What did you do in the reloading room today?

[44Blam]

Decided to make some 300 BO and found that 36 rounds fits in the 30 round 7.62x39 repack box. So, I made 3 boxes (108 rounds)... :)

[Soundguy]

I hope to do some casting this weekend.

[high standard 40]

Weighed powder charges and seated RCBS 7mm 145 gr Silhouettes into 100 7BR cases. With what I had already loaded, this should get me through the remainder of the silhouette season.

[44Blam]

PC'd and sized about 15lbs of 40 cal boolits for loading some 40 S&W... Will have to shoot some this weekend so I can get motivated to load the next 4 or 500. :)

[sigep1764]

Primed 600 rifle cases for vacation shooting

[lightman]

Not today and not in the loading room, but yesterday in the shop. Me and Biggin had our annual smelt yesterday. Five 5 gallon buckets of sorted wheelweights and some odd scrap lead made 616 ingots. About 8 hours setting up, making ingots, permanently stamping them and cleaning up. It was a 3 Aleve night for me. We have cast over 1200 ingots in a day before so this wasn't all that bad.

[David todd]

I haven't cast anything for some time, and just started digging out my black powder stuff again!:p
Tgese are .562's for my Hawken, I wanted to try a slightly smaller ball and heavier patch
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[sigep1764]

250 30-30 157 grain with 7 grains of Red Dot. Should be enough for me and a friend at the lake for vacation. Gonna bring the 223 bolt action and a 22 as well.

[jdfoxinc]

Cast .187" core lead for 5.56 I words.

[44Blam]

Cast around 500 Accurate 36-180LG boolits. I also recently got a 15oz can of the Hi-Tek coating. I'm going to try it out on about 250 rounds to see how it goes. I mixed the powder in acetone this evening. Should be coating tomorrow evening.

[Dale53]

Yesterday, I cast close to 1000 125 gr. TC bullets for my brother’s 9mm autos and revolver. Today I sized about half of them. I hope to finish them up tomorrow.

FWIW
Dale53

[Idaho45guy]

Loaded up 100 rounds of .40 S&W to shoot at a men's retreat in a couple of weeks. My girlfriend's dad invited me and told me to bring some guns to shoot. Bringing a 1911 and Glock Gen 5 G23 for pistols, then a Henry Big Boy X lever gun in .45 Colt for a rifle.

Load was one I'd never tried before; 180 grain Hornady FMJ FP with 5.5 grains of WSF. Still trying to find something the G23 likes. So far, the accuracy of it has been horrible. About ready to sell it.

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[44Blam]

Loaded up 100 rounds of .40 S&W to shoot at a men's retreat in a couple of weeks. My girlfriend's dad invited me and told me to bring some guns to shoot. Bringing a 1911 and Glock Gen 5 G23 for pistols, then a Henry Big Boy X lever gun in .45 Colt for a rifle.

Load was one I'd never tried before; 180 grain Hornady FMJ FP with 5.5 grains of WSF. Still trying to find something the G23 likes. So far, the accuracy of it has been horrible. About ready to sell it.

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[2A-Jay]

I Cleaned my RCBS Powder Measure Dusted off the reloading Bench and organized my Manuals.

[Idaho45guy]

Try aa#7 and you might want to get a kkm barrel.
Never seen that powder for sale around here. And KKM doesn't make a barrel for my pistol.

[44Blam]

Never seen that powder for sale around here. And KKM doesn't make a barrel for my pistol.

Wow, apparently Glock mixed up the barrel in gen 5...

[44Blam]

I decided I was going to change up the coating I was using for my AR style rifles and try Hi-Tek. I understand that it is a little thinner and is fairly consistent. With PC, some powders coat thicker and with the mass coating method of dumping on to a screen occasionally leads to little boogers that can hang up feeding.

so, today I hi-tek coated about 250 36-180LGs... First time coating and it went well. Did 2 coats and they passed the tests and they look very nice. Tomorrow, I'll GC and resize and get some pics.

[Texas by God]

Loading 100 .300BO with 147gr fmj and 110 gr Speer sp; respectively plinking and hunting ammo. That little cartridge is fun to begin with, but with the FastFire 3 on the very light AR CavArms carbine- even more funner.
I'm also soaking my 44-40 barrel in Hoppes #9 to remove the leading caused by yours truly idiot loading Hornady swaged bullets over my normal lukewarm Unique recipe. Duh.

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[44Blam]

GC'd, Sized and put one more coat of Hi-Tek on some Accurate 36-180 LGs. :D
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[StuBach]

Evenings festivities included PCing roughly 270 9mm HPs and 120 heavy 44s. Even got all of them through the sizer and boxed up ready for shipment to a shooter I supply. All done while watching Castlevania (Netflix, thanks RogerDat) on my phone [emoji16]

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[TNsailorman]

Finished converting 354 military 30-06 brass cases to 8x57 for my sons mauser.

[high standard 40]

My reloading room is also my tinkering room. Today was not really reloading, it was installing a flip-up sight hood for the Bomar sight on an XP100. These hoods are no longer being made, that I know of. I lucked up and found a new one. It came in today and now resides on that XP.

[Baltimoreed]

Bouncing between building 12 ga cas loads on my antique Bair and .45acp on my Dillon. The old and the new. Doing that while I’m messing with a M12 that I’m building into a riot gun.

[44Blam]

Went into the room to process some 44 magnum brass. I couldn't find my deprime/resize die so I ended up modifying a magazine for 300 BO to make it stop biting my cast boolits...

[robg]

loaded up 50 x 45-70 350gr boolits .

[Hossfly]

Loaded some 40 practice 45-70 boolits ww 325 gr powder coated. 35 gr powder H4185 i think. Anyway you can shoot these with no pain. Single shot Henry. Slow and sho.

[44Blam]

Good to see that it is becoming 45-70 season again... I think I've still got 80 full power loads and probably need to cast some.

[Idaho45guy]

Loaded some 40 practice 45-70 boolits ww 325 gr powder coated. 35 gr powder H4185 i think. Anyway you can shoot these with no pain. Single shot Henry. Slow and sho.

I need to load up some .45-70 smokeless loads so I can sight in the scope on my Winchester high wall. Haven't rolled blackpowder loads for it in years. Of course, it will go through my smokeless rifle powder stores pretty dang quickly. Or use some Trailboss. 13 grains with a 405 grain boolit might be fun.

[hodg0610]

Loaded up some 300 Savage with the Lee 155 grain .312 sized to .311 over 16 grains of 2400. Going to see how it works in the 722 this week. 309 diameter bullets have never performed well in that rifle, so I'm going up to 311.

[hodg0610]

Finished converting 354 military 30-06 brass cases to 8x57 for my sons mauser.

That's a lot of work. I love the 8x57.

[44Blam]

Cast about 100 MP 432-640 with the penta point. It sure is hard to get perfect noses on those guys...
Then cast about 10 lbs of 00 Buck with a lee mold...

[Idaho45guy]

Headed to the range tomorrow to meet my brother and sight in my new Ruger Predator in .308. Cranked out 30 rounds of .308 using 150 grain bullets. 15 were Hornady Soft Points and 42 grains of 4895 and the other 15 were Hornady BTs using 40 grains of 4895. Also had a few other recipes left over from my AR-10 using 168 grain and 178 grain bullets. We'll see what the new rifle likes.

