What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Texas by God]

I put together a dozen plinking rounds for my Krag. 9 grains Unique with 150grLee flat nose pc'd. About 1300 fps from Lymans Krag in their 45th edition. I predict fun.

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[358429]

I am trimming [emoji3] hundreds [emoji3] of 357 brass .08 shorter so I can later load them with semiwadcutter hollow points and h110.

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[1I-Jack]

We have friends who are moving to Illinois to be closer to their grandkids. He called up and said he had a present for me because he said the moving company wouldn't move them. So I found homes in my shop for: 225 primed 45 ACP cases, 2500 primers of assorted flavors, 1 lb Bullseye, 1 lb CFE 223, 1 lb Unique and a partial can 4064.

[whisler]

Now that is a friend.

[BJK]

Since my right arm is still recovering I used my left to size maybe 150 130g 9mm bullets. I'm attacking the job the same way I would eat an elephant, one bite at a time.

[Dale53]

The Green Frog came to visit for a week and inspired me to do some work in the reloading room. I sized and lubed about 1500+ dbl ended .38 wadcutters. They are boxed labeled and ready to go! My drop ceiling is "dropping" and a repairman is coming tomorrow to fix it. I had to clean off my reloading bench to allow him room to work. The benefits are going to be great. After the repairs my bench will be clean and ready to go with my two Dillon 550B's along with my RCBS Rock Chucker ready to "hit it".

I have been hard at work rearranging part of my loading room. That is GOOD!
FWIW
Dale53

[2A-Jay]

Broke the shop Vac out today, the Garage/Reloading Room needed cleaning the spider webs, dust and spent primers needed removal (wife was getting on my case about dragging spent primers in the house (they scare her when her vacuum picks them up (she thinks they are going to explode.

[Jniedbalski]

This is the first time in many years I haven’t loaded in three or four months. Not a single round . Getting lazy I guess. Want to go out and cast 100 lbs of assorted 9 mm and 38 bullets. I have I thank every lee mold they make in thes two calibers so I got a lot of casting to do.waiting for it to get below 85 or so

[Wild Bill 7]

Cleaned about 800 223 cases in my Frankford tumbler. Set them out to dry in the sunshine to dry. They turned out beautiful also. Now deprime, clean pockets and check for military crimp, and trim what needs to be trimmed. Going to have a little help also, my wife wants to learn the process. That’s a good thing.

[dondiego]

We have friends who are moving to Illinois to be closer to their grandkids. He called up and said he had a present for me because he said the moving company wouldn't move them. So I found homes in my shop for: 225 primed 45 ACP cases, 2500 primers of assorted flavors, 1 lb Bullseye, 1 lb CFE 223, 1 lb Unique and a partial can 4064.


What moving company?

[robg]

prepped a hundred 357 mag cases .got to do some casting as im getting low on boolits for my 45-70 .

[44Blam]

Cast about 350 NOE 454-237 HPs...
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[kmw1954]

Just started annealing my brass. On my 3rd load and so far have about 500pcs of 223 finished. Using a propane torch and a small battery screw driver with a deepwell socket.

[rainmaker62]

Loaded a few more .45x2.4 rounds to get ready for the SE SASS regional.

[Eddie2002]

I have spent the last few days working on about one hundred 30-06 berdan cases that were range pickups. I have about two bricks of berdan primers sitting around and with the component shortage decided to use some up. Decapped the brass using the punch and pry method, washed them in an oxalic acid solution which worked great and then resized and trimmed them down to 58x7.7 Jap for my Arisakas. Not sure why I went through all the trouble, already have hundreds of 7.7 Jap reloads on the shelf but I needed some reloading therapy and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Loaded up 50 using 150 grain condom bullets, the rest will get lighter weight cast for 50 yd plinkers.

[44Blam]

Finished PCing the 45 cal boolits I cast the other day. Should be good to start testing Sunday...

[Texas by God]

I'm going to load 130 gr bullets(not boolits) in the 6.8SPC if the ogive agrees with the OAL for the magazine....
And I received some .358" gas checks for future use thanks to Sage Outdoors.

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[44Blam]

Loaded a ladder of 45 ACP for the new 1911.
This pistol is a good shooter, I think I'm really going to enjoy loading for/shooting this gun. :) Should be able to test this Sunday.
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[2A-Jay]

Deprimed and tumbled 400 .38spl Deprimed 300 .45acp, then loaded 300 30-06 to M-2 Ball specs 50gr IMR4895 topped with 150gr BTSP.

[onelight]

Last two days pin tumbled about 3000 cases 9mm , 38 special , 45acp & 44 special , loaded 200 44special 300 38 special on the LCT and 500 45 acp on the auto breech lock pro.

[1I-Jack]

What moving company?

Not sure. He said they were coming to pack everything up and that their stuff would then sit in a warehouse out here for a couple of weeks before it was shipped back east.

[Junnie]

Loaded a ladder of 45 ACP for the new 1911.
This pistol is a good shooter, I think I'm really going to enjoy loading for/shooting this gun. :) Should be able to test this Sunday.
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Need load data for Miester 180 SWC... especially COLA.....

[44Blam]

Need load data for Miester 180 SWC... especially COLA.....

So the way I came up with my COL on this one was:
1) Lee's Modern reloading has almost all of it's have 45 acp loads listed at 1.20"
2) I have some magazines that state that (if reloading) a COL of 1.24-1.26 is the most reliable for feeding. - It's a Wilson Combat magazine, a friend recommended it and they are much nicer than the stock mags.
3) I tried a dummy round at 1.26 and it shaved off a little bit of the boolit, so I pulled it and sat/crimped it again at 1.24" and it cycled fine without mangling up the boolit.

So, as I was making these guys, I noticed that they were coming out right at or just on the short side of 1.24 and I was measuring with calipers and not a micrometer - so I'm calling my COL as 1.235" because it is somewhere between 1.235 and 1.24 - one day I'll buy a micrometer...

My load data is straight from Lee's Modern Reloading for a 230 grain round nose lead boolit. Now this design is a 237 grain design with the flat point - I found that they are weighing in at 217 grain or so with the HP. So my design plus the fact that my my COL is a tad bit longer probably makes that data very close to what they tested. NOE is also nice enough to publish QL bul files, so I bumped the load against that and it showed very similar velocities for the powder charges.

But - as always - we'll see when I get the chrony numbers vs the published numbers in the book vs the grouping on paper.

[RickF]

Loaded 100 Lee C309-170s for my Model '94 30-30 ... deer season is right around the corner!

[pls1911]

Whined because I can't even see my reloading bench.....
Life got in the way the past few months.
Salvation looms on the October horizon....

[El Gato]

I did some case prep for 8x57. I did some maintenance on my SMLE.

[Texas by God]

I JB Welded a Williams Guide rear sight and a Win m70 front sight on my Benjamin. 22 air rifle. The Centerpoint scope is kaput- shock-

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[Cast10]

Built a PID for my Lee Pro 4 20. Mypin TA4-SSR controller.

[Mal Paso]

Finished loading a ladder from 4.8g to 5.6g of N350 under MP's 125g HP in 9mm. I have air cooled and water dropped, unfortunately the public range is closed this weekend for Indy Cars whatever that is.

[robg]

help a friend get reloading his 6.5 credmoor .took a while but got it sorted .he had used the wrong decapper/sizer die in the lee set and bullets were loose in neck and bullets had to be loaded deeper in case as i think they were designed for the 6.5 x 55.

[robg]

did some casting yesterday .loaded up 50x 45-70 today .

[Texas by God]

I sized and primed 53 30-40 Krag brass, 20 will be loaded with the Lee C309170F that are pc'd and weigh 176 grs. The other 33 will be loaded with either vintage Vernon Speer 180 gr Spitzer or Hornady 220gr round nose; all on top of IMR 4350 with CCI LR primers.
My rememberer was wrong- the Speer bullets are obviously not spitzers........
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[Ithaca Gunner]

Began processing around 1,000 .308/7.62X51 Nato brass.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Finished the third casting session with an Mihec hp mold; https://www.mp-molds.com/product/mp-432-hammer-hollow-point-mold-multi-choice/

Getting the hang of it now with mostly good boolits. Pretty amazing piece of machining. Bought it off a member brand new but didn't notice it was a gas check style. I've got several .44 molds so I won't be shooting a large amount of these. That's o.k. too because I had to pay $77.00 for 1,000 Lyman gas checks.

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[RickF]

I did some casting last night with a Lee C309-170 for a Model '94 30-30 and today I did a thorough cleaning job on the equipment, melting pot and the necessary tools.

[The Dar]

didn't notice it was a gas check style. I've got several .44 molds so I won't be shooting a large amount of these. That's o.k. too because I had to pay $77.00 for 1,000 Lyman gas checks.

