What did you do in the reloading room today?

[44Blam]

I actually have two barrels for that gun. I had an OLD barrel (probably original) and it was pitted, etc. It was still accurate, but I bought a new barrel a while back. So, I keep that old barrel and plunk each one before it goes in the box. If it doesn't plunk, I try to reseat/crimp a little more until it does.
I also shoot this little 85 grain truncated cone...
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[sigep1764]

My thought would be that the 9x18 is a fatter round which would indicated a slightly larger chamber. When the brass was fire formed it spread out which shortened the case. Just thoughts, but in my mind that makes sense.

[hodg0610]

My thought would be that the 9x18 is a fatter round which would indicated a slightly larger chamber. When the brass was fire formed it spread out which shortened the case. Just thoughts, but in my mind that makes sense.

That's kind of what I was thinking too, but Ia5676 may be onto something too. In the end it doesn't matter much I suppose. I resized the cases and they stretched back out.

[robg]

prepped some 308 cases

[cwlongshot]

Counted out three big bags a Brass for my trade!!

Need ta tumble Sundays brass...

[Three44s]

The CZ 52 was designed for two attackers at a time. One in front of you and the second in line with the ejection port!

I installed a stiffer spring from Wolfe (for that pistol) and life is much better!

Three44s

[lightman]

I've finished trimming and tumbling about 1040-1050 223 cases. I'll prime them tonight and get ready to load them. I'm still sorting and straightening in my loading room. I recently moved about a dozen coffee cans and several trays of brass to the storage room. I also caught some of the Plano Dry Boxes on sale and moved a bunch of primed brass out of 5 gallon buckets into them.

[Hossfly]

I pin cleaned the 80, 30-06 brass that just went thru the Lyman salt bath annealing process at 960’ for 7 seconds
They look like new so will prime later this week and fill with powder and boolits, ready for deer season.

[2A-Jay]

I removed the Primer Pocket crimp from 200 Milsurp 30-06 cases. wet tumbled them they are in my food dehydrater drying right now. tonight I will size trim (if needed) and prime them.

[Texas by God]

I’m finishing a small batch of 9mm with as cast Lee 38-105SWC( PC’d orange), 4.7grains of Bullseye with Federal primers. I love that load in .38 Special, time to see if it’s as fun in the 9mm Shield. My Beretta 92 liked it with LLA- but it likes everything.

[Bill8914]

I managed to destroy a RCBS die today. Got a case stuck in it, ripped the base off trying to undo the mistake, don't have a puller but in my all knowing of all things mind decided "aw I can get that out of there". Broke out my drill sets and started drilling. Ended up throwing it in the junk pile, ordered a new one, and if senilty doesn't kick in I will remember this and never do it again.

[dragon813gt]

Sizing LC 5.56 brass in the hotel room. Better than drinking alone [emoji23]

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[cwlongshot]

I took about 250 LC 308 brass outta the tumbler before heading off to work! Tonight Ill get them outta that media and see what I have. They was mighty dirty!!

CW

[Walks]

I emptied the tumbler of twice fired starline .44mag brass from My Chiropractor.
Bought 1,000 new cases last year, already lost over 50, from Cowboy Shooting. I guess those old guys can't see or bend over to pick up brass.
But at least all those old guys are still out there shooting.
Something I Can't do anymore. I have to shoot sitting sown for everything.
I guess I'll never get past that scrambling for every case that hits the ground. Learned it as a little kid, guess I've never got past it.

Then I sorted and boxed them. Just the way I Have Got To Do It.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

I unpacked a Lee Classic Turret press, Auto disk powder measure, riser and .38 & .44 powder through expander dies. Took 1000 grit sand paper and polished the flaring nibs on the dies. Then I figured out the workings of the auto disk. Waiting on a quick change set up from Inline Fabrication so I can use the same mount for this Lee press as my Rock Chucker. I should have cleaned up and organized my bench.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

I took about 250 LC 308 brass outta the tumbler before heading off to work! Tonight Ill get them outta that media and see what I have. They was mighty dirty!!

CW

A while back I got 500 primed LC 7.62 brass from Everglades. Some rejects, maybe 3-4% but all the rest chamber and fire.

[hodg0610]

Deprimed about 200 shotshells. Also loaded up some more 9x18 Mak to fire form the rest of my homemade cases.

[TNsailorman]

Prepping .357 magnum for the future. james

[RedlegEd]

Hi all,
Yesterday, my daughter came over and we primed a whole bunch of cases (.45 Colt, .45 ACP, and .45 AR,) and then loaded 50 of the .45 Colt. Today, I finished it by loading 100 ea .45 AR and 200 .45ACP.
Ed

[Cast_outlaw]

Loaded 10 30/40 cases with my S.G.L. 65gr OObuck sized 311 over 5gr Vectan AS accurate fast and effective the push through ram creates a nice flat spot I put facing forward think I had these clocked at 1550fps but are almost touching at 50m

[cwlongshot]

Sized & GC'd some newly cast Saeco 352's.

[Cast_outlaw]

Worked on my hunting truck spent two hours in a ditch the other weekend so made a receiver mount for the front of it for a winch 269310269311 now to build the back one and get them welded

[lightman]

Yesterday I wet tumbled 3 loads of 223 brass, resized and removed the primer crimps on another 100 223 cases and sorted about a gallon of range brass. I also sorted about 2 gallons of wheelweights that mysteriously appeared in my driveway. I may need to make a donut run pretty soon.

Today will be tumbling brass again.

[44Blam]

Loaded up some test loads. I have a bunch of Herco, so I thought I might make a nice easy shooting 10mm load. I'm looking for 1000 fps - we shall see.

[kmw1954]

Sized up 128 pcs. of 223. In the morning I will run them thru the corncob. and get them ready to load.

[cwlongshot]

Organized my growing 410 components!!

Need to finish my expansion and bench so I can start loading shotgun again!

CW

[Walks]

Threw away the cheap chinese digital scale. Brought out the old EXTREMLY DEPENDABLE RCBS 10-10 scale.

Loaded 400rds of .44Mag Cowboy Loads for My Chiropactor.

Stared at the 123 rounds of questionable .44Mag loads that I can either shoot up in my SRH or breakdown with 5 wacks each of an inertia hammer.

[44Blam]

Trimmed a bunch of brass and when I got sick of that, I made some shot shells...
My buddy just got a Benelli and wants to go shoot some trap this weekend. I'm stoked to have a buddy to go with me, I've been doing the whole launch the clay then raise/sight/shoot by myself...

[Mal Paso]

Heat treated a new MP Mold, the Larsen 44 cal that just came out. Then I cast a pots worth of Pentas. Another great casting mold.

[cwlongshot]

MP molds are beauty!!

I cast up some .390 balls last night for the .410 projects!!

CW

[hickfu]

Cast up some 00 Buck

went through 65lbs of lead in 4 hours (was doped up on pain meds)
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that produced 30lbs of 00 Buck shot
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32lbs of sprew and 3lbs of not filled out shot
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Now Im even more doped up on pain meds and have lydocane patches on my back while laying in bed....
It took 4 hours to cast them but it also took almost 4 hours to clip the buckshot off the sprews.
The buckshot is now in the tumbler.

[44Blam]

Made another 15 350s with my 125 grain boolit. It's another attempt at Alliant 2400 to see if I can get some consistent velocities...

[cwlongshot]

YOUZA DOC!!! ♥️♥️♥️

I been doing same but in a smaller Scale of 3/5# at a time!!

I ran the tumblers for couple hours last night to try and round them out. Momma was not too happy. So couldnt run them overnight. Of coarse I forgot to plug them in before leaving for work...

CW

[Bookworm]

Neck sized 120 pieces of 7.62x54r brass. Enough for 2 matches.

