces of 7.62x54r. I'll try to get them loaded in a few days for the Military Bolt-gun match at the club first of the month.

Pre-heated my new H&G #50 clone from MP. Made an oven over the hotplate, heated it 3 times; 250, 325, and 375 degrees successively.
I let it cool to room temp between heatings. Hopefully I can cast with it in the next month or so.

[redhawk0]

Whipped up a perfect batch of little soldiers for my upcoming NH hunt. Lee 170 FP, powder coat, W748 - 32.0gr and WLRM primers stuffed into R-P brass.

I feel ready now.

redhawk

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[Tom W.]

Just went in and loaded up my ammo bag for tomorrow. I'm going to fire form some more 30/30 a.i. cases and shoot my .44 SRH tomorrow.

[Michael J. Spangler]

Last night I loaded 200 each 38 special. 3.5 grains of bullseye and a 358156 lined with carnauba blue seated to the bottom crimp groove. Tonight I did the same with 200 more with carnauba red.
Should be enough for a week or two of shooting.

[Hanzy4200]

I'm trying out my new Frankford Arsenal rotary tumbler. I bought it to clean the baffles of my .22 suppressor, but found it cleans brass crazy clean. Not as complicated as some people make it look. My Lyman vibratory might get shelved. Also working up subsonic loads for my 9MM's. Working with 147 gr Lyman's and Eastwood powder coat. 2.5 gr. of Tightgroup looks promising.

[EMC45]

Sized a bunch of .32 S&W-L and 7.62X54R brass.

[cwlongshot]

Started in the garage with a hot 20# pot of lead!

Cast mostly with a 270g Accurate mold. Second mold was a NOE 230g. Both are a Ranch Dog designed profile.

Prepped 50 308’s

Loaded 20 6.5/06 W/ 140SST & H4350

Loaded a ladder (short) W/1680 & 150 Corlokt in the Legend

Loaded a NEW ladder with H110 and a 170 Gold Dot SP in the Legend.

Was a good day!

[Tom W.]

Sized the .44 mag cases that I shot today, as well as almost a whole box of once fired (now )
.45 Colt brass a man gave me. I have almost 50, maybe more, of 30/30 a.i. brass that I fireformed today. I also managed to knock my plastic Midway box that I have loaded with ready to fire loads onto the concrete twice, and shatter the lid.

[Loudy13]

Made some test loads for my .45 with new boolits I cast from my new HG68 Mihec mold which has been sitting on the shelf for quite a while now.
started with 4.0 grs of Red dot (I have 10+ lbs that I want to use at some point) loaded some at 4.5 and 5.0 grains.
Now just have to find some time to shoot em so I can load the rest

[Hanzy4200]

Working up subsonic 9MM loads. Casted about 700 147 gr Lyman pills and powder coated them yesterday. Using Eastwood PC. Wife's cooking lunch, then it's family nap time, and I'm off to the range! Running them is a gen 3 Glock 17 with Faxon match barrel and Hybrid 46 suppressor.

[ak_milsurp]

Loaded up 200 rounds of 8x50R Lebel. Lee 329-205 boolit(as cast), gas checked, BLL, 16 gr 2400, WLP, seated so gas check is just at bottom of neck.

This load is wonderfully accurate in my M1916 Berthier.... And hopefully in my recently acquired Lebel R35 carbine....

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[Tom W.]

Cleaned my 30/30 a.i.

[Hossfly]

Melted 80# WW into ingots, now have over 2,000# stacked up in the reloading room.

[bobby]

Sorted 3 buckets of ww, which netted about 40 percent clip on and 20 percent stick on. not alot of zinc

[AlaskaMike]

I processed about 500 pieces of .45 auto brass, and then loaded up 100 rds using this bullet from an old Lee group buy a little more than 10 years ago:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?12094-Catshooter-s-45-210-Group-Buy-starts-here!

4.0 grains of Clays with an OAL of 1.21".

This load works beautifully in both my Sig P220 and Springfield MilSpec.

[trixter]

10/13 Checked my range bag, loaded up targets and off to my shooting place. I shot 50 rounds of 9mm. This was with Lee 358-105 SWC that I had lubed with Lee Liquid Alox, and sized to .356. I wanted to use boolits sized to .357, but couldn't get them to fit my barrel 'Plunk' test to my satisfaction. I used 3.7gr of bullseye and am happy with the results. The .356 performed very well and made beautiful "Hole Punch" holes in my targets. They grouped as well as my shaky old hands could hold them on target. I'm happy with them. More to come.

[Tom W.]

Got up rather early and turned on the tumbler. I let the brass .44 mag and .45 Colt, run most if the day, at least until the Talladega race was over, and then went in and lubed and sized my fireformed brass and put that into the tumbler. I'll check the length and trim what needs trimming tomorrow, depending on how this old body is doing.....

[Tom W.]

Got up early again for some strange reason so I turned on the tumbler. About three hours later I dumped it, inspected my brass again, trimmed what was needed and discarded the stuff that was questionable to me.

[robg]

Sized ,trimmed and expanded 45 x 45-70 cases I shot on Sunday .hadn't been shooting for 3 weeks and it showed but I got better as I got back in the groove .

[Hossfly]

I think I got enough lead for at least a year.


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[Hossfly]

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[Blackhawk357]

Casted a few myself today. Going to tumble lube a few and size / lube the MP 180 .357. The eight banger did outstanding today. Thanks bluejayhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191017/5cbb79624448518117695ae121f97016.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191017/7002bdbeee37bf73256f85ee4d79d7b7.jpg

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[cwlongshot]

I only tossed a few in the tumbler... We had some company last night.

Cw

[robg]

Tumbled 45x 45-70 cases look like new now .

[Nodakjohns]

Cast some 372 grn hp and 320 grn hp and then culled and pc them. Sized and gc the ones i did a few weeks ago then prepped 20 new starline 45-70 brass and then loaded it.

[smilin jack]

Nothing today, but did read my Lyman 4th edition Cast Boolit handbook.
Yesterday the polisher did 3 batches of pistol brass (357, 38spec, 45acp) and a batch of 30-30 win.
Loaded 50 rounds of 30-30win with Lee 150gr flat nose gas checked and lubed in my old grey Lyman lube/sizer to 0.312".
H2400 16gr to push the load down the barrel of a NEF break action 30-30 win.
Should be a great deer load for the 12 y.o. grand daughter.
Sorry no pics.

[15meter]

Smelted down ~ 100 lbs. of lead of various types-- cast boolits from dead guy stuff in calibers that I don't load, bunch of what I suspect is pretty close to pure lead--boolits from a North-South skirmish match and a batch of range lead mixed with a bunch of 22 rimfire boolits.