[AndyC]

Made some .44 AMP in nickel cases:


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[Valley-Shooter]

Never seen that powder for sale around here. And KKM doesn't make a barrel for my pistol.Glock 23 Match 40S&W from KKM

https://kkmprecision.com/product/23-match-40sw-2/


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[Hossfly]

Finished de priming 3000 45 ACP with the Lee APP, got it figured out when was about through. That thing is fast when tuned right.

[Texas by God]

Loaded 100 210 gr Lyman SWC PC over 6grs of AA#2 for can hopping fun with my .41 Blackhawk.

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[Idaho45guy]

Glock 23 Match 40S&W from KKM

https://kkmprecision.com/product/23-match-40sw-2/


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I have a Gen 5 Glock 23. They are different. Gen 2-4 G23 barrels are all interchangeable. Gen 1-4 Glock 9mm barrels are also interchangeable, but the Gen 5 barrels are not.

[Pavia]

Reloaded some 357 Max.
200gr WFNGC hardcast over a moderate dose of H110.
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[SMSgtBulldog]

Never heard of that happening. Do they have a military crimp?

[Hossfly]

Installed a new to me Dillon 650 press and finding out what is not right with it and why the previous 2 owners wanted to sell it. It has some issues and worked thru a few last night.

The part that rotates the shell plate, called the indexing pawl or hatchet wouldn’t engage and do its job. That was because the spring that pulls back the plastic rotator was stretched about 1/2’’. That was a trick changing out, also has 3 spare parts kits on hand.

After changing that spring, she rotates fine without jerking the plate too badly.

Also included in the deal was boxes of brass, 9mm, 45acp, 308, along with a Lyman vibrator, 5 tool heads, 2 spare parts kits,and numerous other parts and pieces for the press. Just had to drive 300+ miles to pick it up and deal with traffic around the Houston area.

Really didn’t need the press but will have set up with both primer sizes, , ready to go when those pesky 45s show up with small primer holes.

[Cast10]

As a newby here, I just finished loading my first cast/pc boolits. Test loads for 40-175-tc to be used on hogs; 80 rounds total. 10mm, No. 9 powder.

This has been a long journey. I started acquiring my hardware last year, which was not a good year to do this due to supply! Over the past couple months I captured some lead, made ingots, acquired alloy, melted alloy, cast boolits, PC and sized final product. Oh, AND READ HERE AN AWFUL LOT! Thanks to all! It has been a ‘blast’!

[Idaho45guy]

As a newby here, I just finished loading my first cast/pc boolits. Test loads for 40-175-tc to be used on hogs; 80 rounds total. 10mm, No. 9 powder.

This has been a long journey. I started acquiring my hardware last year, which was not a good year to do this due to supply! Over the past couple months I captured some lead, made ingots, acquired alloy, melted alloy, cast boolits, PC and sized final product. Oh, AND READ HERE AN AWFUL LOT! Thanks to all! It has been a ‘blast’!

I've been casting boolits for about 5 years and am still a newbie. I started on .45-70 Govt 500 grain match boolits, then did .45 Colt and finally .40 S&W/10mm hard cast boolits for woods carry. Still haven't tried the powder coating since the Alox works for me and is fast and easy.

[mdi]

Yesterday I picked about 150 22 pellets out of the duct seal backing in my air gun "bullet stop". I have taken up air gun shooting as I can get trigger time in my shop. Virus, panic buying, and health reasons stopped my firearm shooting about a year ago, but I get practice, trigger time in my shop. I sort out the lead pellets from the ?? alloy pellets and will use the soft lead to mix in with my bullet alloy.

[Texas by God]

Fitting a nice recoil pad to my wife’s deer rifle; replacing the ugly old Uncle Mikes vent pad with a solid black Hogue. I saved money on the pad in 1987 and it bothered me, never her.......

[sigep1764]

Loaded 300 223 between last night and today. Shooting the lubed boolits that are loaded and reloading with PC boolits.

[The Dar]

Cast about 360 Lee 358-158 RF. Then went and picked up 120# of lead I traded for the same bullets. The lead has a hardness of 8-10 BHN. I'll be mixin' that with some COWW I have.

[Krag 1901]

I primed some .44 Spl and found I had a whole sack of 309-2220R Lees already GC'd Whoo boy now I can load up some H322 and RL10X test load with my lighter 155 & 160 boolets and the 200 gr Lees.

Was decapping some more .44s and bent my decapping pin. Boo!:mad: I checked out my decapping stem and looks like it is bent too. It may be the cap is just cross threaded but depressed, I left it for tomorrow to fix.

[Shanghai Jack]

Making lubes

[Valley-Shooter]

Had some spare time this afternoon.
Melted down 16.5 pounds of range scrap and made ingots for future use.
While all that was cooling down, loaded up 200 rounds of 125g RN HiTec 9mm.

[44Blam]

Cast about 500 Accurate 40-180BG's. I end up making my own gas checks and shoot them as 10mm boolits. :D
I've been driving them about 1350 fps out of my GP100. :D

[robg]

stripped and cleaned two of my 1022 mags ,hopefully thats cured rounds not popping up .

[Soundguy]

Dug out all of my 45-70 supplies...gonna make light loads for my BFR revolver I just got.

Anyone do an one 4227 load?

I'm going to try trail boss.

[Sid]

Dug out all of my 45-70 supplies...gonna make light loads for my BFR revolver I just got.

Anyone do an one 4227 load?

I'm going to try trail boss.

Do a search for whisper loads.

There has been either here or on the CastPics/LASC(check the bottom of the page) websites an article for stoopid light loads in, if I remember correctly, 45-70, 30-06, 30-30 and 223. 4 grains of Clays under a Lyman 457122 kind of light loads.

The kind of loads in 45-70, when you shoot them at 200 yards and your buddy starts razzing you about missing just before the steel gets rung.

The kind of loads you check the barrel to make sure it is clear to load another round.

Fun stuff.

[Budzilla 19]

Mixed up 50 pounds of Hardball alloy today!! 50 more pounds tomorrow, maybe. Going to cast up some 312-155-2r Lee boolits for .308 accuracy tests, coming up soon as this monsoon rainstorm subsides! Geez, it has flooded here in SW Louisiana!!

Literally, closed roads, high water, etc, it’s rough here right now! Be safe.

[Wild Bill 7]

Loaded some 270 win. loads with IMR4064. Using some of the Speer 170 grain round nose I bought from 725 a while back. Three different test loads to see how they shoot. Our range is finally done and looks beautiful for former swamp land. Will be testing these at 100 yards, then out to 300 yards.

[frkelly74]

I opened up my last 1000 Winchester Small Pistol primers and finished priming all my 9mm brass.

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I bought these in 2014.

[Iron369]

I deprimed on my APP and cleaned about 2500 9mm today. Shoulders kinda sore now.

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[jimb16]

Started out planning on loading .45 ACP and .380s today. Discovered that I didn't have enough bullets for either. So I spent the day casting 230gr. RNs for the .45 and 95 gr. RNs for the .380. Had a very good day casting. 1 reject .380 and only 5 for the .45! For some odd reason, everything just seemed to click today. Tomorrow I'l be powder coating them. Hopefully everything will go just as well!