[hickfu]

Today I powder coated all 80lbs of 00 Buck Shot, 50lbs I did just Signal Blue... The other 30 I mixed 1/2 Red and 1/2 Silver. I dont know if I like that combo yet and will have to see it in the light tomorrow....

And yet again I am doping myself up on pain meds, Way over did it today again. :groner:

[Walks]

Doc,
That is impressive !
In my youth I would cast from 2 20lb pots, back to back. When one ran low, I'd fill it with ingots & sprue then switch to the other pot on opposite end of picnic table. Did 200lbs on one Saturday, 3 4cav molds.
Spent Sunday on icepacks. Ached all week, and I was only 35 at the time.
Never ever cast more then 80lbs in an single session again.
As I stood and looked at all those 50cal ammo cans on Monday night, I said to myself; Now you hafta put every single one thru a Lube-Sizer.

Today I just unwrapped bags & bags of Beautifully Cast & PC'd Bullets from CWLONGSHOT.

[hickfu]

Wow Walks, 200lbs in a day.... that is impressive!! My record is only 160lbs but I only had the one pot. I was 10 years younger though :roll:

[robg]

worked up a load for 44mag in a marlin with pb boolits ,started at 13g 2400 went up to 17g but 15g was the best group.fun day at the range.hope to play with loads in my 45-70 next week.

[Walks]

Doc,
I did take breaks, I had to do a Coffee in / Coffee out. And refill/relite my pipe.
And I was in My early 30's.

And Yep, I drank coffee & smoked while casting in those days.
I also wore gloves while casting, but I did take them off for coffee and smoking.

[hickfu]

This was interesting to me.. It looks like the buckshot was graphite'd but it was just tumbled.
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Here is the 80lbs of powder coated 00 Buck Shot
50lbs blue
30lbs of red/silver
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Im a day behind on posting, today I cast up some 308-165-SIL They should work good in the 300 Savage

Starting tomorrow its back to 45acp with the Lee 452-230-TC

[la5676]

I’m new enough to this PC stuff to not fully understand the need to PC buckshot, other than we can. It’s certainly not typically going to be leading up a barrel when inside a wad. I must say, it’s purty stuff though.

[hickfu]

I have 3 grandkids ages 3 to 7 and I dont want them touching lead so I powder coat the buckshot as well as everything else that sits around unloaded.

Plus... If any California Condors fly up here looking for lead shot to eat, they wont get lead poison from mine [smilie=1:

[cwlongshot]

Just tumbling Brass here...

[Old School Big Bore]

Well, yesterday anyhow...Cast up several hundred each out of new moulds - 452-160-RF, C311-180-RF, 313-100-RN for .45 ACP/AR/LC, son's .303 SMLE and .32-20 M12, .30C Blackhawks. Leaving now for phys therapy, will be lubrisizing all those tonight.
If anyone has pewter/tin for sale, please PM me. Down to plain PB and COWW ingots.
Ed <><

[McFred]

I looked up some dimensions on AR15 handles, I worked on a Rem 700 washer to replace the recoil lug on a new rifle project. I also loaded up another 100 rounds of 357 SIG afterward.

[cwlongshot]

I sized trimmed flaired and primed 100, 350 Legend cases.

CW

[robg]

i use a lee trimmer for my brass ,every now and then the case loosens when spinning especially 45-70 brass.so i had an idea ,found some bottle caps that just fit over the case holder drilled a hole in it so i can put case in holder slide cap over the case and holder ,no more wobble even if you push against the side of case to buff it up.works a treat hope it helps someone elses trimming chore.

[Rightbrained]

Unpacked my new Lee 4-20 and cleaned up some dies.

[Wild Bill 7]

Loaded 200 223’s. 100 with the last of my WCC 846 powder I bought from Jeff Bartlett a long time ago. Another 100 with 7 grains of 700X with the Lee 55 grain gas checked boolit.

[44Blam]

I'm in day 2 of "load all the 40s". I decided that I would go out to the garage and load 100 boolits / day after work. I've got about 5 days left.

[adcoch1]

Spent the last three days tearing apart my reloading room and consolidating it into a large cabinet so I can use the room as a bathroom. Converting my shop into an apartment for my handicapped brother. So my reloading and casting stuff got moved into the garage. It'll work fine, and I can lock everything up, but talk about a sucky job moving everything. I just want to sit down and load some ammo, but I still need to finish getting set back up. On a positive note, I have all the stuff to load some for my new 45-70 handi rifle! Maybe tomorrow...

[cwlongshot]

Organized my lead ingot piles/stock.

CW

[Static line]

Spent the last three days tearing apart my reloading room and consolidating it into a large cabinet so I can use the room as a bathroom. Converting my shop into an apartment for my handicapped brother. So my reloading and casting stuff got moved into the garage. It'll work fine, and I can lock everything up, but talk about a sucky job moving everything. I just want to sit down and load some ammo, but I still need to finish getting set back up. On a positive note, I have all the stuff to load some for my new 45-70 handi rifle! Maybe tomorrow...

Tell me about it. I had to move my reloading room so that I could build a ramp to slide water softener salt into the basement. Took me a solid week just moving and setting up and another week organizing in the next adjacent area of the basement.

[Static line]

Couldn't sleep so got up at 2 am and went to the basement to do a little reloading and putz around. Sized and primed some 44 mag brass. Now at 7:30 am I am kicked back in my reloading room and watching Zane Gray Theater on television.

[cwlongshot]

Couldn't sleep so got up at 2 am and went to the basement to do a little reloading and putz around. Sized and primed some 44 mag brass. Now at 7:30 am I am kicked back in my reloading room and watching Zane Gray Theater on television.

Yup that happens some times!! ♥️♥️♥️

[44Blam]

Loaded another 150 40 S&W on my way to loading all of my cast 40s...

[cwlongshot]

I loaded up a 50 box of 45 Colt with the Lyman 454424 & Herco.

CW

[hickfu]

Yesterday I took some 452-230-TC bullets that I had lubed and decided that I dont want to use lube any more... So I put them in a tray with paper towels and into the 250 degree oven they went. After the lube looked like it was all melted off I pulled them out and into a acetone soak for 30 minutes.

Today I figured I would powder coat them..... Boy was I wrong! They must have been covered with lube still and the powder coat clumped all over. I learned a good lesson though, Take the lube off with a little wooden tool, then place them sideways on a tray to melt the remaining lube off in the oven. As soon as that is done I put them into a pot of boiling water for 30 minutes.

When the 30 minutes are up I pour the entire pot of water and bullets into a 5 gallon bucket that is 3/4 filled with cold water. I could see the lube that I thought was all gone congeal up at the top but I was wondering how to get the bullets out without getting it all over them again.... So I moved the bucket outside and kept putting in water with the hose until it started over flowing. I then dumped it while spraying in water and keeping my bullets from rolling all around on the driveway.

After I dried them I was going to do a second coat on them but they felt sticky like they had lube on them still... so onto a tray with paper towels again and into the oven again but this time when they were done I dumped them into a bucket of water with dawn dish soap right out of the oven and rubbed them between my soapy hands for a few minutes and then into a clean bucket of water. Now they feel right and hopefully ready for another coat.

I found out the acetone doesn't seem to do anything so I left it out of the process.

Oh, I did this to 60lbs of 44 mag bullets as well and they all feel squeaky clean now, Only about 140lbs of 45-70 bullets to go and I wont have any lubed bullets left :veryconfu

[Pete44mag]

Wet tumbled 1100 .45ACP cases and loaded 500 .38 specials.

[44Blam]

Loaded another 100 40s. I've loaded 550 40 s&w boolits this week - it looks like I have about 60 or 70 more boolits to load... So, tomorrow I'm going to cast a bunch of 36-180s, 40s and I need to cast proabably at least 10lbs of slugs...

