What did you do in the reloading room today?

[taco650]

Uberti "Old West" model, this one has cylinder throats that are .4565" they faithfully copied the 1873 Colt Peacemaker right down to the last detail, and for the best results, boolits should be sized to a light drag fit in the throats..

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Beautiful grips on that "Peacemaker"!

[newguy4570]

My first attempt at mp HP's. I'm new to casting and just been lurking around trying to learn from you guys. 134805134806

[bigarm]

Yesterday I started on my cabinet to store my Dillon 550 tool heads with dies. Got the basic box made with pull out shelves for the tool heads. Hopefully today I will cut a back from scraps (have to piece it together, no piece big enough), cut the doors and begin drilling the holes for the dowels to hold the tool heads.

[Swede44mag]

First I went to the Gun Show looking for a Ruger Black Hawk in 45 Colt with a 45 acp cylinder found an used but it was more money than new and more than I had with me.
I did find some once fired 300 WSM nickel plated cartridges. I resized several nickel plated 300 WSM casings I picked up at the gun show and trimmed them to length with my Sinclair case trimmer.
It started to get hard to trim to length after about the first 10 casings after 30+ I had to push hard.
When finished I looked at the cutting edge under my magnifying light the edge was dull from cutting the nickel plating.
Lesson learned don’t trim nickel without a carbide cutter.
I also looked at my 45 colt cast boolits about time to cast some more.
I do know where there is a used blue 7.5" black hawk 45 Colt I may have to take home if he is willing to come down a few bucks.

[therealhitman]

Spent an hour this morning cussing out three different Dillon powder measures. They all throw 700X from 2.8 to 3.7 randomly (trying for 3.3 in light 9mms) and I am ready to throw them and the powder out the window. I know, I know, throw it all your way!
No more flaky powder (pun intended) for me. Back to Bullseye and lotsa smoke I guess.

[triggerhappy243]

Just get rid of the flake powder and go back to ball powder. Nothing wrong with the powder measures.

[Swede44mag]

Do your Dillon powder measures corrode? I have a reloading room in my garage it is a minimum 50 degrees all winter but I have a bad time with aluminum corrosion on the powder measures to bad they don't make them out of stainless steel.
I since have added reloading Kennedy reloading table/cabinet in my bed room. I load more in there the temperature is a lot more constant.

[triggerhappy243]

Swede, sounds like you have a humidity problem.

[45cal.scott]

Loaded up a test batch of a new alloy for the colt last night, even had help from the mrs..
she was my powder charge girl.
Gtta say, she checks the powder charges every 3rd round. ( i only do every 5th) and she's pretty
fussy. If these shoot well, she's got the job, i take all the help i can get

[detox]

Today I replaced the leaky hot water heater in my reloading room.

[bigarm]

Continued working on the cabinet for the dies and tool heads. Got larger and smaller dowels cut. Drilled holes in the larger ones and glued in the smaller ones (to go through the hole on the tool head), drilled holes in the slide outs and glued in the dowels, put on a back, cut doors and routed around them. Hopefully tomorrow I can get the doors and outside of the cabinet sanded. Then I can start the finishing. Never made a cabinet with doors before. Hopefully I can install them and it should be a nice cabinet. One side will have space for 4 tool heads with powder measures and a top slide out for 4 without powder measures and the other side will have 4 slide outs with space for 4 tool heads each without powder measures. All in all I should have space for 20 tool heads and dies without powder measures and 4 with.

[62chevy]

Saturday cast over 400 boolits. Sunday PCed 100 of them for the first time and then loaded 50. Today did another 125 But the last batch was to thick and to cold out side so back into the pot they go.

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[sparky45]

Well, I can now say, as of today, I have owned one of each type of Press (except the 310 stuff) that Lee makes. I setup a Lee Classic Cast Turret Press today and it runs great. Came to me used from a member on this Board and I am very pleased with the action and "heft" of this press. I simply cleaned and lubed everything today and I plan to load some 44-40 tomorrow.

[websterz]

Today I cast and tumble lubed about 300 230 grain flat nose Lee .452's. Tomorrow I'll repeat. That will give me enough to load up all of my empty .45acp brass.

[texassako]

I realized I loaded every last .38 and .357 case I owned over the weekend. I guess I need to get out of the reloading room now and go empty some so I can fill them back up.

[8mmFan]

I loaded 16ga, 12ga, and 20ga shells w my two young sons. I got them in to the reloading room early in life. The oldest is 6, his little brother is 4. I supervise everything at all times, but they are mighty good. My little one has to say each step as he loads on the Mec's; "knock out old primer, new primer, powder, wad, shot, start the crimp, finish the crimp." Same as his older brother did until he had it cold. They're both methodical and as conscientious as can be expected and they take it seriously which is all I ask. We get spills most every time we load together; not a big deal.

Our time together in the reloading room is prime father/sons time and all three of us look forward to it. We "talk it over" in there, be it school, work, hunting, business, doing the hard right vs. the easy wrong, and a lot more. Who would win if The Hulk went against Thor?, was the main topic of today. The consensus is The Hulk.

We can get usually get through a hundred or so shotgun shells between the three of us before my wife gets dinner on, or a hundred 9mm, 45 acp, whatever. But we don't always "go for a hundred." They each get a step in the process doing something if we're reloading metallic.

Today we got about 75. A very nice day.

[Doggonekid]

Cleaned the garage and cast approx 300 - .475 400 GR WFN, approx 250 - .458 300 GR SWC, approx 250 - .401 175 GR SWC, approx 250 - .357 158 GR SWC. I cast about 50 LBS of lead, more or less. I was a good day nobody but me and classic Rock and Roll music.

[sigep1764]

Girlfriend kept me company while I made these134870

[taco650]

First I went to the Gun Show looking for a Ruger Black Hawk in 45 Colt with a 45 acp cylinder found an used but it was more money than new and more than I had with me.

I do know where there is a used blue 7.5" black hawk 45 Colt I may have to take home if he is willing to come down a few bucks.

Is it just me or are used gun prices too high? Every time I look at a used handgun or long gun online or in a GS, the price is the same as new or higher. I'd rather buy new and not have to worry about the history/baggage that accompanies used. It's so hard to find good deals these days.

[triggerhappy243]

Yes, used gun prices are too high. They are being purchased by the same stupid dumbazzes that are buying 22 lr ammo at gougers prices. Thread closed ........... Next!

[Deadpool]

Who would win if The Hulk went against Thor?, was the main topic of today. The consensus is The Hulk.

There was a cartoon movie about that. The Hulk just kept getting more angry until he won. But Thor could have pinned him with that hammer, for a wrestling win.

[Pb2au]

Last night I finished re-sizing 348 winchester brass into 41 Vetterli brass. After that I cast a pile of Lee 430-310 slugs for the same.
Next step is to do the center fire conversion of the bolt and I am off to the races.
And, although technically not in the lab, I am currently reading through Paul Mathews books, "The Paper Jacket" and "Shooting the Black Powder Cartridge". This is support for a summer of running up my new to me Pedersoli Rolling Block Creedmore rifle.

[mac60]

Been working on a cast boolit load for an M95 Steyr. The bore slug measured .315x.333". I decided on a .334" boolit. I've had 425 Lee C338-220-1R cast up for several weeks. Yesterday I sized and checked them to .338" in a Lyman 450, then ran them through a push thru sizer Buckshot made for me for a final diameter of .3345" (perfect). I reduced the diameter of an expander made for a .338 die set (which measured .336) to .3315, expanded with a Lee universal flaring die and loaded up 30 rds. in Prvi brass with 16 gr. 2400 over a CCI 200 primer. As soon as I get a chance I'll choot 'em.

[tazman]

I spent a couple of hours in the morning casting and sizing some NOE 360-160-WFN and NOE 360-150-SWC for my revolvers. I have them tumble lubed and drying now.
This afternoon I have been reloading a pile of 38 special loads using boolits from a previous casting session over a charge of Bullseye to get my stock built back up. Not sure how many I will get done but I will continue for a while yet.