The rimfire batch was interesting, it was given to me by a buddy, I didn't check it, just tossed it into and empty pot and set it on the turkey fryer. Went over to stir it and skim the dross off the top when there was a rather nice BANG, Cool beans man, never had a live round go off in the pot before.

And the tinsel fairy didn't get me:drinks:

[44Blam]

Made next month's batch of 40s... It's about 16 lbs of metal so maybe 6-700...
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[vtech26]

Sized a bunch of green powder coated Lee 230 TC to use with my "Distressed" cases. Placed some bullets on top of the cases to get the look. I think they will come out looking pretty neat. The cases were wet tumbled then put in vibratory tumbler with wax and corncob media. 250008

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[cwlongshot]

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I cast 20# of 457122 & 457191

[redhawk0]

I got another box of 50 loaded up today...this batch was 35 Rem. Hunting season is less than a month away up here.

redhawk

[Michael J. Spangler]

Sized a bunch of green powder coated Lee 230 TC to use with my "Distressed" cases. Placed some bullets on top of the cases to get the look. I think they will come out looking pretty neat. The cases were wet tumbled then put in vibratory tumbler with wax and corncob media. 250008

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I like that look. What did you use to distress the brass?

[ak_milsurp]

Cast, seated gas checkes, and tumble lubed 300+ Lee (BLL).329-205-1R. Water quenched WW + 2%TIN.....

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[Texas by God]

I started pushing up some pull downs I recently bought here. Don’t tell anyone that I’m loading 44-40s with 200 gr JHPs............

[Bookworm]

Checked and sized about 9 pounds of Lee C312-185-1R for the M39 Finn.

Tumble lubed and sized 11 pounds of 38 wadcutters from my new MP mould (360-160-WC).

[RogerDat]

Melted some lead sheathed cable, some foil from dental xray film. Cleaned up enough to find the floor and at least some bench top. Ran the brass from a friends funeral salute through tumbler with SS pins so his widow would have clean brass to put in a keepsake box for the grandkids.

[cwlongshot]

Im powder coating yesterdays cast. Then loading some 6.5’s.

CW

[robg]

Sized and expander 60 x357 mag cases from Sunday at the range.

[kevin c]

Mounted LED strip lights over the benches.

The good news is, now I can see!

The bad news is, now I can see!

The amount of junk cluttering the bench tops is amazing...

[44Blam]

Loaded some boogie boolits:
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[joe leadslinger]

Loaded some 9mm with boolits sized .356 and .357 going to see what the gun likes.
Re-sized and trimmed 100 pcs. 308 brass.

[ak_milsurp]

Had a Lee 8x56R seater die modfied for the "Oldfeller Frankenstein" bullet.... Had it opened up to.341" (from .332). A local machine shop did it for me on a lathe for $20... Lee folks suggested that, rather than wait months due to their custom shop backlog.

Also had to shorten the seater plug a bit.... I wanted at least two threads engaged on the seater " top" at my seating depth..

This puts the gas check just at the beginning of the case neck. The finished cartridge feeds when loaded in the clips and functions through the Steyr M95 action perfectly....

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[jdfoxinc]

Started sizing my 30 cal. ammo can of 90 gr. .356 bullets. I love this star sizer.

[Tom W.]

Cleaned my SRH .44 mag.

[Budzilla 19]

Inventoried the amount of presses I have. Too many, some got to go!!! Stand by for swap and sell ad!! Can’t pile them up forever, I guess.

[redhawk0]

Not in the reloading room...but finally had a "nonwindy" day to melt some lead. I melted and poured about 175 lbs of soft lead today. I love my 2.5 lb - 50 cent muffin tins.

redhawk

[Texas by God]

I “learned by doing” an 80% AR15 lower with a router and drill press. The next one should be easier I think. Slow Fun.

[44Blam]

I “learned by doing” an 80% AR15 lower with a router and drill press. The next one should be easier I think. Slow Fun.

I got the 5dtactical jig and have done several ar15 and ar10 lowers. You use a router and it is super easy. The first one took about 45 min and the subsequent ones took around 30 or so min.
EDIT:
And they turn out perfect...
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[lightman]

Nothing yet but I need to give my muzzle loader a bath today.

[bbogue1]

Quality checked couple hundred cases. Counted loaded rounds then made a plan since i didn't have as many as I thought.

[ak_milsurp]

Cast, gas checked, and lube/sized 400+ "Oldfeller Frankenstein" boolits for my trusty M95 Steyr straight pull rifle and carbine... Sized .338 ......

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[cwlongshot]

Tumbled a few hundred pieces of brass from Last weekends range trip.

Started preping 6.5 Grendels for some 95g VMax coyote loads Im needing.

[StuBach]

Blended a small batch of COWW+2% for next casting sessionhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191029/9912eaee86214a94d4fdfcbe845b0e8f.jpg

Gotta love the CB ingot molds

[cwlongshot]

I fully prepped fifty 6.5 Grendel cases.

[44Blam]

Couple months ago, I got a good deal on some 308 primed LC brass. Finally loaded up some for the long range shoot this weekend.

Love it when you fire and start counting: 1...2...3...4...(ding)

[Bookworm]

Hanging some shelves.

I'm going to run out of wall space.
It doesn't help that my reloading room is also my office, and a small room to start with.

[Tom W.]

I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I haven't had any "want to do anything" for some strange reason. Maybe after I fire form some more brass or something.....just been feeling yuccky lately.

[trails4u]

I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I haven't had any "want to do anything" for some strange reason. Maybe after I fire form some more brass or something.....just been feeling yuccky lately.

I feel ya Tom....I've been feeling the same way. Have a hunting trip coming up next weekend....do it every year with GREAT friends, and I've still not gotten myself to the bench to work up this year's loads. I have cartridges loaded, I know they're dead nuts, but still....part of the game is getting ready for the game. And....I just don't feel it.

Let's say.....I'll make you a deal. Get up and do some loading, and I'll do the same!!

[Tom W.]

Had to run a few errands today. Still haven't loaded anything......I'm going to sorry away.......

[obssd1958]

Tom! Buck up!
You'll get to it - we have faith in you!
I look forward to seeing what you've accomplished in the reloading room, and at the range. I've managed one range day, and one day in the reloading room, in the last 6 months. You keep me hopeful that I too will eventually get to spend some time doing the things that I love to do!!

Don

[ak_milsurp]

Cast, sized, lubed, an gas checked 500 boolits... Lyman 358156
WW & 2%tin, water quenched.

Used Jake's "Ceresin Purple", with a BLL "overcoat"...sized .360 wish Sage's 35. Cal aluminum checks.

All with a two cavity mold..... I was busy! Lol

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[Tom W.]

