What did you do in the reloading room today?

[cwlongshot]

Four years ago, I took apart my Grandpa's Stevens 59A 410 shotgun with the intention of touching up the blue on the mag tube and refinishing the stock. It took two weeks back then to sand and Tru Oil the stock to a nice glass finish. Tonight, I finally blued the tube and figured out how to put it all back together. Turned out nice. Still need to paint the trigger guard tomorrow as its aluminum and won't take bluing. I know its just a cheap old shotgun that probably doesn't deserve the Tru Oil and all the attention, but the wood is nice and this will get handed down someday.

Ill bet it looks awesome too!!

CW

[Soundguy]

got my .309 size die in the mail.. still waiting on 30 cal gas checks before I can size my 30 cal projectiles..

[sigep1764]

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[Der Gebirgsjager]

I've had a coffee can full of once fired .410 hulls for many years. I always wanted to reload them, and decided to get into .410 reloading as a winter project. I bought a MEC 600 Jr. press set up for 3" hulls, and I believe it can be adjusted for 2 1/2" hulls with some tinkering. I loaded about 150 3" shells, and then my buddy Texas by God sent me some 2 1/2" empties. I still have some more 3" hulls to reload, so I didn't was to adjust the press. I figured a spacer of just the right thickness could be used to raise the shells enough for a crimp, and found that a 1/4" ceramic coffee coaster works just fine. Slow, but the crimps are prefect. :D These are Win. AA hulls, Claybuster WAA41 replacement wads from BPI, 13.0 gr. of Alliant 2400, and 1/2 oz. nickel plated #7 shot.

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[Loudy13]

Loaded some .45 ACP after scavenging the parts from a case of 45 GAP someone ordered by mistake.

[cwtebay]

Four years ago, I took apart my Grandpa's Stevens 59A 410 shotgun with the intention of touching up the blue on the mag tube and refinishing the stock. It took two weeks back then to sand and Tru Oil the stock to a nice glass finish. Tonight, I finally blued the tube and figured out how to put it all back together. Turned out nice. Still need to paint the trigger guard tomorrow as its aluminum and won't take bluing. I know its just a cheap old shotgun that probably doesn't deserve the Tru Oil and all the attention, but the wood is nice and this will get handed down someday.That "cheap old shotgun" is probably worth quite a bit to you and your family. I hope you get lots of enjoyment from it.

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[jdfoxinc]

Annealed the trimmed .40 brass and pin tumbled it. Then played around with the .45 SWC die from BTS. I need to come up with a more accurate method of initially trimming the brass. This will cut down on the time spent using my trim pro 2.

[62chevy]

Annealed the trimmed .40 brass and pin tumbled it. Then played around with the .45 SWC die from BTS. I need to come up with a more accurate method of initially trimming the brass. This will cut down on the time spent using my trim pro 2.

You don't need to trim pistol brass so you can save some time by not do it.

[cwlongshot]

Sized up a pile of 311/170 Arsenal bullets.

Finished prepping 7Mag brass I got in the mail. Quite a few, more split necks then expected. Even found two that where fired SO HI PRESSURE, that the case head expanded past fitment into the shell holder!!! :(

Remaining 60 Or so look pretty good. Im assuming it's range pickup. I didnt clarify before buying so buyer beware.

CW

[Texas by God]

I decided to add to my loaded .45 ACP ammo stash, so I dumped most of one of my several coffee cans of fired brass into the tumbler. Two days later, I sized and deprimed 200 of them, a few every time I went through the shop. Its dang cold here today, so I'm priming them in front of the TV with my RCBS hand primer. Ive counted 11 different headstamps[emoji16]....and so far two of those blasted Blazer small pistol primer pocket stepchilds.
No worries, good times.

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[tazman]

A couple of days ago, before the snowstorm hit, I loaded a box of 185 grain bullets into 45ACP brass in preparation for a trip to the range.
Finally got a chance to go. The trip was successful. All the loads went bang and hit the target as well as a bunch of boolits I had loaded previously.
Always a good day when everything works.
Today I cleaned the pistols.

[Hossfly]

I was going through my brass stash, found a large coffee plastic container full to the brim of processed .223 brass about 500 and i thought i was out after trading for 1000 that came in last week. Still have about 200 waiting to be processed. After this batch I’ll be out of SRP. Till can trade for more, sure cant buy any at the prices i been hearing about.

[Remiel]

50 9mm lead hitek 122gr tc, and 50 speer 124gr gold dots, slow day compared to the 300 9mm I did last weekend.

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[onelight]

Loaded 250 44 specials on the LCT , my 7 year old grandson showed up as I was finishing and he loaded his first 5 rounds I loaded the primer in the cup and he did the rest :) 150 with 240 swc and 6.8 Unique and 100 with 200 gr rnfp and 5.1 grains of red dot.

[Soundguy]

Ordered 50# range scrap lead, found 1000 lrp at a show. Built an angle iron ingot mold. Been a good weekend.

[cwtebay]

Loaded up 100 - 35wcf. Planning on making chopping water holes a little more fun for my family on Valentine's day. -23° makes for at least 2 hours of axe work every morning.

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[fralic76]

Reloaded 50 44-40 rounds with a 200gr bullet under 6.0gr of Winchester 231.

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[DDriller]

De-primed 2000 40 S&W.

[jhunt1981]

Sized some 300BO, and sorted out some extra reloading gear.

[cwlongshot]

Started forming 7.65 Mauser brass. Started with almost 100 '06 pieces. Ended with 40 good cases!! ;( ;( ;(

Then went to finish up some 135g Black out loads with some 135g Sierras I bartered for. But ARGH I HAVE ABOUT 2 Tbl spoons of IMR4227 left!!!! I was sure I had another pound bottle.... NOPE. :(

CW

[jhunt1981]

Today was tweaking the 3d printer, trying to eliminate some stringing issues, so I can one day print out my bullet/case feeders...

[BigAlofPa.]

I bought an RCBS Bench mounted priming tool. I been having a good time priming a batch of brass then loading. I did over 500 rounds over the weekend.

[44Blam]

Converted 55 5.56 cases to 52 300 Blackout Cases... I accidentally cut two short when trying to figure out the jig and had a STUCK CASE!!!

[Elmer Fudd]

Star-sized a half dozen different bullets, proudly finished, tidied up some and found another batch of the first ones I sized, so I swapped the die and punch back in and sized the new hundred or so LBT 502-420-LFN gc with LBT blue in a Lathesmith .502 die. Love his work.

[Remiel]

Not much really.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210216/4ed56ec82f7b3ac55862a264a5ae0e97.jpg

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[cwlongshot]

Finished makin 7.65 brass from '06 & loaded fifty up in ladders starting 19.5g with 4759 powder & a 165g lovurne style bullet that was fat enough. Sized .314.

CW

[StuBach]

Cast a pot's worth of 44 Larsen deep hollowpoints just because.

Mal, any load data for those yet? I cast up a bunch but haven’t had a chance to PC or load any but looking forward to it.

On Sunday I finally had some me time away from Kids (on Valentines day no less) so, despite the 18deg weather here in Michigan I spent a couple hours over my little propane melter (thanks again Lakehouse) and melted 100# of lead sheeting RogerDat picked up for me and another 60# of wheel weights I got over the summer from HistoricFirearms.

Thanks guys, I keep working towards the one ton club. With so little time to shoot with young kids better to build my supply now cause as soon as their old enough I’m hoping to need it for their shooting.

