What did you do in the reloading room today?

[uscra112]

Just got a little gift. 112 of these. Haven't weighed them, but approximately 145# apiece.
Thinking that I will be in Pb until I am done.299829

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I'd say "put me in your will", but you'll probably outlive me!

[Mandoair]

I'd say "put me in your will", but you'll probably outlive me!

Now That is a score I’m especially looking for the soft stuff‼️ But I got the Pox today so not the least bit interested in the room today. Sorted some alloy yesterday getting ready for my first day casting of bollits. And making of boolit lube and sizing and loading and sending them down range etc.

[MOA]

Deprimed 500 cases in 45acp. Will pin tumble tomorrow while I deprimed 500 in 9mm. Then on to the 380's. Then I've got to order 20# from Roto metals some super hard 30% antimony to treat 200# of roofing boots.

[skeettx]

Loaded 45 Colt with PB and cleaned up the machine shop, WHEW

[MOA]

Deprimed, pin tumbled, and dried 1100 pieces of brass.

[trails4u]

Just got a little gift. 112 of these. Haven't weighed them, but approximately 145# apiece.
Thinking that I will be in Pb until I am done.299829

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8+ tons of lead???? Wow!!!!

[cwtebay]

8+ tons of lead???? Wow!!!!You ain't just whistling Dixie! They're buried in the weeds in a boggy bottom. Getting them out is going to be fun!!!

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[armoredman]

I finally moved into the 21st Century and bought an electric trimmer setup.

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I had no idea...

[Texas by God]

Disassembled my H&R Topper reciever to see about replacing the broken striker.
Cussing predicted.

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[Mal Paso]

I decapped, tumbled and loaded my 87 pieces if 350 Legend brass. I used the penta HP 38-200 over 21g of 11FS and a CCI 450 primer.

I was going to chronograph the load yesterday but it was so windy I sat out the first relay when my target stand blew over. Had another target blow off the stand but by that time I had 2 targets up.

[Mandoair]

Loaded up 150 10mm plated 180gr fp over 8.8gr of hs6 with fed 200 spm primers. Target rounds for a red dot training end of this month.
Got my accurate arms brass mold yesterday. Can’t wait to make some boolits‼️ Tested positive for cov last week and not up for the challenge yet. Been pulling supplies together for about a year and reading up so it’s time to drop some lead. 300024

[Baltimoreed]

Cast 80 Lyman 266469. Lubed them and loaded 20 to check in my 6.5x55 1903 Swedish Mauser. Had a few issues to work through but think I’ve got it figured out. Building brass from commercial 30-06. I’ll try it on paper tomorrow.

[trails4u]

I finally moved into the 21st Century and bought an electric trimmer setup.

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I had no idea...

I have the FA platinum....might be the best money I ever spent on reloading gear!! Good on you!!

[MOA]

Finished Mothers Day suprise.

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[Mandoair]

Wow my first casting session‼️ I couldn’t stop. By the time I was getting good bollits I couldn’t stop. I stood out there bout 5 hours. I have 23 lbs of bollits not all that many perfect ones. Cull them tomorrow haven’t looked at them yet.
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[MOA]

Well the Mothers day project worked out so good I thought today was a good day to increase the range 38 specials. It came out fine. Since I'm on a roll it seems that the 9's will suffer an increase in population this week too. Finished off 400 38 specials today.
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[MOA]

Wow my first casting session‼️ I couldn’t stop. By the time I was getting good bollits I couldn’t stop. I stood out there bout 5 hours. I have 23 lbs of bollits not all that many perfect ones. Cull them tomorrow haven’t looked at them yet.
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Great Job Mondoair. Nothing like success to keep the momentum going, especially when working in less than stellar temperature like AK has in early May. Keep the stove going if you have one even if just a campfire with a heat reflector nearby to keeps the legs warm.

[StuBach]

Wow my first casting session[emoji845] I couldn’t stop. By the time I was getting good bollits I couldn’t stop. I stood out there bout 5 hours. I have 23 lbs of bollits not all that many perfect ones. Cull them tomorrow haven’t looked at them yet.
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Well done. It’s addicting as heck so be prepared to be scrounging. [emoji1787]

[Mandoair]

I managed to make some lube out of beeswax and lithium molly. Loaded up my old 45 Luba sizer and sized about 100 of the 150 grain plinkers to.402”. Loaded up 20 rounds in four loads of five and hope to see if they shoot tomorrow. I appreciate the encouragement I received from you guys thanks300160300161300162

[taco650]

Well the Mothers day project worked out so good I thought today was a good day to increase the range 38 specials. It came out fine. Since I'm on a roll it seems that the 9's will suffer an increase in population this week too. Finished off 400 38 specials today.
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What bullet is that?

[Mandoair]

Well the saga continues. Managed to load up some of the 220 grain monsters to test along with the 150 grains. Had 20 rounds four different loads of 150‘s stopped after every five to look at the barrel a lotta Ash and stuff in there but no lead. Did the same with the 220 grains two rounds at a time because I didn’t have any load data for them. they were pushing about 884 and 925 like that but maybe I’m getting lead I haven’t determined that for sure. Must be my alloy too hard or too soft don’t know yet but they all went bang. Had real good accuracy on some of those little poppers. These are running through a XDM with a 5 1/4 barrel 10 mm. 300185

[Combat Diver]

Loaded up 100 rds of .38 SPL for the wife when home on leave. Lee 158 gr TLSWC under a load of SR7625


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[PrestoColumbus]

got a Lee Turret Press. Loaded up a bunch of 300aac.