[tazman]

I loaded 16ga, 12ga, and 20ga shells w my two young sons. I got them in to the reloading room early in life. The oldest is 6, his little brother is 4. I supervise everything at all times, but they are mighty good. My little one has to say each step as he loads on the Mec's; "knock out old primer, new primer, powder, wad, shot, start the crimp, finish the crimp." Same as his older brother did until he had it cold. They're both methodical and as conscientious as can be expected and they take it seriously which is all I ask. We get spills most every time we load together; not a big deal.

Our time together in the reloading room is prime father/sons time and all three of us look forward to it. We "talk it over" in there, be it school, work, hunting, business, doing the hard right vs. the easy wrong, and a lot more. Who would win if The Hulk went against Thor?, was the main topic of today. The consensus is The Hulk.

We can get usually get through a hundred or so shotgun shells between the three of us before my wife gets dinner on, or a hundred 9mm, 45 acp, whatever. But we don't always "go for a hundred." They each get a step in the process doing something if we're reloading metallic.

Today we got about 75. A very nice day.

I really like this scenario. Keep up the good work.

[Sticky]

Testing some Noe 30 Hunters in my AR308. So far, 2400 has disappointed, though I am upping the charges to test, these are loaded up with some test loads of A5744. We'll see how that fairs.. (sorry, crappy phone pic.. )

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[gloob]

I fixed a tight taper crimp die. The body was squeezing/swaging/scratching up the brass on one of the thicker headstamps. I chucked up the offending rounds in a Lee Zip Trim chuck and drill adaptor, and I used them to lap out the die.

[BrianL]

Cleaned and organized the whole room, even went so far as to label locations on the benches to put stuff when not in use. It is worth a shot...

[sigep1764]

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[TXGunNut]

Loading room closed until tax returns ready to mail. Two down, one well on the way. I think I saw some shiny clean cases last time I was in there.

[taco650]

Loaded 12 30-30 rounds with the Lee 309-180R slugs I cast, sized & checked last week. Load was 10gr of Unique. Hope to do some 44mags tomorrow.

[johnc486]

Cast 1400 120 gr truncated cone 9mms Sat. & Sun. afternoon, now sizing & lubing with Bens Red and then seal with BLL. These will be target loads for my Shield 9mm, I really like this little boolit, feeds great.

[8mmFan]

Thanks Deadpool! I will now have something definitive as a follow-up to the debate. The boys will be intrigued, for sure.

[8mmFan]

Thanks Tazman. Will do.

I figure if I can raise good kids to become good men, while a lot of other guys are doing the same, we can rebuild/repair the bedrock of a great nation and ensure a future for them as good as or better than we even had.

[Efin]

Thanks Tazman. Will do.

I figure if I can raise good kids to become good men, while a lot of other guys are doing the same, we can rebuild/repair the bedrock of a great nation and ensure a future for them as good as or better than we even had.
Awesome, dad, we need more like you. Read your other post too.
We need a "LIKE" button.
I didn't get into loading until the kids were out but they're now legal to buy and getting into shooting etc.
Their "donor" dad didn't believe in guns, but is now changing his tune so the kids are not fighting the "other" influence.
My son and I did go shoot some of my reloads lately and he's getting an interest, with your story above I'll push it more.

[Efin]

Loaded 80 - 45colts with some of my own 250g powder coated pills, looking forward to getting out and seeing how they do...

[62chevy]

Just gathered up 75 rounds to send the lead back where it came from, Mother Earth that is. It was huge success too.

[Tenbender]

Loaded some test rounds in 40 S&W and 30 30 . It is time to shoot. Turkey season in about 17 days and Coyotes just waiting for me. lol

[bigarm]

Day 4 of the tool head and die cabinet build. Only had the doors to put on, or so I thought. Just started building stuff when I retired. This was the first thing with doors. Had bought some European type hidden hinges. Never used them before. Didn't realize there were different types. Figured out I had the wrong ones, so went to town, about 17 miles one way, to get the correct ones. Started working on them. Took a long time (longer than it should have) to figure how to install and put them on. First door done. Great. Second one - installation was easier as I knew what I was doing. Problem - door just a little too long. Dang. Took the door and trimmed it down with the table saw. Then sanded until it was where I wanted it. Then had to rout the side again because part was trimmed off. Then had to sand entire door again. Finally got it put on and finished it again. Just before leaving the shop I decided to see how the slide out shelves would look installed with the doors on. Can't get the slide ins in with the doors on! Will have to trim them down now. It is looking good and will be useful when done. Wish I had started this building stuff earlier in life so I would know what I am doing.

[tazman]

I loaded up 200 rounds of wadcutters for my 38 special. I am trying out a load of WST since I bought an 8 pound jug a few weeks ago. Lots of people seem to be using this powder for this application and there is plenty of data out there.
So far my K38 hasn't really shown a preference for powder. It seems to shoot everything well.
Even if they aren't the best load they will still work for practice/warm up rounds.

[JeffG]

Cast some 9mm. 135062

[358wcf]

Put together 100+ 38Special rounds with Lee 105gr boolit- My younger daughter purchased her first handgun, so we're training her this weekend with ultra-light loads for her PINK Charter Arms---
Used Ben's Liquid Lube on the sized&lubed boolits with Carnuaba Red in the grooves- So easy, dries fast, I love this new process- will use it on all my boolits going forward- Sized & lubed 200 boolits (165gr FP) for the 3 32-40s- gotta keep 'em fed with good stuff!
I've confirmed that using quality lead alloys from RotoMetals makes so much sense- no more scrap alloys for my target loads-
Keep your pot hot and your molds clean!
Chuck

[newguy4570]

135097135098my son loves loading his rounds and seeing how good they work.

[trixter]

Processing 223/556 brass getting to do my final reloading of the "dark' season. Then go shoot them; repeat.

[jimb16]

Let's see....today I sized and ultra-sonic cleaned a batch of 7 TCU brass, sized a batch of 8mm Mauser and started loading a batch of .410 shot shells. There just isn't enough time!!!!

[edctexas]

Reloaded some with PC's LSWC 145gr and some 308W. Also 100 357 mag with PC'd 158 gr LSWC. Nice day and fit in doing laundry in between! Ed C
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[newguy4570]

Lubed my first one tonight. Still have a ways to go on figuring out my lubematic. 135136

[tazman]

Those wadcutter loads I loaded up last week worked great so I loaded up some more today. After I got done with those I pulled out the lead pot and cast up and lubed about 600 of the Lyman 358432 wadcutters.
I changed my turret press over to 40S&W and proceeded to load 300 rounds of 145 grain TC boolits over some IMR 4756(won't be long and I will be out of this powder probably forever). I will probably load up more of them tomorrow. This load has been shooting consistently well for the last 6 weeks so it is time to make up a bunch of them. That gives me 2 good bullet weights for the 40.

[Leon Garfield]

I got my 9mm dies for my new dillon square deal B so I switched over from 45acp and loaded up 150 rounds. Love this Square Deal........

[Desertbuck]

Made 44 rounds of black powder 8mm Mauser
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[Budzilla 19]

Loaded 71 rounds of 30/06 with 201 grn Rnfp GC'ed, loaded with H-4831. Nice mild load, half inch at 50 yds! :bigsmyl2:

[merlin101]

cleaned some of the mess.

[jonp]

Started testing Vectan GM3 in a 14-4 38sp I got a little while ago. Works very good

[mdevlin53]

I am waiting on reloading components, my casting setup is still behind a huge pile of snow out in the shed. It was cold and rainy all day Saturday so. Having bought an NRA gun record book a while back I recorded all my guns sorted out the stack of records and receipts. took photos of new acquisitions and made sure everything is up to date. It is good to know what you have what it looks like and what you think it's worth. not planning on going anyplace soon but it feels good to know my wife wont be completely lost if I do. right now she only knows there is a place in the basement where I keep my stuff can't remember her ever actually setting foot in there.