[Mal Paso]

I've been shooting the HPs subsonic over 10g of N350 for about 1,000 fps and over 20g of 2400 for 1300+ fps in 4-6 inch revolvers. Accuracy is at least decent but I need to shoot more to see if it is exceptional.

[Texas by God]

I turned on the propane stove 3 hrs ago- I’m going to spend some time out there if it gets up to 30degrees in there. The barn cat is happy about the stove- he’s set up his nap station a few feet away....

[Soundguy]

Some animals are weird... My dog is afraid of heaters. It can be below freezing..and I can turn a heater on on the enclosed porch for him and look out 5m later and he will be standing against the farthest wall staring at the heater... Till I turn it off. 10m or 2 hours.

[jim147]

I looked out the window at my shop with the storm damaged flue pipe and said not today too cold.

My hand press is in a box behind me but just not feeling it today.

[2A-Jay]

Sized and Primed another 200 30-06 cases that will be loaded up to M-2ball specs'

[onelight]

Out of boredom primed 1000 45ACP cases with the Frankford Arsenal hand priming tool.

[308Jeff]

Not in the reloading room, but I finally finished trimming the 976 pieces of 30 Carbine brass I got off of Gunbroker. Took me about a week sitting in front of the TV and using the RCBS prep center with a Lee trimmer installed. About half were WRA 52 so I had to swage those ones too.

Still have about 4000 pieces to go. At this point I'm wondering if I'll actually get them all done in my lifetime.

[Rico1791]

Cast some 150gr .309 gas check projectiles for 30-30/30-06/308 use.Which cast mold did you use? I need one for lever action.

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[la5676]

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Loaded up about 500 of these 148 gr PC button nose wadcutters in 38 special. Same as Lyman 358091, but I've got a Cramer mold, no bevel base. First time posting a pic from my own files, hope it comes out right side up.

ETA: Well, dunno what I can do different. But, when you click on it, to bring it up in a separate frame, it flips it 90 degrees, like I loaded it.

[skeettx]

Well done, great picture
Stay warm
Mike

[Soundguy]

It is a lee 90366.
Flat nose gas check.
Board won't let me load pics but if you need a pic of the projectiles pm me your email addy or cell number and I'll email or text you a pic.
These should be decent in 30-30

[Rico1791]

It is a lee 90366.
Flat nose gas check.
Board won't let me load pics but if you need a pic of the projectiles pm me your email addy or cell number and I'll email or text you a pic.
These should be decent in 30-30Thank you. Now to find one.

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[Soundguy]

EBay has a few up right now. No retailers I've found have them.

[Budzilla 19]

Got the casting fever today,so cast up 4.5 pounds of 311-165 RD slugs, thanks to A fellow member who sold me a mold, 7.53 pounds of Lee. 312-155 for use in the .308 and. ‘06, and 5 pounds of
Lee 30-150 RNFP for the30/30. Now to powder coat and size, then gas check . That’s enough for today.

[rockrat]

Sized/lubed about 400 boolits today, for my 308

[44Blam]

Removed the crimp from the 300 BO cases I made yesterday. Then GC'd/PC'd 258 NOE 311-165 FNs... Should be shooting 300 BO in a couple weeks!

[Soundguy]

While having morning coffee.. I mentally planned out what .358 mold I was going to dig thru my pile and look for and decided to sort thru a bag of range brass. All of this was planning.. nothing actually has happened.. yet. ;)

[DDriller]

Hand primed 1200 .40 s&w with a RCBS tool while watching it snow.

[Texas by God]

Loaded a few 174gr HPBT .311" Sierra and some 314 90 SWC to try out in Smelly- but the white stuff changed my mind.....https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210217/27f3fde3fa96d14c6989be27f49c98a9.jpg

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[jlm223]

My older brother passed away last month, got my dads 38 SPL. been working on loading some of them.

[cwtebay]

My older brother passed away last month, got my dads 38 SPL. been working on loading some of them.Condolences for your loss, hope loading a few for your dad's gun helps bring him back a bit.

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[cwlongshot]

My older brother passed away last month, got my dads 38 SPL. been working on loading some of them.

Sorry for your loss!

CW

[Three44s]

What I do there?

Shivered! Then fired up the wife’s Kubota and plowed snow! (It’s got a heated cab)

Three44s

[Soundguy]

Gas checked 151 150gr .309's.

Might get to some casting later and brass sorting, time dependent.

[Rico1791]

Gas checked 151 150gr .309's.

Might get to some casting later and brass sorting, time dependent.I keep bidding on Those moulds for 30 -30. Price gets too high. Last one went for $90 with shipping

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[Soundguy]

I saw one go for 125... Then relisted..buyers must be backing out..or there are shill bidders.

[Rico1791]

I saw one go for 125... Then relisted..buyers must be backing out..or there are shill bidders.That's why I will only bid to max and no more

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[recumbent]

Annealed 200 .223 cases.

[cwlongshot]

I am tumbling 450 Bushmaster brass that came in todays post!

CW

[Der Gebirgsjager]

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9mm Largo and .45 Auto Rim.

DG

[tew45]

I finished my PID temperature controller but I am snowed in and can't fire up my lee pot to see how good it is. It seems to work very well with kitchen temperatures. I will have to have warmer days to cast. It was -3 degrees 4 days ago but a little better today at around 60 degrees. Maybe!

[jhunt1981]

Sized some 30-30. More tweaking/testing on the 3d printer. And, now I've been reminded I have a PID for my casting pot that has been sitting in a drawer for a couple years waiting to be finished, too...

[beshears]

Loaded some 45-70 350 gr cast hp for my 1878 Borchart and received a new 375 Mold in the mail to load cast in my High Wall 375 Nitro Magnum Flanged.

[cwlongshot]

Deprimed then tumbled a hundred 450 Bushmaster brass I got in the mail.


CW

[44Blam]

Cast a couple lbs in a quick session of my NOE HTC 310-225-RN... Got about 75 or 100 boolits. That'll be enough to do some testing. :D

[onelight]

Loaded 400 9mm on the ABLP with 5.3 grains of BE-86 and 125 RN.

[cwlongshot]

Loaded 60 pcs 7/08

[44Blam]

Well, using the mass pc technique, I PC'd about 200 boolits and then re-reshaped my .223 brass into 300 BO at the same time. 51 pieces of brass, 200 boolits PC'd in about 30 minutes...
I then BLL'd those boolits and left the room.

[BrutalAB]

Cleaned and organized the whole area. I can walk around my chair now amd see benchtop again!

[Uncle Dave]

I was able to Hi-Tek 84 pounds of Boolits and size them this weekend. I have 30 pounds to do tomorrow and I can put my coating equipment (Oster Toaster) away for a while till I cast some other sizes.
Uncle Dave

[jimb16]

Just loaded a couple flats of 20 ga. shells with my home made shot.

[trooperdan]

I was able to Hi-Tek 84 pounds of Boolits and size them this weekend. I have 30 pounds to do tomorrow and I can put my coating equipment (Oster Toaster) away for a while till I cast some other sizes.
Uncle Dave

84 pounds! Dang man!

[Remiel]

Sorted through about 1k plus of 9mm brass so I can give some to a friend who's just starting out, and some to another that I traded for some .224 bullets.

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[Texas by God]

I’ve started sizing and priming 200 .41 Magnum brass to load as fun plinkers. My Rockchucker and the steel( not carbide) dies make this an enjoyably slow process. Both the press and dies were given to me by a dear friends widow when he passed away. To you, JLC! You are missed.