[44Blam]

I use the repack boxes and I found that a 7.62x39 boxes that hold 30 rounds hold 36 300 blackout rounds.
So, I loaded up 2 boxes of 300 blackout and might do another 2 boxes tomorrow.
It makes the loading math kind of interesting. Instead of 50, 100, 200, etc it is 36, 72, 108.
I just know that I'm gonna end up with 7 packs of small rifle primers that have like 37 primers in them...

[lightman]

Sized and lubed 500+ more boolits to get ready to load another 500 41 Magnum cases.

[Texas by God]

I grilled hamburgers and venison burgers, put all the polished .30 carbine brass into coffee cans, researched an upcoming 130 gr/ 6.8SPC thumper load, cleaned, lubed and test fired a low rent RG .25acp true pocket pistol- the little toot was fun. And started assembling a cedar handled letter opener for my queen.

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[Hossfly]

Cast about 472-200gr 45ACP boolits. Powder coated and sized. Ready to load. Also some .458 X 325 gr for 45-70 boolits.

Replaced the micro switch in one of my powder checker dies, purchased from{ Grainger’s}that died because of leaving the leaking battery in too long with out checking condition. Lithium batteries from now on.

[sigep1764]

Last night I tried out my new Worlds Finest Trimmer 2 on some 223. Slick little tool, much faster than my Lyman Universal even with the power attachment. Then chamfered the case mouths and threw them in the tumbler. Loaded 100 30-30 too.

[44Blam]

Hi-Tek'd 10lbs of the NOE 310-255 RN (Taco) boolits. While waiting for the stuff to dry/preheat/cook/cool/etc also loaded 100 40 S&W boolits...

[David todd]

I loaded 50 rounds of 8.15X46R with 7.5 grains of Red Dot, and 50 with 13.5 grains of IMR4227, then capped them with a bees wax wad for breach seating and 300 meter testing tomorrow:lol:
David

[Trailboss]

Casting, accidentally spilt some lead it splashed everywhere I jumped clear super fast and I still have all my skin. None of it got me. I had my glasses on. I think it’s crazy not to be wearing glasses casting. ... goodbye eyesight if a hot piece of lead gets u

[sigep1764]

Loaded a small ladder of 3031 in 223, ten rounds with 17 grains, 10 rounds with 18 grains, and 10 rounds with 19 grains. Seemed to meeter really well in the Dillon, not super crunchy. Hopefully testing tmro or Monday.

[44Blam]

Cast up some Svarog slugs...
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[cwlongshot]

Using 223 & 300 bo dies I made up a doz 300 HAM'r cases

Darn thing is callin me LOUDLY!!

CW

[Joe504]

Planned to do some case prep and organizing. Wound up reading the 1st edition ABC's of reloading for about an hour and a half.

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[Polymath]

Poured some .4565-220gr bullets for a Webley. Sorted some range brass.

[Rich/WIS]

Cleaned up two Lyman 450's I'll be throwing up on the S&S Forum.

[green mountain boy]

tumbled 50 30-30 brass i fired yesterday,today they go in the DEF bath to soak for 10 days to 2 weeks. they will be a lovely greenish camo color when the bath is done and i will use the coloration to separate them from the rest of the 30-30s that dont go in my 30-30 contender.i fire formed them yesterday and will trim them back today.10 grains of unique shot well with 311299 as a fire form load.

[kmw1954]

Gifted back about 40lbs of pure lead and 30 lbs. of range scrap muffins to a friend that has just bought a Lee Pot and has also started visiting here. Believe he will be casting .358, 30 cal and for a 45-70.

The pure lead was from roofing salvage that he gave me but I really have no use for pure. I also gifted him about 2lbs of linotype.

[Texas by God]

Sorted out 100+ matching headstamp .30 Carbine from the "mixed" batch to load up and add to the stash.

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[Krag 1901]

I finished sizing a repriming 450 rds of .308 and .30-40 brass. Now I'm all set for my testing of mid speed powders, H-322, RL10x and AA2015 with 155-160 and 200 gr Lees. My left arm is kind'a sore from holding it up to feed the press! It's getting better though. Nice an cool this morning, but supposed to be HOT this afternoon.

[TNsailorman]

Working on pulling down 780 military tracer 30-06 cartridges to be able to reuse the brass.

[Plate plinker]

Been so the shake and bake. Now sizing and loading.

[jdfoxinc]

Swaged more .187 cores for 55gr .223.

[tew45]

I pulled bullets from some 8MM Mauser ammo that the primers had gone bad, saved the powder and bullets. I saved over a pound of powder to use in my 219 Zipper and will sell the bullets as plinkers. I still have 5 or 6 hundred to pull and its raining so I will pull more today if I have an empty container.

[cwlongshot]

GOOD STUFF MAN!!

I got this mold earlier this month myself!! I posted a video on it.

CW

[44Blam]

PC'd my new slugs...
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[Krag 1901]

Loaded 100 Rnds of .223 Ladder load of RL10x and A2015 with 50 gr Amax bullets to test in the Ruger MkII. Hopefully these will give me that accuracy to keep from selling or swapping the gun.

[sigep1764]

The 3031 loads of 17, 18, 19 grains weren't all that great in the 223 yesterday. Tested 15 and 16 grains today, 16 not too bad but not as good as 748.

[whisler]

Cast a few 44 button nose WCs from a used Lee 2 cavity mold I acquired. Worked well, but we will see how they shoot

[cwtebay]

Dropped off around 1000# of sinkers to be distributed to various stores for the 4H, FFA, and Boy Scouts.

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[Krag 1901]

Loaded fifty rnds of .30-40 with 200 gr Lee's and RL10x and A2015 test loads, trying to reach 1,900 fps!

[2A-Jay]

I sorted through a bunch of Firearms related stuff I picked up at Yard Sales last week. Unopened Boxes of Speer Lead Round Ball, Boxes of Speer Lead Bullets in .44 and .38 15 boxes in all, I checked out my "new to Me Lyman Ideal .30 Cal130gr Bullet Mould I bunch of Winchester Knives, A complete Lee Powder Dipper set and an RCBS .30-06 Die Set.

[jdfoxinc]

Finally fired up the master caster. Swagged more .187 cores for 55 gr .22 lr while it heated up. Then cast for about an hour. Longest time my body will let me sit in one place.

[Dieselhorses]

I was in the business of PC'ing some .266 and the lil "Tumbler Tumbler" needed some more weight so that led to coating some 467 .452 RN. I forgot I still had a half of pint of HF red.

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[jdfoxinc]

Finished swaging cores. Now to the other tedious chore of deriming cases.

[cwlongshot]

PC'd my new slugs...
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'MERICA !!!

Lookin great man!

[Iron369]

I had some down time at work so I hand primed 1999 9mm cases. Missed a crimp that claimed the 1 primer. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210608/a8348f494b3d7f69f01dbcc7e76a37f0.jpg

[Mal Paso]

I finally got some shooting in and had 300 44Mag rounds to deprime.

Shooting Double Action only really speeds up the unloading part.

[44Blam]

I finally got some shooting in and had 300 44Mag rounds to deprime.