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Powder coat a few and load 'em up without a gas check. You might be surprised how well they shoot. I shoot 38 caliber 158 gc in my 357 without a gas check and can't tell the difference.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Powder coat a few and load 'em up without a gas check. You might be surprised how well they shoot. I shoot 38 caliber 158 gc in my 357 without a gas check and can't tell the difference.

Will gave that a try.

[Mal Paso]

Cast 2 pots of 359-125 HPs, large pin while I contemplated serious cleaning and reorganizing the shop. (Don't put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after that.)

[15meter]

Annealed 60 pieces of 338 Win Mag that are destined to become 458 Win Mag, currently in the polisher to clean of the tarnish from the annealing. Load up the fire-forming load in the morning. Have to size/lube some boolits for the 458 tomorrow.

[Remiel]

Sorted 200pcs of 10mm, not only is there crimped brass, but spp as well. Almost as tedious as sorting 45acp for the same reasons.

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[Mal Paso]

Yesterday I cleaned out a spot in the reloading room and moved the tool chest in. I pulled the drawers to get the weight down to manageable by 2 guys. Got most of the tools and dies put away and took a break. I went back out there for something and noticed a smell like candles burning. I look over at the loading bench and there is a curl of smoke rising from the middle. I had swung the Luxo magnifier out of the way and it focused the sun through the window on a vacuum cleaner nozzle and had welded a 1 1/4 inch long bead on it. Caught it before it found stray powder kernels. Whew!

[44Blam]

Started production of 45 ACP! Did 100 today, will continue until I run out of boolits (~400). Gonna cast more Saturday and hopefully go through a couple pots.

[15meter]

Yesterday I cleaned out a spot in the reloading room and moved the tool chest in. I pulled the drawers to get the weight down to manageable by 2 guys. Got most of the tools and dies put away and took a break. I went back out there for something and noticed a smell like candles burning. I look over at the loading bench and there is a curl of smoke rising from the middle. I had swung the Luxo magnifier out of the way and it focused the sun through the window on a vacuum cleaner nozzle and had welded a 1 1/4 inch long bead on it. Caught it before it found stray powder kernels. Whew!

My ring magnifying/light recently died. It was always mounted between my two south facing windows. I've been considering it's replacement and have been considering a new location in front of one window where my primary workspace is.

My have to rethink that plan. I've got good insurance, but I'm not sure I want to test it out to that extent.

PS: Didn't do anything in the reloading room but did take a niece-in-law skeet shooting. Second time to the range. She's catching on and she's the one who asked to go both times.

Not bad for a person who admits that a couple of years ago she was hard core anti-gun.

She's been hanging around with an evil influence too much :bigsmyl2:

[sigep1764]

Boss gave me an extra day off this week due to my assistant manager being on vaca next week so Im working 6 days then. Used the time to cast 15 lbs of 227 75grain Nato boolits. They're coming out 70 grains ish, equates to around 1500 boolits. Brass molds get heavy quick.

[Golfswithwolves]

I spent an hour casting a bunch of 358156 boolits. I had thought that I had gotten a well-cared for used mold, but it turns out that it seems to have been unused before I got it off of the Ebay. This is the first time casting for me for awhile, so I was pleased when the new mold soon started to break in and turned out nice sharp bullets. It's a fine feeling to make a nice product!

[Texas by God]

It was cool this evening so I used a pot of brother Jim's mystery alloy to replenish my supply of Lee C309170F, 358105SWC, and 358150SWC. I also tested out a new to me C358200RF mold- and it worked great.
Now to get a rifle for those......

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[sigep1764]

Sized/decapped 500 223 cases today. Now to trim/chamfer/deburr them.

[Rapidrob]

Cast up 200 150 grain .267 RNFB bullets and sized and gas checked same.

[Hossfly]

Cleaned up, gathered loaded rounds and organized, getting ready for veterans hunt coming in October. Checked on feeder for clock that’s been losing time. Still throwing corn, just not at the right times I want.

[David2011]

Boss gave me an extra day off this week due to my assistant manager being on vaca next week so Im working 6 days then. Used the time to cast 15 lbs of 227 75grain Nato boolits. They're coming out 70 grains ish, equates to around 1500 boolits. Brass molds get heavy quick.

Brass molds may be heavy but having to redo because a lesser mold isn’t cutting it is at least as bad. Congrats on the batch.

[44Blam]

PC'd about 500 boolits and loaded 50. BOTH of my lee primer arms broke today... I super glued one - hope it works because I have a lot of loading to do...

[taco650]

Cast up 200 150 grain .267 RNFB bullets and sized and gas checked same.

What caliber/model rifle are they for?

[jlm223]

Been working on some 41 Magnum

[Doubles Shooter]

Fired up the drip o matic. A friend wanted me to make him some sinkers. Couldn't say no because he gave me two pots and got me back into boolit it casting. A Lee 10 pound dripper and an old Lyman bottom pour. Also over 700 pounds of lead and boolits. What a pain it is to use an ancient worn out aluminum mold. Flashing on all, and the line hole was plugged and needed opening up. Plus that SOB got hot!! Oh well, for what he has given me, it was worth it.
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[Jack Stanley]

Made a few .38 wadcutter loads .

Jack

[Texas by God]

I was looking for something else and found 37 sized and primed .30 Carbine brass. I've been meaning to try the Lee 113(120gr this time) PC'd at full velocity; so I loaded them little things with my very soon to be gone H110.

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[15meter]

Loaded 19 338 Win Mag for fire forming into 458 Win Mag brass. Had previously neck expanded with a 375 H&H die and annealed. Lost 1 during initial expanding. All 19 are now nice purdy 458's

Made reloading opportunities in a bunch of 204 Ruger's while coming in second in the varmint match AND winning both the 100 and 300 yard side bets for best score/group. Group size is used to decide ties at each yardage. Swapping the 6x18 for the 6.5x20 obviously helped. Plus perfect weather, it gets tough to see those 204 holes @ 300 yards. We can have severe mirage @ 300 in February here in Michigan.

Time to throw the brass in the polisher.

[Murphy]

Nothing, yet. But it's on my agenda. I have a couple of friends in need of somethings I can be of help with to them. And I do mean friends at this point in life. I just need to whip up a fresh pile of CD's for my music box, the others have gotten old and aren't playing as well. A close friend picked up a 5 gallon bucket of police range range brass for me the other day. Sorting them by head stamp, tumbling them clean enough for safe sizing in a steel die (hey, it's my hobby and I'll do it my way) and then cleaning them again can take up plenty time. :)

Murphy

[Cast10]

I loaded up some 6mm Remington shells for son/friend they’re gonna need for hunting season. They were not very good stewards of brass either! Was only able to load 35 rounds due to brass shortage and unable to locate any. 95gr Nosler Ballistic Tips work very well in the 6mm. IMR 4350 powder.

Tumbled cases for 3 hrs, cleaned, sized, trimmed, chamfered, primed, powdered, seated, boxed!

I then spent the rest of the time sorting recovered brass and packaging up. While I was looking for more 6mm!

Oh, I do recall some NEW Winchester blue pkg (unopened) 30/06……

[TNsailorman]

I pulled a very tightly stuck case out of a 8mm mauser sizing die. I pulled a dumb move and tried to force the issue when it didn't want to size with normal pressure because of a collapsed shoulder at the neck. It was a dumb move on my part and the first case I have stuck in over 25 years now. I have a stuck case removal kit I bought from RCBS (the old man ,Fred himself, many years ago). james

[Hodagtrapper]

Not in the reloading room but I did melt down wheel weights and ended up with 96-two pound ingots. Still have a pile of pure lead, range scrap and linotype to melt into ingots in the next month.

Chris

[15meter]

I loaded up some 6mm Remington shells for son/friend they’re gonna need for hunting season. They were not very good stewards of brass either! Was only able to load 35 rounds due to brass shortage and unable to locate any. 95gr Nosler Ballistic Tips work very well in the 6mm. IMR 4350 powder.

Tumbled cases for 3 hrs, cleaned, sized, trimmed, chamfered, primed, powdered, seated, boxed!

I then spent the rest of the time sorting recovered brass and packaging up. While I was looking for more 6mm!

Oh, I do recall some NEW Winchester blue pkg (unopened) 30/06……

Got any 7x57, I personally have never done that conversion but it looks pretty straight forward and just going down .03937 in neck diameter, I would expect that you wouldn't have to neck turn.

I've never loaded 6mm, but I think I was gifted a bag of brass a while ago. Maybe I need to find a rifle to go with the brass, I've done sillier things[smilie=1:

[Ithaca Gunner]

Got any 7x57, I personally have never done that conversion but it looks pretty straight forward and just going down .03937 in neck diameter, I would expect that you wouldn't have to neck turn.