This coming Saturday at the range there will be a turkey shoot. I've never been to one and haven't fired one of my shotguns in over 7 years or so. I'm going to go pick up my 1100 from my son's house and use it. After the shoot I was told that there may be our regular range time, but that wasn't a promise......

[super6]

Melted 65 lbs mono type letter press scrap fluxed and Ingot

He did say reloading room?

[StuBach]

Tried out my new powder coating containers today. Picked up some Ikea locking containers that have the rubber seal and a lip around the inside of the lid. Zero powder leakage even after several batches. I’m pretty happy with the price of $2.50 each set too.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191103/78251ba085e3ce4ee3bf9e6f13e1805d.jpg

Another note for those that hadn’t seen yet. The silicone baking mat works great for PC instead of the NS Foil. 2 dozen bakes in and still no bullets sticking. Picked up a 4pk f the mats at Costco and I noticed their on promo this month for anyone looking to switch.

[Tom W.]

My reloading room is in the multi purpose shed. A goodly portion of the stuff in there is my loading and fishing stuff, but I still have to share some of the room for Lori's stuff.... today I had to take some of her summer clothes out there and bring back several bags of her winter clothes. Teachers dress differently than other ladies, I believe. However, my son called and said he'd bring my shotgun to me after he got finished bowhunting this week.

[robg]

Put my bench and reloading gear back together after having to move it all to decorate and have a new carpet on the stairs and landing .only taken 10 years to get round to it.

[Bookworm]

Shot the Military Bolt-gun match Sunday. Deprimed and cleaned the primer pockets of those 70 pieces of 7.62x54r.
Washed in hot soapy water, rinsed, quick soak in Lemi-shine and out in the sunshine to dry.

Just got them out if the tumbler. Next is anneal, neck size, length check. Then load em up again for next month.

[lightman]

Sorted through a large cup of wheel weights that a friend dropped off. Only 3 Zinc in about 10 pounds. Sorted through, washed and deprimed a large cup of range brass that another friend dropped off. Deer season opens here this weekend and I'm finally finding something other than 9mm, 40 S&W and 223!

[rcslotcar]

Started to set cores in copper jackets. I have about 6k to do.

[drac0nic]

I inventoried a bunch of partial cans of powder I got as well as loaded up a few .45 auto rounds. I got some PB and am wanting to see what it does. I also lathed up a fixed bushing for my Hornady powder measure to drop 9gr Blue Dot. I learned a few things so the next few I make will be even better.

[Iowa Fox]

Tried out my new powder coating containers today. Picked up some Ikea locking containers that have the rubber seal and a lip around the inside of the lid. Zero powder leakage even after several batches. I’m pretty happy with the price of $2.50 each set too.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191103/78251ba085e3ce4ee3bf9e6f13e1805d.jpg

Another note for those that hadn’t seen yet. The silicone baking mat works great for PC instead of the NS Foil. 2 dozen bakes in and still no bullets sticking. Picked up a 4pk f the mats at Costco and I noticed their on promo this month for anyone looking to switch.

Where did you get the IKEA locking containers?

[drac0nic]

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Used up some loose powder I got for free, between the two it was good for about 20 rounds of 243 win. I loaded up the 100grs with 40gr of IMR 4350 and the 80grs with 37gr of IMR 331. Nothing hot just some blasting ammo.

[44Blam]

Setup load ladders of Blue Dot and AA #9 for the new 10mm...

Should get some chrono #'s this weekend.

[cwlongshot]

Haha

I loaded some 10mm last night too!!

Three different bullets. 220g WFNHP, 200g WFN HARDCAST, Lyman 200g TC bullet. All on top of Blue Dot.

No data for the 220 so Im working up.

Also loaded ANOTHER 50 308’s for my buddy. We hit the range 30 min before close. JUST TO TAKE FOULING SHOTS after cleaning for next weeks opener. I fired 9 bullets from two rifles. He fired almost 70.... Didnt fire first couple in the dirt and started crankin on the scope. Subsequently he was chasin his ***. He is one of those “GOTTA BE 5 shots to make a group” ;). I shot one in the bank and three on paper. Twice then took one standing shot with my main rifle. DONE.

CW

[StuBach]

Where did you get the IKEA locking containers?

Ikea has them in their kitchen portion of the store (downstairs in our store here in MI).

Below is a link to one but if you have an Ikea store nearby cheaper to buy In store.


https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ikea-365-food-container-with-lid-rectangular-plastic-s19269079/

Edit: sorry originally posted link to wrong container, the one above is what I got.

[tankgunner59]

The wind finally died down enough that I could cast. I wanted to give my Lee 10 pounder a good cleaning, so after casting about 500 pills for the wifes 380 Auto, 38 Special and my 357 Magnum, it is now cooling with the heavy stuff already scraped out of it. Tomorrow I'll get it back out and use my wire brushes to clean it good and get ready for the next session.

[44Blam]

I primed/belled 24 10 mm cases and boolits, packed up about 80 grain each of Blue Dot and AA#9, packed my lee hand press, a scale, a funnel and my die setup for ad-hoc loadings on Saturday 10mm load test at the range.
I love dialing in my loads...

[cwlongshot]

I primed/belled 24 10 mm cases and boolits, packed up about 80 grain each of Blue Dot and AA#9, packed my lee hand press, a scale, a funnel and my die setup for ad-hoc loadings on Saturday 10mm load test at the range.
I love dialing in my loads...
SAME SAME HERE!! Even same powder & 10mm Caliber!!

Also loaded a ladder of 350 Legends with 300-MP powder.

Shooting Saturday

CW

[dverna]

Loaded some test loads for the new rifle and scope.

[phantom22]

Cast 500+ .40 S&W boolits. 175gn Truncated cone from the 2 cavity lee die.

[44Blam]

SAME SAME HERE!! Even same powder & 10mm Caliber!!

Also loaded a ladder of 350 Legends with 300-MP powder.

Shooting Saturday

CW

So, I found AA9 to be a bit cleaner burning and had a smaller spread at all loading levels...
Now, I played around with loads for AA9, but ran out of time for the BD... So, I'm gonna have to go back and try a little stiffer charges with BD.

And with either powder there was NO problem getting a 185 grain boolit up to 1250 fps in a 4.2" barrel... Good times!

[cwlongshot]

I loaded up 150 357 Magnum shells. 100 158 Lyman SWC powder coated gloss black And 50 160 HP all with. BLue Dot.