Switched over to 45acp.

life is good

[The Dar]

My Lee APP press arrived yesterday. Deprimed over 1200 9mm cases, 300 38 Specials, over 1000 380 and about 150 6.5CM this morning. The primer catch bottle was over 3/4 full when I finished. Why did I wait so long to get the press? Definitely a time saver.

I haven't sized any bullets on it yet, but as soon as I get some powder coated I will.

[Wal']

Fitted a gas check seater to my Lube-A-Matic 2 today, and found the boolit ejector lock ring was fitted incorrectly when originally assembled, on top of the housing & should have been under which didn't allow the gas check seater to fit.
After a quick reassemble, all good allowing the seater to slip in place......& seated some hundred gas checks.....
Not overly impressed, short stroke, but the gas check had a lip you could feel with a thumbnail.
When seated deeper there is a smooth finish down past the gas check, but still happy.

[Mandoair]

Primed 150 10mm to load up all of my first batch of 150 gr boolits. Have only tested 20 of those so far but they are very accurate at 1000” per sec or so. Light 40 cal loads. 8 gr aa #5 That’s what I’m looking for for paper and my wife’s new xdm elite 3.8” 10mm osp. Want to start her out soft and accurate.

[Rich/WIS]

Well, yesterday actually, cast up about 350 Lee 38 RNFP for a Model 15 S&W that is headed my way. Waiting for the gun so I can check throats and bore before sizing/lubing. Also waiting for some brass as all I have on hand is 33 range pick-ups to load.

[Mal Paso]

Sized my first bottle neck cases, swaged my first primer pockets and primed 10 as a test. Also made 4 223 dummies for plunk and to check function. Was always a revolver guy until california got me started on ARs. I think I want a 450 Bushmaster next.

[Mandoair]

My first casting session lasted four hours and now that I’ve got all the bollits that were salvageable loaded up turns out I had about 120 usable out of some 22lbs of alloy. Oh well next couple hours a casting I’ll get four times that. They do say education is costly. 300313300314

[sigep1764]

Sized some 7.62x39 cases the other day and made a couple of dummy rounds with the boolits I had, a 165 grain hollow point and a 157 grain round flat nose. Neither fed in the AK, jamming on the chamber mouth. Ordered a Lee 312 155 2r six cavity mold with handles and it arrived in today. May get to cast with it down at the lake this weekend.

[Mandoair]

Scored 2 lbs of AA #9 at the local weare house store today. Excited cuse been wanting #9 or 800X for over a year‼️‼️

[44Blam]

Got my turret installed on to my new bench and cranked out 100 45 ACPs. Felt good to load up a few rounds and replenish my dwindling supply of loaded ammo.

Will finish out the 500 or so projectiles over the next couple days. Then I have to setup my casting station -- I've got a whole lot of large pistol primers so will be shooting some 45 ACP for a little while.

[Mandoair]

My second casting session today. Much shorter session with many more perfect boolits‼️‼️ When I get to culling them I’ll have pictures. Need 200 more 150 gr. 10mm popers for next weekend.

[Wild Bill 7]

Went to a yard sale two weeks ago and bought some loading items. The lady’s father passed away a while back and he had a bunch of stuff. Got to talking with her and she asked if I could help her with the sale of the stuff. I will have a lot of stuff to put up for sale as soon as I can get it separated and priced. Will put the items on the for sale pages soon.
Bill

[Texas by God]

I loaded a few 38-55 and a few 30-06 and watched my dwindling supply of IMR 4198...dwindle some more.
I'm seeing quite a bit of other powders for sale- but no IMR anything.

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[cwtebay]

A good friend lent me this last week, finally getting some time with it.
Planning on getting it back to him tomorrow - after using it on roughly 500 cases!!!300497

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[DW475]

Added a second Dillon 550 to the bench and 8 bags of Starline 500 S&W brass.

[Soundguy]

Got a pound of H110 and True Blue at a show this weekend.

[super6]

Disassembled my Dillion SL900 shot shell press for a refurb and lube job, Must be at least 500 parts in that thing! What a headache, She looks like a new one now!!!!!!!

[Mandoair]

Loaded up some test rounds form my new accurate arms 40–150H mold. To the range to test them bright sunshine seems to hinder my choreograph so I fired a few rounds over the top to see if it was going to work and grazed it. New Chrono gone. Have 150 boolits ready to get loaded up for a shoot on Saturday.

[Mal Paso]

A few bottles of X-Terminator arrived yesterday and I loaded a few 223, my first bottle neck cartridge. After loading straight walled pistol cartridges for years I had to buy a few things besides dies. A primer pocket swager for one. An unexpected bonus is it also works as a gauge so I know when a primer pocket is too lose and the brass needs to be tossed.

[Soundguy]

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Last night sat down and made up some 120gr 9mm over 3.5gr titegroup and some 200 gr 45 colt over 6g titegroup. Hope to get to some 44spl and 45acp tonight.

[lightman]

I recently moved into a new house and my "What have you done in the loading room" is mostly opening boxes and organizing things. I bought an 8' bench to put in the middle of the new room like an island. The plan is to use it for brass sorting and prep. I like the Maple Butcher Block top well enough that I ordered another one for my loading bench. I'm on hold until it arrives.