[robertsm53]

resized & de-primed 100 40-70SS cases then ran them through the wet tumbler a couple of times to wash & rinse. They are hanging to dry now. Time to stuff them and get them ready for my better half to shoot them up.

[texassako]

Loaded up a couple of boxes of 7.62x54r with Vectan A0 and Ba9 and the NOE 311331 to see how they compare to my accuracy load of 11gr of Unique in my M28-76. Maybe one of them will turn out to be my new accuracy load. The manufacturer mentions the powders are good for cast in rifles; so we shall see.

[TXGunNut]

Heat-cycled a new NOE mould! I did some loading last weekend but between yardwork, taxes and heavy rains a range trip didn't have a chance of happening. Maybe next weekend.

[Patricklaw]

Loaded 40 rounds of 458 socom. My cast boollits aren't working so I got some Hornadys to sooth my ego until I get time to adjust my molds.

[jonp]

Cast some 358140 20:1 and water dropped them this morning to try out in my pistol over gm3 to see if that will get rid of the slight leading before changing a batch of alloy

[Jal5]

Loaded 150 rounds of 223 for the AR but these are J words. Resized some cast for the 223 also. Need to cast a lot more of those.

[DonMerlin]

I finally got through all 41 pages of this thread, now I need to go do research on this powder coating of bullets. Seems not right to me somehow but then again I need to get out more.

[62chevy]

I finally got through all 41 pages of this thread, now I need to go do research on this powder coating of bullets. Seems not right to me somehow but then again I need to get out more.


Yup Powder coat is good stuff, it just needs to stop raining so I can cast more so they can be powder coated so I can get to the range and send them down rang so I can cast some more and be able to powder coat them again.

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[bigarm]

I spent the last two days building a shelf unit to hold ammo, so spent time cleaning the reloading room. Sawdust everywhere!

[aspangler]

Loaded 200 rounds of 380.

[Grantb]

I caste about 50 usable hollow based .455 Webley boolits. Both mould and lead need to be hot to get usable boolits.

[scottfire1957]

Had just enough time to cast 100 boolits for my .32 mag.

[bangerjim]

Getting ready for 2nd quarter AZ club shoot on Sat.

Loaded up a couple hundred 38SPL's for my new S&W 357 magnum revolver to check the sites. (laser bore sites are nice, but you cannot beat real lead flying downrange to final check your settings!) All weights of 358 boolits packed with ETR7. And to run thru my 38/357 carbine.

Loaded 100 rounds of 30-30 with different loads for 170 gn 14 Bhn PC'd boolits. Playing with ETR7 for sonic and full loads of X-Termiator and LeverEvolution. All slugs Cu GC'd.

And 150 rounds of 223's for the Mossy lever rifle in both Bator plinking and full X-Terminator FMJ loads. Just so the gun does not get lonely!

bnager-j

[TXGunNut]

Walked by. E-scale noticed my presence so I weighed a boolit and walked out, closed the door. I'm one tax return and a NASCAR race away from doing a bit of casting.

[blikseme300]

Not so much of what I did today but working a few hours every evening this past week I finished preparing 1000 300Blk cases from indoor range pickup 223 brass. If I don't do anything in my workshop every evening I get weirded out as I feel I have not been productive.

[miner_loads]

Sand casted a 1.5" cannnon ball but where is the line between cannon ball and boolit drawn

[skeettx]

The line is drawn in the sand :) he he he
Mike

[Alexn20]

The line is drawn in the sand :) he he he
Mike

I see what you did there :)

[flyer1]

Went to the the local shooting range swap meet. Found 2 20 ingots of plumbers lead for 10 bucks each. I am happy.

[DonMerlin]

Cleaned the 9MM brass. Sorted the 45 and in a state of shear panic went on line and ordered 600 more once fired 45's. I love/hate the internet!��

[bigarm]

Loaded up 30+ 10 mm rounds with 6.8 grains of Power Pistol to be chronoed when we get a decent day. 7.3 grains averaged about 1150 fps. Want to try to get down some for a fun load.

[DaveyDug]

I loaded up 300 rounds of .38 Special using Missouri Bullet 125 gr Cowboy #17 boolits over 4.5 grains of W231 and CCI 500 primers.

Moved outside and smelted most of my soft lead ( SOWW's, range scrap, roof flashing and some mystery lead my uncle gave me) into ingots. Ended up with about 30 lbs of ingots when all was said and done.

[scottfire1957]

Tonight is powder coating night. I am using, and if you can find one, buy it, a Midway 1088 vibratory tumbler. Static 'o plenty. Tumble one load whilst another is cooking.


Oh, also I unstuck a .223 case from a sizing die. Need more lube next time.

[texassako]

I had just enough time this morning to open the package containing my new NOE collar button mold and get a little drool on it.

[EMC45]

Yesterday I realized I couldn't cut grass due to rain and thought "darn, now I'll have to go cast some bullets". I then went to the carport area and cast some 32-098s and some Lyman 225-415s. Culled about half of the 415s and then sized the near entirety of the 32-098s @ .314. After getting the 225-415 mold to the bench I realized I had a flake of lead on the mold face so I gingerly removed it and still had day light between halves of the mold. I stoned the face of the mold with the holes and not the pins and there were definitely burrs there. So after some judicious stoning they line up perfect with no light to be seen. I may wait for some more rain and fire that thing back up just to see how it does.

[Geezer in NH]

Vacuumed the floor first time is 5 years

[project]

136952 I just cleaned up the bench.

[aspangler]

Loaded 130 380acp with 2.7 gr Bullseye behind the Lee 102 gr boolit. My Taurus 738 loves this load.

[scottfire1957]

Sitting here, drinking a Milk Stout Nitro, listening to tunes on Pandora. Wifey had another surgery today, and all went well. Number 17, I think.

Wondering which cigar to light up.

[Tenbender]

Cast 600 454, 255 gr'ers.

[websterz]

Today I cast a couple thousand 175 grain .401 TC's. It's time to give the pot a good cleaning so I poured it empty. http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy258/websterzdesign/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150417_174458.jpeg (http://s797.photobucket.com/user/websterzdesign/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150417_174458.jpeg.html)

[triggerhappy243]

I have to ask, how long did that take you? and how many cavity mold were you using?

[websterz]

Six cavity mold, I was in the shop for about four hours but wasn't casting fast and furious.

[scottfire1957]

I only cast about 300 boolits tonight. I feel like a slacker compared to the above.

[GrantA]

Loaded up some 300 grain rounds to test in the freshly built 458 Socom, half j-words and half hard cast. Then I drooled on the Rapine molds I picked up for it, hopefully this weekend I'll finally try my hand at casting. And I had to bump the cast rounds a little deeper after I mortared one back out of the chamber :-)
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[websterz]

I only cast about 300 boolits tonight. I feel like a slacker compared to the above.

The problem is I can cast them six at a time but only size them one at a time.

[SSGOldfart]

The problem is I can cast them six at a time but only size them one at a time.
you'll wind up with a star or progressive sizer I have a couple of Mike's sizers auto -sizer II.
see special project section8-)

[michiganmike]

Yesterday I cast some 200 gr. 30 cal. for a friend at church. Today I put the final coat of Ben's Liquid Lube on them. He's not shot cast before and I offered to load some up for him. He has the reloading dies. I am getting together with him after church to determine the best OAL, bringing the necessary tools with me. I have a five gallon bucket full of very nice COWW I need to melt down and turn into ingots. So far I have just stared at them.

[taco650]

Today I cast a couple thousand 175 grain .401 TC's. It's time to give the pot a good cleaning so I poured it empty. http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy258/websterzdesign/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150417_174458.jpeg (http://s797.photobucket.com/user/websterzdesign/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150417_174458.jpeg.html)

Nice!

[websterz]

They're all sized and ready to tumble lube. I have about 6000 rounds loaded now so I'm just going to store these boolits dry and lube them when I need them.

[taco650]

They're all sized and ready to tumble lube. I have about 6000 rounds loaded now so I'm just going to store these boolits dry and lube them when I need them.