[cwlongshot]

I pillar bedded my Ruger American in a Boyds wood stock.

[The Dar]

I pillar bedded my Ruger American in a Boyds wood stock.

I'd like to see that, got pics??

[Uncle Dave]

Here is what 84 lbs looks like. It is really not that impressive boxed up. At top speed I can coat and size about 10 lbs an hour.
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[sigep1764]

Gonna try 226 sizing with powder coated gas checked boolits. Loaded 30 to test in the AR pistol tmro. Also shooting a DPMS for the first time. Bought it about a year ago and its never been shot.

[Soundguy]

Cleaned some range lead and old cast net sinkers. got 31#. I'd post pics.. but as normal .. all my upload attempts say failed. ( no issues at other sites fyi.. )

[lesterktm]

Picked up 2 Fireking Filing Cabinets. 1hr fire rating at 1200 deg. They are now my powder, primer, ect. storage.

[Soundguy]

Built a wood shelf to stack my lead on and sort it into sections by composition.

[jonp]

Powder coated some 8mm, ok that was in the garage, loaded up some 38sp wc over BE for my wife's Chiefs Special. Dug threw some molds to see what I'm going to cast this weekend, unboxed 2 Poly 80 Glock 19's I'm going to build and decided I'm going to cast up some 300gr 45LC to try in a Ruger Blackhawk I bought a couple of years ago but have never gotten around to shooting. Might cast some 200gr to try over Promo for it to try the nifty 45ACP cylinder it came with in a nice burgundy bag.

[jonp]

I’ve started sizing and priming 200 .41 Magnum brass to load as fun plinkers. My Rockchucker and the steel( not carbide) dies make this an enjoyably slow process. Both the press and dies were given to me by a dear friends widow when he passed away. To you, JLC! You are missed.

That's a nice thing, right there. I have a lever I take out and clean once in a while and remember the man I got it from who helped me drag out a deer years ago but has since passed on.

[sigep1764]

.226 sizing was AWESOME!!! The AR pistol groups have shrunk by half!!

[John Guedry]

cast about 100 .38 boolets 140 gr. Lee mold

[cwlongshot]

Re setup my casting area. Now Ill be using a hot plate!! Im liking it alot right now!! I posted up a video showing some too!

I cast a couple Hundred from two molds. Weather permitting I mixed a fresh pot of alloy!!

CW

[Texas by God]

As I finished my .41 Special level loads with bullets, I showed my son how to make .41 magnum shotshells. #12 shot ruins a copperheads day quite well.

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[cwtebay]

As I finished my .41 Special level loads with bullets, I showed my son how to make .41 magnum shotshells. #12 shot ruins a copperheads day quite well.

Sent from my SM-A716U using TapatalkWhere do you get #12 shot?

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[44Blam]

Disassembled about 50 350 Legend rounds. Then resized the case and the boolits so I can reload them with a better load.

[Texas by God]

Where do you get #12 shot?

Sent from my Pixel 5 using TapatalkQuite a while back I bought one box of Rio 2-3/4" 12 gauge shotgun shells with 1-1/8 oz. of #12. I removed the shot from a few shells for this use and replaced it with spent primers for soft drink can assault[emoji16].
Those 12/12s will vaporize a well hit clay bird!

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[Hossfly]

Loaded the last 400 srp I had, into .223 cases already prepped. Sealed and stored away. Primed all 400 off press because of priming problem with range brass not separated by head stamp, and not properly de-crimped. Will look further into why this is happening. Maybe me just being lazy.

[frkelly74]

I played with the new check maker that I got from Gregor and it is pretty slick. All the metal I have on hand is some .011" painted aluminum which is kind of loose on my 312-165 lee boolits but just right on the 312-185 boolits. I screwed it into the press and it worked flawlessly. I will need to get some .014/.015" metal and try it, It should snug up tight and be gooooood!

[AndyC]

Smelted down about 60 lbs of alloy:

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[onelight]

Loaded 450 45acp with 6.2 gr. Of BE-86 under 185 grain Hi-Tek RN. On the Lee ABLP

[Cast_outlaw]

Well Saturday I pressed primers into 12 444m cases charged them with rl7 and then went looking for my lee c430- 310rf but realized I had none lube sized and it was late afternoon. So I dumped the powder back out and put cases away for the night. Sunday I lubsized a small pile of boolits 431 with gas checks and finished my loading. Starting at 40gr going two 43 in a ladder. Test sometime still haven’t tested the 308s I made back a few months

[matrixcs]

fixed a dumb mistake...pulled 50 300bo which I loaded with .312 bullets...lol

[Texas by God]

I'm loading a batch of Lee 105 SWC bullets; some PC'd and some tumble lubed over 4 grs of AA#2 for some .38 Special fun this weekend.

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[jdfoxinc]

Finished point forming this batch of .224 fron or brass.

[JoeJames]

Loaded a batch of 44 Specials - 6.8 grains of Unique with home cast tumble lubed non quenched .430" 240 grain SWC's.

[Hossfly]

Got j word bullets in from Midway, 243 dies in from Hi.. have powder and primers, and cases. Guess have no excuse now to load some to try out.

[rockrat]

Sized/gas checked/lubed a few hundred 22-55 fp boolits to .225 and loaded 50 rounds of 223 to try in my bolt gun. Man, those litttle tiny gc's are a pain!!

[Soundguy]

finally counted, sorted, marked via stamp, and then stacked all of my various leads and alloys.

Now I know what I have on hand, and it's in easy to grab/use spaces on some custom junky shelves I made. I also melted down all of the odd pig and muffin ingots I have and now have them all in either pound or half pound ingots.. much easier to use. The 2# muffin ingots stack nice.. but kill pot temperature in a 10# pot.

[sigep1764]

I opened up my Star 225 sizing die the other day to 226. So this morning was spent putting a second powder coat on the already sized boolits to resize them to 226. Then powder coated and gas checked and sized another 200 boolits. Only a few thousand more to do...

[The Dar]

Loaded up 48 rounds of 44-40 with a Lee 200gn RF over some Longshot for the Son in Law.

[BigAlofPa.]

I loaded a pile of 223. 50 with 2400 and the rest with IMR4895. I want to compare these loads to the ones i shot when i put the new scope on. They were loaded with red dot and varget. After i was done loading. I vacuumed the man cave. I seam to get tumbling media on the carpet. No matter how careful i am.

[Cast_outlaw]

Not in the reloading room but ran 12 444marlin loads I made last weekend over my chronograph and out to 50m (54yards) here are the results.
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Goal is a dangerous game load for grisly and black bare defence think I got it :mrgreen:

[PapaJ]

Vacuumed the reloading room. Sorted through all my buckets, bags, and bins of brass. Found several pieces of some obscure brass I. The bins: 30 American Army, 32 Win Special, 440-40, 32-20, and much more. I keep finding all kinds of treasures in the bins of reloading components I inherited from a dear friend.

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[drac0nic]

I powder coated the last of my Lee 105 SWCs, finally caught up on powder coating. I did a ton of Lee 125 LRNs, the .452 200gr LRNs and these 105 SWCs a long time ago and never got around to powder coating them after I ran out of HF Red. I went up to Eastwood which isn't far off and got some dark blue from them. It seems pretty good, guess we'll know when we shoot it. I do need to resize now, but I need to get a press set up and fixed for that first.

[robg]

still lock down here so i did a bit of casting 100x340gr 457 boolits and 100x190gr 358 boolits.tumble lubed.