I've never loaded 6mm, but I think I was gifted a bag of brass a while ago. Maybe I need to find a rifle to go with the brass, I've done sillier things[smilie=1:

7X57 is a fantastic sporting caliber in a modern rifle.

I began cleaning up the shop and getting things where they belong, I got as far as the .30 jacketed rifle bullets, and hoping I don't find more! I didn't get to my stash of .30 cast rifle boolits, but I don't think I need to cast any this winter by the look of the shelf they're on. That's just the sized and lubed boolits ready to load, there's several cigar boxes of unsized .30's under the bench.

[Cast10]

Got any 7x57, I personally have never done that conversion but it looks pretty straight forward and just going down .03937 in neck diameter, I would expect that you wouldn't have to neck turn.

I've never loaded 6mm, but I think I was gifted a bag of brass a while ago. Maybe I need to find a rifle to go with the brass, I've done sillier things[smilie=1:

No, no 7x57.

[sigep1764]

Finished prepping 1000 223 cases, sized, trimmed, chamfered, and deburred. Then did the same to 100 30-30 cases. Loading the 223 begins tonight.

[Roundball]

Today,I finished up a the first short run of 35863 double ended wadcutters made from range scrap. The older Lyman four cavity mold came from an estate sale. I set up the Star sizer to lube one grove. This was my first experience loading a WC flush with the case mouth. That was a trip. Nice looking oversized .362 bullets sized well in the Star. I am using Accurate #2 since BE and 231 have vanished into the hoarders basement. I'll try my first batch at out our informal Bullseye Match tomorrow. I have an old two cavity 35863 that may be converted for the Master Caster.

[Soundguy]

I get off work at 1, hope to smelt down 18# of linotype into ingots.. and if they turn out good and not too dirty / too much loss.. I'll go buy more lino from the local scrap dealer tomorrow.

[TNsailorman]

primer pocket uniformed 467 .30M1 carbine brass cases. Now to deburr the flash holes.

[Soundguy]

My lino smelted out great. Used a new ( old) antique silver ladle I bought a month ago.. Long handle was fantastic.

[15meter]

Got the 12 ga. MEC 9000 off the shelf and got it sorted out to load trap and sporting clays loads.

Got 4 boxes loaded up before I called it quits for the evening. I've got a 20 gallon plastic barrel of 12 ga. hulls to load before the press goes back on the shelf.

[sigep1764]

600 rounds of 223 and 100 rounds of 38 special got loaded today. All my days off for the next two weeks are full with visiting Grandma after shoulder surgery and bow hunting with a friend. Maybe we can squeeze some range time before work one of these days. I am shooting through all the lubed 223 as I have switched to powder coating. Need some more W748, got one pound left and whatever is in the hopper.

[1I-Jack]

I was swaging primer pockets on a bucket of 223 and found this gem...289804
Aguila brass with a severely off center flash hole.

[15meter]

I was swaging primer pockets on a bucket of 223 and found this gem...289804
Aguila brass with a severely off center flash hole.

From the photo, it looks like it was oversized to compensated for the off-center:groner:

[Soundguy]

Reminds me of hornady brass. A few years ago I found quite a few in a batch with odd, small or off center flash holes. Maybe their primer hole employee changed employers...

[sigep1764]

Lubed about 300 9mm/38Special boolits and loaded a 100 38 cases. Now getting ready for the evening shift at work.

[1I-Jack]

I'm working through a couple of thousand cases and have found quite a few more of these Aguila shells. Most are off center (by varying degrees) and yes, they are all oversize holes. Oh well, guess the recycle bucket needs to be fed too.

[jdfoxinc]

I've been casting 175 gr .401 soft lead bullets to use as cores for .451 jacketed bullets made from .40 S&W brass, also .187" cores for 5.56mm jacketed from 22lr cases.

[SOFMatchstaff]

I set the old RL-1050 up for 7.62x51 and ran off 800 rds of ball. only another 10K to go. I've been told numerous times I cant load that case on that press, Hmmm, well guess what......

[15meter]

Loaded ~10 boxes of 20 gauge 3/4 oz. skeet loads, got three coats of finish on a Remington 511 stock I'm refinishing. Prior owner had boogered up a refinishing job. Another 8-10 coats and it should be considerably better than what I started with. Turned a nice ash bowl(loading room is kinda multi-purpose).

[John Guedry]

Loaded some .45 Colt amunition.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Made a bunch of Lee 125 rn 9mm boolits with one of their six. cavity molds. Really like the production with these!

[robg]

prepped some 45-70 brass yesterday .did a bit of casting today 70 x 340 grain lee boolit 45-70 and 70 x 180 grain 358 rcbs sil boolit .tumble lubed .

[lightman]

My Wife and I just finished a major clean-up and reorganization in the storeroom. How does this fit "what did you do in the loading room)? Well, the storeroom is next to my loading room and is where I store my Ammo, Brass stash and cast bullets. We worked an hour or so each day over 4 days. I hauled a load of junk off to the county dumpster and have a load of better junk to take to the auction house downtown.

Right now, all of my brass is sorted by caliber and headstamp and resides in Folgers coffee cans. Marked with a sharpie. The straight walled brass is all resized, deprimed and tumbled. The bottleneck brass is all deprimed and tumbled. Except for the tub of range brass that I picked up this year. I saved that for something to do in the Winter after hunting season.

[Cast10]

Loaded a box of 9mm Lee 356-120-TC as hopefully a final test for function in Glock 19/26.

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[15meter]

Loaded 3 boxes of 20 gauge skeet loads, emptied the polisher, those 38 specials sure do shine. Forgot them in the polisher for the last three nights. The polisher is on a timer that runs at night while I'm snoring. But they be shiny!

Took a Remington 511 to the gunsmith after that to be re-blued. Have the stock almost finished, another half dozen coats of finish and it will look better than new. Have 8 on it now.

Trying this gunsmith out on the old Remington that I got in a trade for an RCBS Lubrisizer.

If he does a good job, he'll get the Winchester model 74. I got that one in trade for a porta-potty ~40 years ago. The prior owner had screwed it up in a moron attempt to refinish it, I got it in pieces, put it back together and have been shooting it ever since.

A year after I got the rifle, he introduces me to his sister, who I married 2 years later. 37 years after that it's time to refinish it properly so I can give it to my daughter. The Winchester 74's original owner was my wife's father.

My daughter gets this rifle that was her grandfather's rifle on her mother's side, she's already inherited a nice walnut stocked 10/22 that was my dad's. Yea, she's pretty spoiled.


Then as a bonus, stopped at a motorcycle shop and found a helmet that I both liked and it fit. Usually a search for a helmet can be a year long ordeal. And ice is coming:drinks:

And the brother-in-law is still a moron. If you handed him the same rifle today, he'd probably booger it up just as badly as he did 40 years ago.

[Hodagtrapper]

:):) ^^^^

Chris

[cwtebay]

Set my 2 teenage boys on around 5000 5.56 and 3500 9mm brass. They sure like to shoot them, time for them to figure out the reusing part!! I gave them an order of events - they have them tumbling now (they have a football game to win tonight), then depriming, swaging the primer pockets, and resizing.
I told them that I would join the venture after 100 are done. Hoping that they've paid attention when helping over the years!!!!

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[243winxb]

Almost KABOOM 44 magnum
Short story-Don't use oil on a powder measure. Screw was hard to put back in last reloading session. Oiled 1 drop of BF CLP. 2 days later, went to load 44 with 296. Powder drops under weight. Found the problem. Use Isopropyl Alcohol 91% to clean. It will remove graphite deposits also.https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?media/almost-kaboom-44-magnum.4153/full

[centershot]

Loaded up a box of ammo for the old Ithaca SxS, an ounce of 5's over 16.0 gr. of 700-X. It runs at 1150 fps, the old girl is choked Skeet 2 on the right and Imp. Modified on the left. It was probably Mod and Full when new but that was 1915, so a few rounds thru the bores since then. She kills squirrels real good with that load!

[Butzbach]

Sorted a “quart” of range brass prior to decamping and cleaning. Mostly 9mm, some nice nickel 9mm +P, handful of nickel .40 S&W, 8 308, 4 .22-250, 2 .556 duds, 20 .45 ACP.

[AlaskaMike]

Loaded up the last of my empty .44 special brass with my RCBS 44-250-K over 8 grains of Power Pistol, about 60 rounds.

[slim1836]

Made a tank out of 223 casings that I picked up at our private range and rebuilt some large rifle primers for when the SHTF.

Slim

[robg]

primed a few 45-70 cases .dropped a primer on the floor ,moved stuff found it and noticed a heavy box wondered whats in it .300 350gn 45-70 boolits i had put somewhere safe.happy day.