Shooting Double Action only really speeds up the unloading part.

Shooting 300 44 mag (especially if full power) double action takes a lot of energy!

Today I made my 300 BO rounds for the rifle side match of the combat match this weekend. This batch is all HiTek coated and they look nice.

[QuackAttack24]

I had some spare time, so I loaded 50 rounds of 115 gr 311008 with 3.8 gr W231 for my 32-20 revolver. Yesterday I cast some 250 gr 44 and 170 gr 38 Keith bullets with my new Arsenal molds. looking forward to getting them powder coated, loaded and out to the range for a test run.

[QuackAttack24]

I had some down time at work so I hand primed 1999 9mm cases. Missed a crimp that claimed the 1 primer. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210608/a8348f494b3d7f69f01dbcc7e76a37f0.jpg Holy cow! That's a huge pile of brass

[Iron369]

Holy cow! That's a huge pile of brass

It’s pretty easy to run through that much 9mm. I had more, but only brought 2k primers with me to work. lol.

[QuackAttack24]

It’s pretty easy to run through that much 9mm. I had more, but only brought 2k primers with me to work. lol.
"Only" LOL

[Iron369]

"Only" LOL

I bought a lot last year of 180lbs of lead ingots, 8 sets of RCBS dies and 10k small pistol primers for $200 out of an estate. Just think about what your family will do with your hord after your time is done on this plane.

[Bad Ass Wallace]

All in a day's work at the reloading bench, 17 Ackley Hornet and 577 Snider.

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[Mal Paso]

Shooting 300 44 mag (especially if full power) double action takes a lot of energy!

Today I made my 300 BO rounds for the rifle side match of the combat match this weekend. This batch is all HiTek coated and they look nice.

I wear a Golf Glove, it helps with grip and protects my right hand. The gun is a 4" Redhawk and the load is 20g of 2400 under the NOE 429421, the BC 1103 and the MP 503 clone, 100 of each.

Right handed people need to shop for a left handed glove and Left handed a right glove. Golf!

[Hossfly]

Prepped 2nd Dillon 650 to start loading SPP, as I have collected about 800-+. Of the little devils, will probably shoot em and add to the scrap bin. 45ACP

[44Blam]

Made up some Tokarev boolits for the combat match... They have a nice fireball.
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[Soundguy]

Reloaded 300g lfp 45-70 over varget, and some 175g gc 8mm mauser over imr 4198

[cwlongshot]

The New Hornady Manual arrived today!!

[jdfoxinc]

Started deriming 22 or cases.

[Combat Diver]

Found two 16 oz fishing weights here in a warehouse in UAE. Will be in the next flat rate box home :)

CD

[bubbau]

Cast 350 175 grain .401 boolits.

[OldBearHair]

Gathered up the necessary stuff to post a new PIF Deadline is 06-22-2021 @ 1 p.m.

[Mal Paso]

Sorted the second batch of Lee 356-125-2R from a mold JonB_in_Glencoe alerted me to. I never cast anything so tiny but I rejected less than 15% from the second batch. Most of the rejects were when the mold cooled when I broke rhythm. I think I'll build an air cooled drop box with a towel on a slope so I don't have to look for a new place to drop the boolits each time. With 250g boolits there's plenty of time. I'm also used to having a steel sprue plate, easier to get sharp edged bases. These are close enough to be sharp after the sizer though.

I just did a 3rd run, maybe 30 lbs of alloy, the darn sprue pile is bigger than the boolit pile. Started out too hot and dialed the hot plate back. I've been marking the dial. I waited a minute for the mold to cool, the second cast was in the groove. It takes very little time for the mold to cool. Think I got 6-700 out of the last run.

[clarksvillejoe]

Not today, but yesterday. Assembled 300ea. .40 cal with cast boolits that I made on Saturday.

[MOA]

Got a hold of some hard to get black powder cartridge reloading dies. They hadn't been used for quite a few years. Home was a box up on a shelf in a garage. Two of the sets were missing a die body so I've emailed Redding and RCBS about replacements. Still usable but having to swap bodies is a pain.
Got out the tub, brushes, and sprays to turn them back to almost like new condition.

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[Texas by God]

I played musical scopes yesterday. Now I have 3 rifles to sight in. So far.....

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[Mal Paso]

I cast another 500 MP 357 125g hollowpoints this afternoon. They look like perfect little mini devastators.

[Kimber1911]

Sorted several hundred 30 carbine brass

[Dekota56]

This afternoon I spent sometime loaded 50 rounds of 45, 230 grain JHP.

[kfd518]

Made 46 9.3x 57 cases from new Winchester red bag 8 mm.

The other 4 had wrinkles and creases in the necks to begin with so they are being used to make dummies.

[TNsailorman]

Did a complete written inventory of all my rifle and pistol dies by caliber, including the accessory equipment that went with them such as case preparation tools. Took all day but at least I know what I have and it is labeled as to caliber in plastic containers in an old bookcase that I cabbaged for the task. I had an old inventory but it was well out of date and useless. Now to update my primer, powder, and bullet inventory.

[hodg0610]

I pulled bullets from some 8MM Mauser ammo that the primers had gone bad, saved the powder and bullets. I saved over a pound of powder to use in my 219 Zipper and will sell the bullets as plinkers. I still have 5 or 6 hundred to pull and its raining so I will pull more today if I have an empty container.

Are you planning to sell these bullets on the Swappin and Sellin forum? I can always use more 8mm bullets.

[Dieselhorses]

Doing the monotonous task of recapping/sizing 4K 223 brass. Lil ways to go.


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[44Blam]

I popped out about 500 disks for the planned 700 for 40 cal gas checks. I have been taking pictures along the way and plan on doing a "How I make gas checks" thread.

[Baltimoreed]

Been trying to get a load that works in my No1 Mk3 Enfield sporter soon to become remilitarized I hope. All my lead bullets are too small or too light. It does like 180 gr jacketed though. Going to beagle a mould and try again.

[Brassmonkey]

Washing 1/2 a 5gal buckets worth of .300 blk brass, some to load some to sell.

[Soundguy]

Scored and found (2) 500 round unopened boxes of speer 250gr swaged, film-coted .452 projectiles. Maybe decade or 2 old..i don't trust the film cote..so I tumble lubed with thinned alox and Felix lube to boost the film cote. I hear these bullets are a hair soft.

Anyone use these older speer swaged bullets?

My Lyman dps 1200 powder dropper became unreliable..just ordered an rcbs chargemaster lite.

[sigep1764]

A friend from this site helped me acquire 4 lbs of 748, 2 lbs of 231, and an archery target to add to the reloading room. Good day.

[slim1836]

Installed an AC/Heating unit in my 12x20 shed. It's only an 8000 btu unit but should do the job. It's 95 right now and is going to get hotter. I've done without AC out there for 20 years but I can't take it like I used to.

Slim

[Mal Paso]

Installed an AC/Heating unit in my 12x20 shed. It's only an 8000 btu unit but should do the job. It's 95 right now and is going to get hotter. I've done without AC out there for 20 years but I can't take it like I used to.

Slim

Nice! If not now, when?