[jdfoxinc]

Finally got my star lubrisizer to agree with my paraffin and bees wax based lube. And finished sizing/living the last batch of 115 gr .355.

[44Blam]

Loaded 100 10mm - gonna do this for the next few days until I load all the 10s. I've got about 300 to go.

[sigep1764]

Sized 500 223 cases, loaded 120 223 for the range tmro with powder coated boolits, and checked, powder coated, and sized 200 223 boolits. It was a 223 kinda night.

[Texas by God]

I noticed that I needed to replenish my supply of 30-30 cast loads. So I combined some C309170F @.309", LLA, 25grs of 3031 with CCI primers - a classic recipe that my rifle and I like- a lot.

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[Brassmonkey]

Loaded 80ish rounds of 9mm Nickle case 5 grains of "pistol powder" 124gr jword mixed HS mostly speer and fc, then fired them. had three cases split one at the rim the other 2 in the middle, just tiny separations. had one failure to feed from each mag, but a snap back on the slide and it went. should have pulled the round to check for OAL but oops.

also had a .380 case slip through, two of them but I caught the one. now I dun wasted a primer cause I don't have a .380 [smilie=b:

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[smithnframe]

Reloaded 220 rounds of 348 Winchester for my Siamese Mauser!

[Remiel]

Pulled apart 1 of 2 lee pro 1000 presses I found on marketplace to clean and replace worn/broken parts

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[onelight]

Loaded 451 45acp with 185 gn RN on 6.4 grains of BE-86 with the Lee ABLP took about an hour and 10 min.

[whisler]

Sorted a bunch of brass a friend gave me.

[flyingmonkey35]

Finaly gomy in line mounts setuphttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210318/6b2f37745d408c6e0069bf94cbdcf889.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210318/e46d1486a0d3537ca2dec66cd0642ab4.jpg

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[Soundguy]

Made up a batch of Felix lube. Stuff looks good. I love the consistency. Can't wait to try it. I should have a rifle mold coming in tomorrow..8mm mauser.. Might use it then.

[MOA]

Added a 300 Savage set of dies to the inventory to get my SIL setup to load with.

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[whisler]

De-priming some free brass a friend gave me. Its good to have friends.

[MOA]

Just got in another Savage set of dies for the Savage 250-3000.
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Just got to love the "Green box".

[onelight]

Cleaned 350 44 special cases and 50 44 mag primed a hundred then my youngest grandson 7 year old and I loaded 50 44 specials on the Lee LCT with red dot and some 200 grain RNFP bullets , he did about 25 with me watching and then I did 25 he is still a bit light for resizing but he got through 25 doing all but priming :)

[Soundguy]

Cast 250 175gr .324's

Started lubing and glass checking them. Think I went a hair too hard.. Quite tough sizing..

[sigep1764]

Polished and cleared the flash holes of 400 223 tonight. Gonna load them tmro with my second batch of powder coated boolits.

[1I-Jack]

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"Delivered" three of these to my shop. 250# of range scrap. We cleaned out the bullet trap at the local indoor range and the scrap is left in 55 gal drums for members to take as needed.

[The Dar]

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"Delivered" three of these to my shop. 250# of range scrap. We cleaned out the bullet trap at the local indoor range and the scrap is left in 55 gal drums for members to take as needed.

Go back and get the rest, fill your "need".

[44Blam]

Cast couple hundred 225 tacos and about 500 190 grain 40s...

Those long 30 caliber boolits are very hard to cast. The short 190s are super easy...

[1I-Jack]

Go back and get the rest, fill your "need".

It'll still be there after I get this processed. (4) 55 gal drums 1/2 to 3/4 full. It's a small club, less than 150 members and not that many of them casters. This was a 2 year cleanout.

[cwlongshot]

Trimming up 250 brand new cases I reformed for a friend. (He dosnet have the set up for this reforming)

About 1/2 done trimming. Realized I had a carbide cutter I had not installed. :). WOAH MUCH BETTER!!!

https://youtu.be/x_SG4i5ZU-8

CW

[Barman54]

Went Shooting my 45/70 Sharps Replica Yesterday, Moving my Loads out to 100 yds, then 200, and further.
That being said,
Woke up early had take 6 Shells apart, using some Older CCI L/R Primers, that had failed to go Bang.
Prepandemic Estate purchase, Less than 1 % fail to off.
Just using them up, one shot at a time

Pulled Bullet, sized, M Die, Verified the Charge, Reseat Bullet, Crimped, good as new

Barman54
Out

[PhatForrest]

Tweaked a friends old Lyman mag 20 pot, and made a whole pie plate full of mihec's 158 Keith swc's testing it out :)

[Rico1791]

Resized, deprimed,washed,dried 1k 9mm brass.

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[2A-Jay]

Reloaded another 100 30-06 150gr btsp over 40gr imr3031279980

[drac0nic]

Made a few .45 rounds to test and see what Power Pistol does in my XD .45. I ran out of the free bottle of Nitro 100 I had laying around pretty much so figured I'd just load up and try to get that done.

[rmark]

Loaded some 380’s for my brother, resized a batch of 45acp, loaded a few 45-70.

[cwtebay]

Helped a buddy get set up to load 250 - 44 Russian. Apparently his girlfriend decided shooting my 44 with them was waaaayy too much fun!

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[44Blam]

Cast just about 500 HTC-310-225 RN (TACO) boolits. :D And FINALLY figured out that mold!!!

[drac0nic]

Casted up some Lee 125 LRNs for my 9mm and some 200 LRNs for my .45 ACP. Had a pin drop out of the mold mid casting and that was the night. Wish I'd have had a few more .45 ACPs but casting time was limited and it was only a 2 cavity mold.

[oger]

Got everything ready to fireform some brass in a chamber that is marked 35 Ackley magnum only it ain't 35 Ackey magnum. Maybe I'll name it something else but it was made a long time ago on a pre war 98.

[cwtebay]

Annealed 85 pieces of 300 PRC brass.

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[Remiel]

Cleaning some 223 range brass and installed a extended mag release in my daughter's 10/22

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[tward]

Really nice day,I fired up my 20 lb Lee and cast some Lee 44 240 gr tumble lube, Lyman 429421 Keith, 433 RB and finally some Lee 311 93gr rn. I cast in my backyard watching some robins and listening to a Cardinal! GREAT DAY!Tim[smilie=l:[smilie=l:

[Soundguy]

re-organized, sorted and stacked my lead stash. finally feel ok for a bit.

[cwlongshot]

re-organized, sorted and stacked my lead stash. finally feel ok for a bit.
I smelted about 75-80# and tossed them in a bucket! ;)

CW

[Soundguy]

I used to store them in a bucket..till it became difficult to alloy. I used to have just range scrap and just soft lead...easy to distinguish 5 from 10 hardness.. Then I added tin, tin babbit, linotype, Lyman #2, clip on ww, and mild antimonial lead...like 8 hardness.

Once I did all that..had to make shelves.

Then I standardized my ingots. Had some muffin tin stuff, some 5# mini pigs, some scrap in chunks and nuggets. etc. Poured everything down to half and pound ingots.

[cwlongshot]

I separate, but still use buckets. Cardboard attached to the bucket naming what it is. When I have small quantities if something Ill use ammo cans.

For instance I have some super hard 40 bhn babbit. I also have mono and tin and super hard all in there own 50 cal cans well labled. I dont really have room on the bench where I cast for the ingots. So they get buckets under the bench.