[McFred]

I cast some MP-36-200s and some Lee 358-125-RFs from ACCOWW today.

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[robg]

loaded some 357 mag and 45-70

[cwlongshot]

I cast/ingot some large ingots I was given of unknown alloy. One pig is Babbit as its marked ASTM. But the other appears MONO Type. As its about 24BHN.

I melted and made small ingots from the ASTM plus one 38/140 DEWC. Tested in a LBT BHN it was 16 out if the mold and an astonishing 40+ this AM!!

CW

[44Blam]

I cast/ingot some large ingots I was given of unknown alloy. One pig is Babbit as its marked ASTM. But the other appears MONO Type. As its about 24BHN.

I melted and made small ingots from the ASTM plus one 38/140 DEWC. Tested in a LBT BHN it was 16 out if the mold and an astonishing 40+ this AM!!

CW

40 BHN??? If you cast boolits out of that, your gonna have to drive thos suckers HARD to get them to obturate.

[44Blam]

Cast 105 slugs and about 10lbs of 45s...
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[bullseye67]

Good evening,

My reloading room chores were light today....just put away the brand new 200 sealed in the box Lapua 260 Rem brass I scored at the local gun show!!

Tomorrow is a full day of 223 and 32 S&W Long reloading.

[44Blam]

Good evening,

My reloading room chores were light today....just put away the brand new 200 sealed in the box Lapua 260 Rem brass I scored at the local gun show!!

Tomorrow is a full day of 223 and 32 S&W Long reloading.

I'm jealous that y'all get to have gun shows! I think it has been almost a year since I've been to one... :(

[kevin c]

Sorted brass, and found that a five gallon bucket will hold almost exactly 10,000 loose 9mm cases. I also found that that's just shy of 90#, so the buckets are staying where I filled them...

[toallmy]

I have spent the week past beating the demons out of a 09 arginine mauser receiver with a midway special 308 barrel installed . With help from the members here , I finally got my trigger issues worked out with the Timmy trigger replacement , just to discover I had a set of scope rings mounted that were way out of alignment . I think I got everything working good now - but it's raining .
A few times last week my wife mentioned ( you do it for the fun of it right ) .[smilie=f:

[Mal Paso]

LOL I enjoy the posts!

I cleaned my Pro Melt 2 for the second time and lapped the new style pin to the valve seat with some 1200 grit diamond and tested it with water first. That held and I tried a half pot of lead. Not a stray drip so I tried a full pot. I finally got a few hundred water dropped 432 Larsen bullets cast. The pot went into major drool mode in the middle of my last casting session and I had to stop.

I think I'll order a new PID for the old Pro Melt as a ready threat to embarrass the new one if it messes up.

[Texas by God]

Yesterday I sat down with my now 27 year old son and gave him a tutorial on a Ruger single action revolver. How to operate, strip it and clean it. We threw a cooking spray can out back and he hit it 4 out of 6 times. Then I passed it on to him with an old flap leather holster and he grinned from ear to ear. I explained that everyone should have a handgun that is fun and cheap to shoot and useful for small game( he only has two SD autos).
Oh yeah, it is a 5-1/2” Single Six New Model .22 from the early 80s. It was a good time.

[15meter]

Saturday was 50 43 Spanish, Sunday was 100 6.5x55 jacketed.(plus unload some skeet loads) Today was/is(still got more to do!) 50 6.5x55 cast, 20 30-06 jacketed with another 50 to do.

Had to take a break and install the new dishwasher, go to the farm and feed the cat and dig up a big chunk of rhubarb so I can transplant it tomorrow. Ran out of sunlight today to get it in the ground.

Break time's over, time to go load some more.

[.429&H110]

Today I deprimed, sized, flared 161 44 mag brass I picked up at the local pit. Cranking the rockchucker: ka chunk. I am amazed how ragged the flash holes were! Made little brass bits everywhere. I can't find my citric acid, off to walmort. Idea is load them in a little Dawn 1/4 cup of citric acid pint of water in a big grapefruit jar, take them for a ride in the Tacoma to shake them. Rinse well, dry in the sun. On these roads the Toy rides like a paint shaker. Worked well last three tries.

[Hossfly]

Tried to melt sheet lead purchased at local scrap yard, found out had no propane in the 150 gallon tank. Found smaller tank full, installed regulator to it and melted about 32# into 1-2# ingots. Added that to my stash. Have about 3 cubic feet now. About an even ton.

[MOA]

Saturday was 50 43 Spanish, Sunday was 100 6.5x55 jacketed.(plus unload some skeet loads) Today was/is(still got more to do!) 50 6.5x55 cast, 20 30-06 jacketed with another 50 to do.

Had to take a break and install the new dishwasher, go to the farm and feed the cat and dig up a big chunk of rhubarb so I can transplant it tomorrow. Ran out of sunlight today to get it in the ground.

Break time's over, time to go load some more.

Gosh 15meter, your ground not yet solid or are you transplanting with a backhoe? I couldn't get anything done today except go an get another 10 bags of pellets. ��

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[lightman]

I went out to the loading room this morning just to tinker around some. I was moving some stuff around some and came across a couple of 50 caliber cans that I thought was empty that were not empty. One was full of 38 special brass and one was full of 30-06 brass! So I just thought I was through sorting, depriming and tumbling brass!

[Wild Bill 7]

Revisited a couple of 10/22’s for a trigger lightening. Fixed them for a better trigger pull. Love these plinkers for pure fun.

[44Blam]

Loaded up the last of my 40 cal boolits and then gas checked 184 45 cal boolits.

[la5676]

Loaded up 5 sets of 10 test rounds in the .223 brass I've been trimming while incapacitated. Finally able to get to loading room. Running some tests on some 62 gr and 55 gr j-words (izzat what they are referred to here) to see if they will function in son's 8.5" SBR. Using Reloader 15, got a lot of it, also got a lot of old AA 2200 Data powder, but I thought that might be too fast for that short barrel. It all works in my longer barrels. If things go smooth this weekend, it's knuckles down when it gets cold again. I got a lot of brass that needs fillin'.

[sigep1764]

While tumbling 200 rounds of 223, I decapped 500 rounds of 9mm and primed 100 rounds of 30-30. Gonna do some loading tomorrow after having the basement floor tore up for plumbing needs, then new cement poured. Had to wait a few days for it to set.

[15meter]

Gosh 15meter, your ground not yet solid or are you transplanting with a backhoe? I couldn't get anything done today except go an get another 10 bags of pellets. ��

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We're along way from hard water sailing around here, just hope the rhubarb transplants take. It's an old variety that is quite productive. It needed to be moved NOW. Just accepted an offer on the 30 acre parcel it was on. Trying to get my mother's estate settled.

2020 hasn't been a fun year.

[Mal Paso]

I went out to the loading room this morning just to tinker around some. I was moving some stuff around some and came across a couple of 50 caliber cans that I thought was empty that were not empty. One was full of 38 special brass and one was full of 30-06 brass! So I just thought I was through sorting, depriming and tumbling brass!

The Force is strong with you. You will never run out.

[MOA]

We're along way from hard water sailing around here, just hope the rhubarb transplants take. It's an old variety that is quite productive. It needed to be moved NOW. Just accepted an offer on the 30 acre parcel it was on. Trying to get my mother's estate settled.

2020 hasn't been a fun year.

Yes, we brought the rhubarb from my grandmother's farm to our garden years ago. It did real well too.

[McFred]

I screwed together a form for a concrete shooting bench top, welded up some rebar, mixed some concrete and poured it. It's about 20 hours in. Pretty stiff, but the temperatures in the garage are pretty cool, so it'll be a while before it's set.