I went to the Post Office and my new sizing die and punch had arrived from Lathesmith. I just had to try it. I pin gauged the lead in taper and picked the row of holes I wanted to use and plugged the rest. I pulled the .431" die for the first time since I got the Star and installed Chris's Die. I used the die pulling tool from the bottom to gauge the punch depth and sized 3 boolits. Perfect .3565" with air cooled boolits, just what I asked for.

Worked a full day to, time to hit the rack.

[MOA]

Installed an AC/Heating unit in my 12x20 shed. It's only an 8000 btu unit but should do the job. It's 95 right now and is going to get hotter. I've done without AC out there for 20 years but I can't take it like I used to.

Slim

I can identify with you on dealing with the heat Slim. I'm doing the same here. It's time for some A/C. Even up here at some elevation we've been burning up at temps over 108 just last week.285136

[Baltimoreed]

Waiting on parts on my enfield lead ammo reloading project so I’ve been building ammo for tomorrow’s cas shoot, .45 Schofield -.450 Webley and 20 gauge. Planning on shooting my MkIV, MkVI or Wilkinson 1910 and a .450 Constabulary. A couple stages will add a 2in snubnose too so I might use the .450 or a .38 Victory with a 2 inch bbl. Also using a Marlin Model 30 pump sg and a repro 1873 carbine.

[Mal Paso]

The $32 RCBS Carbide Pistol Dies arrived today. There are 2 seater stems RNFP and RN so I'm covered for the MP Hollowpoint and the Lee RN. Cool! Going to size some of each later.

[hawkenhunter50]

Constructed a handful of different .410 brass blackpowder shotshell loads to try out.

[farmbif]

knocked out a can full of 358156 today they are actually cast in an old ideal mould that I can't make out the numbers its either 35 or 38 156.
what a pleasure using this antique mould they are all perfect and just drop right out no knocking on the handles to get them to drop from this mould.
these things shoot really good too out of both my old security six or the old ugly Rossi 92, lubesized and gas checked at .360 with carnauba red with 17 grains of 300mp powder.

[BJK]

Ha, ha! This is a what not to do. I bought a dozen bottles for acetone/coating mix and went to use one yesterday. But noticed what looked like a styrofoam gasket in the cap for a seal. Uh, oh! I put some acetone on it and it took me much longer to type this than that seal lasted and I type pretty fast. I went from going to mix some up and coat some bullets to getting online to find bottles that will work. Oh well, they didn't cost much. This time I added "solvent resistant" to the search terms.

I'd send them to someone who needs them, but the postage would cost more than the bottles are worth. I don't know how Amazon does it.

What didn't work. I saw the HDPE and thought they'd work. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XZGQ49K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

What I bought this time. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072FSMJWG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[sigep1764]

Deprimed 1000 9mm, cleaned the 270, and powder coated some 30cal hollopoints.

[toallmy]

Scored and found (2) 500 round unopened boxes of speer 250gr swaged, film-coted .452 projectiles. Maybe decade or 2 old..i don't trust the film cote..so I tumble lubed with thinned alox and Felix lube to boost the film cote. I hear these bullets are a hair soft.

Anyone use these older speer swaged bullets?

My Lyman dps 1200 powder dropper became unreliable..just ordered an rcbs chargemaster lite.

I have shot quite a bit of those Speer soft lead boolits out of 38s & 44s they are fine just don't try to push them to fast and be careful not to squash them when loading .

[trails4u]

Processed around 100 or so 270Win brass for a project for a friend at work. He ordered and has received a Savage Axis II, but has not been able to find ammo for it. I had the brass, have powder and primers.....ordered dies and 130gr Hornady SPs, so he'll be set with 100rds., which might last him a while as he's a hunter, not a paper puncher.

He also wants to learn....so I'll invite him over to learn the priming/loading steps. If he continues to be interested, we'll go deeper into brass prep, etc.... These things make me happy.

[44Blam]

Made about 700 40 caliber gas checks.

[centershot]

Been trying to get a load that works in my No1 Mk3 Enfield sporter soon to become remilitarized I hope. All my lead bullets are too small or too light. It does like 180 gr jacketed though. Going to beagle a mould and try again.

Baltimored,
If you have not already done so, you might want to do a pound-cast of your chamber-throat area and check the dimensions. You've checked the bore size, yes? When I checked my MN-44 I found that the barrel I.D. was 0.317" while the throat was 0.312". Finding a cast boolit load is still an ongoing process, not holding out much hope. Good luck to you!

[centershot]

Today I used my brand new nose-sizer set from NOE, nice tooling! I sized some Lee .312-185 to a nose diameter of 0.300" and loaded them over 25.0 gr. of RL-7. I left the bodies full size (as-cast) at 0.314". These rounds chambeed smoothly and cleanly, without resistance in my new Mossberg Patriot. Previously, these boolits were 0.303" nose OD and were difficult to chamber. I'll head to the range later this week if the weatherman is kind!

[cwlongshot]

Fully prepped 50 R-P 30/06 cases for loading tomorrow.

[Hossfly]

Cast 382, 452X212 gr 45 ACP boolits to be pc’ed. Ford light blue for practice ammo.

[slughammer]

Cast about 300 Saeco 382. Weight 165gr.

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[44Blam]

I gas check'd about 600 40 caliber boolits for my 10mm GP100. I'll post the details tomorrow but they are home made GCs and a really great boolit:
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[kfd518]

Loaded up a ladder for my 9.3x57 with AA2495

[15meter]

Scrubbed two new molds that just arrived today. a .269 for my Carcano and a .290 for a buddy's 280 Ross. Just turned off the hot plate after heating up the molds for the first time, do it again at least 2 more times before trying to cast any boolits. Let it cool down while I take the wife out for supper, then heat cycle #2.

On the Fun-O-Meter side of stuff, made reloading opportunities in 275 Rigby, 280 Ross and 303 British. Both the 275 and the 280 are on Oberndorf Mauser actions. The 303 is a 1943 Long Branch.

Too much fun stuff, not enough time.

Tomorrow is varmint shoot, executing pictures of prairie dogs from 50 yards out to 300, decisions, decisions, 22LR? 22 Hornet? 220 Swift? 204 Ruger? 22-250? 243? 221 Fireball?

Last month, I shot the Hornet @50, 204 @100, Swift @ 200 22-250 @ 300. Fun, but too much artillery to be lugging around.

Gonna go simpler this month.

But still making reloading opportunities for tomorrow night.

Unless I shoot the 22 LR.

[whisler]

Deprimed 9mm brass and installed a Hogue grip sleeve on my carry gun.

[Jaybird62]

Sized 300 fired .357 Mag cases that I picked up at the local gun shop. They had loading stickers on them from 1968 (not mine). Also sized and cleaned with steel pins about 400 .308 cases that have been sitting around. Put a small dent in about 5 gallons of .308 fired brass.

[MOA]

Been trying to get a load that works in my No1 Mk3 Enfield sporter soon to become remilitarized I hope. All my lead bullets are too small or too light. It does like 180 gr jacketed though. Going to beagle a mould and try again.


Scrubbed two new molds that just arrived today. a .269 for my Carcano and a .290 for a buddy's 280 Ross. Just turned off the hot plate after heating up the molds for the first time, do it again at least 2 more times before trying to cast any boolits. Let it cool down while I take the wife out for supper, then heat cycle #2.