CW

[green mountain boy]

broke out my new 30cal gas check maker from dave matteson, he does great work ! made 200 aluminum gas checks at the first sitting.... .014 flashing works well.

[green mountain boy]

im sorry to hear that, i just lost my brother in law to covid 19.

[44Blam]

Sorry to hear GMB. SARS COV2 is a nasty bug.

I did go into the garage and resized all those 30-255 Taco boolits and then powder coated some 40 S&W boolits.

I got a TM neck turning kit recently and while I was waiting on the PC to bake, I started playing with it a little. My plan is to make 300 BO out of 223/556 brass and I've made a few that chamber properly. Those all have brass thickness in the neck of < 0.012". The cases with brass thickness of > 0.012" do not chamber properly. So, all those wolf cases, etc - I'm gonna thin those necks down to 0.011".

[SaltCreek]

I'm wrestling with new small base 5.56 dies that appear, to size the case so small. That, I can't seat the primer. Is That possible?

I have to ask, did you swage the primer pockets after depriming and sizing? Even commercial 223 is starting to have crimped primer pockets. I use RCBS small base die on everything. I've never had a problem with any of it except it does take a little extra lube and muscle to really do big cartridges. But it should not affect the primer pocket at all.


When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

[Sailormilan2]

A friend's grandson, and grandson in law, are getting into reloading. With a press on the way. Since projectiles, both cast and J word, are in short supply everywhere, I gave them several hundred cast bullets in two calibers, as well and a hundred of each caliber in J word bullets, to get them started. Finding primers and powder is on them, though I might be able to help them with a little powder.
Gotta help the newbies out.

[whisler]

Cleaning brass, almost done for now.

[drac0nic]

I was working on my brass tumbler last night, I have one of the Horrible Freight ones that broke at the base I'm trying to fix.

I did empty some cases today, a ton of calibers. 5.56, 9mm, 243 win, 450 Bushy and .40 S&W. Kept some fairly extensive logs which means I'm not stuck much longer on getting more ammo cranked out. Kind of a summary:
-BLC(2) seemed to have been causing a sticky chamber at the shoulder with 80GR JHPs in the 243. Grouped pretty well at 100 though. I think I'm going to try 4064 instead or try to figure out what's happening. It's a gummy mess though it seems. I may try to bump the load hotter though and/or see if it's a sizing problem.
-.40 seemed to have a weird spot, I went from 6-6.6gr with Power Pistol. Right in the middle I had what I thought was some primer flowing. I didn't seem to have it near so bat at the hitter levels just in the middle.

9 and 5.56 were more just to kind of goof around and see what my guns could do. I already had those loads pretty well sorted out.
-450 bushy seemed fine with what I was using, nothing remarkable there. I need to get the rest of what I have loaded up now.

[Krag 1901]

I finished neck sizing a box of 50 .308's. I did the first half the other day but it was too cold to to do them all. Today was nice and I did the last 25. WIll start on the next 50 and the next 150 as the weather warms. I may have too many active sets of Brass for the .308.

Found a half a coffee can of primed .223 brass! I don't know if it is for my Ruger or my 1885 low wall?

[44Blam]

Tried out my KM neck turning kit and turned about 150 300 blackout cases that were made from brass with thick cases that won't chamber in my rifle.
The KM neck turning stuff is really well made and thought out. It was easy to setup and works great!

[ravelode]

Finished trimming, M die expanding, and priming all my 30-30 brass (340) and tumbled a modest amount of range brass I got on Sunday.

[John Guedry]

Loaded 50 9mm

[taco650]

Got everything ready to fireform some brass in a chamber that is marked 35 Ackley magnum only it ain't 35 Ackey magnum. Maybe I'll name it something else but it was made a long time ago on a pre war 98.

Could you post before and after pics of this round please?

[bubbau]

Cast some 124 grain TC 9mm. Trying to get things figured out.

[Krag 1901]

Neck sized, decapped and reprimed 50 Krag cases for loading tomorrow. Got to get the Krag out again!

[cwtebay]

Branded 350 calves...agreed to give some 30-40 and 308 Norma brass to some fellas that helped me.

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[woodbutcher]

[smilie=s: Sure am enjoying this thread.Thanks to all who have taken the time and effort to post.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Texas by God]

I'm going to try the Lee C309150F sized .309" and pc'd orange over the last of my 3031 in the 30-40 Krag.

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[Plate plinker]

About 4 hours of casting 9mm and 12g slugs and 502 JR alley cleaners ohhh and some buckshot. probably 70 lbs total

[cwtebay]

Presented my reloading room with approximately 250 more pieces of brass to get going on!!! Mixed bag of 25 Remington, 32 WCF, 25 WCF, 44 American, 45-90

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[Krag 1901]

Finished loading 50 Rds of Krag to test my new scout scope.

[screwcutter]

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Warmed above freezing last night, couldn’t wait. I cast up some NOE 289-170-FN.

[44Blam]

Finished up the brass work on some 5.56 to 300 BO conversions... All of these had thick case walls, so it was resize, cut, trim, clean up the cut, turn the neck and refull length size...
Lots of work for free brass...

[Krag 1901]

Neck sized and deprimed 50 rnds of .308 brass only 100 to go, well and 150 rnds of .30-40.

[kevin c]

Sorted brass.

Calculated amounts of SuperHard and solder to add to various lead stock to make my favored casting alloy of 95-3-2. As a concession to convenience and speed I used a calculator with the numbers I plugged into the formulas I worked out. True that I could use the site's alloy calculators, but I'm trying not to lose the few brain cells I have left.

[Soundguy]

Ordered a universal neck expander die since I'm gutting cast almost exclusively now, including rifle, etc.

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Two days ago now.....Lee Load-All II. Win. AA hulls, 20 gr. Red Dot, Cheddite 209 primers, Claybuster WAA12 replacement wads, 1 1/8 oz. #7 Nickel Plated Shot.

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[John Wayne]

Those look great DG! Quite often I don't have any time to work on our hobby but I sure enjoy reading about others that do!
JW

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Thank you! :D

DG

[Calamity Jake]

Just finished 75 rounds 12 gage CASS loads, 10gr red dot, 7/8 oz claybuster wad and shot with some dirty walnut cleaning media for a filler.

[MOA]

Two days ago now.....Lee Load-All II. Win. AA hulls, 20 gr. Red Dot, Cheddite 209 primers, Claybuster WAA12 replacement wads, 1 1/8 oz. #7 Nickel Plated Shot.

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DG

Interesting. How much larger is the primer than the Winchester primer pockets?

[44Blam]

Started the "load all the 40 cal boolits" a-thon. Loaded 100 40 S&W - about 700 more to go!

[cwtebay]

Loaded 125 - 6mm Lee Navy.

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[mhames]

Cleaned up a new mold and started heat cycling.....this one will be a challenge. It's a 37 grain hollow point with gas check cast at .227 and will size to .225. First mold from MP Molds. Ordered Sunday, shipped on Monday with a delivery date of today and was delivered by DHL yesterday. Better service from Slovenia than anyone in U.S. and this was the cheaper shipping option. I have been reloading 5.7X28 using 40gr Hornady V-Max but want to try to load some cast for plinkers. Good advice welcome.

[44magLeo]

Did some picture taking and cleaning up on my nerw purchase. A Herters Model Super 234 6 hole turret press. It's brute!
Need to do more clean on the rest of the purchase. The Lyman 55 it a bit sticky. The rest a bit of rust from long storage.
Leo

[44Blam]

Loaded up 150 more 40s... Got an early start today. Realized that I probably need to do a 20-40lb casting session with my 40s I use for 40 S&W...