CW

[tazman]

I decided to find out if my revolvers had a preference for a particular powder. I loaded up five 50 round boxes of 158 grain RNFP cast boolits using Titegroup, Bullseye, Win 231, CFE pistol, and Win WSH. All loads are near max for 38 special but less than +P.
I have a couple more handgun powders available but did not have time to load them. If I have time, I will do so tomorrow.
I expect to get to the range sometime this week. I will take as many of my 38/357 revolvers with me as I can. I have eight of them to test.
S&W 60, 13, 14, 15, 19, 686, Ruger Security 6 and a Speed 6.
That's not much more than a cylinder full for each gun/load, but I am looking for indications of a distinct preference and hoping for no preference at all.

[drac0nic]

Cranked out 2 boxes of 38 spl+p 105 lee swc with 4.5 he IMR PB. Gotta have something to shake the Dan Wesson down with. Maybe a few for the model 38 as well. If I can't get my .45 shooting well I will probably use the half lb this way. Otherwise I am probably using up this batch that way.

I should really crank a few out in 357 mag with h110 for that too. Bet those are screamers!

[Loudy13]

After shooting test loads a few days ago I loaded up 300+, 45 loads with 200gr SWC from my new HG68 replica 6 holer. Loaded with 4.5 grains of red dot (cuz I have 10 lbs of it)

[robg]

Loaded 50 x 45-70 and 50x 357mag .have catch up as I've been too busy to do anything as swmbo had me painting the hall and landing.

[tankgunner59]

Deprimed about 500 pieces of range police brass, then wet tumbled them. Now I'm in the process of tumble polishing them. Counted out 200 22-250 cases for a local trade later this week for 200 7.62X39 cases. Cast about 500 pills the other day and I'll be powder coating them this week.

[Bookworm]

Neck sized and primed the 70 freshly annealed 7.62x54r cases from the club Bolt-gun match a couple Sundays ago.

Weight sorted 9 pounds of Lee C312-185-1R that I cast a few weeks ago. Sorted in 3 piles : 184+ gr, 185+ gr, 186+ gr.
The majority were 185 - 185.99 grains. I'm pretty pleased with the consistency, I used 2 Lee moulds to cast the bunch.

Anything 183 gr I saved for foulers, turned out to be only 10 boolits.
Only 1 boolit under weight, it goes back in the pot.

[drac0nic]

I modded my LNL AP a bit more and blew through 100 rds of .38 Special. I thought I was running above +P loads but it turns out they're just .38 SPL+P which is good. I don't like loading hot into .38 brass and would rather use .357 brass for that. I cranked a box of Lee 105 SWCs with 4.9gr PB (the +P loading for 110gr XTPs) as well as a loading of 4.4gr PB which is standard pressure. I'm predicting good results in my j-frame and needed some ammo to test the Dan out with anyways. Between this and the box of .45 ACP I made I should already be 1/3 through the can. At some level I'm just trying to consolidate the powder collection by loading it up. :D

I did some repair on my priming for this press. The adjustment for the shuttle wouldn't go back far enough to line up with the tube so I ovaled the hole of the plastic piece a bit more. It seems to work now with a lot less jam ups and I only had 1 primer of the 100 where the round didn't have a primer in it. Big big improvement and something that could have easily enough been a technique error. I didn't have to take it apart which was huge.

Maybe I'll crank out some 9mm tomorrow. We'll see. I need to definitely make a few thousand more bullets at this point as I'm way ahead in the other components. Snow's on the ground though and it was supposedly -9 with windchill. Yeah, not casting many slugs in that for sure!

[tazman]

I decided to find out if my revolvers had a preference for a particular powder. I loaded up five 50 round boxes of 158 grain RNFP cast boolits using Titegroup, Bullseye, Win 231, CFE pistol, and Win WSH. All loads are near max for 38 special but less than +P.
I have a couple more handgun powders available but did not have time to load them. If I have time, I will do so tomorrow.
I expect to get to the range sometime this week. I will take as many of my 38/357 revolvers with me as I can. I have eight of them to test.
S&W 60, 13, 14, 15, 19, 686, Ruger Security 6 and a Speed 6.
That's not much more than a cylinder full for each gun/load, but I am looking for indications of a distinct preference and hoping for no preference at all.

Update on the testing. I ended up loading 7 different powders. I took the laded rounds and my revolvers to the range today and fired off all the loads.
I did find two powders that seem to shoot somewhat better than the rest but not by a lot. The testing was highly subjective in that I was shooting offhand at 10 yards. I would fire 6 rounds from each gun and inspect the target after each 6 rounds to see what was happening.
With all but 3 powders, I was getting consistent groups of three inches with all guns. Those three powders tightened the groups by about an inch. It was noticeable when it happened.
The three powders were CFE Pistol, Bullseye, and WSH.
I expected CFE Pistol and Bullseye to shoot well. I have worked with them a lot over the last few years. The surprise was WSH. It isn't considered a pistol powder and I have never seen or heard of anyone using it before in 38 special. I have used it before in 9mm.
All the other powders performed as you would expect. Nothing bad, just nothing outstanding.

[drac0nic]

Not too surprised on Bullseye honestly I noticed the same thing compared to Titegroup. Kind of annoys me since I have a 4lb jug of the stuff I'm not quite half way through and you have to crunch out a LOT of ammo to actually use the stuff up. Maybe I'll try another caliber.

I cranked out 100 more loads with PB. I dropped down to 4.4gr instead of 4.9gr (the +P loading) in case it doesn't work out well. I should really test some of this stuff it's gonna suck if there's an issue since I have about 250 rounds of it made now+another 50 or so of .45 ACP.

Debating if I want to do a box of Lee 105 SWCs in .357 mag with 296 next or if I want to do some with Bullseye. Either way, I need a box or two in order to make the call of my people at the range.

[44Blam]

Cast about 500 or so Accurate 40-180H boolits for my 10mm...
I think I need to do another session this weekend and do another 500 or so. :D

The 10mm is the *new* gun and after building up a nice load, I think I'm gonna be shooting it a lot.

[cwlongshot]

The 10is a favorite here too Bam!!

Im having to take a lil hiatus from my loading room... trading it for deer camp!

CW

[Hossfly]

Ordered a set of mini connectors for attaching different sensors, (thermocouples) to the pid box. So I can switch from Lee 20# pot to the bake oven for powder coating. Easy install with a Drimmel cutting wheel. This time only took 1 wheel, key to cutting with this apparatus, is going slow and let it cut (real slow) if you go too fast you just tear up cutting disk. Temperature holds close to set point +- 1’perfect for either. 400’ or 725’
Cast em up and pc em up.

[robbyPGP2014]

Coated 379 40 cal 145swc,s this morning.

[robbyPGP2014]

Coated 379 40,s this morning cast yesterday

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I haven't done much in the reloading room lately.
BUT, yesterday, during the House impeachment show, I decided to sort and package Primers.