What are you shooting them in?

[62chevy]

Cast over 400 452-200-RF yesterday. After church today I will cull them and then some blue powder coat will finish them.

[hc18flyer]

Cast 450 of NOE 326471 and Lee 323 175 bullets, checked, lubed, and sized. Ready to load for Yugo's 8 X 57's. Rainy and crappy hear today, excuse to sit at the reloader, prepare for a future day of shooting. Flyer

[websterz]

What are you shooting them in?

Hi-Point 4095TS.

[Tenbender]

Finished up building a heater for my Lyman 45.
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[Geezer in NH]

Put out new PB baited Mouse traps and some new poison. Spring is here they were gone all last fall. Hope this works

[Eddie2002]

Picked up about 60 mixed Lake city blank 30-06 brass, trimmed and resized them down to 7.7 x 58 Jap. Loaded up about 150 .380 ACP plinkers with 2.4 grains of greendot pushing a 115 grain cast boolit. Rainy day so spent some time in my man cave.

[Land Owner]

I introduced a new shooter to this magnificant hobby of casting and reloading. We chatted about where to start, which caliber, basic needs, starting slow, paying attention to detail, and enjoying the company. Then I provided him with access to my reloading library of manuals for his perusal. We've scheduled another, more in-depth, FTF discussion in two weeks when he is back in town, to tune his favorite 30-30. In the meantime, we're conversing via email.

[pmer]

Been loading for an up coming prairie dog shoot. Almost got my 4th pound of powder emptied loading for 17 cal. and 20 cal.

[Eddie2002]

Fired up the small pot for a quick casting session and produced about 200 .312 100 grain boolits for the 7.7 Jap plinker loads and some extra for my 30-06. Drilled and taper honed a .312 hole through a 1/2 inch piece of plate steel to use as a sizer to knock off any mould lines and clean up the boolits. Looks like a real sizer die is needed down the road but the hole in a piece of plate is working ok for now. On a real tight budget in the reloading room and am trying to make accessories instead of buying them.

[taco650]

Fired up the small pot for a quick casting session and produced about 200 .312 100 grain boolits for the 7.7 Jap plinker loads and some extra for my 30-06. Drilled and taper honed a .312 hole through a 1/2 inch piece of plate steel to use as a sizer to knock off any mould lines and clean up the boolits. Looks like a real sizer die is needed down the road but the hole in a piece of plate is working ok for now. On a real tight budget in the reloading room and am trying to make accessories instead of buying them.

The Lee push-through sizer sets are pretty affordable: $20.99 + shipping from Midway. I know that's more than what you spent on making your own but you're able to let someone else to the engineering and manufacturing.

[tazman]

I spent an hour this morning loading up some 38 special rounds with NOE 150 grain SWC boolits. I spent an hour this afternoon casting some more of those same boolits.
Got a nice container with 528 of them in it.
I had a good casting session today. I only had 4 rejects during the entire run.
I may push my luck and cast more boolits up later today.

[DonMerlin]

Unboxed and tried out my new Lyman 2500 sonic cleaner. I ran some 45ACP through it few times. I'm impressed with this sonic cleaning.

[Bullwolf]

Upgraded my lighting in the reloading room today.

Added under shelf fluorescent light fixtures, mounted above of my loading bench.

Also changed the overhead incandescent light bulbs, to 100w (16w LED) 1600 lumens Utiltech LED bulbs. The first LED bulbs I've ever used.

Trying to brighten things up in there, with some modern lighting.



- Bullwolf

[zidave]

Installed my new Inline Fabrication turret shelf and Lee Turret reverse rod case ejector

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[62chevy]

Installed my new Inline Fabrication turret shelf and Lee Turret reverse rod case ejector

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Reverse rotation is pretty cool but I don't want to go that fast.

[websterz]

Today I loaded up 1250 rounds of .45acp. Assorted range brass Tula primers, Promo and tumble lubed 230 grain Lee TC's. That'll hold me for a while. :-)

[Tallbald]

Sized and deprimed about 250 .38 Special and .357 cases, which are now in my Thumbler's Tumbler getting pretty and shiny. Am taking stock of what primed and ready cases are to be loaded and with what. Wondered what my wife and children are going to do with all my reloading stuff when I go to the shooting range in the sky. Don.

[mold maker]

Found scratches in my Lyman die, after about 350 cases. They're not deep enough to trash the brass, but it's disheartening. I did get several K cleaned and polished though.

[skeettx]

Tallbald
I told my wife to throw all my stuff into the dumpster behind my house.
I have told all my buddies about this and they will be at the dumpster
the day after the funeral.
All is good
Mike

[bigarm]

Powder coated a bunch of 45 acp and 40 s&w.

[tommag]

My schedule coincided with a friends that I haven't seen in a while, so I dug out the Wilson hand dies and the arbor press and loaded up a hundred 223 improved. He liked the rifle, and it liked him. He shot several ragged hole groups at 100 yds. I didn't do so well, 1"+ groups. No problem, I'm not consistent and today I wasn't shooting well. I had a GREAT DAY!

[DW475]

Sorted and tumbled brass today. I'll be glad when i get through the 2100 lbs of brass that's left to sort!

[David2011]

Shot a match on Saturday. Lost 90% of my brass; .40 S&W. Went back Sunday, scrounged about half of my brass and about 500 more that others left. Ran it through the polisher, then through the Case Master Jr. And then back to the polisher. I like to load shiny brass. Getting closer to retiring, I'm trying to break even on brass attrition so I can shoot a few matches without worrying about losses now.

David

[websterz]

I know what you mean. I only have 10k or so .40S&W brass myself and I hate losing any!

[websterz]

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Loaded 540 rounds of 9mm. Assorted range brass, Tula primers, and 125 grain Lee RN tumble lubed over Titegroup.

[tygar]

I've spent the last 3 days sorting several hundred #s of foundry & mono. The big ones are easy but the single letters mixed with the little lino/lead slivers are a PIA & dirty. Got so much of that stuff I'll need to start trading for pure to mix it.

[W.R.Buchanan]

I walked by my bench about 15 times today while running parts on the chucker. At one time I actually sat an egg crate full of parts on the open space on my reloading bench since it's about the only horizontal surface open right now.

Sometimes I just have to put this stuff aside or else I get nothing else done.

I still have to work.[smilie=b:

Randy

[rodsvet]

Just drank a few beers and cleaned my 650. Then drank a few more and took a nap. Good day overall.

[bigarm]

Loaded a few 10 mm rounds to test the new powder funnel from Mr. Bullet Feeder I put in yesterday. Seems to work good. Then I changed the press over to 45 acp so I can load some for my wife. Wished I would have ordered a powder funnel for 45 acp also as I like how it works with cast bullets.

[Efin]

De-priming 223s for future 300s

[aspangler]

Loaded some 45-70 to test.

[taco650]

Smelted half a big coffee can of range scrap I picked up yesterday while testing some CB loads I'd made for my 30-06.

[Geraldo]

Loaded a few .38S&W with black powder.

[MOA]

Well I really needed a place where I could set up my Master Caster that was outdoors.
I thought I would just build a bench with some studs and plywood, but after checking prices at Home Depot it was depressing.... But, as I was about to give up, I asked one of the guys in the lumber dept if they had any pre-built work benches, and he said yes, they had one for about 100 bucks. It was just what I needed, but I did need to get some galvinized sheets to cover the top of the bench with since it was going to see some hot metal more often than not so here is the project. Getting it set up, cutting the hole in the deck so the bullets can slide down the tube to the bucket of cold water for instant quenching treatment.

Here are some images

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[skeettx]

Awesome Great
Thank you for sharing
Mike

[tazman]

I spent just under 3 hour in front of my Lee 4-20 running my NOE 358-135-fn. I ended up with slightly over 2200 good boolits. Now I have to size and lube them all. These should last me a few weeks.