[stubshaft]

Gas-checked and lubed some .277 bullets for an upcoming project.
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[Baltimoreed]

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Been loading .30-40 krag and 6.5x55 for next Saturday’s BAMM at my monthly cas club’s shoot. Wearing my Spanish American War outfit. Remember the Maine. Going to try shooting my 1896 SRC Krag. Might try a stage with my new to me ‘96 Swede.

[44Blam]

Finished loading all my cast 45s - 372 of 'em. I need to get my casting station setup.

[Mal Paso]

I recently moved into a new house and my "What have you done in the loading room" is mostly opening boxes and organizing things. I bought an 8' bench to put in the middle of the new room like an island. The plan is to use it for brass sorting and prep. I like the Maple Butcher Block top well enough that I ordered another one for my loading bench. I'm on hold until it arrives.

Very Cool! I hope you enjoy the new reloading room!

[uscra112]

Since I haven't found a muzzle resizer for my .38 Special tong tool set, I made one. Bored and reamed a random 310 die from the "orphan dies drawer" to .500 I.D. and pressed in a .375" (3/8) hardened drill bushing from McMaster. Works like a charm.

[WRideout]

Rolled up two boxes of 38 spl: Lee 148 gr wadcutter, 3.0gr Bullseye, and my new Servicios and Aventuras (SyA) primers. This will be my test run on the new primers. Others have reported good results with them. I was just glad to get primers of any description.

Wayne

[Budzilla 19]

Let’s just say I’m flush for .357 magnums for a minute!

[Soundguy]

Made about 41# #7.5 shot today after work. It's screened and drying now.

[Mandoair]

Shot up mostly all of the 250 rounds of 150 grain accurate arms 40–150 H boolits over 7.9 gr AA#5 for 10mm on Saturday. Basically the starting load for 40 caliber. Makes a nice soft accurate round. far as I can tell so far. All from my first two attempts at casting. Yesterday and today cleaned up a few hundred rounds of brass that I picked up after the shoot Saturday I got those inside. Been cleaning up the reload room and the casting area to get on with Alaska summertime. Need to finish cleaning sizing the brass and Casting and loading more boolits. but it won’t be today. CU

[Texas by God]

Loading up some little .300BO with 110gr Vmax and a few Lee 230gr ( experimental). It sure is a fun little round.

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[Mal Paso]

Got another 1,000 350Legend brass cases on Backorder, I'm down to about 86, the AR loves to fling them, 15-20 feet when I forget to put the catcher on.

I may have to try 300BO after I get the 22 build finished, lots of good boolits for that one. I got the 350L so I could cast for it.

[Mandoair]

Received a mold Friday from arsenal 40-165-?? Rn. I can’t for the life of me remember ordering it. What an amazing piece of work it is‼️‼️��. I researched my email and there was my order?? I’m glad to keep it even though it is much like my new accurate 40-150-h. Can’t wait to cast with it. My orders for molds did go in about the same time when I was on my back on oxicodon❓❓. (Broken Femur in January). That may of been part of the confusion. Even got arsenal and accurate mixed up in my head. Oh Well all’s well that ends well.

[tew45]

I finished building a PID temperature controller for my production pot. The first test worked perfectly.

[John Guedry]

Loaded up 50 .38 specials light for my wifes' arthritic hands.

[Mal Paso]

Went to the local gunsmith to get an AR lower out of jail. I looked through the fired brass and the 223 was gone so while we were doing paperwork I asked about 223 brass. He went in back and started bringing out bags of 223 in 10 round federal plastic holders. 240 Federal 60 PMC from '98 if the labels are right. I asked how much and he said it was good just to get it out of the shop. So I'm out in my shop sizing brass now. I made a few small hydraulic dings before I got the hang of it. I'm using 15 year old RCBS case lube, I'll get some one shot in my next order. I have a new favorite gun store!

[Mal Paso]

The PMC had crimped primers so I swedged those pockets. All 300 of the 223 are clean and I got some of it loaded while waiting for the 350L brass. Going to finish 100 rounds and switch to 350L.

[MOA]

Been waiting to order in 25 pounds of super hard alloy ingots from Roto metals. Finally got the order in an it arrived last week. I needed to make some lead alloy around 12-13 BHN. I used 15 pounds of super hard and 80 pounds of pure lead. Now I've 95 pounds of 13 BHN for more boolits. With left over super hard alloy ingots for the next mix.


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[Pereira]

I ate lunch at the bench earlier, does that count?

RP

[Mandoair]

Melted my cww and poured 22 2lb muffins. Melted 6 or 8 pewter goblets from a garage sale got 3 lbs of tin. Left making alloy for latter. I thought I had done a good job of separating the ww s but had a handful of bobbers anyway. Kept the temperature below 600 hopping to defeat the zinc
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[Mandoair]

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[Mandoair]

Cast up about 630 arsenal 40-165-WFN Boolits this afternoon. New mold first go with it. Alm 4 cavity my first time with aluminum. Sure is light‼️

[Texas by God]

I rediscovered that the more you work on reassembly of a H&R Topper action, the easier it Doesn't Get......
On the bright side, my 44WCF lives again.
With a new striker and a better trigger pull.

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[Mal Paso]

Cool!

I got three hundred 350Legend cases belled, primed and a hundred loaded. I shot 10 of them yesterday, they cycled perfectly. The Red Dot isn't working for my eyes at 50 yards so I'll switch to a scope for Friday. It's a nice Red Dot for the money but to my eye it's a slash not a dot. I'll keep my eyes open for a holographic 1/1 sight and sell the red dot.