[MUSTANG]

Setting up to reload some 300 Win Mag using my home swaged 175 Grain .308 Copper Jacketed bullets. Focus will be on developing loads using WC872 (formerly 20mm Vulcan Powder). Objective is to develop effective loads - as near to factory velocities as possible (maybe including a touch of duplexing if required). Once I am satisfied; then this load data will be used to extrapolate some loads for a friend who has a new 300 Norma Magnum and is interested if we can make WC872 work effectively in that round - his goal is to reload for the 300 Norma Magnum cheaper than the Vihtavuori 570 powder we previously selected - besides the Vihtavuori 570 powder is currently as scarce as hen's teeth.

[David todd]

Yesterday I tried loading some 270 grain Speers into my 9.3X72R cases to see if they woould work, as II am still awaiting the bullet mold for the Bohler/Stohl drilling I picked up ( 16X16/9.3X72R)
To say I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement!
However, I did not have the Chronograph with me, so have no idea at all about the velocity, it is shooting POA at 100 yards however.
Trying too find data for this old round is harder than looking for a needle in a haystack, but hope springs eternal!
David

[3584ELK]

Let's see...borescoped a Rem 40X, loaded some 9.3x57 ammo, tumbled a load of range brass, loaded some 9mm and .40 S&W. Next up- .308 loads for the M1A family.

[Mandoair]

Hay this is a fun thread. Today I was out gold prospecting. But yesterday I needed to load some 10mm to carry prospecting. Just started loading in February on 9mm and 10s last week for my new to me xdm Osp with a red dot. 9.5 gr of aa#5 under berry p fn 180gr with cci 350 lp mag primers. Started at 8.0 gr and have fired over 100rds on up to 9.5 grs. Still need to test fire at that load. But 9.3 was good but no corno so trusting the Speer recipe. Be safe MOA

[simsra]

Trying to find room in my gun safe for a contender and 5 barrels my dad gave me. I'm not sure everything is going to fit.

[Mal Paso]

Deprimed and sized a bunch of 9mm. For some reason, every 20 cases or so, the small pistol primers will stick to the end of the decapping pin and partly reinsert in the brass on the upstroke locking the cartridge into the shell holder. Another cycle clears it. Never had it happen with large primers. The pin has a ball end, maybe another shape would be better?

[Intel6]

Mal Paso, very common thing called primer pull back, PITA when it happens on a progressive press. Most have found grinding/filing the tip of the decapping pin to the shape of a chisel solves the problem.

[Baltimoreed]

Have experienced that issue when loading spp .45acp brass. You have to be conscious that if you operate the handle again you will dump a second powder dump into the case at station 2. Not good. When I get a primer that pulls back I will remove the still primed case, advance the star [550b], put a bullet on the charged case and redo the stubborn case. The second attempt usually knocks the primer out. Be careful out there.

[MOA]

Mal Paso, very common thing called primer pull back, PITA when it happens on a progressive press. Most have found grinding/filing the tip of the decapping pin to the shape of a chisel solves the problem.

Great idea. That's something I'll remember.

[Mal Paso]

Mal Paso, very common thing called primer pull back, PITA when it happens on a progressive press. Most have found grinding/filing the tip of the decapping pin to the shape of a chisel solves the problem.

Thanks! I'll try that.


Have experienced that issue when loading spp .45acp brass. You have to be conscious that if you operate the handle again you will dump a second powder dump into the case at station 2. Not good. When I get a primer that pulls back I will remove the still primed case, advance the star [550b], put a bullet on the charged case and redo the stubborn case. The second attempt usually knocks the primer out. Be careful out there.

This is single stage and if I don't hear the primer drop I can cycle again without penalty. It just slows me down. Thanks!

[Texas by God]

I loaded some deer hunting ammo for my Krag with the C309170F Lee over IMR4350; they hit dead on at a hundred. I also loaded ten .358 Winchester rounds- for a rifle I don't have- yet.[emoji848]

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[Petander]

I tried to find the rest of my 470 NE brass.

Looking for them over and over again, I knew I put them in a safe place some weeks ago after tumbling them.

I also checked every other room everywhere, i have casting / reloading stuff a little bit all over the house.

I loaded a bunch, couldn"t sleep , where is that brass,? It was 4 AM and when I sort of stopped looking but still went back to the reloading room, I noticed this black cardboard box on the table just behind my chair, three feet from my main press. A black box? Yes,the brass was in that black cardboard box that I got from my friend but forgot.

I had been unconsciously looking for a clear or white plastic box that I usually store tumbled brass in. That black box had been sitting in the middle of the room, visible,during all my half a dozen searches during many hours.

That brass,dies,some ammo and misc tools originally came in a wooden box. Stuff got separated and the black box had just disappeared from my memory. Now thinking, I never store anything in black boxes, bullets, brass whatever. Never.

Brain can play funny tricks on us. Or is it that I'm 58?

[44Blam]

I'm new to 45 ACP loading - got my first 1911 about 2 months ago... So I've loaded and shot about 1200 rounds and today I topped off my supply for this weeks comps. Today was 100 rounds which gives me about 270. I need 72 tomorrow and 90 on Saturday. So, Friday I should load another 100 just to be ahead of the curve...
Fortunately, this month's 2nd Saturday match is a high power/big bore match, so it'll be 44 mag. The third Saturday, however, is gonna need more 45 acp.

[Mandoair]

Started a new jug of Hp38 for 10mm with my only lp primers CCi 350s mags. Have been using them for a while with Aa#5 till that ran out. Loaded 4, 5 rd batches today will test them tomorrow. Pushing berry P 180 gr FP. With 5.1 .3 .5 & .7 gr. Just started loading in March and have had to scrounge everything of course. Been fun started with 9mm and have gone through most of a 1000 berry 24gr with AA#2 that I borrowed from a guy who came over to buy an old hospital bed I advised. Getting ready to do more 9mm’s with sr primers and AA#2 need about 300 for a first aid trauma and tactical hand gun course late November.

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[lightman]

Just went in there to sit and decided that I needed to update my gun list. Then I decided to break my old Rockchucker down for a cleaning and oiling. Then I hauled some trash out.

[Jal5]

Picked up some Hornady FTX for 45-70 reloading. I have plenty of brass and some primers and powder to work up loads. Been almost a year since I did any reloading. Have 500 9 mm to reload too.


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[armoredman]

A buddy dropped off a plastic tote full of very dirty range brass, "Here ya go", so tumbling .22, .308 Win and 9mm by the tumbler load.

[chsparkman]

Loaded 300 rounds of 44 mag using Accurate 43-240AG, sized .432, 10 grains of Universal, for my Henry lever rifle. Very accurate, fun load.

[Oyeboten]

Just finished 50 each of These two - ( Old Lyman "All American" Press, so, 50 of anything feels like quite an accomplishment! )

Intended for .45 ACP Revolver, 141 Grain Ball, and, 165 Grain Wadcutter...7 Grains of 'Unique' each.

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A kind member here mentioned to me, that 'Unique' was not the best choice for these, since they are so Light, so "Face Palm", and, next "Fifty" of each, will be "Red Dot" ( but not 7 Grains, Lol, more like 5...)

[Mandoair]

Fired my test rounds today from yesterday‘s loading. Testing small rifle primers in 10 mm xdm 4.5” with 5.3 grains Of HP 38 under 180 grain Barry plated flat nose bullets. Only five rounds of those they seem to work fine had a good group one round went somewhere unknown. The other test HP 38 and CCI 350 magnum primers those worked well too. And a 5.1 grain had the best group. All rounds accounted for.

[inspector_17]

Sorted my 308 brass. Found out I didn't have as much mil brass as I thought I had, 43 pcs, but it turns out it is all Match brass(LC and FC). Don't know when or where I managed to pick this up. Going thru some other brass found 2 BHA and 1 Kinetic match brass and 1 Lapua (not match). Amazing what you find sometimes. LOL Now to size and load.

[kmw1954]

Prepping 223 brass. 400+ pcs., annealed, sized, trimmed, uniformed primer pockets, measured necks and sorted. Still have 100 pcs, waiting to be trimmed. Next will be reloading. Then have another 500 pcs to start on.

Was completely out of processed brass and need to get ready for the winter rifle league.

[44Blam]

Loaded 300 rounds of 44 mag using Accurate 43-240AG, sized .432, 10 grains of Universal, for my Henry lever rifle. Very accurate, fun load.

I love that boolit... Gonna load some of those guys in the next couple days.

[44Blam]

Did the case prep on 200 44 mag cases. I need at least 50 mid range velocity cartridges for the match this weekend. Thinking of making 100 and 100 full tilt rounds...