[bigarm]

Started to load some 45 acp. Did a couple and then the primer feed wouldn't do all the way, so I tore it apart and realigned the machine and now it seems ready to go. I hope so. Will find out tomorrow.

[Jal5]

Picked up 1lb can of CFE223 today and more primers. I only get to this shop a couple of times a year and knew they would have powder. Now to work up a load for my AR 1:9 twist using my BOOLITS 61-62gr

[TXGunNut]

Didn't even open the door, have some rifle ammo to load and moulds to break in but today the best I can do is research and planning.

[TXGunNut]

OK, ya'll shamed me into it. I went in there to retrieve the vacuum cleaner and stayed long enough to clean it up a bit. You'll never believe (OK, a couple of you would ;-) ) what I found in there, lol. I even ran the vacuum in there when I was done. Bad idea, I know. Buddy called while I was in there and I measured a few cases and boolits for him while I was there. I know, I generally don't allow a phone in my loading room but there was no actual loading going on. Talked him into a set of extra set of dies I had lying around and a few 38-55 cases to tide him over until he gets some in. Think I'll throw in a few sample boolits for good measure, lol.
May even scrub and heat cycle a few new NOE moulds that are patiently waiting for their inaugural casting session.

[zidave]

Loaded up another batch. Ready for my day at the range on Tuesday

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[Black Powder Bill]

Sorted boolits.

Had a order come in and I pulled a few boolits to sell to a local guy a few weeks ago and noticed they didn't appear to be RNFP vs a SWC. I'll break down and sell smaller lots.It was bothering me so I start looking and opened the other manufactures boxes and notice some are not as labeled ..IMO
I sent the manufacture a note asking if the boolit pictured is a 9mm or a 38? Mic'd a littler different too. I then mentioned it was a good thing I didn't ship as labeled.

What happens, I get a note stating they will not do business with me any longer since I'm selling in less amounts than the box they came in. Even thought the manufactures name is clearly printed on & in my adds.

He still never told me if the boolits are 38 SWC or 9mm TC. I have 4 or 5 boxes here that IMO are not as they are labeled.

Try to help a customer's out one of many who don't want or can't afford 500 boolits.
Now here I am going through 14 boxes to make sure they are as labeled.

I sure don't go out of my way like I did with these to label a 6,000 round Hornady box that is sold off in lots of a 100 or more with the manufactures logo and phone number.

Waste my fracken time again.
44 RNFP? Ain't no round on these
139201

[Green Frog]

This week the Spring Nationals of the North-South Skirmish Associations begin (Wednesday-Sunday.) I spent significant portions of Friday, Saturday and Sunday casting Minie Balls and bullets for my Maynard Carbine, then lubing, sizing, and loading them. I had already done revolver rounds a while back so now I'm ready for individual and team matches for all three of my guns. Satisfaction! :mrgreen:

Froggie

[Deadpool]

44 RNFP? Ain't no round on these

They appear TC but looking closer, they do seem to have the slightest curve to them.. Last night I was designing a RNFP that was so close to being a TC I really had to wonder if it was worth it. The large meplat is to blame. Those actually look like SWC, after a bit of considering.

[Black Powder Bill]

They appear TC but looking closer, they do seem to have the slightest curve to them.. Last night I was designing a RNFP that was so close to being a TC I really had to wonder if it was worth it. The large meplat is to blame. Those actually look like SWC, after a bit of considering.


My pic stinks! No round ~ all tapered to the FP top. I have 2 boxes of 44 one marked RNFP the other TC which is what I ordered. BUT with my eyes they both look TC. No ring for the SWC
The 148gr 38 SWC I have looks like a 9mm TC. I'd cast these small lots for guys but it kills my hands, arthritis and all that old fart stuff. It just sux as I found a manufacture that actually had all I needed in stock at a fair price and now he's gone.
I pulled this pic off the net.
This IMO is a RNFP139213

so goes the war

[tazman]

I am getting ready to move to another house. In preparation for that, I spent 5 hours this morning in front of my Lee 4-20 lead pot casting with My Lee 358-158-rf 6 cavity mold. I now have a 50cal ammo can mostly full with 3500+ boolits.
139214
Dang that can is heavy!

[Eddie2002]

Got three boxes of Sierra 150 grain .311 spitzer condom bullets from Midway, they were on sale, and loaded up a bunch of 7.62x54r and 7.7 Jap rounds. Used up the last of my IMR 4895 powder and opened up some H414 and IMR4350.
Updated my load data book, haven't kept it current so spent some time going through ammo cans and transfering the info over. Need to get to the range, suffering from overstuffed ammo cans and running out of brass.

[Black Powder Bill]

I am getting ready to move to another house. In preparation for that, I spent 5 hours this morning in front of my Lee 4-20 lead pot casting with My Lee 358-158-rf 6 cavity mold. I now have a 50cal ammo can mostly full with 3500+ boolits.
139214
Dang that can is heavy!

We moved last August and I'm still sorting stuff. Good luck!

[kens]

stocked 3 cans of 2400, and a can of 4227. I guess the powder shortage is lessening, since I found the 2400.

[tazman]

We moved last August and I'm still sorting stuff. Good luck!

I have been working on this move slowly as I have time for about 4 months. The move is only 60 miles. Both houses are free and clear so except for the utilities and such there is no big rush to get it done. However, summer is coming and I would like to spend some time on the river so I guess I need to get it done.
I am transporting things as the weather permits, using my pickup and trailer. It will still take a while as I have been living here for over 40 years.
I didn't know I had so much stuff until I went to clean it up and move it.

[Patricklaw]

Picked up a couple sleeves of small pistol primers at Cabellas today and stocked them into my primer drawer.

[robg]

sized 150 .223cases 20 were crimped and glue in they were a b***** to de cap

[quickdraw66]

I messed around with some 8mm Mauser.

[Jal5]

Yesterday we deprimed 50 cases for 9mm.
Not much but with my 4 y. o. Grandson spending the week and wanting to make some bullets with me it was priceless!!

[Efin]

De-capped and wet tumble cleaned 500+ 223 for 300BO fab.

[taco650]

Cast 111 Lee 309-180RNGC. They weigh just under 170 and don't know why except my alloy (50% range scrap/50% COWW) just comes out that way.

[62chevy]

Cast 111 Lee 309-180RNGC. They weigh just under 170 and don't know why except my alloy (50% range scrap/50% COWW) just comes out that way.

I have the same mold and they drop at 168 with Wheel Weights and with pure lead 172. We are not the only ones that received defective molds from Lee But with me it doesn't matter as long as they leave the barrel and put holes in the paper or move a few rocks a couple of inches.

[Springfield]

I JB welded an adjustable measure on my kids 410 mec. It was not designed to be used with such small amounts so I filled in the sides so the chamber would not a be a slit, which causes the shot to bridge and cause inconsistent shot charges. Now it is more of an oblong hole, works much better.

[captaint]

I sat down last nite and loaded up 100 45ACP's with my new VV N310 powder, 3.8 grs, and the good old Miha H&G 68 clone 200 gr.. Can't wait to shoot some with the new powder. Very fast burning. Excellent for 45ACP and not too much else. I did see one pub load for the 9mm though.

[tygar]

Seperated the last 200#s of foundry & mono. Put in SFRBs for storage. Still have the 100#s of small foundry to box up. Need to find out exactly how much foundry & mono I have, must be 600#s with at least that much lino. Need some pure cause most of my "lead" is WW hard or close to it. Think 10 is about my lowest.

[Black Powder Bill]

Answered email, pulled and shelved round ball,tumbled 45LC

[Deadpool]

Mixed 300# of my 16 batches of alloy, and poured into 1# ingots. This final batch is a consistent alloy. Each batch of those 16 are a stack of 50# or so, with a predicted alloy calculation. Each have very slight variations, so I take 3# from each stack to make the final alloy. I'm just hoping the final batches have less variation than the 16.