[Mandoair]

Sorted some lead alloy for the future and started sizing 10mill brass. Thinking I’ll clean and prime all the brass I have only about 1000 that are long enough.

[Mandoair]

Been reaming and umiforming the 10mm brass I cleaned up. Got tired of the large primers not wanting to seat below flush. And some are staked. I’m hoping it’s worth the efforts. The smaller batch I did last winter before I broke my leg paid dividends. Bout halfway through now. Want to get started working up loads for my new arsenal 40-165-RF. 301401
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[robg]

sized and expanded 100x45-70 cases.

[Happy caster]

Casted 1000 135gr 9mm boolits ready for PC

[Mal Paso]

Loaded another 100 350 Legend with MP 38-200 penta hollowpoints. I hope to get to the range this week and try them at 100 and 200 yards. I'm deep in brass now but will have to get more powder soon. "It's always something."

[Mandoair]

Well got 30 test rounds ready to test fire for tomorrow. 10mm arsenal 40-165 WFN cast with cww +3% tin. Sized to.402. moly grease 50% beeswax. HS-6 and AA #9. We’ll see 301478

[Mal Paso]

Got the 223 upper cycling. The upper parts were tighter than my 350L and the bolt carrier group would stick in the buffer tube. I filed the buffer tube locking plate flat and use a new nut and it cycles well now. Got it packed with the 350 for a trip to the range.

And another 100 350L rounds loaded.

[lightman]

I don't remember if I posted this or not but last week I spilled several cigar boxes of cast, sized and lubed bullets while moving them from the garage to my new loading room. Today I finished sorting and reboxing them. I only culled about a dozen from being damaged or gritty.

[Mal Paso]

I don't remember if I posted this or not but last week I spilled several cigar boxes of cast, sized and lubed bullets while moving them from the garage to my new loading room. Today I finished sorting and reboxing them. I only culled about a dozen from being damaged or gritty.

You're having way too much fun. How's the new loading room? It's warm here today and I'm out in my loading room avoiding the heat and flies.

[robg]

Loaded 100x 4570 353g boolits 24g 2400

[engelbrecht.hs]

Hi guys.
Was looking for the introduction thread but couldnt find it.

So here goes
From South Africa
Started casting TODAY

Got my 2nd hand 2 cavity Lyman 356402 120gr TC this morning and couldn't wait

Equipment used
Cast iron pot
Gas stove
Soup ladle...yeah...

Sped up the melting of the lead with my forge burner

First 300 bullets took me 4 hours. Took a break
Next 370 took two hours.
Gonna get me a melting pot cause the spoon man....the spoon

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[Mal Paso]

Hi guys.
Was looking for the introduction thread but couldnt find it.

So here goes
From South Africa
Started casting TODAY

Got my 2nd hand 2 cavity Lyman 356402 120gr TC this morning and couldn't wait

Equipment used
Cast iron pot
Gas stove
Soup ladle...yeah...

Sped up the melting of the lead with my forge burner

First 300 bullets took me 4 hours. Took a break
Next 370 took two hours.
Gonna get me a melting pot cause the spoon man....the spoon

Now to try my hand at powdercoating

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Excellent! Welcome to the Forum!

[jim 44-40]

Stared at a big box of old Herters wads,thinking if I could only find load data so they won't go to waste.

[robg]

loaded 100x308 163gn gc boolits with 18gn 2400 . catching up on my reloading.357mag next.

[Texas by God]

I mounted a Burris FF2 on my .300BO, a Weaver K4 on my 30-30, and a Burris 6X on my 30-06.
I hope to get time to sight them in while it's only 90ish degrees.....

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[wrcook45-70]

I loaded 20 rounds of black powder 43 Spanish, and some blackpowder .38 Colt.

[Mal Paso]

I ran a couple pots worth of 38-200 Solids. 8 cavity, empties the pot Fast!

[robg]

loaded some 308 and 357mag ,catching up .have to do a bit of casting soon.

[Texas by God]

My first session in July involves a pile of brass, a bucket of bullets, a stack of primers and a #of H110.
Well see how many .30 Carbine 110gr jsp cartridges I end up with.
And I'm putting a gun stuff desk in the spare room to enjoy the Air Conditioner while I putter away....

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[lightman]

You're having way too much fun. How's the new loading room? It's warm here today and I'm out in my loading room avoiding the heat and flies.

Its coming along nicely, Thanks for asking! Our former housekeeper came over yesterday and again for a few hours this morning and helped me do some of the things that I needed help with, like step stool and ladder stuff. I think everything is present and accounted for. She is one of those people that are good at organization and was a big help. I need to learn how to post pictures, I took a few along the way.

[15meter]

Stared at a big box of old Herters wads,thinking if I could only find load data so they won't go to waste.

There is some older load data out there, surprising how much, take a trip through this thread:

https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?438273-Looking-for-a-MEC-Loading-Chart

There are several links to older loading manuals.

Try searching from outside the forum and you might come up with some data that you can use. Multiple wordings, include "castboolits" in some of the search strings. You might find what you are looking for.

Watch for the earliest Lyman shotgun manuals in S&S, they popup occasionally.

Good luck.

[414gates]

Ran the first part of a batch of 308 Norma brass through my Pro 2000 as an experiment to try save time by doing most of the brass work in progressive mode.

Brass is cleaned in a media tumbler, body sized on a Lee Classic Cast, then the necks are heat treated.

The Pro 2000 deprimes on station one, mandrel sizes on station two, and primes on the downstroke. One handle pull instead of three.