A couple years ago, I acquired 4 large pill bottles of unused bulk packed Primers.
I knew that style of storage is a recipe for disaster, and have been meaning to repack them into Winchester packaging that I have saved. There were a few thousand primers, so I hadn't felt like spending that kind of time on a project like this, until yesterday.

I also spent the time to inspect them and sort out any that may be of different manufacture. I also compared them to others I have in my stash, to see of the anvil style and glue/sealer color matched anything, so I could have an idea of what they were, since the pill bottles only labeling was in black marker "lg pistol" "sm pistol" "lg Rifle" "sm Rifle".

It took several hours...but I got 'em sorted, packed and labeled (3 and a half bricks) ...and finished before the pundents started yakking about how the Hearing went.

The Large Rifle primers were that only bottle with mixed manufacturers...and that was luckily only 6 out of 400ish total, that were different than the majority.
All the pistol primers were Winchesters (WSP/WLP). The small rifle primers were CCI 400 and I have no idea what the majority of the Large rifle were?

[Jack Stanley]

Cleaned a shotgun in preparation for tomorrows holiday for hunters .

Jack

[fa38]

Reworked a Lee full length sizing die to be able to resize loaded cartridges that had been previously neck sized for another rifle that I sold in 1989. I broke down a few of the cases to try the empty brass in my two rifles and stuck the brass in both so they all need to be body and shoulder resized. The reworked die works very well.

So I now have about 1700 .223 left do do.

[drac0nic]

I acquired some H4198 powder. Excited about that. I'm going to trade my Titegroup off for some other powder. Maybe CFE Pistol or (preferably) some rifle powder.

[sigep1764]

Honest question, how do you have 1700 loaded rounds from 1989? I cant keep 10k of 9mm loaded for more than a year! Do I need to step up my stashing game?

[smilin jack]

Loaded a box of 30-30 w/115gr cast RN for grand kid break action. Her dad is taking her on first deer hunt.
Trail Boss is working fine and mild recoil.
Switched over to 45acp for more fun reloading. Tumbled a batch each of 223 and 45acp.

[fa38]

Honest question, how do you have 1700 loaded rounds from 1989? I cant keep 10k of 9mm loaded for more than a year! Do I need to step up my stashing game?
My shooting buddy and I would load 4000 rounds apiece for a week and a half for Wyoming prairie dogs. I had 3 Rem 700 Varmint .223 rifles and had neck sized rounds for 2 of them. We had nothing but educated dogs and had about not quite half of our ammo to take back home. My ammo got consolidated into two 50 cal. ammo cans by mistake and it was not by me.

Since the ammo was mixed and I did not want to get a loaded cartridge stuck in a chamber I just put the ammo in the 50 cal. cans in my basement. That was the last year I went dog shooting. The rifles got sold and I bought a Model 70 about that time and it would not chamber some of that pulled down empty cases. So there it sat until.

I just purchased a MINI 14 and got to looking at that ammo and decided to do something with it. At 50 yards it will shoot 10 shots into a group just under 2.0 inches vertical and .75 horizontal. Not real great but it’s a Mini 14.

I also do about 95% plus of my shooting with cast bullets so it did not bother me that much.

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[drac0nic]

Decided I wasn't going to have enough reloading to do over winter if I wasn't careful. I ended up taking part of a semi-nice day and casting quite a bit. Around 700 Lee 358 SWC 105s and 1300ish Lee 9mm LRNs. Need to get em powder coated now. Probably going to be in the marked soon since my supply of HF Red is almost done. Probably the best $6 I ever spent in terms of casting if not reloading.

I also loaded up 3 primer tubes so I'm probably ready to burn some IMR PB up. I want to do a few boxes of sorted brass and see how accuracy is. Using my Powder Cop I noticed that there's a real considerable difference in some brands of brass (Aguilla notably) compared to others. Not really a concern at milder loads but towards the top of the scale......

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[sigep1764]

Looks like it worked out nicely! Ive seen a Mod 70 Featherweight on Armslist here in STL and have been mulling it over. Its a perfect sibling to my 70 Shadow in 270win.

[Texas by God]

I wasn’t looking for it, but I found my hand loading log book that I started 5 years ago..... I’ve got some guns to add and loads to write down.

[drac0nic]

Good news was I went by the LGS and they had some more stuff. I scored a Uniflow for $10 with a broken hopper! Off to call RCBS for it. Seems like an extremely well built measure. Hopefully it works well.

The bad news was I also bent the piece of wire the primer arm on my LNL AP goes into. *grumble* I guess I'm calling Hornady too this week. This thing is definitely the weakness of the press.

I loaded some .45 ACP up with tweaks from today's range session. Just a hair shorter and I bet I get a clean shoot out of the stuff. I shot off some .45 ACP and .38 Special as well. Both shot excellently. I don't get why IMR stopped making PB except maybe price. It seemed like a clean burning powder with a nice recoil characteristic.

[44Blam]

Powder coated a few hundred 40s - need to powder coat a few hundred more. After that, I need to cast some more - I love shooting 10mm...

[drac0nic]

Went to the lathe and turned myself a primer alignment tool for the LNL AP. Polished and deburred on the shuttle some. Also sorted some brass out by headstamp for 243 and re-packaged it. Then I took some 5.56 brass that was trimmed and primed and stuck it in a case gauge to see how sizing looked. I definitely need to start loading some up I probably only have 200ish 55gr bullets left though which means I need to grab some more bullets. I probably have the rest of the components.

[cwlongshot]

Loaded up some re sized Lyman Gould Express 330 HP’s for use in my 460 Bushmaster Bolt.
Seated in top of 30g of 5744. This gets me 1600 fps. Any slower and accuracy goes to pot.

CW

[jdfoxinc]

Sorted 25 lb of range brass purchased from bikerbeans. 80% 9x19, 5% .40 S&W, more .380 APC than I expected. Some .223, .45 ACP, .38/.357, 4 pieces of 10mm auto, 1 .25APC, 2 .32 APC, and several .32 S&W long.

Man was this stuff dirty. Yes I'll do it again. Swaging the 9mm & .40 into jwords.

[Love Life]

Put a baffle in a lyman 55

[robg]

Loaded up 50x357 mag and preped 100 cases .

[makeurownfun]

Very VERY new to casting, so go easy fellas haha

Tried my hand at casting some 340 and 500gr LEE .459 bullets for my 458 SOCOM. I got the 340 mold down I believe, but the 500gr is giving me fits still :(

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[44Blam]

I had 64 time hardened boolits for my 10mm - loaded them today for the match Saturday. That gives me 164... Should be enough.

I just powder coated about 600 of those same boolits so they should be shootable in about a week and a half maybe two weeks... Need to cast some more...