[drac0nic]

It was 1AM when I finished so I'm counting it as today. :rofl: I got my Lee APP replacement parts on the press, mounted it, set up one of my punch through dies (NOT the new style the old one) and put a piece of 3/4 rad hose on it into a plastic jar. After that I sized some .45 ACP bullets and loaded em up. Ran out of primers in the tube and only had a bit of stuff left over so I said what the heck. They're Lee 200 LRNFPs that drop to 215ish for me for some reason powder coated with a dark blue from Eastwood and backed with 7.9gr Power Pistol. I ran out of Nitro 100 (old formula) so I decided to switch to PP since I had a ton of it.

I also picked up some SPP .45 ACP brass a few days back and will keep that handy as well. My supplies of LPP are very limited so I'll probably make some ammo to hold back using LPP and then if I want to go plink or whatever the SPP brass will be what I use. I need to dedicate a sharpie color to make sure that brass is marked and easily recognized though.

[Hossfly]

I shared some powder, primers, and boolits with my son whom will be a new reloader in the future. Tuff times finding what you need to fill a new hobby like ours.

[Hoe50]

I got these primed 22lr cases in yesterday and loaded wax and cast gluelets and loaded them. I have no heeled lead 22 cast yet but soon. The Reloader 22 mold is ??? It has two molds. IDK? Since I have yet to fire any on a range with known distance and a proper target.

They are available now.

at 119 per 2000

primed collibri type 22lr powder less cases

at FedArm 50 units available.

I got them for DIY lead wax or gluelets or blanks.
https://fedarm.com/product/22lr-primed-new-casings-2000-ct-pack/?attribute_pa_quantity=2000-casing-bulk

[Soundguy]

Let's see. Cast about 200 .323 for 8mm mauser..lubed and gas checked them. Loaded up some .429 240gr lrn for 44spl, and some .452 200g lswc for 45 colt. Finished with some .358 lrn for 38 spl.

[Rico1791]

Loaded 400 124gr RN 9mm

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[Targa]

Loaded up .476 Arsenal 415 grain swc over 25 grains of H110, Lee .476 400 grain RF over 22 grains of H110 and a H&G #50 over 3.4 grains of Universal for a little range fun tomorrow. I am not sure what to think about the Redding profile crimp die, I have only used roll crimps for the heavy hitters but that wasn’t an option for the Linebaugh so I guess I’ll see how it goes.

[44Blam]

Loaded up .476 Arsenal 415 grain swc over 25 grains of H110, Lee .476 400 grain RF over 22 grains of H110 and a H&G #50 over 3.4 grains of Universal for a little range fun tomorrow. I am not sure what to think about the Redding profile crimp die, I have only used roll crimps for the heavy hitters but that wasn’t an option for the Linebaugh so I guess I’ll see how it goes.

I use a redding crimp die for 44 mag - makes a PERFECT crimp into the grove.
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[sigep1764]

PCed a bunch of boolits tonight. 227 75gr Nato, 312-157gr, and 270-150gr. Haven't shot PC out of the 30-30 or the 270, but the 227's showed lots of promise in 223 AR's. Also sized a bunch of 30-30 brass and started to trim them. 600 pieces in total to process.

[drac0nic]

Dropped about 400 .45 Lee 200RNFPs and 1075ish .356 125gr bullets. I have a 2 cavity mold in the .45 and a 6 in the 9mm. Really starting to want a 6 cavity mold in the .45 but the prices are insane right now. Up next is powder coating this lot, it's a big one so it could take a while. I have another probably 3-500ish in 9mm as well that needs to get PC so I can add them to the rest of the inventory.

Next time I do .45 bullets I think I'm going to probably pull out my 6 cavity Lee 105 SWC mold and be ready to load up some .38/.357 mag.

[cwlongshot]

I did some straightening. Also did some digging in my storage area! Now I need to find storage area for all my shot wads and hulls!! Im anticipating my Russian Molds soon!!

CW

[matrixcs]

230gr 300blk from lee mold approx 400 cast today. Great day to cast only 77deg today...usually much warmer.

[Texas by God]

Broke in- and broke a .223 Hornady sizer decapping pin with crimped primers- duh, there was a Lee universal decapper die two feet away....... Good news, Hornady takes care of idiots with 48 years of reloading experience- free parts on the way!

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[Horseman]

I shared some powder, primers, and boolits with my son whom will be a new reloader in the future. Tuff times finding what you need to fill a new hobby like ours.

Loved this post as I spent much time this weekend answering my son's questions about reloading. His eyes lit up when I told him about the excess equipment I had acquired over the years that would give him a good start. It made me feel good when he said he still really wanted to order a Lee Loader so he would have everything he needed in a small kit he could use anywhere. Oh my... how the memories flowed. I'll never forget that first assembled 6mm round out of the Lee Loader some 40 years ago and the pride I felt when my first three rounds clustered neatly on the target. Happy to know my guns and casting/reloading gear will never require an estate sale.

[todd2]

sorted 3buckets of ww got less than 2usable started with ww in the 80s what the heck happened

[cwtebay]

Got out my first Lee Loader (22 Hornet) and got my twin neighbour boys going with a Savage I had lying about. Cast some bullets, gave them a nice starting load, loaded 50 rounds and turned them loose on their father's gopher problem.

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[Dekota56]

Loaded up 200 rounds of 45 Acp.

[Rico1791]

sorted 3buckets of ww got less than 2usable started with ww in the 80s what the heck happenedAlbert Gore.

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[lightman]

Today is a casting day. A couple of buddies are coming over and we'll spend the day in the shop casting. I just moved the truck out, took a few chairs out, put some beer in the beer fridge and came in to sit down for a minute. My MS won't let me do much more at a time anymore. In a few minutes I'll go out and clean my mold and turn the casting pot and hot plate on. Looking to cast about a thousand bullets before I quit!

[44Blam]

Wife said she wanted to wrap presents so she sent me to the reloading room... 150 40 S&W later I came back and now she'll do it tomorrow... :D
Guess I'll have to go down there again!

[frkelly74]

Over the past few weeks,,,, I'm working on getting my back log of 9mm brass loaded up. I have discovered that My G2c won't pop a wolf Small rifle primer but will pop a Federal small rifle match primer. I will be trying out some remington 6 1/2 primers shortly, I wanted to know before I run out of my winchester spp supply. Also started to work through my 38 special brass, the Federal primers will work in them and I have Herco and 150 gr round nose to put in them also some 105 gr wad cutters to use up. Used up my old partial cans of Unique, bluedot and PB. on different loads. 45 is next on the agenda to clean up empty brass laying around. May be I can find some time to go shoot some but then I will have empty brass again. What a vicious circle.

[Kraschenbirn]

Turned my last 150-odd pounds of harvested range scrap into a pile of 2-pound muffin-pan ingots and, while I had the old plumber's furnace fired up, melted and poured all my accumulated lino (40+ pounds) into 1-pounders. May be my last time smelting; my entire stockpile of lead/alloys is now in the form of ingots, boolits, or loaded ammo.

Bill

[David2011]

Walked upstairs into the area destined to be the reloading room. Useless tinsel fairies haven’t set up anything yet.

[todd2]

Albert Gore.

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[onelight]

Went to the range yesterday and shot my P365 and my 10/22 m1 carbine today I cleaned them .