It will save a significant chunk of time, three operations within one pull of the handle.

Of the sixty or so cases, I had four with no primer, one primer upside down, and one sideways. The primer transfer bar was also not picking up every primer.

The no primers was fixed by paying more attention. The upside down was the first primed case - the primer punch was for small primers, not large, it had to be changed.

The sideways, I have no idea. I stripped the priming assembly, cleaned the retracting pin at the bottom of the primer feed tube and the recess it rides in, re-centered the primer punch in the shellplate, and it didn't happen again.

I lowered the linkage on the outside of the primer tube housing a bit, forcing the transfer bar to retract to the limit of it's travel, and the primer pickup with the transfer bar seems to be reliable now.

I bought this press as a box of rusty parts a couple of years ago, cleaned them up, put it together, and been looking at it since. RCBS manufacturing spared no expense on that one, it's a fantastic machine.

[cpaspr]

Well, not today, but this weekend.

I pan lube, but I haven't been entirely satisfied with the lube fill-out the way I'd been doing it, which was putting the room temp pan in the freezer for 15 minutes or so to get the wax to break free from the pie pan, then pushing the bullets out from the top once the wax warms back up to room temperature. It seemed that when the wax pulled away from the pan, it often pulled away from parts of the lube grooves as well. Never seemed to matter much to the barrels, as even with incomplete lube fill-outs I really haven't had issues with leading in anything. Still, it bothered me.

I made a "kake cutter" out of a .44 Mag shell with a bored out primer pocket and a nail, but was creating blisters on my thumbs using it. Thought there had to be a better way, and figured one out. In one of our bits and bobs cans in the garage I found several washers that would just allow a shell body to drop through, but not allow the rim to pass. I bored appropriate sized holes in a 1" thick slab of wood (roughly 4"x6"), dropped the shells into the appropriate washers, and then screwed the washers down while making sure the shells had smooth clearances.

I can now center the slab over a plastic tub, and tap the pointy end of the 4" nail with a hammer to knock the boolit out of the cutter, and catch the nail between my thumb and finger before it can drop through into the tub.

So far I'm set up to use a .45-70 shell for .45 bullets, a .303 shell for .308 bullets, and a .38 shell for 9mm bullets. In addition to the original slightly expanded mouth .44 Mag shell. The same washer does double duty for the .308 and .44 Mag shells. When I get around to casting up more .38 Special bullets I'll probably expand a .357 mag shell to about .360 for cutting purposes.

[popper]

@Mal Paso get the BO upper - it's a blast. 1:10 twist. Cheap to load and shoot, decent for hunting except straight wall states. Good cast performance. You can use BCG from the 223. 223 brass is easy to convert. Mine seems to last forever.
Got a henry in 308,x51 brass doesn't fit. Trimmed a bunch of LC. Had to grind 10 thou off the shell holder to chamber. I pulled and reloaded these cases 3 times to get it all right. MOA @ 100, amax & IMR4895 work fine. Now to cast some 145gr GC & PC when temp gets down to 90F.

[MOA]

Got two bags of 3" pre primed 12 gauge Cheddite hulls and a Lee 00 buck mold to help fill them with. Can't wait to touch one off. Yikes.

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[Baltimoreed]

Been reloading .45 Schofield and .45 cowboy spcl today. Need to do a couple hundred .38-40 next. Too hot to play out in the shop.

[Cast10]

Loaded 100 rounds of Lee 401-175-TC powder coated for my 10mm carbine. Pig pills!

[Mal Paso]

@Mal Paso get the BO upper - it's a blast. 1:10 twist. Cheap to load and shoot, decent for hunting except straight wall states. Good cast performance. You can use BCG from the 223. 223 brass is easy to convert. Mine seems to last forever.
Got a henry in 308,x51 brass doesn't fit. Trimmed a bunch of LC. Had to grind 10 thou off the shell holder to chamber. I pulled and reloaded these cases 3 times to get it all right. MOA @ 100, amax & IMR4895 work fine. Now to cast some 145gr GC & PC when temp gets down to 90F.

Where are you finding 1 in 10 uppers? All I see is 1 in 7. Also I see a lot of pistol length gas systems on the 16" barrels. Must be to run subsonics. What barrel/gas system are you running?

Still working on 350L.

[Baltimoreed]

Been reloading .45 Schofield and .45 cowboy spcl today. Need to do a couple hundred .38-40 next. Too hot to play out in the shop.

[hawkeye1]

Just did 200 45acp. Then got 45 colt brass ready for the Dillon.

[Super Sneaky Steve]

I wasn't able to cast as I'm home alone with my two boys, but I did cut about 60 wool wads for my 45 muzzleloader. A 12mm punch knocks out .47 cal wads which are perfect for a snug fit. My 5 year old even helped me do it.

[Harter66]

I finally got some stuff set up for the 6.5-50 Japanese (more like a 27-08 skinny) .
The custom push through and H&I dies at .2723 and .273 from our own Ammohead seem to be playing nice with the size , check , and lube duties for the to date 270-140 NOE at .272 as cast as well as the 27-130 FP and the paper patch 266469 .

[firefly1957]

I got some Lilgun powder tried it in two cartridge's was not real happy with it in .351 WSL . I am using a Hornady 140 FTX sized to .351 in the old cartridge I am probably going to go back to 180 weight range. I might just swage my own bullet for this . The reason for disappointment was I am only getting 1700 f/s and pressure seems to be near Max? Load is not even at book max for same weight bullet in .357 Mag. case and it has lower pressure and capacity.