On the Fun-O-Meter side of stuff, made reloading opportunities in 275 Rigby, 280 Ross and 303 British. Both the 275 and the 280 are on Oberndorf Mauser actions. The 303 is a 1943 Long Branch.

Too much fun stuff, not enough time.

Tomorrow is varmint shoot, executing pictures of prairie dogs from 50 yards out to 300, decisions, decisions, 22LR? 22 Hornet? 220 Swift? 204 Ruger? 22-250? 243? 221 Fireball?

Last month, I shot the Hornet @50, 204 @100, Swift @ 200 22-250 @ 300. Fun, but too much artillery to be lugging around.

Gonna go simpler this month.

But still making reloading opportunities for tomorrow night.

Unless I shoot the 22 LR.

Sounds like what I used to do in southeastern Utah. Start with the 22lr than the hornet on to the Ruger 223 varmint heavy barrel and then finish with the 243. It's a hoot.

[Mal Paso]

Overkill sent me some brass, Thank You, and I had to make some dummies as soon as I got it to check function and fit in an autoloader. The MP 125 HP looks good at a cartridge OAL of 1.090". SAAMI says 9x19mm has a max COAL of 1.169" and I saw a lot of loads at 1.130" so I made one of those and 2 at 1.090". The 1.130" jammed and I got to learn how to clear a jam using dummy ammo. Nice how that worked. The boolits were sized .3565" and the case mouth OD is .378" with the flair removed with a taper crimp. The COAL of 1.090" functions well and looks right just need to find some primers. The notice board at the range may find someone willing to trade for LPs and there is a new gun store store to haunt. Meanwhile I've got a bunch of nice brass to process and boolits to size.

[StuBach]

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Sorted and boxed approximately 500# of Lead (in CB ingots than sfrb) than put on a new cart that slides under metal racking.

[THG]

Experimented with Hodgdon Clays for my new 45 ACP. A friend gave me 2.5# of Clays. Another gave me 376 LPP. Picked up a partial box of XTreme 200 grain coated bullets for $10 from a fellow getting out of 45 ACP. The box contained 326 bullets. I'm loading for about .03 per round on this batch. Hopefully I'll have a mold soon and won't have to "buy" boolits ;-)

[marlin1895]

loaded a batch of 40-82 yesterday. today I have 40-65 & 38-40 to do.

[Mal Paso]

I got about 600 each HP and RN 125g 9mm lubed and sized. Made up dummies with the RN to check function along with the HPs. Started processing brass. It's still going to be a while. LOL Sunlight coming in the window highlighted some of the boolits.

[hodg0610]

44Blam, what system are you using to make your gas checks? Have you tried them yet?

[hodg0610]

Loaded up 50 rounds of 32 H&R Mag with 115 Gr Montana Bullet RNFP over AA7. Also prepped a batch of 7mm Mag, and some 9mm brass.

[slim1836]

I loaded up 50 38 Special rounds with wadcutters for testing, which I'll shoot on Wednesday before our club meeting. I try to make the range meeting each month to ensure I get some shooting time in. I'll probably take my 9mm German Luger with me also for function testing.

If only my weapons were self cleaning, I don't like that part.

Slim

[MOA]

loaded a batch of 40-82 yesterday. today I have 40-65 & 38-40 to do.

What are you shooting the 40 caliber boolits out of?

[cwlongshot]

Prepping a whole bucket of mil 30/06!!!

[cwtebay]

Loaded ladders of 300 SAUM for a new to me AR-10.

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[popper]

I just use clean cola bottles for acetone or any solvent. Works fine.
CW, how the knee working now?

[Walks]

Powder Coated 500 Lee 311-93-1R
150 Lee 429-200RF & 150 #358311.

I stand up all my bullets on their non-stick aluminum foil covered trays. Those tiny ones are Hard.
I gotta get some of those metal baskets that CWLongshot uses.

[44Blam]

44Blam, what system are you using to make your gas checks? Have you tried them yet?

I am using Pat Marlin's gas check makers. I did a whole "how I do it":
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?427653-How-I-make-gas-checks

They work GREAT! I love shooting full power 10mm in my GP100. But I'll shoot 100 rounds and my barrel is clean after a wet then dry patch.

[44Blam]

About 3 years ago, I bought a BUNCH of 308 Winchester LC brass that was primed.
I finally got around to loading the last 75 of those.

At this point all my 308 brass is needs to be prepped before I can load anymore. I have a bunch that really should be annealed and then it all needs to be trimmed. I think that'll be a Saturday when I'm not doing anything else.

[cwlongshot]

I just use clean cola bottles for acetone or any solvent. Works fine.
CW, how the knee working now?


Thanks my friend.

Better for sure, working out hopefully the last few kinks!!

I finished the last of a full 2.5 gal bucket of mil 30/06 brass! Woah that was a PILE O BRASS!!

[Combat Diver]

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[Texas by God]

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cd
All my stuff is in two places:
1. In sight
2. Out of sight
“No Ragrets” ! Haha

[Mal Paso]

I ignored the mess and finished processing about 1250 pieces of 9mm brass and pushed that off to the side to cast some more boolits.

[44Blam]

I cast about 200 40 cal boolits and about 3lbs of #1 buck...

I really want to take OO buck, O buck and #1 buck and see if I can get a combination that is lead dense and patterns well...

[2A-Jay]

I had too many things going on in the Man Cave/Garage/Reloading room. Some furniture refinishing going on, but the Mail brought my Hornady # 11 today so I had to sit at the Bench looking through it!

[15meter]

BLL then gas checked some boolits for a 280 Ross and a 6.5x52.

Loaded 5 test rounds for the 280 Ross, fed and fired well. No leading, bore wiped out with a dry patch.

Now to start stepping up the load. Cases were pretty sooty.

Made a wood plane kit for a buddy so he can help his autistic son assemble it. He's crazy about planes.

Reloading room is kind of a do everything shop!

[sigep1764]

Ran 180 38 Special cases through the sizer and expander dies, then primed them with an RCBS hand primer. I was gifted some Clays a while ago by a member on this forum and im gonna try it out.

[dondiego]

Prepping a whole bucket of mil 30/06!!!

Ditto, for my Browning SLR.

[Brassmonkey]

ran 700+ of 5.7x28 through the sizing die, only had 6 shoulder failures. a quick gentle clean is next,

[sigep1764]

Went to the range and shot 38 Special from the the Colt Official Police. 40 loaded with 2.7 grains of Clays and 40 with 2.3 grains. They both shot to point of aim and I want to be easy on the old revolver so I loaded all 135 of my 38 Special cases with 2.3 grains under a 150 grain hollowpoint(I know I need a lot more cases). Clays does seem to burn hotter than Red Dot, cases were noticeably warmer, but with less recoil than the 2.8 grains of Red Dot that I normally load. Ive wanted to try this powder for awhile since it was gifted to me a couple of years ago.

[cwtebay]

ran 700+ of 5.7x28 through the sizing die, only had 6 shoulder failures. a quick gentle clean is next,Do you have good success loading for that? I have had problems after only 2x loading as far as accuracy and SD in velocity.

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[sharps4590]

Just cast a few 44-40 bullets and prepped 50 cases. I don't do huge batches of anything. Even 50 is a big lot for me these days.