[Mandoair]

I read in a forum about citric acid and loving it. Been shining up range brass decapping flairing and then tumbling them with ss media citric acid and having clean inside outside and pockets brass to load. Great fun. Loaded about 300 rds of 9mil for a training session on Friday. Now I’m prepping some 10mm to use too. I’m liking my new xdm Osp and the red dot the more I shoot it. Load down for town and up for the woods. So many new loads so little time. Now to start boolit pouring.

[pcmacd]

Well, I managed to cast around 160 Lee 38 acp bullets with the Lee TL-356-95-RF 90672. Geeze that is slow going with a ten pound pot. It took a very long time for three batches of 10# to melt.

I sold my Master Caster before I left Commiefornia. Am trying to decide betwixt a Magma Engineering "Cast Master" vs. "Master Pot."

The Cast Master is $50 cheaper, holds 90# of molten lead and has no mold guides, holds 2x+ the amount of lead. 240v is not a problem in my shop. If I go with that, I plan to mount it on a big piece of oak or 1/4" aluminum plate, and make my own mold guides which is pretty easy to do.

I've read not so nice things about the mold guides for the Master Pot. So why spend $50 more for something you need to modify to suit your needs, that holds less than half the lead of the Cast Master?

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

pcmacd

[44Blam]

Made 100 mid-range 44 mag cartridges. This load is Unique and is about 1100 fps. They are warm enough that it feels like you are shooting a real gun, but not so hot that they are obnoxious.

[MOA]

Well, I managed to cast around 120 Lee 38 spl bullets with the Lee TL-356-95-RF 90672. Geeze that is slow going with a ten pound pot. It took a very long time.

I sold my Master Caster before I left Commiefornia. Am trying to decide betwixt a Magma Engineering "Cast Master" vs. "Master Pot."

The Cast Master is $50 cheaper, holds 90# of molten lead and has no mold guides, holds 2x+ the amount of lead. 240v is not a problem in my shop. If I go with that, I plan to mount it on a big piece of oak or 1/4" aluminum plate, and make my own mold guides which is pretty easy to do.

I've read not so nice things about the mold guides for the Master Pot. So why spend $50 more for something you need to modify to suit your needs, that holds less than half the lead of the Cast Master?

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

pcmacd

Since you already have a shop with 220 and your handy with making mold guides I'd opt for the cast master. I've had a master caster since 2012 and bought the base for the master pot about 3 or 4 years ago because I still hand cast a number of my large bore calibers. But, if I had not already owned a casting pot and was a hand caster I would go for the cast master.

[armoredman]

I spoke to a buddy of mine, mentioning a can of powder I had was good for .308 and since I no longer have my 7.62x39mm rifles, my LRP were just sitting around. I don't have a .308, you see. He bought me a set of Hornaday dies, some brass, and some bullets, and I mixed up a few loads for him to try. He found one that cloverleafed at 100 yards out of his rifle, so I'll be loading up about 100 of those for him tomorrow. Good dude. Now if I get my wn .308, I'm all set.

[Mandoair]

Prepped all my 10mm brass and loaded about 300 rounds with my two stage loading bench. Two rockchuckers. Berry plated 180 gr FP over 5.1 gr of HP 38 with cci 350 LP Mag primers. Light loads but they do shoot good in my XDm.

[Walks]

Loaded up 100rds of .44Mag Cowboy ammo for My Friend that still shoots it occasionally. Unfortunately I forgot to size the N.O.E. #TL432-247-RF that I'd already PC'd. So Had to stop and size 100 before I could finish loading.
Guess I forgot to mark that box of bullets not sized. Sized another 100 cases for later too.

[44Blam]

Loaded up 100rds of .44Mag Cowboy ammo for My Friend that still shoots it occasionally. Unfortunately I forgot to size the N.O.E. #TL432-247-RF that I'd already PC'd. So Had to stop and size 100 before I could finish loading.
Guess I forgot to mark that box of bullets not sized. Sized another 100 cases for later too.

I have a system. I cast boolits and put them in a ziplock. I write the date cast. Then, I take that bag to the garage and PC the boolits and write that date on the bag. Then I size and write that date on the bag. I know exactly where in the process my boolits are by what is written on the bag... :D

[kevin c]

I have a system. I cast boolits and put them in a ziplock. I write the date cast. Then, I take that bag to the garage and PC the boolits and write that date on the bag. Then I size and write that date on the bag. I know exactly where in the process my boolits are by what is written on the bag... :D
I do the same. Casting date on slips of paper on boxes of boolits, replaced by the date the second coat of HiTek gets baked. Boolit weight and sized diameter go on the last slip as well.

[pmer]

Loaded some 338-06 with Horn. 200 grain spire points and imr 4064 for deer hunting. Son got his first deer with my custom mauser.

[The Dar]

Not in the reloading shop, but right outside the front door. I fired up the turkey burner and cast iron pot to make ingots. Final tally 121# of range scrap, 60# of COWW, and 40# of solder I scored from a local scrap yard a couple weeks ago for $1.25/lb.

[Shanghai Jack]

Sorting a MAJOR score of old compression formed AA shotgun hulls - 9 contractor trash bags full plus a couple of boxes. Estimating 40,000 hulls. Went shopping looking for old reloading equipment - guy had stuff for sale that I already had but mentioned as I was leaving that he had "some" hulls in the garage attic. Got everything he had for less than 3 cents a hull.

[PhatForrest]

Today was my first time using an iron mold. It was an old 2 cavity Lyman 358432. Once it heated up it worked fantastic!

Got it for free from a friend who wanted it to go to a good home. I took it home, scrubbed all the rust off, and got it back to working order. I say this about the 358432 but he gave me 3 more I had to clean up as well.

I cast up about about 3/4 of a coffee can. 6 and 8 cavity molds have spoiled me, that's for sure. Going to powder coat some and put some through the Star.

[Hossfly]

I had 3 5gallon buckets of wheel wights all local to me. After sorting and melting the good clip ons,made 156# of ingots, still have 1 full bucket so stick ons to process. Will sell the zinc and steel weights to scrap yard.

[Three44s]

Same old same old, processing .223 cases.

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[centershot]

I loaded up a couple hundred or three of 12 ga. 12 pellet #1 Buckshot loads yesterday. In doing so I consumed every last pellet that I had in inventory. :cry: Soooo, today it was time to start making more. Bad timing really, deer season opens Saturday, Ill never get the shot cast up until well into next year. Oh well.......

[kfd518]

Loaded up 300 9mm rounds. Trying to get my loaded stash back into shape but dragging down my component stash in the mean time.

[cwtebay]

Loaded 525 - 44 Magnum. Mostly cast 235gr, but pretty much exhausted my supply of 240gr jacketed bullets that my SBH's seem to like also.
I purchased some Norma brass from a member here - I have to say that it is the highest quality brass I have ever used for a pistol caliber.

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[Jal5]

Loaded some 45-70 for hunting


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[44Blam]

Today I loaded up a whole mess of birdshot for a shotgun comp this weekend. I have no idea how many but I have 2 grocery bags full of shells and I went through about 20 lb of shot...

[David2011]

Today, yesterday and the two days previous to that, I've been laying a vinyl floor in what will become my reloading room. It was built with a 1" OSB floor that I tried to paint but it didn't make me happy. I found 400 sq. ft. of used "luxury" vinyl flooring on a social media site for $200. I also bought seriously upgraded kneepads after the first two days which really sped up the work and reduced the agony. I hope to finish in one more session. The ceiling comes to the floor because that's the only way I could squeeze a reloading room in above the new workshop. I accept no responsibility for the sheetrock work. I paid good money for that disaster.

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The first few courses had to be assembled and then slid back where there was no access to work. That was "fun"!

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Flooring slid back and a little more progress made.

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Last night, much more progress made with better knee pads. One of my reloading benches from the last house was assembled so I could have a workbench. Later today, everything that's on the left on painted OSB will be moved over to the floored side and I should be able to finish fairly quickly for an old guy. Someone offered to install the floor for me for only $500 but I'm satisfied that it's plenty good for my purposes and I still have the $500 less good kneepads.

[cwtebay]

Finished up with the last 50-44 Magnum. Used 320gr cast for that.
Also realized that tumbling 25 and 30 Remington cases together is a bit of a mistake, seperating them meant reading each headstamp. Lots of fun!!

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[brass410]

got myself all fired up, moving stuff around in the shop (lathe welder spot welder alignment equip blah blah blah) so I can get to the nook in the corner where all my casting reloading stuff is, gonna do a major sort thru got lotsa goodies to spread around. George was here more on that later what can I say "its George"

[Texas by God]

For feral hog management west of the Brazos I loaded 50 rounds of 22-250 with H414 and Hornady 55gr btsp sparked with vintage Remington 9-1/2M primers.