[Texas by God]

Prepping military 5.56 brass. Thank goodness for the Hornady motorized prep tool.

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[popper]

Take it slow and easy Lightman

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Well......not today, but my last couple of sessions. The lead boolits, lubed and PCed, came from Casting Machine. The JHPs came from MidwayUSA which has seemed to always have something I want to reload even during this shortage.
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DG

[Iron369]

Rainy day here in Ky so I assembled 500rds of 55gr .223 with 24.8gr of h335 and 400 124gr 9mm with 3.9gr of titegroup. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210410/a466fdec65d5217c65151e013af9b810.jpg

[sigep1764]

Rainy here in STL as well. Finished trimming, chamfering, and deburring a few hundred cases of 30-30. Primed half of them. Hopefully friends kids will pop these off in the near future. Gonna load soft with 6.5-7 grains of Red Dot.

[drac0nic]

Pulled some stuff, made a couple .40 rounds and need to try and figure out why I'm having issues with .40. I have PC Lyman 401043s and had a couple that were wonky. Think I'm going to start looking at the brass.

Over the weekend I loaded my .450 Bushmaster brass up. I got some 300gr 45-70 bullets cheap and ran em through a 45 ACP sizer to get em down to 452. I have em loaded behind 40 grains of H4198. It's only about 20 rounds but your hand stings enough after you don't really need more than say 5ish.

[Soundguy]

Just tumbling and sorting odd brass.

[Noveske86]

I dug out a box of .308 I'm giving to a co-worker that I just found out reloads. While I was looking did a inventory and pulled the handle on my Dillon a few times.

[Polymath]

Removed all my presses (3) from my bench and glued down a fitted piece of linoleum. I've been wanting to do that for a while. I made the bench top with 2x6 planks which were fine for a while but the wood kept shrinking and I was getting powder down the cracks. It was a pain to clean up and this looks much nicer. If I was to build another one I would use 2 or three ply's of Baltic birch veneer plywood, Trim the edge and epoxy the top.
Next weeks project is 303 Savage reloading. Brass is ordered.

[Hossfly]

Loaded the last of my AA2200 powder into 300 .223 cases. Will change to 45ACP cause I got plenty BE and LPP.
Need more powder and primers, just cant go get some when you need it, frustrating. Just glad I’ve got something to work with for now.

[gunfan2]

I loaded up 50 rounds of 300 Blackout with cast bullets that I have just tested and got a little over 1/2 inch groups at 50 yards, not too bad for a first try, fired out of a cz527!

[44Blam]

I loaded up 50 rounds of 300 Blackout with cast bullets that I have just tested and got a little over 1/2 inch groups at 50 yards, not too bad for a first try, fired out of a cz527!

I also loaded 50 rounds of 300 BO to see if my "300 blackout subsonic spring" will lock the bolt back if I send that 225 grain Taco at about 1080 fps.

[taco650]

Finished off a box of.38 Special. Ten were loaded with 17 grains (by volume) of 3F GOEX, the rest with my standard of 5 grains of Unique. Bullet was a Lee 358SWCGC that finish out ~162 grains from water dropped range scrap

[44Blam]

Got side tracked on my "load all the 40s" quest... Loaded 100 tonight, looks like there are between 200 and 250 left.

[cwlongshot]

Setting up for some sit down casting today. Need some Saeco 352 245g and I am completely out of the LEE 350g 458 Ranch Dogs.

CW

[Remiel]

Put an extended charging handle on the kids 10/22

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[RustyReel]

Totally destroyed a Magtech 32 Ga brass case trying to convert it to .43 Egyptian with whatever dies I have on hand. Don't actually have any .43E dies. Didn't anneal this one but will try annealing the case first and try again. Glad I bought a few formed cases to use if I ever get the thing shooting.

[whisler]

Loaded some 45 Colt to gift to a buddy of mine.

[Hossfly]

Loaded 5 45-70 rounds first time, 344 gr. 50 gr h4198 blew my AR500 plate off its stand. Henry single shot, man that packs a wallop.

[Bullthrower]

It’s chilly outside here in Colorado Supposed to snow Friday again. So I’m loading up some experimental loads in 7.62x39 with 155 grain powder coated cast Lee C312-155-2R. Don’t know if you can relate but this is a tricky cartridge to deal with. By far the hardest I deal with.
Why? Because the way I see things this might be a very hard to find ammo in the future. Biden will make sure no foreign ammo gets imported. Almost all of it is steel cases. People will eventually use up all that steel & you will have to rely on unreliable domestic sources. Expensive & scarce. I will always keep a few ammo boxes of foreign steel around for my SHTF stock. But in the meantime I want to shoot!
I loaded some of these resized with gas checks & some not resized w/o gas checks.
My reasoning:
I chamber cast this AK & it has a .312-.313 barrel. My p.c. bullets are .311 resized & .313-.314 not resized. Ive already tried IMR 4895 with a scoop using only 23 grs. Far below maximum just to be safe. Info on this cartridge is sketchy. Almost non-existent for p.c. bullets. Accuracy was wanting. Paper plate sized groups don’t cut it around here. They did function however if you keep COL @ the recommended 2.155” per Lyman. Trying to put the bullet closer to the lands is futile causing misfeeds with this bullet. Remember too you are limited to the length of your magazines.
Now these new loads are stocked with 14 grs. of Alliant 2400. I got this info from & old Marvin Stuart recipe. Starting out low to see if it functions. Accuracy would be nice. But AK’s are not known for accuracy as much as reliability.
Oh yea I also tried lowball load of Xterminator. It wasn’t much better than IMR 4895 but nothing to brag about. Xterminator & A223 are supposed to be very similar according to the grapevine & you can find a lot of A223 recipes.
Will let you know soon as it clears up around here the results.
I can tell you the best reloads so far for this gun has surprisingly been with 150 gr. FMJBT factory seconds from Midway in .308.” Using either Xterminator or TAC. baseball sized groups with usually several touching. (50 yds.) Ain’t to shabby in this vacinity.Not even close to my 5/8” 100 yd. groups out of my Grendel. But hey I’m 70.
Nuff said for now.
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[44Blam]

It’s chilly outside here in Colorado Supposed to snow Friday again. So I’m loading up some experimental loads in 7.62x39 with 155 grain powder coated cast Lee C312-155-2R. Don’t know if you can relate but this is a tricky cartridge to deal with. By far the hardest I deal with.
Why? Because the way I see things this might be a very hard to find ammo in the future. Biden will make sure no foreign ammo gets imported. Almost all of it is steel cases. People will eventually use up all that steel & you will have to rely on unreliable domestic sources. Expensive & scarce. I will always keep a few ammo boxes of foreign steel around for my SHTF stock. But in the meantime I want to shoot!
I loaded some of these resized with gas checks & some not resized w/o gas checks.
My reasoning:
I chamber cast this AK & it has a .312-.313 barrel. My p.c. bullets are .311 resized & .313-.314 not resized. Ive already tried IMR 4895 with a scoop using only 23 grs. Far below maximum just to be safe. Info on this cartridge is sketchy. Almost non-existent for p.c. bullets. Accuracy was wanting. Paper plate sized groups don’t cut it around here. They did function however if you keep COL @ the recommended 2.155” per Lyman. Trying to put the bullet closer to the lands is futile causing misfeeds with this bullet. Remember too you are limited to the length of your magazines.
Now these new loads are stocked with 14 grs. of Alliant 2400. I got this info from & old Marvin Stuart recipe. Starting out low to see if it functions. Accuracy would be nice. But AK’s are not known for accuracy as much as reliability.
Oh yea I also tried lowball load of Xterminator. It wasn’t much better than IMR 4895 but nothing to brag about. Xterminator & A223 are supposed to be very similar according to the grapevine & you can find a lot of A223 recipes.
Will let you know soon as it clears up around here the results.
I can tell you the best reloads so far for this gun has surprisingly been with 150 gr. FMJBT factory seconds from Midway in .308.” Using either Xterminator or TAC. baseball sized groups with usually several touching. (50 yds.) Ain’t to shabby in this vacinity.Not even close to my 5/8” 100 yd. groups out of my Grendel. But hey I’m 70.
Nuff said for now.
bullthrower


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It seems like you should be sizing more toward the .313+ and might have problems at .311 with leading... And 308 - that little guy is probably rattling down the barrel!