The second was .30 carbine and the Lee .32 caliber 90 grain tumble lube bullet . The bullets were powder coated rather then lubed that were seated a bit deeper then I thought they should be or I would get a round that would not chamber . Velocity was just under 2000 f/s accuracy was 2 inches at 25 yards I need to shoot further later .

[uscra112]

Sounds like your Lil'Gun load in the .351 isn't anywhere near max, in fact it's not even generating enough pressure to get Lil'Gun up into its' "sweet spot" which starts around 25kpsi. Where are you getting your load data? Are you shooting it from a pistol-length barrel?

[firefly1957]

Sounds like your Lil'Gun load in the .351 isn't anywhere near max, in fact it's not even generating enough pressure to get Lil'Gun up into its' "sweet spot" which starts around 25kpsi. Where are you getting your load data? Are you shooting it from a pistol-length barrel?

I think you are right today after doing some measurements on spent cases I bumped the load to 18.5 grains primers looked much better . Then I went to 19 grains primers looked quite normal and cases had soot on the forward quarter of them. I will do some more work with the round I use this same bullet unsized in a 27" MGM Contender barrel chambered in .357-44 Bain & Davis it is very accurate and worked well on one deer . It is a mild load pressure wise of AA 1680 doing 2200 f/s I can get more speed but really do not need it . I also have a 10" barrel in that caliber I loose 500 f/s from the 27" barrel and the load shoots terrible.

I have a feeling the appearance of primers may have to do with the gun firing from an open breach and a low pressure . Max. pressure for the old round is 48,200 cup a bit higher then .357 magnum so for data I start with upper end .357 magnum data . Max .357 data for LILGUN under a 140 grain bullet of another make is 18.9 grains , I seat the FTX out past the crimp groove as it seats to deep in case and load data should be about the same as other bullet .

I am shooting it from a 1916 made Winchester model 1907 I size the .357 bullets to .351 . I have recently started using a die I cut on a 1 ton arbor press to size bullets it works better then a reloading press as power is over the entire range of motion rather then top of the ram stroke.

I have now worked up to 20 grains of LILGUN in the .351 WSL under a sized to .351" Hornady 140 FTX bullet no pressure signs cases drop next to me.

[Texas by God]

I annealed some .45auto/7.62 shotload brass that a generous CB member gave to me. I'm out of #12 shot so I'll use #9.
I also started on fitting a semi inletted classic sporter stock on a Polish Mauser.

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[uscra112]

Lil'Gun was designed for the .410 shotgun, but it works very well in smaller rifle cartridges, especially the Hornet and .22 Lovell. I burned quite a bit of it in a .357 Max some years ago. It has a "fat tail" to the pressure/time curve, so it isn't so good in short barrels, but it will give you higher MV for a given peak pressure than the old standbys. In a gas-operated semi-auto this may not be good, because port pressures will be higher, and revolver guys complain about it gas-cutting the top strap.

Judging pressure by primer appearance is very imprecise. Time was that it was all the amateur wildcatters had, but now we can get chronographs for a few hundred bucks instead of a few thousand, and we should use them.

Where published data is sparse or non-existent I've been using Quickload software for almost ten years now. Look into it.

[Striker]

Sorted and catalogued brass, bullets and ammo that I inherited from and old and dear friend. A lot of vintage stuff in the mix!

[Mandoair]

I found some sp m primers at sportsman’s w. Only allowed 200 a day but I m in the city through the weekend and I’ll keep buying till they’re gone. Have 600 so far‼️‼️ $.065 a piece

[Rapier]

I changed out the Dillon 380 ACP setup to 38 Spl and loaded up some 158 grain Thompson design plain base SWC bullets for the Daughter to take to her CWP class. It is the standard 3.5 grain FBI load at about 700 fps. Figured it would be a nice easy load for her new 637. I also loaded some hotter 125 grain JHP stuff if she wants to try that.

[44Blam]

Finally got back in the casting room after my move. It's been more than 8 months!
I was out of 40 cal boolits, so I cast about 400 HTC-188-WF with the cup point. That NOE mold started dropping good boolits straight off the bat and the only throw backs were because I screwed up the pour.

[Ajax111]

I swaged 500 22rf cases into .224 jackets. Into the wet tumbler tomorrow. Then start casting cores.

[openbook]

Cast up my first Lee 452-230-TCs, to reload the Colt 1911 I picked up to celebrate recent events. And made up my first batch of Ben's Red. Made a cookie cutter with a cork, nail and 45-70 case resized for a snug fit, then pan-lubed the new TCs. First time pan-lubing, I've been an alox user since I started casting. Boolits came out really pretty, I think I'm hooked. I'll be freeing up some brass to use them in this weekend.

[44Blam]

DRATT!!! Bought a $20 toaster oven from the local IGA grocery and 400 degrees was more like 600 degrees and I turned about 250 of my 400 boolits into puddles.

Next 150 PC'D fine at "275" which looks a whole lot more like 400 based on the results...

[firefly1957]

Lil'Gun was designed for the .410 shotgun, but it works very well in smaller rifle cartridges, especially the Hornet and .22 Lovell. I burned quite a bit of it in a .357 Max some years ago. It has a "fat tail" to the pressure/time curve, so it isn't so good in short barrels, but it will give you higher MV for a given peak pressure than the old standbys. In a gas-operated semi-auto this may not be good, because port pressures will be higher, and revolver guys complain about it gas-cutting the top strap.