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[David2011]

Finished laying the vinyl floor in my new reloading room! That’s a milestone moment. The reloading room was decommissioned at my last house over two years ago.

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[44Blam]

Turns out a "whole mess" of birdshot is 214 shells... I did that with a Lee loader in about an hour and a half...

[15meter]

Sized a batch of boolits for both the 50-70 and 458's for either 458 Win Mag or 450 N.E..

Loaded 100 50-70's, setup the press and powder measure for the 458. Heat cycled the new 50-70 mold so it's ready to cast.

Even cleaned up a part(small) of the bench.

Took the old oven and other scrap to the scrap yard. $23 in beer money:drinks:

Swapped tall tales with the old guys at gun club #2 for several hours.

And got both the flu and the first shingles shot.

All in all, a productive day.

[cwtebay]

Prepped 250 - 44 WCF. Unfortunately, discovered that I only had 50 200gr bullets cast for the chore. Guess what I'm doing tomorrow?

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[44Blam]

Cast and powder coated about 400 NOE 454-237 RN-AC boolits. This mold rocks.

[44Blam]

Sized those 400 boolits and then loaded 202 45s...

[Chaparral66]

Melted down about 150 pounds of 6% antimony. Made a nice stash of about 200 ingots (boolits in pupa form).

[Rapidrob]

Loaded up 50 rounds of 7.62x51 NATO for this months Santa Shoot. Cast-up a couple hundred 00-buckshot.
Sized some .312 cast bullets to .298 for a muzzle loading pistol I made in 1965.

[renoce]

sized some .452 boolits, sized some 44 spl. brass

[243winxb]

WRA 69 Brass got loaded again. Son dug out old hunting licenses.

[CaffeinatedChimp]

Loaded up a couple hundred rounds of 9MM 135 GR TC training ammo

Still reading, researching and acquiring equipment to get into casting my own boolits some day soon.

[Texas by God]

The time has arrived to put a scope on my H&R Topper 44WCF. Drilled and tapped it for a #62 Weaver base. A simple Bushnell 4x Sportview will suffice, I think.
And trying to round up .40 S&W ammo makings....

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[MOA]

Picked up a nice set of Krag dies from HawkeyeEarl. Very smooth transaction. Filled my scrub tub with hot water an dawn. Broke them all down and used my tube brushes to make them shine. Then into the oven at 200° for 40 minutes to thoroughly dry, then lightly oiled an now their ready to go.

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[Cosmic_Charlie]

I looked at it and decided for the hundredth time I needed to do some straightening up.

[Cast_outlaw]

Cast up about 10lb of lee TL356-124-2R mold is ancient and loose but still cast good boolits right from my first pour (wired I know) also did some tidying up in the room
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[CaffeinatedChimp]

Sorting the range buckets by hand - need to find a way to speed it up

[robg]

prepped 50 45-70 cases ,sized, trimmed ,and expanded.found a 100 350gn boolits i had forgotten about.

[TNsailorman]

Started what will be a long winter project of rebuilding my 57 year old reloading bench. I am going to tear it apart and completely rebuild it. james

[Jal5]

Prepped about 50 cases for 45-70. Need to finish those today and prep the bench for load work up on 9mm boolits I purchased from a guy here last year.


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[John Guedry]

Loaded 50 light loaded .38 special rounds. My wife has arthritis in her hands so normal loads HURT.

[kevin c]

I looked at it and decided for the hundredth time I needed to do some straightening up.
Yeah, me too. Looked for my reloading bench today, couldn’t find it.



Sorting the range buckets by hand - need to find a way to speed it up
Brass or boolits recovered from the range? There are sorters that work fairly well and aren’t too pricey for the first. Hand sorting hardcast from jacketed is the only option I know for the second.

[Grayone]

Cast 461 lee 358-95FP for .380 and powder coated and sized to .357 with lee push through sizer. Also loaded 100 .380.

[cwtebay]

Working on some loads for the 44 Shotgun. Looking forward to eliminating some pigeons from the feedlot in the morning!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211202/c933ffc2bb4fdfd77c6d8814b11ff24a.jpg

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[Cast_outlaw]

Scored this today at my L.G.S today
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Got it for $30 CND $23.40us
Don’t know much about it, but the price was right so I grabbed it. it’s the third single stage I got, so going to place it between my lee classic cast and, RCBS rock chucker. Should be a nice addition

[kevin c]

Working on some loads for the 44 Shotgun. Looking forward to eliminating some pigeons from the feedlot in the morning!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211202/c933ffc2bb4fdfd77c6d8814b11ff24a.jpg

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I don’t know shotguns or shot shells, especially handloaded versions for revolvers. What am I seeing inside the cases?

[cwtebay]

I don’t know shotguns or shot shells, especially handloaded versions for revolvers. What am I seeing inside the cases?They're loads for a Steven's chambered in 44 Shot. The top of the cases show clear glue over an overshot card (#12 and #7 shot mixed). Made from Starline 5 in 1 brass.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211203/c4ba66f86d7a2752800921242ff76f52.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211203/aebba38cdd187598b79e19751cb31086.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211203/1cff3654baddc630ebc6771dc5633547.jpg

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[Texas by God]

Loading a hundred or so .40 S&W with Bullseye and 180gr TCPC to feed the new Shield.

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[gnappi]

My load benches have always been a work in progress. From adding shelf / storage space, to jockeying the stuff on them to max out usability. I guess loading too many calibers doesn't help much :-)

The last month I've been casting and PC'ing for and loading .40's, 10's, .357 Sig, .38 Super, and 9x25's, and I am adding some high up storage for less used stuff.

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[rmark]

loaded about 30 45-70 shells, lubed about 60 or so Lee 45-405hb bullets.

[358429]

Loaded 50 357 magnums with h110 and miha hollowpoints. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211205/2b031273ecc0c595079fb8972be8b985.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211205/c2ee78cbee25f75bdf02388a928278e4.jpg

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[cwtebay]

After the boys decided to "unload" all of my prior loads - I loaded 125 - 44 Shot shells. Using 5gr of powder and a mixture of #7 1/2 and #12 shot. Tried a different glue on the overshot card and it appears to be a superior choice (ease of application, small volume, quick drying).
Here's to another round of pigeon hunting with the Steven's!

As an aside, I marked many of these Starline 5 in 1 cases on initial loading. I am currently on the 4th loading of that brass with no signs of failure. They do "bell" the body of the case to fit the chamber from fire forming, but this is easily overcome with my 44 WCF resizing die - so far.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211206/549ecd19a8a18ec77d2bd0d153cf4992.jpg

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[thraxx]

What are you using for the glue?

[Mal Paso]

Belled and primed a few hundred 9X19. Had an awful time with my bench mount APS primer. Took everything apart and could not find a cause. I actually paid for new small primer strips, that must be the problem. I had no problem with the free large primer strips. Murphy, is this one of yours?

[MOA]

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Looking good. You picked a great color too.
These are my blue Krag's.

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[Baltimoreed]

Been using a lee deluxe quick trimmer to cut .45 Schofield brass down to .45 cowboy special brass. A very clever tool, works well. I am using a .455 trim die, a couple of washers and a hacksaw to get closer to the correct length before trimming them. I want to use them in my RNWMP Colt NS that has been altered to 45acp. Weird the way it was done as a 1917 .45acp ejector star was fitted to the cylinder which moved the cylinder forward and then the front of the cylinder was trimmed a hair.

[MOA]

After the boys decided to "unload" all of my prior loads - I loaded 125 - 44 Shot shells. Using 5gr of powder and a mixture of #7 1/2 and #12 shot. Tried a different glue on the overshot card and it appears to be a superior choice (ease of application, small volume, quick drying).
Here's to another round of pigeon hunting with the Steven's!

As an aside, I marked many of these Starline 5 in 1 cases on initial loading. I am currently on the 4th loading of that brass with no signs of failure. They do "bell" the body of the case to fit the chamber from fire forming, but this is easily overcome with my 44 WCF resizing die - so far.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211206/549ecd19a8a18ec77d2bd0d153cf4992.jpg

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Your pigeon load looks like a perfect candidate for using water glass as a glue.

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[cwtebay]

I actually used water glass the entire time that I have loaded this ammunition. The issue has been seepage into the shot column since changing from cork to fibre wads. Agree - waterglass is my all time favourite!

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[MOA]

I actually used water glass the entire time that I have loaded this ammunition. The issue has been seepage into the shot column since changing from cork to fibre wads. Agree - waterglass is my all time favourite!

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Dip your fiber wads that you place directly over the shot in melted pariffin. I buy Gulf brand pariffin from Wally. Then I dip a bunch of fiber wads I've cut into it using a sewing needle poked into the fiber was. That way you have a waxed fiber was over shot and then a thin cardboard wad on top of that with water glass sealing it in place.