While I'm waiting, I sized, annealed, trimmed, chamfered and primed 100 .223 Rem cases. I'm also warming up some 45/45/10 to lube some bullets I cast last week.

[Texas by God]

Cool and wet here; perfect casting weather so I cast some Lee TL410-210SWC and C309170F and PC’d them.

[Pepe Ray]

I'm too old to do a lot at any one time,so---over the past week I've separated 1200 .45 ACP cases. Why? you say? Well, they were purchased from a shooting range as floor sweepings and were mixed with those @#$^&$@!*()(*&^% SMALL primers. Thank you Speer and Federal. Got 9&3/4 lbs. of Small P.P. vs.7&1/2 lbs of Large PP.
I can't do anything about Speer and Federal's decisions but I do NOT have to play their game or support their stupid decisions. Those SPP cases will NOT be resold at ANY price, nor taken to a metal recycler. They will be destroyed as cases and recycled as brass JUNK. - - I will not chance seeing them again.
Ask me if I'm P, O'd.
Pepe Ray

[NoZombies]

Those SPP cases will NOT be resold at ANY price, nor taken to a metal recycler. They will be destroyed as cases and recycled as brass JUNK. - - I will not chance seeing them again.
Ask me if I'm P, O'd.
Pepe Ray

I run mine through the HT oven to anneal, and make them into .458 jackets for swaging.

[15meter]

Yes, we brought the rhubarb from my grandmother's farm to our garden years ago. It did real well too.

This was the last that survived an onslaught by an older sister. 8 years ago after my father died(won't admit being related to the 3 sisters, their noses are so high in the air they are in danger of drowning in a drizzle), she mixed up a batch of Roundup and killed all the rhubarb she knew about. "mom doesn't need any of this!"

Well, mom lived until July of this year and had fresh rhubarb from the patch that the sister didn't know about.

Now that the farm is being sold it's past time to transplant it. I've tried several newer varieties, none can compare.

Still don't have a clue why the sister killed the rhubarb, she lives 200 miles away, me, I live 6 miles away and have maintained the homestead ever since, she's done almost nothing.

People are crazy.

Just as long as the rhubarb takes, everything will be just fine.

May even have to dig out dad's rhubarb champagne recipe. He had it down to art, taking rhubarb and turning into a very nice dry to semi-dry sparkling wine. Dry for him, sweeter for mom.

Talk about thread drift, I think I turned it into a train wreck:holysheep

[sigep1764]

Sized/decapped another thousand 9mm cases, expanded the 100 30-30 that I primed last night, and loaded 200 223. Then got called into work. Ill load the 30-30 tmro morning.

[McFred]

Ask me if I'm P, O'd.
So, are you P, O'd?

Not sure why you're upset about range brass fitting the usual "range brass" level of quality. If it's going to raise your blood pressure that high, you might consider just purchasing new factory LPP brass. IMO it's not worth risking your health over it.

[jimb16]

Just ran up 500+ rounds of 12 ga. Glad I use my home made shot. Would be too expensive otherwise.

[AndyC]

I loaded 5 primer-tubes - I need to get a primer-tube feeder of some kind, my fingers are cramped.

[smithnframe]

Started processing 500 pieces of 44 magnum brass that arrived in the mail yesterday.

[1I-Jack]

Pop riveted 9mm cases to a cookie sheet for PC.

[McFred]

I zeroed my scope using twenty subsonic 357SIG loaded with 9.5gr WC297 under a MP-360-200 bullet in my Contender Carbine. Once zeroed, I shot the remainder at a 100yd steel gong offhand.

[GoldieMI]

made my first set of ingots today. Reclaimed lead from my private club- so all indoor pistol bullets smelted down and made into ingots.
Thanks LakeHouse2012 for the mold.

[whisler]

Loaded a few 38 Specials with 158 gr. SWC.

[44Blam]

Found my load for the Lyman 525 grain slug in my Mossberg 590A1...

My load is Herco and the Claybuster CB1118-12 WAA12 wads and a 1/8" card with a Roll Crimp. My load were sending them all in straight and at about 1250 fps - with a little kick but not too bad.
NOTE: I decided to just load these at the range - so that's what I did. ;)

Got about a 4" group at 50 yards - with a smooth bore shotgun. That works for me...

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[kevin c]

I found $14.

I was cleaning up around my club's reloading bench, where folks tend to be a little messy. I found about 80 loose large and small pistol primers under the presses, scattered on and under the bench and floor. I know they're pistol primers because the presses are all Dillon SDBs that don't do rifle cartridges.

At current gunbroker auction prices, my half hour of clean up netted me well over minimum wage!

[flyingmonkey35]

I cast a few 105 grain 356 some 452 200grn and some 55 grn 223


The. Tore apart my wifes long arm quilting machine

It's ether a bad motor or power supply.

My son took all my good testing gear with him to college so I got to take it to a shop to get the motor tested.


When I buypass the control board it dose not spin he jumps once and stops try to spin and get nothing.

Wish me luck
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[lightman]

Yesterday and today I loaded 960 223's. Why 960? I loaded 40 last week for a test run with a new to me rifle.

[BigAlofPa.]

Started to process brass. Haven't been doing much since my leg injury.

[gnappi]

Yesterday I found 500+ 9mm bullets that I cast years ago, and I powder coated them today. Funny thing about these 135 grainers I did not remember that I had molds for them... bonus day!

[cwlongshot]

Yesterday I found 500+ 9mm bullets that I cast years ago, and I powder coated them today. Funny thing about these 135 grainers I did not remember that I had molds for them... bonus day!

Hahahaha. I BEEN THERE TOO!! ;)

CW

[44Blam]

Cast about 500 40 cal 188s.

[tinhorn97062]

Lyman 311284, weighs ~215gr checked and lubed. These went into .30-06 cases with IMR3031

Lee 501-440, weighs ~459gr checked and lubed. These went into .500 S&W cases with Trailboss. More will be loaded with H110.


COWW/Soft lead, water dropped.


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[tinhorn97062]

Pop riveted 9mm cases to a cookie sheet for PC.

What is the purpose of this?


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[brstevns]

What is the purpose of this?


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I believe it is to be able to stand bullets into these for baking

[cwlongshot]

Yup!!

Sometimes to shield gas check attachments too.

CW

[44Blam]

Pulled about 50 boolits from 45-70 cases. They were given to me from a friend and were from a guy that gave up reloading. There were about 50 loaded rounds and some epmties. And ONE case with a head seperation...

So, no way I was gonna shoot those things. Lord only knows why the guy stopped reloading but a 45-70 case with a seperated head? I bet that was exciting.

[hc18flyer]

Last weekend finally ran the ladder test loads thru my brothers M1 Garand, so it was time to pick the hunting load and charge. Today I loaded 30 hunt loads for him to use in our upcoming firearm season. Ended up with 47.0 grains of IMR 4895 under a Hornady 150 grain FB soft point, running at 2650 fps. Pretty sure I could have gone to 48.0 grains, rather play it safe. At tree stand ranges, it'll work just fine in the old girl. Thanks for your help, Tom

[sigep1764]

Sized, tumbled, and annealed 100 30-30 cases. Sized 150 223 cases and in the tumbler now. Been at work for 12 days straight and finally have a couple off.

[Wheelgun]

Been pretty bummed about the election, so decided I needed to do something in the evenings to stay off the internet and clear my head.

Friday evening I cast about 500 358156s from a 6cav Lee mold I bought from a gentleman here. Had keepers after the 3rd fill! It’s always a pleasure casting with it.

Saturday evening I powder coated the boolits from Friday evening. While they cooked I loaded about 250rds of 38spls on the Pro1000. Mixed brass, win primers, 3gr bullseye under Lee 358158 RF. Press ran great.