I also resized 2000 5.56 LC brass and about 500 7.62 LC brass. Just picked up some fresh powders to try. Again I'm back to trimming brass.. This is the only step I dislike. There has to be a better way. I'm using a drill with the Lee case trimmer stud. When I was doing the giant bag of 40S&W brass, the case would slip in the stud, causing me to reseat and try again. I'm not having that problem with the 5.56 or 7.62, they haven't slipped at all.

Argh, soon I have to cast more 40's. 1450fps from a 180gr 40S&W and zero malfunctions/jams! Tempting to try a 240gr mould for subsonic loads in those short cases...

If nothing blows up and I live to tell about it, soon I will have a treat for you all.

[taco650]

I have the same mold and they drop at 168 with Wheel Weights and with pure lead 172. We are not the only ones that received defective molds from Lee But with me it doesn't matter as long as they leave the barrel and put holes in the paper or move a few rocks a couple of inches.

Agreed! My first round of accuracy tests are giving me 4" groups at 100yd with almost no recoil. More work to be done but the loads were just a guess with Unique and it was better than I thought.

So nice to shoot the 30-06 and not get a sore shoulder! Guess I'm getting old LOL!

[clum553946]

Set up my Dillon 650 for 44-40, only crushed one case mouth (so far!)

[sav300]

Loaded up some 577-450 and 45-70,off to the range tomorrow!

[David2011]

Made a test run of .223 defensive ammo with 1970s M193 FMJ. If it will function properly and stay on a paper plate at 100 yards, I'll make a big run.

David

[dragon813gt]

Cleaned the pot in preparation for the certified alloy. Then I tried to put one of the ingots in the pot.
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Not sure how I'm going to handle this. I really don't want to melt them down into smaller ingots. I don't want to buy a new larger pot. Well actually I do "want to" but the bank account can't support it at the moment.

[tygar]

Cleaned the pot in preparation for the certified alloy. Then I tried to put one of the ingots in the pot.
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Not sure how I'm going to handle this. I really don't want to melt them down into smaller ingots. I don't want to buy a new larger pot. Well actually I do "want to" but the bank account can't support it at the moment.

I just take the handy dandy propane torch & melt until it falls in. Works fine.

Also spent several hours sorting & boxing all the mono/foundry I got. I still have an additional 200#s coming.

[62chevy]

I just take the handy dandy propane torch & melt until it falls in. Works fine.

Also spent several hours sorting & boxing all the mono/foundry I got. I still have an additional 200#s coming.

:goodpost:

[dragon813gt]

I just take the handy dandy propane torch & melt until it falls in. Works fine.

Sometimes the simple solutions are the hardest to see. I was hoping an ax would split them in half w/ ease. That wasn't the case. I will try the torch tomorrow morning, thanks.

[dougader]

Deprimed around 60 30-30 cases, washed them in a citric acid bath, rinsed, dried. It only took a few minutes, and no dusty media to fool around with.

Not a lot done, but went to the range earlier and my cases are ready to load again.

[Butchman205]

Loaded some 45 colt's with lee dippers and a scale, then gave 'em a boom test.
All went boom and a bullet hit the "target" dirt holes in the yard.

Not sure if I'll, continue using the dippers...but for $13 and change its worth loading the old school way for fun.

[lightman]

Nothing yet, but I plan to spend the afternoon loading 223's for a up-coming Prairie Dog Hunt. With what I have already loaded, I'm thinking 500 will do me.

[David2011]

Finally got all of my .22 Hornet stuff together and put some brass in the polisher to try my first itty bitty reloads.

After testing the load, started my $HTF collection in earnest. Not sure how much is enough but will load up all of my mil-spec .223 j-words. That's a lot of rounds. Loading some military magazines and putting the rest in stripper clips. I also have a Garand and will load a bunch of defensive rounds for it as well.

Swaged a BUNCH of Lake City brass primer pockets in a Dillon Super Swage. Found that CCI arsenal primers (#41) still seat much better if the primer pockets are reamed with a Hornady primer pocket reamer. The arsenal primers are a little harder IMO to seat than standard CCI primers. I'm loading some varmint rounds later today so will compare CCI 400 primers to the #41s.

David

[MOA]

29 pounds of 173 gr. 30 caliber RNFP for the 30/30.


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[brstevns]

PC some 45/70 bullets for a cousin and cast a few bullets for a 43 Spanish

[Geezer in NH]

Vacuumed the floor again and de-primed a 5 gallon bucket of brass.(223 old stuff from 10-20 years ago

[opos]

Cleaned up the mess from yesterday when I loaded about 100 rounds of various calibers of rifle ammo...single state marathon event.

[tazman]

I took the presses and measures off my reloading table and put everything in totes. I am in the process of moving to another house and got most of it moved today, but not set up yet. I still have more stuff and a set of shelves to move tomorrow.
I had no idea I had so much stuff. I took a trailer and pickup load over today with the loading table and will probably have about half that to go tomorrow.

[Eddie2002]

Primed the last of my 30-06 brass and swept the floor of the reloading room. Got some long guns and ammo together for a trip to the range come Wendsday if it doesn't rain.

[mold maker]

Spent the entire day entertaining a Grand son. Important stuff first ya know.
Being retired makes everyday Saturday, so I'll "get er done" tomorrow.

[Black Powder Bill]

Boxed up boolits to ship. Sold a H&R 44m rifle. Wife found a new used 10x10' dog pen yesterday so we set it up today.

[Patricklaw]

Loaded about 300 38specials with Lee 105's. Powder coated them orange and sized to .358.

[mart]

Loaded some 357 and 41 mag with Elmer's favorite loads to test my two Ruger Bisleys I just got. Sized and lubed 500 357 170 grain SWC. Loaded 50 rounds of 25 Remington for my model 8 and cleaned 500 rounds of 38 special in the tumbler.

[RogerDat]

Sunday, grandson helped me move some stuff out of the basement and then hung out with me while I worked up some test loads in 38 special. Wife made burgers and salad, yard was mowed the day before. Life is pretty good. Unique 4.1 grains under 158 gr. truncated cone is very pleasant and so far seems accurate enough. Make that life is very good.

Polished a bunch of brass too while I was at it. Caught up on polishing, guess I need to get more eh?

[lakeparkv8]

Cast 100lbs of ingots! Add to the stash baby!!!!!! :D:castmine:

[gloob]

I mixed up 12 lbs of 50:50 lino and wheelweight alloys in my Lee bottompour. I fluxed it with a small spoon of boric acid-based flux and a couple handfuls of sawdust. Then I examined my rifle molds and turned off the pot. My aluminum molds need some serious cleaning and lapping.

[62chevy]

Not the reloading room but the garden. Made me some wicking beds with 5 gal buckets.

[Bubba w/a 45/70]

Nothing but saying a few prayers. My reloading room is my calmest place.

[boho]

Lube sized 200 Noe 359242 with FWFL for 38 special plinking.

[bigarm]

Loaded 300 40's. Now I have 700 loaded rounds. That will do for a few matches. Of course, if we don't get to more matches, it will last much longer. I also finally finished the cart for my new miter saw (at least I hope so) by mounting the wings on the sides that fold down.

[tygar]

Totally prepped 200 RP & 300 LC 308 brass. Since these were for AR & M14s FL X die sized, trimmed those that needed it & annealed all. Man do I hate trimming even though I have a power trim/campher tool it's still a PIA.

[rodsvet]

Sized and trimmed 3000 223's with my Dillon 1200. Gosh, I love that trimmer! Then tumbled them in my stainless pin machine. Will load them and empty them again this week.

[David2011]

Changed the pot in my Pro-Melt, sent from RCBS under their lifetime warranty- no charge. Tested it with water; no drips. The original pot was over 30 years old. The hardest part was drilling out the old stainless steel pop rivets.

David

[Patricklaw]

I finished up a lot of 1200 38 Special rounds with Lee 105 pc'd pills.

[Black Powder Bill]

Packed up a box, took a call, packed another box. Sized and trimmed some 30-06 and loaded with 15gr ETR7 ~ 170 and 220gr GC Boolits to test out.