[cwtebay]

Dip your fiber wads that you place directly over the shot in melted pariffin. I buy Gulf brand pariffin from Wally. Then I dip a bunch of fiber wads I've cut into it using a sewing needle poked into the fiber was. That way you have a waxed fiber was over shot and then a thin cardboard wad on top of that with water glass sealing it in place.You're right! And I did try that (the fiber wad became a projectile with the small shot embedded into it) Do you also reload these?

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[MOA]

I use to load one of my uncle's smooth bore back in the seventies but I can't remember what caliber it was. He was a reloader since the forties. I learned some of the basics from him though I never really got into reloading until the eighties. He was always having a problem with red squirrels. Don't remember having issues with shot sticking into wad but likely it was. Possibly you could go to a thicker OS card so the water glass does not soak through to the shot.

[Cast_outlaw]

Loaded up 400 rounds of 9mm Luger as it snow yesterday and I stayed home because 4” of snow here shuts things down and I know it’s not much but we live on the very tempter coast of Canada we do get snow but not much for not long so when it happens we take snow days 292777

[44Blam]

Putting everything into boxes... Moving from Comiefornia to Indiana...

[sigep1764]

Putting everything into boxes... Moving from Comiefornia to Indiana...

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Should be a good move.

[obssd1958]

Putting everything into boxes... Moving from Comiefornia to Indiana...

Good luck and Godspeed!!

[Mal Paso]

Decapped 200 44 Mag and loaded 300 9X19. Man them primers are tiny. Seemed to take forever to flip them with my fat fingers. Lost 5 primers to crimps I didn't catch but I was warm and out of the rain.

[DAVIDMAGNUM]

Resized 600 44-40 Starline cases. A long boring process, but if I want to shoot Lever Action Silhouette again next year it must be done. Glad that I had music and ibuprofen.

[Chaparral66]

gnappi, finally someone beat me at a well stocked (wife calls it messy) loading bench. And I bet you know exactly where everything is.

[Rapier]

Just finished up a 30-06 re-barrel to 270 Win for a buddy’s Christmas gift for his son. Did a rust blue, so while I was waiting on the “pass” rust time to be done, reloaded a couple boxes of 270 ammo for the young man to start off with.

[cwtebay]

Loaded 100 - Winchester Self Loading with 200 grain cast for a shoot my son wants to attend next week.

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[Steve E]

Loaded up some 45 Colt and 357 Maxi as well as assembled two bolt carrier groups for two upcoming AR builds.

Steve........

[cwtebay]

Loaded 50 each 32 WSL and 35 WSL as well as a new bullet for 6mm Lee Navy. Looking forward to trying out these loads this weekend!

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[trails4u]

Stared longingly once again at a really nice Burnside Carbine recently bestowed upon me by a very dear friend...... And thought, someday, when my 'list' is done around the house, I'll shoot you my friend... (for clarification, 'my friend' being the carbine, not my dear friend from whom I got it.) :)

[whisler]

Thanks for the clarification, you had me worried there for a minute:lol:

[Cosmic_Charlie]

I actually started cleaning up my bench. Not sure why I let it go for so long because a messy bench can invite serious problems. But I will have to keep at it for a few more hours to get it ship shape.

[cwtebay]

Rounded out my WSL loading with another 50 - 35 WSL and 100 - 351 WSL. Now to get the '05's, '07, and '10's cleaned up for duty!
I will admit that I don't have proper 35 WSL dies, so make do with a Lee Loader in 357 Magnum that is purpose dialed for the purpose. It saves me from changing settings on my RCBS 38 Special dies.

[Meatpuppet]

Swaged up some 185gr .357 Max projectiles and loaded up 150 rounds of Maxi.

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[Cast_outlaw]

Added this to my room it’s has published loads for a 158gr in 9mm Luger that’s why I bought it
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[MOA]

Swaged up some 185gr .357 Max projectiles and loaded up 150 rounds of Maxi.

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Sweet indeed.

[cwtebay]

Swaged up some 185gr .357 Max projectiles and loaded up 150 rounds of Maxi.

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[15meter]

I can’t figure out what I m looking at here❓❓. Thanks

I'm assuming you're referencing the prior post, that is the Lyman #44 loading manual. It contains a number of loads for obsolete (almost) calibers.

It's a great reference to own.

[Chaparral66]

I ran small batches of 124 9mm, 200 .45 and .44 ball. Hi-Tech coated the .44 ball.

[Texas by God]

Thanks no the round’s loaded looking like 38sp. No the funny shaped pointie things with the spent primers.The red text explains it. He swaged 9mm brass and lead cores into cool brass jacketed bullets of .358" diameter. Very cool work, indeed.

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[Mandoair]

About 30 of these. 293088

[Mandoair]

And 25 of these. Comparing 5 different old primer batches.
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All the primers worked happy days. Saw no difference in them but have yet to inspect the targets and brass. No chrono till after Christmas.

[Texas by God]

I gutted my last 5 Rio 12 gauge #12 shot shells and used the shot to load .41 mag shotloads. I still had primed/ charged/ wadded brass when the #12 ran out- so I gutted a few Monarch .410 #9s to finish up. On those, I wrote the number 9 on the brass with permanent sharpie.
Now I just need to be in a pit with a bunch of snakes, yeehaw!

[BigAlofPa.]

My Speer bullets in .311 150 grain came in. I loaded a 100 of the between the Mosin and the Argentine mauser today. Range trip in the next day or 2.

[Mandoair]

So they are now projectiles ‼️❓. Yes very amazing workmanship. Never heard of such a thing.

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[358429]

Made somehttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211217/ff4c4bc85f5e8873a0acfa21be1bd66f.jpg ugly blue bullets.

Ladle cast from a 2/3 full steel saucepan of improvised lyman 2 over the turkey fryer, old mold still works!

I sized them 311 using my lee hand press.

[jonp]

Raining out so I was poking around the closet and found 2lbs of Universal hiding behind some Trailboss so loaded up some 125gr HP Berrys over 4.5 gr Universal in some 38sp brass for target.

[jonp]

Added this to my room it’s has published loads for a 158gr in 9mm Luger that’s why I bought it
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I found a Blue Dot load for 38sp in an old manual. Some interesting stuff in those

[Mal Paso]

I set up the bench primer to reseat all the CCI SPP I seated by hand with the RCBS hand primer. I had 5 FTF out of 80 rounds of 9mm when I was over in AZ. Ran them back through the gun and all 5 fired the second time. This is in a striker fired glock. I just don't have the touch (or grip) to seat them by hand I guess. The bench primer should "set them straight". It's taking out some of the primer's dome and setting them a couple thousandths below. Thought FTF was a wheel gun problem. LOL

[BrianL]

Fire formed 50 30-30's into 7-30 Waters for the Contender.293327293328293329

[taco650]

Fire formed 50 30-30's into 7-30 Waters for the Contender.293327293328293329

Did you have any split during fire forming?

[BrianL]

Did you have any split during fire forming?

None this time.I was a little surprised as I had not annealed them. This was all Federal brass, once fired. Load was checkless soupcans over 7.8 grs Universal

[Texas by God]

I pulled down 10 .450 Marlins and reused the primers and 4198 to load some 30-30s- a transplant operation.....

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[cwtebay]

I got "paid" for a waaay overdue bill with a box of mystery reloads that weighs around 50#. Started the boys sorting by caliber before I left for work. Hoping to start breaking them down for components this week.

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[Baltimoreed]

Building 12 ga cas loads as I was down to my last few boxes. Trying a jug of something different: Alliant Extra Lite. Using a #408 powder bushing-3/4 oz shot bushing with a turn of blue painters tape in it to reduce the id- #9 shot and a CB 0125 pink wad. I always add a 5/8 dia overshot card punched from primer sleeve boxes. Also do a plunk test as I make them as I have a Marlin bbl hanging under the loader. Do all this on an old blue Bair/Pacific press. Built 75 this morning. They feel about the same as my Clays or Clay Dot load.

Got those done now I’m doing 2 inch 12 ga shells. 25 done, 50 to go.

[Texas by God]

I cast with two alternating two cavity moulds. My oldest and newest Lees; 358 150grSWC and 401 175gr TCTL. The new one works fine, I hope it lasts like the oldest one has.
I shaked and baked them burnt orange.

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[lightman]

Not really in the loading room but loading related!
The oldest Grandson and I moved 750-800 pounds of lead ingots from one side of the shop to the other. They had been sitting out in the floor since our last smelting session and needing to be stamped and moved to the corner with the rest of the stash. So we stamped WW on the wheelweights and PB on the soft lead and got it moved.