This evening before supper I sized all the 358156 from Friday evening to .358. Then loaded one box (50rds) 38spls on the Pro1000 with 358429s.

I feel tons better and had a pretty productive weekend outside, not counting the reloading related stuff!

[Cosmic_Charlie]

I have been doing some long overdue cleaning up of my work area. I also made about 45 lbs. of ingots using some commercial hardcast boolits given me by a friend. They were all sized to .356 for 38 super and 9mm.

[The Dar]

Just came in from the shop after annealing 100 22-250 and 155 308 cases for some testing of different powders with cast bullets. About half way through the process my wife came in to the shop and asked, "Annie kneels ez, when did you get her?" I about died laughing. I said it's called Annealeez and I've had "her" for over a year. Gotta love 'em.

[Whole Bunches]

Cast 324 Lyman #311291’s. Cooler Florida weather starts my “casting season”. My goal this season is 7,000 rifle bullets.

[44Blam]

Loaded up 50 350 legend cartridges for the competition this weekend.
These are the little light boolits (125 grain) that go really fast (2500 fps)...
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[cwlongshot]

Sized up some new cast H&G 50'ms That where powder coated.

Feels so strange sitting to do this. (Cannot stand long)

CW

[onelight]

Loading up a few 44 specials cleaned 500 cases yesterday , today loading 240 swc on 4.6 grains of red dot gives me 690fps in the 3" gp100 and 750 in my 45/8 Bisley

[sigep1764]

Sized 200 30-30 that I shot at the range yesterday, annealed them, primed, then expanded the case necks. These are all low power Red Dot loads running around 1200fps. They are a hoot, barrel doesn't get hot, just warm. Cleared the flash holes of corncob on 400 223 and annealed those yesterday as well.

[44Blam]

PC'd about 130 45 cal boolits. Will do the rest tomorrow - unless I get my shot cards. If I get the cards, I'm gonna load about 100 slugs.

[cwlongshot]

Tumbling more 38 Spls and 45 Colts

I have 10mm and 450 BM brass on the bench for loading.

[1I-Jack]

Finished my PID controller.

[44Blam]

PC'd around 50 45s and about 100 40s...

[2A-Jay]

I broke out the RCBS Universal Hand priming tool and primed 200 30-06 cases. might get to load them sometime this weekend

[skeettx]

Loaded some 6mm Rem with my last pound of H-450

Mike

[44Blam]

PC'd around 50 45s and about 100 40s...

Other thing I did (am doing) is heat cycling a new Accurate mold... I've got a 10mm 1911 coming and I got a new 40 cal 180 grain GC mold that has just about the right nose profile for it... It's aluminum with 5 cavities... Should make a mound of boolits in a short amount of time.

[44Blam]

Made a bunch of shot shells and slugs for the competition tomorrow.

[hodg0610]

Annealed a handful of 8x57 cases, then loaded them up with some 220 grain bullets and 4198. Gotta wait until next weekend to see how they shoot.

[cwlongshot]

Tumbling 300 350 legend cases.

[flyingmonkey35]

Got my safe moved to the basement. Finally.





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[dpote]

Got the rest of it packed up and ready for the move. The 'reloading room' is now the couch, a soda flat, and a 310 tool. I just finished up 40 .38 Special with it.

[Iron369]

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[sigep1764]

Loaded 6 rounds of 38 special with the Elco Hollowpoint boolit on top of 2.8 grains of Red Dot for the Colt Official Police to carry during a hunting trip Tuesday and Wednesday, just in case an extra shot is needed.

[murf205]

I pulled 50 factory rounds down and threw the undersized boolits in my lead pile. They are/were CBC (whoever that is) for my 38 S&W model 33-1. Then loaded the empty, primed brass with 3.5 grs of Accurate #5 and my pc'd 158 gr from an Accurate mold.

[hickfu]

Just cleaned up the mess I left 2 weeks ago.... I got home from a 2 week trip to Hellifornia so the wife could visit her mother who has dementia. It took almost 20 hours driving to get back because of the weather through Northern Ca and Southern Oregon.

[Texas by God]

Changed the BCG on my .300 BO(Thanks, smokinfeathers!) and checked zero with Speer 150 Flatnose- good to go. And pulled down some old yellow box W-W .284 Win ammo- oddly loaded with stick- not ball- powder? I will use the decapped primers for 30-30 loads tomorrow.....
The "Range Doe" watched me shoot/tap/shoot the last 12 rounds of some oversize 45ACP loads from the P97 into the old water pressure tank target. She looked impressed [emoji16]

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[44Blam]

After finding my Lyman 525 grn 12 ga shotgun slug load for my 590A1, I loaded about 75. Then when attempting to put them into boxes, realized they are about 1/8" longer than spec...
Doesn't really matter to me, I can still get 8+1 in the gun. But sadly, they just don't fit into boxes.

[TribunusSanGeorgii]

Last night I worked on organization and cleaning. Started working on putting acro bin holders on the side of my shelf.

Tumbled some 8mm for a friend and the .45 brass he gave me.

[Wild Bill 7]

Loaded 25 30-06 with IMR 4895 with cast Lee 160 gas checked and powder coated. Will be glad when our remodeled range finally opens up. If anyone is interested in looking at the range go to SWFSA.org. On the right side of the front page you can watch videos of the whole remodel.

[MUSTANG]

For the last week; Have been swaging cores to 50 grains. Getting ready to make 60 Grain jacketed .224's from 22LR. Last spring I cleaned, sorted by head stamp, and derimmed probably 5000 22LR cases for jackets. Next week will start mating cores and jackets via swaging. Then after that; swaging 6s .224 bullets weighing 60 grains.

[kevin c]

I pulled 50 factory rounds...They are/were CBC (whoever that is)...

Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos, aka MagTech.

Out of curiosity, I pulled a few rounds of different factory and reloaded pistol ammo salvaged from my range and gently de capped the unfired primers (I only use certain brands of brass). The primers I seated into new cases. Some were slightly out of round and a few got dome shaped from the decapping pin, so I had to hand feed them into the press. They seated fine and the doming flattened out from the primer ram, so they now look like any other primed brass. I haven't loaded or shot any rounds with the salvaged primers yet, but I expect they'll fire. Being of unknown provenance, they'll be for standard velocity plinking rounds only.

[bangerjim]

Sorted/sized/primed a bunch of 9mm and 38SPL brass. Now to stuff 'em and shoot some!

[robertsm53]

Cast, weighed, sized and gas checked, 350 30cal 200 gr. 150 30cal 220 grain, 200 .45 cal 530 grain and 50 45 cal. 405 grain slugs.

[1hole]

I took out the trash and wiped the bench top down. ???

[Hossfly]

Cleaned up #1 bench, started cleaning #2 bench spotted my Stach of to be sorted cases, well, spent the rest of afternoon sorting cases, some given to me and don’t have that particular rifle or handgun, good for trading. Headed to deer stand around 3:00 to watch squirrels eat corn.