Judging pressure by primer appearance is very imprecise. Time was that it was all the amateur wildcatters had, but now we can get chronographs for a few hundred bucks instead of a few thousand, and we should use them.

Where published data is sparse or non-existent I've been using Quickload software for almost ten years now. Look into it.

My old model 1907 is a unlocked breach recoil operated rifle so primers can be distorted by more then pressure as the bolt moves and case moves in the chamber .I have yet to run the 20 grain load of little gun over the chronograph . I am using trimmed .350 Legend cases deleting the small semi rim throwing another issue in the mix . A side is the pointed 140 FTX (sized at .351") is the same length as the original Winchester 180 grain soft point.
Thank you for the information about the longer pressure curve on Lilgun it is what I need and probably why the thick case is has soot on the forward part .

[Milky Duck]

tumbled,resized,primed up 40x 44magnum cases ready to load up when my buddy fires off some I made for him the other day and tells me what recipe he likes best...
260-270-280 grn cast the 260 is a ho ho hollow point,the 270 is good hollow and the 280 is the parent projectile. will be used on bailed pigs at close range but he didnt want subsonic/cowboy action loads so used some lilgun with a stout but not maximum charge weight.

[openbook]

Cleaned my bench, and pan lubed 100 Lee 356-102-1Rs for the 9mm.

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[44Blam]

Accomplished a lot today - cast 25 lbs of the NOE HTC-402-188-WFN... This should do me for USPSA for the next 3 months...
Then continued my "clean all the brass" epic with about 1000 556 cases. I only have 45-70 and 308 left.

[HWooldridge]

Filled and sealed a bunch of Speer .44 plastic shotshells then stuffed them into .44 Special cases.

[Wal']

Didn't do anything in the reloading room today........but fired off a sh..load of .357 on the steel plates today.............

[David2011]

Started setting the reloading room up after a long distance move and building a new shop. Finally!

[Texas by God]

I cast some of my favorite Lees before it got too hot around tennish..
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[44Blam]

Powder coated about 25 lbs of 40 cal boolits. Also took a thermal probe out there and it turns out that my new cheap toaster oven is about 400 degrees at the 250 mark and is hot enough to melt boolits at the 400 degree mark... I turned about 7 lbs of boolits into little messed up puddles a week or so back. :killingpc

[robg]

prepped 100x357 mag cases sized expanded and primed.must do some casting but its to warm.

[David2011]

Brought another load home from the storage unit. Reassembled the presses and building storage to replace the cabinets I had on the walls in the last place.

[Texas by God]

I finished filing everything off of a P14 Enfield front sight that didn't look like a Winchester 94 front sight. I'm trying to get my POI/POA to be closer.(On the 94)

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[44Blam]

Setup my bench to start reloading those 40's in the new space. Got things setup like I like it and put together about 100 rounds. Shouldn't take too long to get that 25# of boolits loaded. :D

[414gates]

Patched up an old Lyman Crusher. This is I believe the second model, that looks like an RCBS.

I bought it very cheaply, as it was effectively damaged. The hard stops were gone and there was excessive cam over.

The base of the casting that is the built in hard stop against each linkage arm was broken, so I used an epoxy that is designed for filling casting defects to cover up the gashes.

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Then, to re-create the hard stop, a few one inch washers, epoxied to each other and the frame.

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I've been looking for a dedicated press-type backup priming solution that has primer seating depth control, and this - with a simple Lee Ram Prime, will do the job.

[schutzen-jager]

went to garage to get 50 prepped + ready to load .38 spec. cases + found only 9 - need to get busy , maybe this weekend -

[Mal Paso]

Processed almost 400 pieces of 350 Legend brass. Hope to get some primed and loaded tonight. Was warm here today, nice to have a sit down job in the shade.

[WRideout]

Rolled up a box of 380 ACP before I changed out of my pajamas. 95 gr Lee over 2.1 gr Promo, SyA primers.

Wayne

[Bookworm]

Tumble lubed 3 pounds of Lee TL314-90-SWC. Sized .313 first, for the 32L revolvers.

[Johan Steyn]

I powder coated 2000 Lee 124 gr. round nose bullets and sized 1200 of them, will do the rest tonight.

[Mal Paso]

Loaded 300 rounds of 350 Legend and got another 200 primed. Finished off my first brick of primers and started another. I've got real ammo boxes now to put them in. Man there are a lot of bits and pieces starting a new caliber and there is another box of stuff coming.

[recumbent]

I annealed 200 cases of 223 brass in my new AMP annealer.

[44Blam]

Loaded about 200 40 S&W. Loaded 800 over the past few days and I am now pretty good for the steel/uspsa matches for a couple months...

Next is 45 ACP... :D

[44Blam]

Loaded about 200 40 S&W. Loaded 800 over the past few days and I am now pretty good for the steel/uspsa matches for a couple months...

Next is 45 ACP... :D
EDIT: Next is probably 9mm... Finally broke down and bought a 9mm pistol... So new caliber; new molds, should be interesting.

[Mal Paso]

Loaded 200 223 then went to the range and unloaded a bunch of 350 Legend. Beautiful day at the range! Nice light crowd, range closes for races the next few weeks so we were getting in some parting shots.

[uscra112]

Races?

[Ajax111]

I wet tumbled around 5 thousand .224 jackets, made from 22rf cases.
Cut some lead cores for them. Will size the cores tomorrow, while the cases are in the kiln.