[Texas by God]

Working on making some Wrangler grips from native pecan wood.

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[marlin1895]

I am working on a batch of 45-90. trying to find a load with less recoil. any ideas?

[John Guedry]

Lubed and sized 30 nine mm boolets left over from last casting session.

[cwlongshot]

Working up heavy 380 loads with the lil lee 95g bullets. Looking for a woods load.

https://youtu.be/5Nc5g0vqvWI

CW

[stubshaft]

Rearranged some of my J words.

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[sigep1764]

Working on making some Wrangler grips from native pecan wood.

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We wanna see these!!

[BigAlofPa.]

Ran the shop vac. Then loaded some .223.

[sigep1764]

Powder coated and gas checked 300 223 boolits and primed 100 270 cases. SWMBO has a friend in from out of town. Perfect excuse to disappear and drink beer in the reloading room.

[2A-Jay]

I finally added a Hot Plate to my Casting Bench. Much easier than Balancing the mold on the Rim of the lead pot.

[kevin c]

I sorted a lot of pistol and rifle brass, a lot being about half a five gallon bucket each.

But, it wasn't my brass, and it wasn't my reloading area. Both were my club's.

Stowed the brass in the reloading area. All gone in half a day, which was a bit faster than typical but as expected.

[The Dar]

I finally added a Hot Plate to my Casting Bench. Much easier than Balancing the mold on the Rim of the lead pot.

You'll wonder why you waited so long.

[44Blam]

Loaded up a ladder of Svarog slugs... Going to chrono/test for accuracy on Monday.
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[kevin c]

Finished reassembling nine molds I'm trying to bring back to life (from my screw ups as I learned how to cast on most of them, plus hard used molds given to me).

Hopefully I'll test cast from them in the next week or so.

[marlin1895]

today I am working on a batch of 45-70

[Mal Paso]

The smallest package I ever got from PV arrived Tuesday with a single brick of sp primers. Half of them were in brass by early afternoon and 100 loaded by nightfall. Did a small test Wednesday with the MP 125 HPs, it shot to the sights at 25Y. Good start!

The primers were $60, plus $20 HazMat, $10 shipping. I should have grabbed some powder but checkout had a time limit and it was a fight to get them in the cart. Not sure how I feel about 9 cent primers except to make each one count.

[cwlongshot]

Im still working up 380 loads. Im
Working on the ARC 56g bullet now.

[dondiego]

Loaded up a ladder of Svarog slugs... Going to chrono/test for accuracy on Monday.
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Those look interesting!

[Texas by God]

My oldest daughter and I ( I helped) disassembled, cleaned, polished, lubed and reassembled a vintage Mercury bait casting reel- not reloading but a good time.

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[44Blam]

Those look interesting!

They are interesting. However, the ones I loaded are a bit on the "too hot" side and aren't really fun to shoot... Gonna go a little lower on the powder charge and try again. :)

[Dieselhorses]

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I took a panoramic pic of my reloading bench LOL. Needs straightening


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[Soundguy]

I have a rifle I havn't even unpacked..wish I had reloading time.

[kmw1954]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210728/fd2e6916c3c766142090e9dff75b8070.jpg
I took a panoramic pic of my reloading bench LOL. Needs straightening

Looks like I'm not the only one to repurpose a kitchen counter base.

[Soundguy]

Nice jwords collection and bench pics guys. Jealous

[Wisest.fool]

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I made ....blue ball....loads....

[Dieselhorses]

Looks like I'm not the only one to repurpose a kitchen counter base.

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Somebody was just throwing it away!


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[44Blam]

286758286759

I made ....blue ball....loads....

You have red, blue....and green. Why not white???

[dondiego]

I wish that I could keep that organized................

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Loaded up 100 124 gr. HP j words in 9mm using 6 of HS-6. Way cheaper than buying commercial defensive ammo. Got a couple hundred more to go.

[44Blam]

Those look interesting!

Did some testing today.
Hull is fiocchi, the wad is BRP-12, powder was longshot and the svarog 530 grain slug:
25 grain was about 1220 fps
27.5 grain was about 1300 fps
30 grain was about 1400 fps
33 grain was about 1500 fps

Everything was giving me about a 6" or so group at 50 yards in a Mossberg 590 pump. But I think the recoil factor probably plays into the grouping... None of these were fun to shoot. But they all did fly straight.

[armoredman]

I finally DID some loading, since my local CAL Ranch store finally has CCI-500 SPP on the shelf. $5.99 per 100, and only 100 per day. However, they are right around the corner from me, so dropping by every day for my daily primers is pretty easy. So I finally loaded some of my 124gr cast PC Lee boolits over some HS-6...the only powder they had. Yes, I was caught short as I never expected the drought to last quite this long...

[Soundguy]

Good casting session. made some 7.5 projectiles some stuff for 45-70 340 grains and 400 grains hollow points some 200 grain.452 for 45 ACP as well as some 120gr .356 for 9 mm and heavy .380 also some hollow point 240 grain .249 for 44 special or 44 Magnum

[Mal Paso]

Tweaked my back again yesterday and reloading was all I was up to today. Got all my 44 Mag brass primed. Loaded 100 ea 9mm 125g HP and 125g RN over 5g of N350. Should be just over 1000 fps but I need to shop for a chronograph. That and more shelving for boolits and dies. So much simpler with just one caliber, I've had to get loading blocks, primer rods, shell holders..... Forgot about that. That money I'm saving is a couple years off.

[Finster101]

Loaded 30 rounds of .45ACP 200 grain SWCs on the new 650 today. Now to take them out and make sure they function in all my .45s. Then load about 3 or 4 thousand of them.

[Budzilla 19]

well, i was going to load a picture of a pile of boolits i cast yesterday, but, once again, it won't load pictures or videos. i needed a little stress relief yesterday, so, i cast a whole pile of 165 grain 30 caliber Ranch Dog slugs, Lee 309-150 RNFP, and then finished up with the Lee 401-175 TL boolits. I needed some of all, so.......................... Stress free after a while!!!!!!!

[Hossfly]

I wanted to try out my new reflex sight on the 45-70 and only had 3 boolits. So found 30 I had cast and sized
back in spring and pc’ed ford light blue at 344 gr ww mixed with stick ons 50-50.

Some 4178 powder at 35 grains will work. Loaded and was able to hit target after bore sighting. And in 6 shots was close to bullseye.

300 yards from house and wife said it was shaking the back door. Well what you think if I loaded it to max? Don’t need that kind of punishment. All good. Henry 015 single shot Brass.

[robg]

ran through basic reloading with a mate who wants to start reloading .supervised him loading 50 x 357mag .always fun to get people started .

[BJK]

Still working on sizing the 1800+ 9mm bullets I made in the past few day. I figure if I tackle it the same way I'd eat an elephant eventually I'll get it done... One bite at a time.

LEE sizer, one red container+ tonight. Eventually I'll get them done.

[Jal5]

Spent yesterday afternoon and this afternoon reorganizing my bench area. Got three kitchen cabinets plus countertop from our recent kitchen remodel. Next I need to get more lighting and electrical outlets in there. Pictures to follow. It’s a much nicer use of space now!