[Old School Big Bore]

My pewter ingot-lets came in, so I remelted 70 +/- 1# COWW ingots, added 2% by weight of the pewter and poured them into a couple of ingot molds, then stamped them "L2". I reserved a good bit of the pewter in case this batch needs more for good fill-out.
Prepped a .444 Handi-Rifle that will get traded for a Savage 110 in .243 - SWMBO has been pining for a .243 she formerly owned and although all my rifles are .30s or fatter I guess I'll have to start stocking 6mm boolits. We're trading dies along with the rifles so at least I don't have the headache of hunting them up.
Removed the fixed sling swivel and useless stacking swivel from my Garand in preparation for (GASP) drilling the stock for actual no-fooling for-real DQ swivel studs. Abandoned the idea of making a plate to attach to the ferrule and gas cylinder where the two swivels were removed bcz, well, that ain't where ya want a bipod anyway, and I realized I'd have to remove it to dismount the action. Quit mourning, it's a Bell & Carlson fibreglas stock which is sacrilege to begin with, at least that's how the purists in the SARTS acted when I bought the M1 less-wood and stuck it into plastic. They also had apoplexy when I took my M1 carbines out of the oil-soaked stocks and put them in Choate plastic with the sling swivel studs screwed into the (GASP) bottom line so I could use a real sling and bipods...and started genuflecting when I put Ultimak scout mounts on all of them. Almost makes me want to find another Garand so I could twist the knife and modernize that one too.
"Bwaaawk bwaaawk walnut and steel bwaawk waaaaaalnut and STEEEEEEEL bwaaawk!"
Polished some .308 and .30-30 brass for a friend who wants some 150 gr in each; I have some Hornady 150 SP for his .308 but had to back-order the FNs for the .30-30.

[44Blam]

Loaded up 100 12ga #4 birdshot rounds for the comp this week... I found that if I put a 0.07" card over the powder, it compresses the wad ever so much but it keeps all the powder in place and slightly compressed. It seems more consistent.
I got a new steel target last week and shot 6 of these at about 20 yards in my 590A1 and I got a really nice pattern that was only about 4-5".

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[Mal Paso]

I cast a pile of the 432 Larsen solids this morning. They weigh in at 249g. These were water dropped for magnum loads. Didn't have the mold hot enough to start, the hotplate takes longer to stabilize than the pot. The mold ran well with the alloy at 700F. I really like this mold.

[Winger Ed.]

Bagged up a bunch of brass I'll never use to be shipped to one of our guys here who will give it a happy home.

[Old School Big Bore]

Yesterday: wasted three hours setting up to load .308 for a friend's Browning pump - thought I had a batch of .308 150 gr SPs. Flailed around trying to get the measure to throw 44.0/Varget, finally got it, loaded the first two and did a chamber Czech - SPs stuck in throat, flung Varget all over. Czeched my caliper and zero was .003 off, SPs were .311s. Went to bed. Today: dug out more expensive actual .308 150 gr SSTs, couldn't get brass from M118LR nor M852 to chamber even with the right diameter bullets, flailed around some more finding FC brass and a small base sizer that would actually get the brass to make the trip into the chamber and allow the lockup to work. Loaded the batch and delivered them. Came home, watched movies with the dog while sipping a Bahama Mama. I love my B92 and B53 but will never own a BPR. Now he wants some .30-30s...
Ed <><

[Texas by God]

Tweaked a bit on an AR15 80%er with a Remington .223 barrel from CDNN, then opened a box from CB Santa that was full of amazing goodies. A nice day.

[Brass&Lead]

Wet tumbled about 2300 .223 – ready to load and 3000 9mm ready to prep for this weekend.

[Mal Paso]

I got 750 Larsen 44 bullets culled and sized yesterday. Too many rejects. Didn't give the mold enough time on the hotplate and poor lighting under the pot. Hitting the sprue hole with lead was shooting at dusk. Need to fix the light today.

I've got 400 44Mag cases running in the tumbler right now.

[robg]

loaded 50 45-70 with 348g pb boolits with 22g 2400 .25x no filler 25x tp filler to try on sunday

[kevin c]

Today I coated a thousand boolits with HiTek Kryptonite Green. I like the color (still messing with TruBlu). Sized another 1500. The day before another thousand. Before that I sized and primed 5500 pieces of pistol brass.

I'll be loading it all after my elbow stops complaining...

[Brass&Lead]

Cleaned .223 and started to deprime and size.

[robg]

cast a couple of hundred 457x340g boolits for my 45-70 .

[2A-Jay]

de-primed 450 .40S&W cases, ran them through the wet tumbler with SS Pins they are drying now in the Food Dehydrator now. next step is Prime and sizing. With these and another batch will be loading up about 800 rounds with 155gr Hornady XTP. Powder will be WSF. Night finish up in time for ThanksGiving Dinner tomorrow. for Black Friday I have 200 30-06 cases ready to load. 272082

[kevin c]

Great emoji, 2A-Jay. First time I've seen that one.

[cwlongshot]

Tumbled some 10mm sent from tomme boy! Thanks brother!!

Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless to all!

CW

[rockrat]

Sized/primed about 200 357mag cases and loaded about 100 44spcl rounds. Might get to load about another 100 today, depends on how much cooking I have to do and what kind of stupor I will be in after eating all that Turkey:)

[sigep1764]

Got the safe moved from the garage to the basement. It fits everything, barely lol. Scopes take up a bunch of space!272128

[sigep1764]

Got the safe moved from the garage to the basement. It fits everything, barely lol. Scopes take up a bunch of space!272128

[marshall623]

Loaded some 22 Hornets , 55gr Lee sized .225 with gator checks lubed with 2500+ over 4.5gr. of Unique lit with WSP’s . The T/C is ready for some Sillywets .

[cwtebay]

Loaded 50 - 300 PRC. Sized and primed another 150, thinking about trying out something new with it and can't quite decide what yet.

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[sigep1764]

Trimmed, chamfered, and deburred 150 or so 30-30 brass.

[Hootmix]

Cut & trimmed some 45-70 starline brass down for a 45-60 Chaparral i'v been rebuilding ( made 80% of parts ) ,then fired up my Master caster to 725 deg. used small single dipper and cast a few 340gr.+ - ( 457122HP sc ) to load and try . I noticed if I stir & dipped from the bottom of the pot the bullets weighed out with in .002 - .005 ths. average , as opposed to just scoop and fill ( ????? ) Maybe I will get to shoot tomorrow,, with out the HP pin the mould throws weight at .350-353grs.

coffee's ready ,, Hootmix.

[Jhopson]

Put together a one of those workbenches from Sam’s Club. Got the 1050 and 650 mounted.


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[cwlongshot]

I loaded up 10 45 Colts with my 250 FWC cast powder coated bullets on top of 8.7g of 7625 for about 1050 fps load. Its a warm colt & light Ruger load.

Usually shoots well havent tried it with this bullet. Yet...

CW

[Mal Paso]

I got 100 149g Water Dropped Solids loaded over 20g of 2400 and 200 240g Air Cooled Pentas HPs over 10g of N350.

[44Blam]

Went into the shop and cleaned up a little and farted around a lot.

[Static line]

I just farted around. :bigsmyl2:

[Michael J. Spangler]

Working on some 359-640 and a couple of Lyman 45 cal 405s. The mould name escapes me right now.

[robertsm53]

Cast up 20 Lbs worth of 500 Gr boolets for the 45-70.

[Texas by God]

I’ve had some old primed .22 K Hornet brass lying about for at least 20 years; I don’t even recall where they came from. I decided to use those primers in something that I actually have, so I carefully de capped them. They are the old rounded face type( probably Western). Humorously, 4or 5 of them had paper shims in them to tighten up the loose primer pocket! I think they will light up some Unique/58gr cast .223 loads for grins.

[tankgunner59]

Helped a friend load 250 120gn pills over 3.6 grains of IMR 700X. He's the guy I wanted to help who is extremely interested in beginning handloading. I love the chance to help get another addiction started.

[44Blam]

Continued cleaning - now I have space on my workbench.
Then powder coated a bunch of boolits I found in my cleanup.

[44Blam]

PC'd more of those boolits and resized about 200 45 cal 350s...

[Cast_outlaw]

Over the last couple days I trimmed 30 308w cases and loaded 20 with 30gr rl7 under a leec309-180-2r, About 2200fps. Got a pid controller and relay. But broke the Handel off my old lee press sizing 308w:(. Just need my thermocouple to arrive and build a box for the pid

[cwlongshot]

Blisters on index and thumb from installing too many gas checks...