[nhyrum]

Didn't do anything with casting today, but I loaded up a few of these bad mamma jammas. There seated a touch too long to be able to close the lid, and the box says it should fithttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191120/1d328b26eb867eda8eb7661e5e940024.jpg

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[drac0nic]

What caliber is that? Some sort of 338?

[nhyrum]

What caliber is that? Some sort of 338?300 Remington ultra Magnum. It's likely the brass will outlast the barrel. At which point I'll rechamber to 338 edge, which is neck and neck with the Lapua, with an action that's half the price,as well as just as good brass for half the price.

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[kmw1954]

Around 700 Lee 358 SWC 105s and 1300ish Lee 9mm LRNs. 251367

What are you loading those 105's into? 9mm, 38/357?
I ask because I have a handful that were going to go into a 380 but I then decided against it. If into a 38 what are you loading it with?

[obssd1958]

What are you loading those 105's into? 9mm, 38/357?
I ask because I have a handful that were going to go into a 380 but I then decided against it. If into a 38 what are you loading it with?

I'm not answering for drac0nic, but I load the Lee 105s over 3.0gr. of Bullseye for my wife's .38 Special. She can shoot that load all day long, and MAN! does a pound of powder last a long time!!

Don

[kmw1954]

Thanks Don for the response.
So I guess I should get specific and ask if anyone is loading this bullet with HP-38 or AA#2 in 9mm and 38 Spl?

[drac0nic]

What are you loading those 105's into? 9mm, 38/357?
I ask because I have a handful that were going to go into a 380 but I then decided against it. If into a 38 what are you loading it with?

I load these in to 38/357. My SD9VE and my 9mm AR Carbine don't like to feed these at COALs required even when sized to 356. They were really accurate when fed as singles though. I use the Lee 125 LRN for that these days although I find that to be a bullet somewhat temperamental about COAL it does work pretty well. I would make a couple dummies up and see if you can get em to feed.

Loads I've done in the past in 38 spl are 3.9 TG or Bullseye (I prefer Bullseye over TG the groups seem better) 3 gr Unique (powder puff load, dirty,) 4.4-4.9 GR IMR PB (discontinued, what a shame this seems to be a great clean powder)

In .357 magnum I've loaded these up with 8.3gr Bullseye before and 22gr H110. That stuff is use at your own risk as its hot. As I've mentioned in the past I got 1440fps+ out of a 3" k-frame with the Bullseye loading. That's using powder coat with HF Red which is my exclusive way of handling the lube situation.

I have some 2400 and Blue Dot I want to test and have not done such as of yet. I usually start out using the data for 110gr XTPs or similar. This bullet is certainly a staple of casting and reloading in my revolvers.

[kmw1954]

Thanks draconic, I use to load only 148gr WC and 158gr SWC for a Mod. 19 Smith but never anything as light as this bullet. I now have a Mod64 Smith to load for.

[whisler]

3.3 gr. of Red Dot under the Lee 358-105 is another light 38 special load.

[StuBach]

Been a while since I last dusted off the Dillon so set it up for 45 and ran 50 of Miha’s 452-200 RFN deep HPs over 4.9gr of Bullseye. Hoping to get them out to range tomorrow for some light testing.

Also debating unpacking my Star Progressive and setting it up to punch out wadcutter 38s to replenish that supply in the family.

[44Blam]

Powder coated some 40s... Looks like I need some white powder coat.
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[MaLar]

Casting shed count? Made big ingots into small ingots.
Been messing with one of the alloy calculators. And have been casting 12 lead to 1 Foundry type.
Seems what I thought was Lyno is foundry type. Figured that out here on Cast Boolits.

[sigep1764]

Exactly what I load with the 105swc. Super easy on an old Colt Official Police and pretty accurate. I also load 3-3.2 grains of Red Dot for the Elco 358-147grain hollow point for the 38Special.

[cwlongshot]

Loaded two dummies with my cast 230/270g in 356 Winchester cases.

Next testing will be with them. Both seated and extracted with minor resistance @ .360. Seated in trimmed brass @ crimp grooves.

CW

[Tom W.]

I finally felt good enough to cast some boolits, the Lee 358-125 rf, but prior to the lead melting I had to walk down to my MIL house to check on her, as she didn't answer her phone. She only lives a block away from me, but the brisk walk up and back was a lot for me. But I did manage
To cast about 50 or so boolits before I had to call it off... I now wish that I had bought the six cavity mold rather than the two cavity......

[kmw1954]

Tom W., I can totally relate. After 12 stents and a triple bypass I don't have the strength and stamina I once had. My last session I was able to drop about 400 104gr .356" before I had to quit. Nice thing is now I have a new Lee Pro IV pot that heats up in 1/2 the time as my old hot plate so I can filler up, heater up, cast for an hour and shut it down w/o a lot of trouble.

[Bookworm]

Getting ready to render various lead.

Cut some lead sheet into strips, rolled up the strips to sit in the melt pot.

Sorted my range lead; separated the jacketed/plated from the cast. I've got maybe 40 pounds of each, caught in my traps here at the range behind the barn.

[cwlongshot]

251718Sages came thru with some 8mm Gators. So I test fit a doz or so!!

[kmw1954]

Sorted my range lead; separated the jacketed/plated from the cast. I've got maybe 40 pounds of each, caught in my traps here at the range behind the barn.

So many of us are envious of those like yourself that are fortunate enough to be able to take advantage of that. Good job and enjoy!

[Bookworm]

So many of us are envious of those like yourself that are fortunate enough to be able to take advantage of that. Good job and enjoy!

If you are ever down this way, let me know. We'll go shoot out behind the barn.

And you can add some lead to my traps.....:drinks:

[sigep1764]

We are under contract for our first house. Started packing up all my reloading stuff today. Unbelievable how much I've accumulated and I still very much want more. I get the entire basement for my new reloading/man space. It is two rooms, one mostly finished but with painted cement floors. The other is for laundry, storage, and bicycle training. Gonna need to build a new bench, want 8ft but think I should go 12ft for future use. Not reloading, but have been in the reloading room today.

[nhyrum]

We are under contract for our first house. Started packing up all my reloading stuff today. Unbelievable how much I've accumulated and I still very much want more. I get the entire basement for my new reloading/man space. It is two rooms, one mostly finished but with painted cement floors. The other is for laundry, storage, and bicycle training. Gonna need to build a new bench, want 8ft but think I should go 12ft for future use. Not reloading, but have been in the reloading room today.I just did the same. Our move is still a few months away, so I didn't pack any of the stuff I actually use, today was mostly the wife's crap that crept in over time

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[cwlongshot]

I broke another Lyman 450 sizer toggle Linkage.