[zidave]

Loaded a ladder of loads for 7.62x54r with IMR 4227. Running low on SR4759 and can't find anymore.

[skeettx]

Made some 257 Roberts for a friend out of 30-06 FA Match brass.
Retrofitted an old Pacific DL-150 press for Junior shooters to use.
Loaded some 38 Special on a Star press
Sorted brass from this mornings shoot
Got 5 Hollywood presses ready for a gentleman coming from Florida.
BrassMagnet squealed by and dropped off stuff, inventoried it, THANKS

Mike

[gloob]

I cast about 6-7 lbs of rifle bullets.

Slow going on my Lee Bator 6 banger. I haven't been able to get this mold hot enough for the bullets to drop out. I have to pry at least half of them out with a pic. The 7mm soupcans jump out of the mold when I get it just hot enough to get the bullets frosty. I might have to look into some kind of mold lube/release for the Bator.

I learned two new tricks. Sawdust plus acetone for cleaning molds. It "abrades" away the burned on crud off without scratching the aluminum or leaving fibers. Blow out with the compressor.

And I needed some lube for my sprue plates. I rubbed a chip of my solid Alox/beeswax tumble lube on the plates, and they ran silky smooth. Closing the sprue plate on the 6 banger was just a matter of tilting the mold 45 degrees and watching it shut itself. This is the first time I ever cast this much without any lead catching on the sprue plate at some point.

[robg]

sized ,trimmed,primer pocket cleaned, 300x308win .the one reloading job I hate,tis done now.just polish them next

[coxa2]

Cast 400 230gr RN pills for my 1911. Then deprimed a couple hundred 45acp cases.

[Eddie2002]

Sorted the brass I picked up from range day. Ended up with 1/2 a coffee can full of .223/5.56 brass and I don't even own anything in that caliber, will try to trade it or maybe just buy a 5.56 rifle, hate to see good brass go to waste. Need clean some firearms next.

[mold maker]

Just finished depriming 2.5 gal of 223 Mil. It's tumbling now in citric acid and dawn. It'll be dry by morning so I can swage the primer crimps, and size in RCBS X die.
My arm is sore.

[DonMerlin]

I made a red oak base for the cast base on my Hornady powder measure. Now it is portable and I plan to use the reclaimed real estate to mount the Mec 600 back on the bench.

[62chevy]

Tumbled 308 brass.

[Black Powder Bill]

Cleaned 3 rifles
Figured out why the scope on the CZ would not magnify, loose set screw on the adjustment ring.
Pulled and sized some ought 6 that didn't fire yesterday??
Packed up a box to go out.
Tumbled 30 carbine

[trixter]

gloob: I am interested in following your progress with the Lee Bator 6 banger. I have one and cast a quart jar fill of them and only had to strike the handle nut lightly to get some stubborn (1or2) out each time. I have done nothing to the mold except keep it squeeky clean. Now getting the gas checks on is another story.

[DonMerlin]

Deprimed and sonic cleaned a bucket of LC 223 I got from my BIL. Picked up a set of Hornady dies for this caliber. I don't have an unloader in this caliber!

[3 gun Gus]

Loaded 400 45 acp with good old lead.

Gus

[coxa2]

Cast another day 400 45acp boolits. Also started the sorting on 40ish lbs of mixed brass I was given.

[labradigger1]

Walked into mine after not being in it for a couple months (been on 7/12's for two months).
Had some rat poison doctored up with peanut butter and bacon grease in a tray on the floor, I have found if you soften the pellets up they will eat it instead of storing it.
Found a pile of hair with a tail hanging out of it and cleaned it up.

[triggerhappy243]

moved a billiard table in.

[David2011]

Cleaned up a little, tested the replacement pot in the Pro-Melt. (Post 942 above.) YEA!- no drips for the first time in a long time. Cast about 600 boolits, a mix of RCBS 45-250-FN, Lyman .40 175 gr. TC and Lee 358-158-RF; about 600 total with no spout freezes due to leaks.

Nice day in the reloading room!

David

[Seeker]

I loaded up 50- .45acp 230grn. FMJ with Titegroup and 50- 45 Colt 200grn RF cast boolits with Bullseye.

[TXGunNut]

Walked in there to get something, wasn't there. Probably not going shooting tomorrow due to rain so I bet I'll get some loading done tomorrow between loads of laundry.

[zuke]

Reloaded 21 rds of 577-450. Those case's are on their 10th reload, and their made from Magtech 24ga brass

[gunarea]

Tumbled 355 rds of 44 mag brass with product new to me. Good results. Neck sized, sorted out culls, decapped, cleaned out primer pockets and weighed primer residue removed. Another day in paradise.

[Black Powder Bill]

Made a shooting rest. Tired of the low have to lay down on the bench rest. I like to sit up as far as possible especially shooting my ML'ers.

[Efin]

Added an 8# jug of I4198 powder to to mix, gotta figure what I want to do with it...

[bigarm]

Got the concrete poured Friday evening for the floor to enclose an open bay for my woodworking shop. Getting all of the woodworking tools and lumber out will really free up space for the casting/reloading, plus reduce the sawdust that gets on everything. Framing should start Wednesday or so.

[AtomHeartMother]

Hmmm...tumbled some 9mm, 38 and 45 colt brass. Note to self....don't do that. The 45 brass eats the 9 and 38 brass... Lol.
Cast and powder coated some 105 grain .358 bullets from wheel weight. First time water dropping these bullets after I pulled them out of the oven from powder coat. Had a serious case swaging issue with 9mm-even with using a 38 S&W expander plug. Happy to say the water quenched bullets did not swage.
Loaded some rounds of all the above calibers mentioned. Can't say enough about the satisfaction I get from shooting my own loads at the range. My little way of sticking it to the retail gods...
Would've never considered shooting 45 colt if I hadn't gotten into casting and reloading...went from 35 bucks a box retail to a little over 5 bucks a box from the loading room.

[spec234]

Added a separate taper crimp die to my 9mm turret disk and tinkered around with the setup.

[TXGunNut]

Wandered in there yesterday, looked around and decided it looked like fun. Next thing I knew it was dark outside and I'd missed a few calls and text messages. (Reloading room a no-phone zone) That was nice!
Took some dirty cases from last range trip to loaded rounds, now have 32WS, 38-55 and 35 Whelen loads ready for my next range trip. Weather not looking good for this weekend, may need to think about a bit of casting instead. If my place ever dries up it will take a couple of days to mow it, won't happen by this weekend!

[osteodoc08]

Loaded up some 308 and 45/70 for an upcoming range trip. Recharged my dessicant packs (wife called me this morning asking what these "canister things" were in the oven......) and forgot to put them back in the safe. Fondled a few guns and wiped them down with oil. Swept. Organized the bench. Used a coathanger to pull the disc that pushes the lube down on a LAM2 out of the bottom of the lube resevoir. How it came off is a mystery. Reloaded it with Randy Rat's Tac 2 since I'm out of his Tac X. My son was pouring water out of the tub as he thought it was funny when I had my back turned so I had a small puddle of water down there I cleaned up. I was really irritated cause some had splashed up on my 3 8# jugs of powder, but there is no way it contaminated it. Thats about it.

[owejia]

Started teaching my neighbors 15 yr old son reloading. We loaded some bee killer loads, because a couple of years ago took him bee hunting and he really enjoyed it. Talked to his step dad when he came to pick him up about all of us going bee shooting. Said his grandfather used to reload, so maybe got a couple more interested in shooting and reloading. Actually that was last night, but will be loading more bee killers today, nasty weather, no outside work today.

[DonMerlin]

I took 2 OK MEC 600JRs and made one real nice one and one that works. (Back up unit). Rebuilt my MEC Super sizer. I had a shotgun kinda day.

[Uncle Jimbo]

It has been raining here in Utah for so long, that I just went out to reloading room and done some cleaning. Wish it would stop raining so I could go shot and then I would have something to reload.

[jonp]

Loaded a few 223 and blew up a stump in the backyard with tannerite.