Bullets look GREAT THO!!

[robg]

prepped the 45-70 cases i emptied on sunday at the range.I am still surprised how much they need trimming for a nearly straight case.

[McFred]

The other day I cleaned up some, organized powder/components, and sold some duplicate sizing dies.

[44Blam]

So, I had some shot shell reloading problems recently, so I loaded 3 rounds (with advice) and will carry them around in my pocket for a couple days to see if it fixes my problem. My Problem was that I was getting powder migration. So, I "fixed" it by adding a .07" card and it packed everything nice and tight. But out of 100 rounds I had one "uncrimp". Someone mentioned to put some newspaper instead of the card and it seems to be working....
I also PC'd some 40s and some 357s....

[Texas by God]

I finished my latest AR 15 rifle and I have gone the other direction and disassembled my 1900 date 1898 Krag to diagnose and cure the hitchyfeeding problem it has. I ended up using the old pull down primers that I mentioned last post to load 9mms with AA#2 and 135 gr cast. They work splendidly but impact a bit to the left from my Shield.

[Don Purcell]

Been casting .41 220 grain RFN from my brass 4 cavity Arsenal mold. This weekend will break out my 8 cavity H&G #258 for the .41 220 grain Keith and run a pile.

[Hossfly]

Spent the last 30 min. Today changing over from 45 to 9mm caliber change and from large primer to small primer I think next time I’ll just save up and buy a new press,LOL. Dillon 650. Or 750. Got all the little pieces changed out and will start cranking on it tomorrow.

[Cast_outlaw]

Built a box and assembled my pid and hooked up my lee 420 272561

[44Blam]

Loaded 100 birdshot rounds for a trap shoot on Saturday. Might need to load another 100 tomorrow - I think I've got about 150 clays...

[jorg0370]

Decapped and wet tumbled a few dozen odd brass cases tonight. .30-30, .380, .357, .38 Special, .44 Magnum, and 7.7 Jap.

[sigep1764]

Boss asked me to build him an AR and all the parts came in yesterday. Put that together while waiting for my nieces who are traveling to Kansas to arrive.

[44Blam]

Resized about 1000 40 cal boolits. Gonna need to start loading some 40s again. :D
Also reloaded 6 slugs with my new idea on how to shrink the column height a little. These are within spec of a 2 3/4" shell. Gonna have to go shoot 'em!

[cwtebay]

Loaded 200- 44 mag, 200 - 44 Russian, 120 - 351 Winchester. Can't seem to locate a bunch of bullets I bought for the 401......

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[cwlongshot]

Loaded up some 410 Slugs using 40cal bullets upside down glued to stump wads.

https://youtu.be/Yy0Kt8n6RC4

CW

[Loudy13]

Finished some 300BO sub test rounds, and loaded some 9mm.

[Don Purcell]

Storing and labeling 650 rounds of 38 Special +p in ammo cans. Will be sizing 750 cast .41 220 grain RFN and finish loading 1,000 .41 Magnums. After that several hundred .45 Colt. Too many cans and bags of empty cases underfoot that should have been loaded and stored neatly long ago. I know "neatly" and "loading room" are sometimes mutually exclusive.

[44Blam]

Unloaded some 525 grain Lyman Slugs... And about 100 rounds of birdshot.

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[RobClarke]

Loaded 45 ACP with resized cast and about 50 of a new powder to try load today

[Lloyd Smale]

short day. Kind of stalled till i get some 300 ham'r dies. Yesterday i loaded a 100 300 wbys for next year and tumbled 475 pieces of 300 ham'r brass. dies bullets and the rest of the parts for the gun should be here next week. Im behind on my casting because i loaded every stinking piece of brass in the house this fall and it depleted my stash. Especialy my 9, 40s and 45s. But im kind of waiting till the snow comes so i have something to do this winter.

[cwlongshot]

Just pulled the remainder of 450 loads that where soso in reliability. This rifle seems to not reliably cycle any light load very well. But velocity is excellent.

Swapped out the problem scope on my 32/20 for a Fixed 10x. Its mostly a range gun anyhow..

cW


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[cwtebay]

Loaded the last of my round nose in 350 - 6mm Lee Navy. Really hoping to find a new source soon!

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[44Blam]

Found 200 primed 308 cases that were all ready to go. Reloaded 50 of them and got busy doing something else... Need to get back and do the next 150.

[jonp]

Deprimed and sized some 357Mag brass a member here was good enough to send.

[Hossfly]

Started this weekend cranking on the Dillon with 9 mm, went thru about 700. Picked up deer from processor and packed into freezer. Set for a while.

[John McCorkle]

Started this weekend cranking on the Dillon with 9 mm, went thru about 700. Picked up deer from processor and packed into freezer. Set for a while.Hey Charles you get one,?! Congrats man

I worked a few 9mm myself..then ran out of boolits and started on 38 spc. Got a pound of bullseye finally and made a few 38spc wadcutters with it....man I like em. Soft recoil - very nice shooting round



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[trails4u]

Spent time with the 13yo daughter..... We swaged some primer pockets on some mil 5.56 brass....did some trimming, chamfering, deburring... Cleaned some primer pockets, and THEN....we shot the BB gun in the makeshift 'range' in my workshop/garage. Working on trigger control and 'flinch'....she's a great student, good listener, and REALLY wants to be a great shooter. And...she's well on her way. At 7yds, she hits the bull as often as I do, and is quick to let me know it too!! :) It was another great day....

[Soundguy]

I made up a test batch of 50 240gr lrn .430 for my 44 special, started loading a few over trail boss as bunnyfart loads for a charter arms bulldog target in 44spl.

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[cwlongshot]

Laddered a 140 MP HP in my 32/20 single shot. 7-10g.

@8.5g the bullet turned to dust in the newspspers... Should have been about 1600 fps... Guess lil harder alloy is needed. ;)

CW

[TXGunNut]

Turned on the case cleaner to finish polishing a little batch of 32-40 brass. I like shiny brass!

Mike

[sigep1764]

Brass processing day. 500 223, 150 30-30, 150 270. No more brass left. Now gotta load them.

[cwtebay]

Put together 100 - 32-20 with 85gr Hornady XTP's for lion season!! Can't wait to take the SRC 1892 out!

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[Cattleman406]

Resized 200 fresh 5.56 cases and primed 100 pieces of 38 special. Nothing too intense.

[cwlongshot]

Put together 100 - 32-20 with 85gr Hornady XTP's for lion season!! Can't wait to take the SRC 1892 out!

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I trimmed & fully prepped about 250 32/20 brass then loaded up five to test fire today. Im working up loads for a single shot with a MP 140g hp & 2400. Im at 1400 W/ zero p signes and good accuracy.

CW

[John McCorkle]

Brass processing

Seems that ends up taking most of my time forever and always. Cutting crimp off a bunch of 556 lc brass and just finished sizing a batch of 600 38 spc brass

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[cwlongshot]

Loaded up about 20 to test. Once confirmed Ill load all and be set!!

CW

[Brass&Lead]

Swaged and reamed a SFR box of .223 / 5.56

[44Blam]

Put together some 10mm for the match this weekend... They're slightly decreased velocity rounds than my normal 10mm. I'm trying to keep them subsonic - but just barely.

[Loudy13]

Loaded another 20 test loads for 300BO subsonic 208gr HP testing today for FPS so far have not had a problem cycling a 10" AR

[44Blam]

12ga shotshells #4 birdshot! 50 of 'em for the match this weekend! :D

[Whole Bunches]

Put back together my estate sale Lyman 45 and got it running.