GRRR

CW

[heebs]

251899
Working on new reloading bench area. 10 1/2ft of bench. Repurposed bases. Adding drawers as have time.

[Budzilla 19]

Finished sorting, bagging, and labeling the last of a 5 gallon bucket of o/f range brass, rifle only. S&S ad to come later. Got to get caught up so I can start with a new mold!! Lee 6 cavity 312-155 gc. 308 Win. here we come! ( this should be interesting).

[Spooksar]

Loaded 40 rounds of 35/284 and 40 rounds of 25-06.

[kmw1954]

I just finished loading up 20 45acp with some new cast 200gr SWC from a Lee mold. Loaded these in R-P cases with left over S&B LPP.. Powder to start is HP-38 @ 4.6gr with an OAL of 1.235".. The length was taken from Lyman Pistol and Revolver load data and the charge from Hodgdon website.

There was a conflict between the 2 data groups. Hodgdon had 1.225" for a LSWC and start of 4.4gr with a max of 5.6gr.. While the Lyman book was 1.235" with a start of 5.2gr and a max of 6.5gr...

[robg]

loaded 100x357mag and 20x308 ,now I will have to cast some more 357 boolits as that's my stock gone again.

[drac0nic]

Fixed my Uniflow powder measure. The hopper showed up so I put it on. Took a good few whacks to seat it but I didn't even use any glue and it seems really good.

[Dvdmacdaddy]

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Casted a few lbs of NOE 359-155-TC for my IDPA habit, Lee 356-102-1r for the LCP, Lee TL452-230-2r for the 1911, and Lee 356-125-2r just for fun. Tested my hand at running two molds to keep temps down, works great. Just need another NOE to bang out even more of those bullets in a session.

[drac0nic]

This is going to sound kind of unrelated but I took my Atlas Lathe and got the threading set up on it again. I need some 7/8-14. I saw a setup for a press that would measure your brass length as you went along so you just feed your progressive normally and kick out any brass that needs trimmed. I figure that's pretty darn cool and worthwhile to make. I have some 7/8 aluminum stock should be pretty quick to thread up and add a few holes.

[skeettx]

Today
I loaded 300 9mm, 25 16 gauge, and 10 303 Savage
What fun, what fun
Mike

[44Blam]

Found 93 mis-organized 40s that I load in 10mm. That means I get to shoot 10mm at the next steel match!
I've got about another 600 pc'd and just waiting a couple weeks before loading/shooting.
Looks like I need to cast a bit more to keep the cycle going...

[MaLar]

I turned a .365" size die much like a Lee die for my Mak.
I bought a 36" length of 7/8"-14 hi grade (grade 8) threaded rod just to make things like this.
Nice to get the lathe running again.

[sigep1764]

More packing up for the move. Found a pound of H414 that I have no idea what to do with and a pound of Clays that im gonna try in some 38Special. Can the H414 be used for 270Win or 223?

[smithnframe]

Lubrisizing some 200 gr 348 bullets in my recently acquired Redding/Saeco lubrisizer for my Siamese mauser in 348 Winchester!

[okietwolf]

Does avoiding the wife and family count as something accomplished in the reloading room? If so I did it. Lol

[cwlongshot]

I seated checks on 300 358-200 RCBS & 400 360200 LBT boolits! LOVE LOVE LOVE gator checks!!

[HangFireW8]

More packing up for the move. Found a pound of H414 that I have no idea what to do with and a pound of Clays that im gonna try in some 38Special. Can the H414 be used for 270Win or 223?H414 should be well at home in either, especially the 270... assuming jacketed here.

[Dvdmacdaddy]

De-prime, wet tumble, and sort 5000 9mm cases (with a few 380s mixed in). Haven’t finished my big tumbler yet still using my childhood Model T Tumblers Tumbler (holds a couple 100 pieces of 9mm). Also, swaging crimped primer pockets as needed.

Friday, I Hi-Tek coated, sized, and weight sorted 5000 NOE ELCO 155gr TC cast bullets.

Yesterday, loaded and shot ladder loads over the chrono and onto paper.

Getting all the “processing/testing” done so when my xl750 gets here all I have to do is set it up and crank out some ammo.

PS-Using the smaller tumbler isn’t horrible gives me time to do the de-priming, drying, sorting, swaging in smaller batches.

[RickF]

Deprimed and cleaned 100 30-30 cases to prep for Lee C309-170F boolits I'll take to the deer woods later this week using my Win Model 94.

[kevin c]

Sorted 9mm once fired brass by head stamp.

Some brands I won't shoot, and same head stamp brass is more consistent in the loading and the shooting.

Maybe not essential for the type shooting I do, but it's something I can do one handed (had a little doctoring done) and when the weather isn't cooperating.

[Wild Bill 7]

Finally got my Timney trigger working in my 788 in 223. Just needed to remove some stock where the safety was to work properly. Loaded 10 each with Green Dot, Unique, Red Dot and 700X just under max loads to test Tomorrow or Tuesday. Then loaded 100 357 wadcutters to plink with. Used 2.8 grains Green Dot. Should be fun. All boolits were powder coated also.

[RedlegEd]

Hi all! I swent this afternoon breaking in my Mihec 45-70 "Keith styled" 400 gr HP SWC (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?354139-CLOSED-Mihec-45-70-quot-Keith-styled-quot-400-gr-HP-SWC&p=4284080&viewfull=1#post4284080) mould (just the flat-nosed version.) I cast about 9 pounds of bullets, most of them being PB, but cast a few from the GC cavity as well. I cast them using 20:1 alloy, and these came in at 440gr +/- 2gr. The as cast diameter is about 0.4625 - 0.4630, so I'll size these down to 0.460. I then tried my hand at HiTek coating...it's about the same level of effort as PC, but you need to be a little more precise in how you measure and manage it. So far, I'm happy with the results, and they came out better than I expected. I can't wait to try these out in my various .45-70s. Ed

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[Dave W.]

Made another set of shelves and did some reorganizing. Still a a couple empty shelves, looks like I need to spend some money to fill them up. It is a terrible cycle, we acquire stuff, then we organize it so more stuff can be acquired. Kind of like watering the grass, mowing it and watering again.

[tucumcari_kid]

Lubrisizing some 200 gr 348 bullets in my recently acquired Redding/Saeco lubrisizer for my Siamese mauser in 348 Winchester!
Am I wrong to want a 348 Siamese mauser even if i already have a model 71? Maybe a 50 alaskan Siamese mauser.... Hmmmm

[cwlongshot]

Forming 358 & 35 Whelen brass here!!!

Annealing next step.

Trim oal and chamfer flash holes last.

CW

[lightman]

Just tinkering. I sorted about 10# of clip on weights that a friend dropped off the other night. The way they were skinned up looks like he picked them up off of various street corners. He probably did as its a game that we started. Its good to see him carrying on in my absence! Also deprimed and sorted a partial tub of brass.