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[Texas by God]

Starting some experimental 30-30 cast bullet loads. I’m only going to load 5 of each recipe to see what’s what.

[sigep1764]

Changed it up and loaded 150 rounds of 380ACP with 2.4 grains of W231 instead of 2 grains of Red Dot. The 231 metered much better at these low charges. Using the Lee 356 95 RF

[Mal Paso]

397 Small Pistol Primers installed in dinky little 9mm cartridges. My RCBS hand primer put 3 in sideways. I need to get the APS set up for small primers, finally got the part.

The brass was range pickup and a dozen of the cases wouldn't prime and there was a ring indented around the pocket. Crimped? I thought that was rifle only.

[hc18flyer]

Yesterday I cast 350- Lyman 452460 swc's to feed my brothers 1911, today after work I sized and lubed with TAC1. Maybe tomorrow I can load a few for testing?

[sigep1764]

397 Small Pistol Primers installed in dinky little 9mm cartridges. My RCBS hand primer put 3 in sideways. I need to get the APS set up for small primers, finally got the part.

The brass was range pickup and a dozen of the cases wouldn't prime and there was a ring indented around the pocket. Crimped? I thought that was rifle only.

Nope, Ive ran into a lot of Winchester military cases with crimps. I started with putting them through the Dillon swager, but they don't stay straight. Grabbed the Lyman Case Pocket tool and cut the crimps out. When Im sorting 9mm, I pull those to the side and cut them.

[Mal Paso]

Nope, Ive ran into a lot of Winchester military cases with crimps. I started with putting them through the Dillon swager, but they don't stay straight. Grabbed the Lyman Case Pocket tool and cut the crimps out. When Im sorting 9mm, I pull those to the side and cut them.

Thank you! They are Winchester, I will keep my eyes out for a tool.

[sigep1764]

finally added to my stash of 38 brass. Went to Graf's this morning and picked up a quick change and caliber change for the 550. They rang me up and I said "Oof". Price went up $80 since 2019.

[Soundguy]

I cast up a bunch of 120gr .356 lswc and 160gr .452 lrnfp. They are cooling in pan lube now. Will size tomorrow maybe.

[Iron369]

Cooking up some rusty wheel weights before the rain comes in. Only 18 more buckets to go. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210813/b00fa7d94a9574251eb8ba45a35d5c00.jpg

[hc18flyer]

Last night I loaded up some different oal's of 452460 in .45 acp for my brothers 1911. Over 5.1 grains of HP 38. He has his 1911 so I can't 'plunk em's. hc18flyer

[sigep1764]

Cooking up some rusty wheel weights before the rain comes in. Only 18 more buckets to go. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210813/b00fa7d94a9574251eb8ba45a35d5c00.jpg

I like this guy

[sigep1764]

Set up and tuned the 38 Special quick change for the 550 this morning. Ran 200 rounds through it with 2.5 grains of Clays and a 150grain cast HP. Very happy with the increased productivity over the single stage Id been using for 38 for a couple of years.

[44Blam]

Annealed a whole mess of 308... I found out about 1/2 way through a bunch of 8mm Mauser cases got mixed in with my 308s. It appears that there are about 50 in about 500 308 cases, but now I've got to go back through and sort those suckers out.

[shell70634]

Spent the last 2 days cleaning, sorting, and organizing one bench. Mounted another Star. Created a mess in the rest of the room that will take me a month to straighten out.
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[cwtebay]

Spent the last 2 days cleaning, sorting, and organizing one bench. Mounted another Star. Created a mess in the rest of the room that will take me a month to straighten out.
287523Nice!!! Looks like a little ammo factory there!!

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[shell70634]

I'll post a pic of the other bench with a 1050 and 550 when I get it clean.....in a month or so. To embarrassing to show now. Had to stop for a while when I was cleaning this. Found some 45 Colt primed brass I had forgotten. Then had to find the boolits. Then had to reload em. Created another mess I had to clean. It's a never ending battle.

[Mal Paso]

Built shelves for the new caliber so I can have the bench back.

[Stuckcase]

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[Walks]

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Is that the H&G #130 or the Lyman #452488 ?
Beautiful Bullet, either way.

[Joe504]

Spent the last 2 days cleaning, sorting, and organizing one bench. Mounted another Star. Created a mess in the rest of the room that will take me a month to straighten out.
287523Super jealous of those Stars.
If you need any spare parts, let me know.

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[Jal5]

New bench area with repurposed kitchen cabinets and counter tops.
Pics aren’t loading.

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[sigep1764]

Sized, trimmed, chamfered and annealed 300 30-30 cases. Also did the same with 150 223 cases. Loaded 40 30-30 with 6.5 grains of Red Dot and a 147 grain powder coated hollow point. My hands are tired.

[onelight]

Cleaned the SA Hell Cat and Ruger Bear Cat and loaded Loaded 900 45 acp with 200 grain SWC and BE-86 on the ABLP .
A nice rainy Oklahoma day , :)
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[Lakehouse2012]

finally added to my stash of 38 brass. Went to Graf's this morning and picked up a quick change and caliber change for the 550. They rang me up and I said "Oof". Price went up $80 since 2019.

I found your kryptonite. :)

38 special brass coming your way!

[2A-Jay]

I counted out .40 s&w empties over 700, 300 38s&w empties,1000 .45acp empties, 500 30-06 empties, Empties, Powders and bullets I got, Primers not so much. Already have 1000 45acp in ammo cans, also have 10,1000 30-06 in ammo cans. 30-30 I have a couple hundred.

[sigep1764]

I found your kryptonite. :)

38 special brass coming your way!

Ahh, come on Chris, you don't need to! I like helping out members here and I had an abundance of what you needed. I was just glad I had it for you.

[Cast_outlaw]

Bought a mec 600jr for 410, two bags of wads, two bags primed hulls, 2cans of h110, one can of IMR 4227 and two bags of shot full one #4 and one #8 for $200cnd think I did ok just need it setup now

[44Blam]

Been on a weird bender...
I've been doing brass prep on 350 legend and 308 for a week or so and started loading the past two nights. Last night was 250 350 legend and tonight was 200 308. I think this will continue until I run out of brass or the wife starts wondering where I have gone off to...

[echo154]

Drank a cup of JOHN...don't drink JOE anymore.....scratched a bit. I then I put my 450 in boiling water to clean out some seriously old lube...using SPG now on my GG BP and use HI-TEK on my modern stuff.

[44Blam]

Loaded a whole mess of 308. I am down to my last lb of varget but I have some SW Precision Rifle to start working with. In my experience (limited) it is identical. Kind of like W296 and H110.

[frkelly74]

So you are saying SW Precision Rifle is similar to Varget, Right? When anyone mentions H110 while talking about a 308 Rifle I kind of get the willies.

[Wisest.fool]

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[44Blam]

So you are saying SW Precision Rifle is similar to Varget, Right? When anyone mentions H110 while talking about a 308 Rifle I kind of get the willies.

SW Precision Rifle is similar to Varget. It actually looks/smells the same and my test load velocities are very similar.

Agreed - H110 in a big rifle case is no good...

[Big Tom]

Added a primer catcher to my RCBS Rebel :-) and loaded 200 .38 Special and 100 .357 mag with coated 125 FN (finally got some SP primers last week)

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