[Chad5005]

cleaned up the bench and shelves,ive loaded for 12gauge,7mm,300 win mag,223 and 308 with a few 44 and 45 colt thrown in since ive cleaned up and it was a wreck

[cpaspr]

Loaded up some .45ACP ammo using 225gr 452374s that were originally cast maybe fifty or more years ago by my father. I know that because when he gave me his lead pot ten years ago he also gave me several hundred 150gr .38 spl bullets with a note indicating that I had been the one to cast them back in 1976. And those were the last bullets cast with that pot until I started it back up ten years ago.

I only had 35 left after figuring out a good recipe last weekend. These are all from the reloading stuff my dad gave my older brother several years ago. He finally decided he's never going to get around to reloading, so asked me if I wanted it. I asked him if I loaded some ammo for him if he'd trust my reloads. He said yes, so these will be going back to him eventually, along with some .30-30 spire point ammo for the single-shot he hunted with when we were kids, and some normal .30-30 ammo for dad's 1955 Winchester 94.

[Texas by God]

I took the Burris 6x from the Mauser 30-30 and moved it to the AR15 .223, then took the 10x Weaver from the Tikka 22-250 and put it in the fridge, mounted a special sale 3x9 Weaver Kaspa on the 22-250, took the Weaver K4 from the fridge and mounted it on the Mauser 30-30. And sighted them all in with 5 shots or less. Good day last Thursday.

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[cwlongshot]

Tumbled a huge batch of 357 sig and 40 S&W I separated watching uTube last night! I probably overloaded my tumblers. Shoulda ran three but just used two..

Aughta be jewelry gleaming this AM!! Yup 12+ hr tumble!!

CW

[chiefsfan]

I Have some 340 gr WW flat nosed boolits. Started to dill out the nose on my small lath to make some hollow points and bring them down to around 280 - 300 grn. Was having an issue with getting the hole dead center. Changed bits and went a couple sizes smaller and seems to work better.

[JoeJames]

I cast and kept 49 wad-cutter boolits on Saturday morning, December 12, 2020. Had the old Lee double cavity mold for 35 years or so. First time trying it. Using wheel weight ingots I had poured previous weekend. Dropping them onto cloth, not quenching. After a short run, noticed quite a few wrinkled, but had my alloy hot enough (@3 1/2 pounds ) but probably took a spell to burn out old lubricant from mold. Added less than an ounce of tin to the alloy (@8" length of lead free solder, and then had much better results. Perfect actually, .358", weight 150 gr + or - .2 grains. Mostly making sure I have a reliable mold for 38 Special bullets if the supply of components gets even worse.
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[kevin c]

Deprimed and swaged some crimped 9x19 on my Lee APP. They reprimed easily on my Dillon and I've no doubt that they'll go bang when the need arises, but while it's good to know I have the option, uncrimped 9mm brass is so easy to find I think I'll just avoid the crimped stuff and save the primer pocket swaging for the stash of military 5.56 brass I have.

[robg]

prepped some 45-70 brass .

[Castaway]

Made percussion primer caps from Al cans, then made up about 80 primers for my cap and ball revolvers

[jorg0370]

Cleaned the .314-90-SWC and .356-125-2R Lee molds, then plugged in the 20# Lee pot. Cast a few pounds of boolits from 14BHN ingots of range scrap. Today was my first go at casting; and I saw fewer wrinkles after setting the pot hotter, and after the molds warmed up.

[DAVIDMAGNUM]

I loaded 50 rounds of 357 magnum BLACK POWDER ammunition . Why ? Because I can !! Okay, it is fun to shoot in my rifle, I figured out how to eliminate blowback into the action, it is accurate, it is as easy to load as smokeless, I have five pounds of Elephant 2F........

[jdfoxinc]

Finally got down stairs, (herniated a disc in Oct.), on Mon. Threw my laundry in the washer and sat down to derin 22LR brass while it ran.

[hickfu]

Over the last 2 days I have cast up around 125lbs of 405gr 45-70 bullets. I wont powder coat until it gets warmer and way less humid. Next task will be 125lbs of 430gr 45-70 bullets.... I figure its winter so its time to cast quite a few hundred pounds of bullets, my BIL in Idaho wants 357 and 44 mag bullets to load so I will be doing them after the 45-70's

[44Blam]

Over the last 2 days I have cast up around 125lbs of 405gr 45-70 bullets. I wont powder coat until it gets warmer and way less humid. Next task will be 125lbs of 430gr 45-70 bullets.... I figure its winter so its time to cast quite a few hundred pounds of bullets, my BIL in Idaho wants 357 and 44 mag bullets to load so I will be doing them after the 45-70's

That is a WHOLE lot of 45-70. I feel like I did a lot of work shooting about 50 or so in a sitting...

[Cast_outlaw]

Building a new bench for presses, as I had some strength problems with the one in the background. hope I don’t have that problem with this one :lol: not finished yet but getting there, plywood brackets for the ends and smooth out the top
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[Texas by God]

My nephew has a Single Ten that had missing fiber optic in the front sight for whoever knows what reason.... I decided to substitute 16gauge copper wire in there, and tried the CB shorts out the back door of the reloading room.
Let's not talk about that little guy above the "W"......[emoji849]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201216/696f231579e8e3be11778eecaab13760.jpg

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[kmw1954]

Now that is a bench! Hope you never have to move it!!!!

[kevin c]

It looks...substantial...

I'm worried though: might flex too much and sag there in the middle over time...

[cwlongshot]

Started loading up Bulk 300 bo using 110 Nosler culls I picked up last summer. 19.3g 296 shoots really well!!

Just fillin ammo cans

CW

[Lloyd Smale]

i switched gears to bo's myself. Loaded up a bunch of test rounds for the ham'r and had 200 110 barnes tssx bullets i just found. they wouldnt work in the ham'r but are my go to bullet in the blackout so i sized and primed whatever 300 bo brass i had and tumbled it yesterday. Today ill load up those barnes bullets and cast in whats left over. Ive got a PILE of loaded bo's already but have been on a load every piece of brass in the shop kick this fall.

[toallmy]

I spent the last 2-3 days beating my head against the wall trying to load some 380acp loads without the right equipment . I finely decided to just wait until all the craziness ends .

[Vegas Vince]

Cleaned the bench off, & seated about 500 22 cal. boolits in 30 cal. sabots. Soon to load 308 win.

[robg]

prepped so 357 mag brass .going to have a loading session during the post Christmas lock down.

[Loudy13]

sized 3-400 300BO cases, prepping to load 208gr Mihec HP subs

[Gtrubicon]

Deprimed and sized 5lbs each of 38 and 357, they are wet tumbling now. I did these on my Lee app with my Dillon case feeder supplying the cases. Man am I impressed with that app press.

[Doubles Shooter]

Shoveled off my bench and I gave my home built PID a test run. Works great. Also did a small batch of,45's with one of the new colors I got from Smoke
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[Jal5]

Deprimed a bunch of 9mm that will get washed tomorrow


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[44Blam]

Resized and trimmed 104 45-70 cases. I found 4 Hornady cases - have NO idea where those came from. But those hornady cases are about 1/16" short. So, I've seperated them out... I'll have to see where my boolit seats in those cases so I have the same volume/charge.

[sigep1764]

Reloaded 200 rounds of 30-30 with 6.5 grains of Red Dot and an Accurate 312-157R and 10 rounds with an NOE 150 grain hollow point. All lubed with Carnuba Blue. Then moved to 50 270Win with the RCBS 270-150 lubed with Lyman Orange Magic. Between me, friend, and his kids, we are almost at 1000 of these 30-30 through the Marlin 336 and 3000 through the 270. They are a hoot!

[trixter]

Peeked in as I walked by on my way out the door to go to work (13 days left) woooooo hoooo!