[15meter]

Re-polished 150 pieces of 30-40 Krag brass after annealing. Waiting on a set of dies so I can load some to try out the new rifle. Should set up the pot to cast some 30 caliber boolits so I CAN load, but a nasty head cold is keeping me moving kind of slow today.

[44magLeo]

Some new 7.62X54R brass came in today. I ran it through the rifle to be sure it fit. I then ran it through the Lyman M die.
Now I just need to prime, charge and seat bullets.
Then I get to shoot.
Leo

[cwlongshot]

Assembled the Lyman 450 Handle I made. One was workable one was not. BUT I know what I need to do!! ;)

CW

[Dvdmacdaddy]

Setup my new Dillon XL750 and Dillon dies. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191203/3668ec5dcec6e6de330b86fe2294c142.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191203/18880975f1fdaab65f0ad6c41cb0a9ec.jpg

The first 50 plunk tested ready for test firing and chronograph.

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I foresee an auto case feeder being a necessity soon. This press is smooth and fast, keeping it fed with cases and primers is going to be the bottle neck.

[trails4u]

Pulled down some 348 Win I bought in an estate and forgot I had. Brand new W-W Cases!! Whoohoo!!

[Texas by God]

Finished drilling and routing a neat 80% lower for a varmint .223 AR15.
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[drac0nic]

Threw some .45 auto together. Lee 200 LRNFs with 5gr IMR PB (the 4.4gr loads were stove piping) and a few more with 4.4gr old Nitro 100 (not NF.) The meetering on this seems a bit sketchy so I'm curious about how it does. Seems very much like a "dipper" powder to me. Big flakes and all that. I have about 1/4lb of it, so it shouldn't be too hard to burn up. Getting ready to need a run of .45 ACP boolits if I can get this thing to run right. I should probably throw down and make a few Bullseye or Blue Dot loads as well since that will probably be what I fall back to at some point; I should really be running the loose powders I have in the revolvers since I don't have to worry about cycling the gun.

[onelight]

Setup my new Dillon XL750 and Dillon dies. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191203/3668ec5dcec6e6de330b86fe2294c142.jpg

I foresee an auto case feeder being a necessity soon. This press is smooth and fast, keeping it fed with cases and primers is going to be the bottle neck.
:mrgreen::mrgreen: nice Dillon. :drinks:

[Tom W.]

Cast a few more boolits for my 9mm.

[Michael J. Spangler]

252396

Made some of these little beauties

[drac0nic]

Got my Hornady parts and my first batch of stuff from Titan. Some breech lock stuff for the APP when it shows up, a set of 450 Bushy dies and a set of Auto Prime collets that I needed badly since you can pay $15 for a set or $3-4 each. Wish I'd have paid once for them. I ended up making 1 450BM dummy to test feeding with the 300gr HPs I have. They seem like they're going to be challenging to seat if I want to use the cannelure and maintain the same case volume as the 300gr Swifts that are significantly stubbier. This seems like it would feed better though.

ED:Yeah it feeds well extraction kind of sucks but I'm not seeing any thing on the bullet. I way over crimped (it looks like a roll crimp) so I need to tone that down and I think she'll run well.

[cwlongshot]

252443

358 Winchester cast bullet dummies!

[jdfoxinc]

Sized 90 gr .356 till the master caster heated up. Cast 115 gr 9mm till.my back complained then sized some more 90 gr.

[rdwarrior]

Doing brass prep on 500+ 30 carbine brass for a rifle I just acquired.

[cwlongshot]

252460

Installed a new and improved Lyman 550 toggel/handle assembly!

PERFECT NOW!!

CW

[skeettx]

Loaded 50 303 Savage, 50 16 gauge cartridges, and 100 9mm rounds
Good lazy day
Mike

[shell70634]

Found 1000 JHP bullets I forgot I had. Loaded 1K 38 special with 5 gr of Accurate #2. I've had the bullets at least 10 years and the powder probably 15. Now the loaded ammo can disappear for 10 years.

[44Blam]

Found 1000 JHP bullets I forgot I had. Loaded 1K 38 special with 5 gr of Accurate #2. I've had the bullets at least 10 years and the powder probably 15. Now the loaded ammo can disappear for 10 years.

It could disappear in one really fun day... ;)

[robbyPGP2014]

Good morning,nothing yet going in now.

[cwlongshot]

Good morning,nothing yet going in now.

Haha. Have fun!!


Last night I finished sizing about 200 358 Win cases. Last 10 where nickle and Norma brand. Just for sentimental reasons. Both where fired multiple times. One Norma & three nickel split not big suprize really. But that was ONLY LOSSES!!

Cleaned all primer pockets. And cleared about 40 flash holes then primed those.

About 100 Fed cases about 60 LC cases and remainder are mostly PPU. Which usually I just toss. But they where nice cases and recently annealed. So 48 of those got re formed too. Ill keet them segregated.

Should have rigle next week.

CW

[greenwart]

252514
Cast about 600 Lee 358-140 6 cavity mold. Wanted to find a substitute for my 358477 single cavity mold. Can't wait to try them out.

[robbyPGP2014]

Came out for a coffee and a break, loaded some 9mm(105 swc) and tweeked a lee mold(1 of the cavity were sticking),going to clean and inspect a new p320 x5 legion that I traded for yesterday. Anyone have any experience with these?

[Hossfly]

Put away Powder Valley order this morning, that hasmat waving really helped, especially when your on fixed income. Also got $10 off just for signing up for e mail notification. Way to go Powder Valley!

[nhyrum]

Loaded more of my new 452-340 from mihec in my 464 casullhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191207/225ef4161a0ad711718cd67be0a673e9.jpg

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[John Boy]

... ordered a new Lee 25-20 WCF FL sizing die - one I have has given up the ghost creating a crimped line at the case mouth

[The Dar]

252514
Cast about 600 Lee 358-140 6 cavity mold. Wanted to find a substitute for my 358477 single cavity mold. Can't wait to try them out.

Great shooting bullet. I use them in reduced 357 mag and the wife shoots them in 38 Special. She loves the hole punch they leave in the target.

[kavemankel]

Cast a couple of these 9mm beauties with a new MP mold I got from barefooter175.
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[lpel]

Between yesterday and today loaded 250 17 Hornet rounds for next years gopher season. Tomorrow another 50 will bring me up to my annual 500 rounds.

[joe leadslinger]

I got my exercise today punched out some 30 cal. gas checks.
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[cwlongshot]

I pulled and prepped 100 358 Win rounds. Saved cases and bullets and littered the snow withbthe powder...

Today its more case prep. 60 45/70 cases and 40 350 Legends. Sized trimmed chamfered and primed.