[44Blam]

I finished my "load all the 40s" and now need to cast some more... My 40 S&W load is the NOE HTC 401-188 WFN. I've been casting flat point for the past year or so, but I think I'll put in the HP points for my next casting session... It's such a pleasure to find a box of HP 40 S&W!

[Efin]

Working on my first batches of 12gauge, I've done brass cartridges for years and figured I should try another rabbit hole of the reloading world... [emoji6]
Taking them out to test this weekend.
10 - 7/8oz, 10 - 1oz, and 20 - 1-1/8oz all titewad, may make some more tonight in another powder for more testing... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210416/712e97af12c37dcec4f5d0b54710fab3.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210416/02609ecad5962a3c5919b5e7025d75a0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210416/66097b0abe3cce3edd6fce945b268dcd.jpg

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[lightman]

Last night I got my Star Sizer set up and adjusted and sized about 1200 bullets that I cast a couple of weeks ago. A H&G 258 which is a 220 grain Keith type SWC.

With rain in the forecast for this afternoon I may get started loading these up.

[Horseman]

Searched, studied, and studied some more on preparing lapping loads for my Ruger and the many opinions on fluxing. Half the time I don't know which cat I'm trying to skin so deciphering the hundred ways gets a little cumbersome. Fortunately, Fryxal and Stanton have given me a foundation through their fine books and articles. As someone alluded to in another thread, life was simple 35 years ago (aka "Before internet") when the guy in the shop sold me a Lee pot, a Lee mold, a Lyman sizer, and a few sticks of Lee (I think) soft lube. A few helpful tips and I was on my way. I also recall, there was never a question about what powders, primers, etc. were in stock, it was how much my student loan leftovers could afford!

[StuBach]

Cast up a small set of 44 Larsens, slightly larger batch of 454-200s and 356-93s.

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Sadly, it’s been a while since I cast any with the 356-93 and it was being finicky but finally got it going well and made some pills.

[OldBearHair]

Sizing down 224 gr soft lead GC boolits to .3565 for the 350 Legend. Cast from the DIY five hole boolit mold. Willing to post pictures but cannot load from my phone to the pc Windows ten. Working on it.

[Polymath]

Today's Project - 303 Savage
Been meaning to show this for a while. Finally the brass came in this morning on CanPar. I think this was the last bag of 303 Savage brass on the West Coast. Found some others in Ontario with some in stock.
As you can see by the Product placement maybe the suppliers will reward me for being their shill on this post. One can only hope.
50 New PPU brass, Hornady 150 gr RN Interlock bullets, Hodgdon's H4895, Federal Match LR Primers. Found I needed to lube the inside of the necks a little with Lee's and things went fine. BTW, Lemon Pledge makes for a great case lube. Necks seem quite thin compared to other cases. Well, we'll see how they shoot.

[Wayne Smith]

48 out of 50 - 30/40 Krag resized to 25 Ackley Krag AI - only lost two! I think I added a pic.

BTW, I took the pic with my phone, e-mailed it to myself resized to 25%, added it to an album on this computer, found it and added it to this thread - should have rotated it first! If you click on it it rotates! Don't know how that works.

[Walks]

I FOUND 6 BOXES OF .32S&W Long, Finally!!
HooRah !!! Roo Hoo !!!

[Dog1]

Cast some more 500gr Minié balls today, then resized them.

[sigep1764]

Loaded 140 30-30 with PC'd boolits. Went to shoot them and noticed hard closing of the lever on some rounds. Discovered some of the boolits slumped a little. Oops. All but one loaded and fired. Live and learn. Came home and annealed some brass.

[cwlongshot]

Sizing down 224 gr soft lead GC boolits to .3565 for the 350 Legend. Cast from the DIY five hole boolit mold. Willing to post pictures but cannot load from my phone to the pc Windows ten. Working on it.

Ill watch for it!!

Looking forward!!!

[popper]

8gr 2400 under 170 gr in 300BO cycles and BHB. Pistol gas. ~ 850 fps (cfepistol works too). Loaded 30 with 17gr H110 and 145gr GC PC to feed the carbine.
I have PC Lyman 401043s and had a couple that were wonky. Think I'm going to start looking at the brass. What kind of wonky? Brass usually isn't the problem.

[Echo]

Not much. Set gas checks on some -156's and -315's for son to PC. Started searching through pile of Flat Rate boxes trying to find some more Lino. Found Foundry, Mono, 50/50 solder - but haven't found any more Lino. Dang!

[taco650]

Packed it up because, the Lord willing, we’ll be moving.

[44Blam]

Cast about 400 40s - I had 10 lbs more staged on the hotplate but the wife came in and wanted to go walk to the beach...

[TSA222]

Loaded up 200 357's. Got a new scope put on my henry. Cast some 45/70's

[lpel]

281945

First casting session of the spring. 47-70, 38-55 and 30-30. Feels good!

[Jim22]

Set up the pot and cast a couple hundred plain based .358, 158 gr. boolits. The pic at the top of the page has me envious but I only have two cavity moulds. Once I sort through them I will powder coat with Smoke's JD Green. All for my two .357 mag. rifles. One is a Marlin 1894C and the other is a Ruger 77/357. Weather is getting nice. I want to have a walking-around gun like I wanted when I was a kid.

[sigep1764]

Loaded up the last of the Accurate 30-157 grain in 30-30 cases with 7 grains of Red Dot. Planning on casting more tmro. Then switched gears and loaded 100 RCBS 270-150 grain boolits with 10 grains of Red Dot. These are powder coated and the first PCed boolits im gonna run through the Win M70 tmro.

[high standard 40]

I annealed 100 7BR cases and prepared them for loading: neck sized, expanded and belled the case mouths, and primed.

[Soundguy]

you guys casting are making me envious...

[toallmy]

Well yesterday I loaded 60 rounds of 308s with culled cast boolits that had slight imperfections to shoot around the house .
Now I'm going to go shoot some of them .[smilie=l:[smilie=l::Bright idea:
More on the story
They shot horrible

[sigep1764]

Cast around 400 30-157 Accurate boolits this afternoon. Really need to pony up for a 5 or 6 cavity, the two cavity is slow going.

[Bullthrower]

I loaded up some 140 grain.38/.357 cast from my new NOE brass mold resized to .357.” I’m trying to get a load I can use in my S&W 642,586, Winchester carbine. It’s an ongoing project. I have decided & had reasonably good results with +P .38 specials using Universal,Unigue, A#5. I miked the 642 & Winchester to .356. Both are tighter than the S&W 586 which is .358. Will get out to do some range work soon. I will let you know if you’re interested.


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