[RogerDat]

Tried out a new Lee 452-255 gr. mold, cast 7 to 8 lbs. of decent boolits for the Vaquero, made some 45/45/10 using recluses recipe (thanks!). Loaded a dozen 148 gr. HBWC with 2.7 gr. of titegroup to try out. Have better than half of what looked to be a box of 500 of these, figure to see how they shoot, see if wife (or myself) likes them, see what load is accurate. Find a half box of some bullet or another for cheap and it can lead to a 1/2 day of reading and fiddly farting around to get a dozen rounds ready to test. Appreciate the information that others have provided here on the HBWC that gave me all that reading material.

Loaded 20 of each 158 and 125 grain 38 special with enough Unique to provide a bit more oomph. Not max but past 1/2 way toward it. Just want to try out a few rounds with a bit more zip.

[coxa2]

Powder coated 400ish 45 acp pills and deprimed 500ish 9mm cases. Bench is in need of a good cleaning/organizing!

[straight-shooter]

Powder coated 424 NOE 358-155 HP's and loaded 50 tests rounds for some chrono tests.

[Seeker]

Just finished up sizing and re lubing 500- 200grn. rnfp to feed the Blackhawk. The gun just purrs when I feed it these with 7 grns. of Bullseye.

[Geezer in NH]

Vacuumed up the primers that missed the tube in my Lee classic, also the **** sawdust the son left from building something.

[texassako]

Loaded up some 7.62x54r with the NOE 311331 and Vectan Ba9 in the hopes that tomorrow will be dry, but I probably jinxed that chance by loading something for a range trip. It is going to be one heck of a test round trip whenever it dries out on a day I can go shooting.

[montanamike]

I modified my lee 440gr rf mold to make some of these...
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The first one didn't turn out so only one of the cavities are good.

[LoopSoosStroop]

Loaded a few 223 and blew up a stump in the backyard with tannerite.

Haha, sounds like fun!

[NavyVet1959]

Converted some .223 / 5.56 brass to .300 AAC and drank a lot of beer in the process.

Considering the fact that 1000 rounds of processed .330 AAC brass is only about $30 more than the processed 5.56 brass, I'm pretty sure that it is not worth my time doing this. Maybe I just need to prefect my technique to make it faster. Oh well, it's having the *independence* of being able to make it myself and not have to rely on whether a company sells that particular brass. At least that is what I have to keep telling myself. :(

[mart]

I taught one of my best friends how to load handgun ammo tonight. He's loaded rifle but never attempted handgun and asked if I'd show him how it's done. I was only too happy to oblige. He's a great friend and an avid shooter along with his wife and daughter. They both love to shoot as well. He maybe be stuck at the loading bench more now that they know he knows how to load revolver ammo.

[montanamike]

I loaded up a few of the 440gr hp's in the 4" 500 and tried them out on some water jugs. These wer around 12BHN

before

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after

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[taco650]

I loaded up a few of the 440gr hp's in the 4" 500 and tried them out on some water jugs. These wer around 12BHN

before

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after

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Maybe 12bhn is too hard? What do you think?

[montanamike]

I have some 9bhn I'm gonna try. 12 is definitely too hard

[lightload]

House keeping chores, degreased an old Spartan and discovered another of same that I had forgot about.

[rintinglen]

I cast up about 7 pounds of NOE 315-115, a couple more pounds of NEI 32-100swc's. Sized the NOEs and loaded up a box of 327's with 10.2 grains of H-110 and NOE's from the last batch.
Why is it that the better a boolit shoots, the harder it is to cast? The NOE mold casts like a dream, pre-heat, and bombs away--good boolits from the first cast on, reject rate less than 1%. But the boolits, at least to date have been mildly disappointing. Best groups I have been able to get have been in the 2 inch range at 25 yards. On the other hand, the NEI clings to it's boolits like a mother to a lost child on it's return. I have to repeatedly whack the hinge, and shake the handles to get the boolits to fall out. Particular attention must be payed to where the lead stream hits the sprue plate to insure good base fill out. All in all, it is a cranky, persnickety little booger.
But the boolits shoot great.

[TXGunNut]

Did something in the loading room that I haven't done in some time; I loaded up some thutty-thutty ammo for my brother.....with J-words!:shock: He's been sending me his WW brass for years since I gave him a 30-30 awhile back and I finally decided the brass and those silly J-words I found in my bench cubbyhole had to go, lol. I load RP brass for my CB thutty-thutty's so I let the WW's pile up until I had 45 of them. Found some J-word loaded rounds in my ammo dump and shot them just to see how they shot. Couldn't recall testing them so I decided I better do so before I loaded up a bunch to send to my brother.
It wasn't CB's but it was loading, lol!

[smoked turkey]

I am just getting set up for a new to me caliber, the 45-120. I have a Sharps coming and wanted a few cartridges to try when it arrives. I loaded up a total of four (4) cartridges. Two loaded with 34 grains of SR 4759 and two with 97 grains of 2F KIK black powder. My boolit is a 490 gr Lyman cast with a 25:1 lead/tin mix.

[CHeatermk3]

Prepped 86 pcs of 30BR brass a friend gave me to help me get going on my new-to-me match rifle. Ordered a keg of 322 to fill them up with for load development.

[Butchman205]

I loaded another batch of 300 Blackout loads that shot a ragged hole on first 50 yard test.
Second batch performed as well as the first batch did. Ragged hole at 50 yards and over 2400fps.

[pdgh59]

9 lbs of Lyman No.2 into an old but barely used Ideal 287442.

[LoopSoosStroop]

Cast up 1900 boolits with Lee double cavity molds. 1500 with WW+tin and the remaining 400 with Lino. WW+tin casts real quick, but still struggling to get my temps right for the Lino.

[bangerjim]

Got my new brass HP 9mm MiHec mold. Broke it in and cast a couple hundred pentas. PC'd them with ESPC mix of HF black and red to make a dark "bing cherry" red. Cool look. Nice mold. I cast for my 9mm M1 and also 38SPL. One mold yields boolits for both sizes by PC'ing.

I use 10 Bhn + PC for all subsonic loads.

banger

[dragon813gt]

Took a couple new NOE molds and left them on the bench. Can't do a thing until the stitches are removed from my thumb.

[Case Stuffer]

Starting with a full RCBS Pro Melt I cast what looked like about half of the alloy . These were RCBS 22-55-SP Boolits . Let them cool and counted and weighed them, 342 Boolits and 3-1/4 pounds. Next I weighed the sprus, 6-3/4 pounds , total of 10 pounds. Now I know for sure why the pot sems to go down so fast while the pile of Boolits seems to grow so slow.

Ended up casting another 650 plus of these as I was having so much fun.

[NavyVet1959]

Starting with a full RCBS Pro Melt I cast what looked like about half of the alloy . These were RCBS 22-55-SP Boolits . Let them cool and counted and weighed them, 342 Boolits and 3-1/4 pounds. Next I weighed the sprus, 6-3/4 pounds , total of 10 pounds. Now I know for sure why the pot sems to go down so fast while the pile of Boolits seems to grow so slow.

That's interesting... I would not have thought that the sprues ended up weighing more than the bullets when you're casing, but I guess when you're casting .22 caliber bullets, it could work out that way. I normally just toss the sprue back into the pot, so I guess it's not as noticeable. :)

[Handloader109]

That's interesting... I would not have thought that the sprues ended up weighing more than the bullets when you're casing, but I guess when you're casting .22 caliber bullets, it could work out that way. I normally just toss the sprue back into the pot, so I guess it's not as noticeable. :)

Ha! Just got in my NOE 225-37 mold Saturday. Got it going today and dropped 5 bullets each cast and at least twice that weight in sprues... Yep had a big pile of sprues and a fairly small pile of bullets when I cleaned up table. About 6 pounds of little 37gr gems for my 22tcm. Roughly 1050 in the ice cream bucket.

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[slim1836]

De-primed and tumbled some 7.62x51 & 7.62x54R casings which means I got to go to the range this past Sunday.:D

Slim