[Adk Mike]

I loaded 50 rounds of 32-20 with a Lyman 311-008. Now with hunting season behind me it’s time to get back to some fun shooting.

[Mandoair]

I have been planning and studying and getting ready to cast my first boolit. Seem like a good place to start was to slug my barrels of intended use. So using the idea I found somewhere of pouring soft lead sinkers into spent brass and using that plug for slugging the barrel. Seems to work really good learned a few things along the way, like they come out pretty close to the size of the boar so I squeezed him in the vise just a tiny bit to get them up about 10,000s over. Now that I have the size of the three pistols I intend to use for lead someday I’m thinking that I need to go at least one probably 2000s over. My 10 mm being .401 and.4015 I’m thinking I need to go to .402 and.403 and wondering how I’m gonna find a mold and size to that diameter. If you have suggestions please pm or link me to a thread thanks.

[Tazman1602]

Got some nice 400 & 500 grain 45-70’s last night..

Art
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[robg]

loaded up 150 x 357 mag nice to relax now Christmas is over and my wife has calmed down .

[Cast_outlaw]

Loaded another 30, making 80 rounds total of 303british, with the lee 90gr tumble lube 314 truncated cone, a WLR primer, 5gr Vectan AS. They run 1365fps and, real accurate out of my old enfield rifle.

[MOA]

Ordered some once fired brass a couple weeks ago an unfortunately lots had crimped primers. I've always stayed sway from crimped primers in the past but with everything so hard to find today that sometimes you have to go with the flow. Anyways time to buy a primer pocket swager. Trip down to Sportsman's fixed me up with a new RCBS primer pocket swager. Considering it was my first try everything went fine, meaning I didn't break anything. I swaged 100 pcs of 7.62x39 and 200 pcs of
223/5.56. Then I popped all the primers plus another 100 pcs of 9mm. Tomorrow all go into the S/S pin tumbler. Then they'll be sized, trimmed and deburred an ready to be reloaded.

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[cwtebay]

On a 303 Brit kick. Trying to develop a load for a sporterized and full stock Lee Enfield and 2 - 1895 Winchesters.
"One to rule them all" us my goal! So far round nose Woodleigh is my answer..... kinda spendy!!! Hoping to find a cast to perform as well!

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[Jack Stanley]

Was prepping some 30 Badger brass for loading .

Jack

[murf205]

I gave up! I tried to clean some 30-30 brass with citric acid and then tumbling with dry media. Finally ordered a FART to go with the pins I already had. C'mon Midway. After yrs of shooting nasty looking ammo, I enjoy the super clean look of wet tumbled brass. I guess I am sort of like a raccoon, if it shines, I like it. Must be why the black wheels on new cars and trucks turns me off!

[15meter]

Put two more coats of finish on both Winchester Model 67 and a Model 74 stock. Got 10 on now, maybe done in another half dozen.

Polished a small batch of 280 Ross brass, annealed a different batch of 280 Ross brass.

Primed 40 pieces of 300 H&H.

Continued the epic journey of the 1968 Savage 243 I picked up last month. I'm guessing that the original owner(s) had never heard of copper fouling. Day #4 of blue patches coming out. And even with all that, for a whippy light barrel rifle with stiff trigger, it turned in ~1-1/8" group on Sunday. Get the barrel clean and a load worked up, I may have a shooter here. Bought the thing for $250 bucks just to get the action. I wasn't even going to shoot it. Just pull the barrel, stock and scope off and pedal that stuff, then buy new stuff. Someone had cut the stock down dramatically. Like rip you eye out on the scope kind of cut down if you are over 4'8" tall.

Bought a $24 semi-inlet stock from Numrich. Turns out it was left over factory stock NICE walnut. Like the nicest Savage stock I have seen in my life. Fitted and finished the stock put a real scope on it and gave it a try. Glad I did.

The group was mostly vertical, almost no horizontal. Should be able to tune a load to reduce the vertical.

[cwtebay]

Deconstructed around 750 rounds of 40 S&W rounds. They were part of a deal for a Springfield 40 and a Hi Point carbine deal. All were unknown handloads. My sons pointed out that powder charges seemed VERY inconsistent so we weighed a few dozen. +/- 25% powder charge discrepancy by weight.
Looking forward to getting the dies we ordered today to start loading and shooting these critters!

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[Johnny S]

Christmas present ..... new 45-70 mold from Accurate (thanks Tom) .... 46-405M ..... https://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=46-405M

Anxious now to get her up and running ....

[Iwsbull]

Loaded a Hs6 and H110 loads for the 500 Linebaugh with 460 and 490 grain bullets then went to the range and unloaded them. 293875
After all it is New Year’s Eve and fireworks.

[MOA]

Loaded a Hs6 and H110 loads for the 500 Linebaugh with 460 and 490 grain bullets then went to the range and unloaded them. 293875
After all it is New Year’s Eve and fireworks.

It's always good to have extra lighting when shooting at the range.:guntootsmiley:

[openbook]

Measuring and cutting plywood for my Christmas break reloading bench project. Lots of cuts to make. Coincidentally, the plans I'm using are for the same bench featured in this reloading room writeup, which has a nice picture of the bench: https://www.lee-loader.com/viewtopic.php?t=24. Plans have been sitting on the shelf for a few months waiting for me.

[lightman]

I'm still sorting and tumbling range brass. Will be for another week probably.

[Tar Heel]

Loaded up some basic 38 Special with the Lyman RNL cast bullets atop 3.7gr of HP-38. It sure is fun to load up these classic bullets without all the worries of specialty ammo or wildcat ammo or other minutia. Just clean em, resize em, prime em, charge em, and seat/crimp em. What a treat.

Shot the Uberti Richards/Mason Colt 1851 Conversion today so needed to load up more 38 Special.

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[kfd518]

Deprimed and swaged and sized 397 LC 5.56, trimmed 200 of them last nite and another 277 today.
Liking my new Lyman case trim express.

[robg]

helped a mate load up some 6.5 creedmoor .nice way to start the new year.

[guzma393]

Resized, decapped, and tumbled 9mm this past weekend

[Chaparral66]

Well, last night I Hi-Teck coated about 4 pounds each of .45 TL 200 SWC and 9mm TL 124 RN. Passed them all through the sizer, now waiting for a reason to load them (I already have plenty loaded on hand)

[Texas by God]

I spent a little time when I could over a few days to load 120 rounds of 9mm Luger using 4 grs of AA#2 and 135 gr MP RN. Pleasant to shoot and functions the Hi-point perfectly.

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[MOA]

Just finished getting 2,400 pieces of 38 Spcl. ready for the tumbler tomorrow.

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[cwtebay]

Hopefully going to spend some time with the cast bullets (and mould) to reload 40 S&W in the primed brass my sons made. I really need the therapy after this day.

Aside:. Mould from a member, loads from a member, sizing dies arrived:
COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED from a member.
This pay it forward thing has basically determined my sanity so far this year!!!!

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[gnappi]

Continuing my garage cleanup after 12 years of demon sloth. I found two coffee cans of lead .45 bullets with wax lube on them, AND a box of 1000 .40 cal lubed bullets. I "think" my dad must have bought them before he passed away a few years ago.

On one hand I want to use them up, smoke filled lungs and all... OTOH, I want to strip off the lube and PC them. Then there's the possibility of selling them.

I also received an old Hornady Pro-jector today, set it up and despite it not having all of the priming bits and bobs, it's a tank and makes pre primed 9x25 ammo FAST and forms cases PDQ also. Too bad Hornady doesn't have parts. But that's what you get for not buying Dillon. Years ago I setup a frustrated friends Pro-jector machine and he ran it with one caliber for many years. I loved using it but back then my 4 station Dillon 450 and 550's served my needs.

Who'd have thought I'd be making 9x25 and would need that fifth station? I'd have bought one back then when parts were available :-)

[kevin c]

Mixed up a quart of HiTek. I gotta lot of boolits to coat. I make it half strength to get a prolonged shake with better coverage. Should be able to do about 15K. Black Cherry and Kryptonite Green. Maybe I’ll try mixing colors for some boolits; got a couple more colors to play with.

[popper]

TBG - I prefer 4 gr. WST under a 135gr in my pocket 9mms, less 'flip' for the guns with no real 'handle'.

[Texas by God]

TBG - I prefer 4 gr. WST under a 135gr in my pocket 9mms, less 'flip' for the guns with no real 'handle'.
Thanks, Popper. Powder is slowly coming back, I’ll look for that. I’m feeding two Shield 9s as well so that’s a good tip.
Times being what they are, I’m going to have to work up some .38 Special and .40 S&W loads with magnum small pistol and perhaps small rifle primers. Just a few test rounds to see what’s what.

[MOA]

Just stainless steel pin tumbling more 7.62x39 and some 38 special cases.

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