[Mal Paso]

Races?

Yep, Laguna Seca is not just a shooting range, it's also a Raceway!

Someone found bullets in a parkinglot a few years ago and the range has been closed for races ever since. There was a feeling that the bullets were salted. That and drunk race fans climbing the fence and wandering onto a Hot range .

[rustyshooter]

Got out the Lyman 9mm hp devastator mould.

[Mandoair]

Wow those are beauties‼️. I have yet to cast one that pretty.

[Mal Paso]

Wow those are beauties‼️. I have yet to cast one that pretty.

Yep, and those are the hard way! Takes a bit of skill to run that mold. I cheat and use a MP Mold.

[Mandoair]

Finally got out to fire 30 test rounds of new arsenal 40-165-WFN Two different powders. My first experience of more powder less speed. Also ordered a MP 402 160 Hp. Only heard of them here today. Thanks Mal

[rustyshooter]

Wow those are beauties‼️. I have yet to cast one that pretty.

Thanks. Been pourin the silver stream since the 70’s


Yep, and those are the hard way! Takes a bit of skill to run that mold. I cheat and use a MP Mold.

I got impatient waiting on the new MP I ordered. Lol gotta love the various pins. Penta, cone, flat, round etc. He does a fantastic job. Does Eric still hp existing lyman moulds? He too does/did a great job.

[Texas by God]

I cast some Lee 105 SWC, some C309170F, and some 309 230 gr bullets.
And I answered a "What if" question by reloading and test firing two 2-1/2" .410 shells featuring FFFFG and 7-1/2 shot.
They'll hunt.

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[Thin Man]

A customer came to our shop recently with a cardboard box full of reloaded 20 gauge rounds. Every round appeared to have been recovered from a mud bath so she "donated" these to us. I saw the opportunity to salvage the lead from all 170 rounds for future needs. My hands are sore from cutting down the hulls but the lead shot was clean and will give me some spare alloy which will be melted in a separate cast iron pot away from the casting furnace. Not that I need any more 1-pound bricks to pick from but I hold on to the concept that tossing these would be close to a criminal violation of the "waste not - want not" rule.

[hawkeye1]

Last weekend I cast 1,000 45 round nose flat point bullets. Got them lubed and sized through the week. Yesterday got 450 45 colt cases sized and primed. Now they are ready for powder and bullets.

[Mandoair]

Expected to get my brand-new Mp But it did not show up. Ran an experiment With a One or 2 gallon aluminum pressure cooker as a melting pot. Filled it full of range lead and turned on the gas. Did not go well burned a hole in the bottom and lead ran down into my burner and made a little bit of a mess. Experimented also with laluminum heavy duty cooking pot the one with the metal handles with a great big rivets Seems to work well. My last session I got my cast iron Dutch oven to hot and it tweeked split the side. Not all that productive a day.

[uscra112]

You can't find steel pots in Alaska?

[Mandoair]

So far only at the store.

[openbook]

Loaded my first 45 Auto with the Lee #452-230-TC: water-dropped wheel weights, pan-lubed with Ben's Red, sized .452 and tumbled once in BLL.

[Mal Paso]

Expected to get my brand-new Mp But it did not show up. Ran an experiment With a One or 2 gallon aluminum pressure cooker as a melting pot. Filled it full of range lead and turned on the gas. Did not go well burned a hole in the bottom and lead ran down into my burner and made a little bit of a mess. Experimented also with laluminum heavy duty cooking pot the one with the metal handles with a great big rivets Seems to work well. My last session I got my cast iron Dutch oven to hot and it tweeked split the side. Not all that productive a day.

Aluminum even if it works at first, can fail suddenly. It is very weak at lead melting temperatures.

Propane dealers often have 5 gallon propane tanks with bad or incorrect valves, pull the valve, fill with water to make sure the propane is gone, empty and cut in half. Refrigerant tanks work too but they are thinner. Restaurant supplies have stainless steel steam table inserts too.

I inspected, gas checked, sized and lubed a few hundred 38-200s. Got a bunch more to do. Ordered another box of gas checks.

[uscra112]

^^^ Can't emphasize that enough ^^^ Aluminum is bad news for lead-melting.

[WRideout]

Expected to get my brand-new Mp But it did not show up. Ran an experiment With a One or 2 gallon aluminum pressure cooker as a melting pot. Filled it full of range lead and turned on the gas. Did not go well burned a hole in the bottom and lead ran down into my burner and made a little bit of a mess. Experimented also with laluminum heavy duty cooking pot the one with the metal handles with a great big rivets Seems to work well. My last session I got my cast iron Dutch oven to hot and it tweeked split the side. Not all that productive a day.

I got too heavy-handed with my cast iron pot, trying to pry out a large ingot that got stuck. It did crack the side from the top down, but I still use it. The molten lead has such surface tension that even when the level reaches the crack, it will not leak out.

Unsolicited advice: If you can find someone with a torch, you might be able to braze the crack in your pot; just an idea.

Wayne

[WRideout]

Deprimed and pocket swaged some .223 brass toward conversion into 7.62 Tokarev.

Wayne

[avogunner]

I had the afternoon off so it was case prep time. I decapped and resized a few hundred .45 Colt cases with my LnL AP and now they're in the wet tumbler cleaning off the case lube. Loading them up tomorrow.

[atr]

I de-primed, cleaned, annealed and re-sized 50 300 Savage pieces of brass. My stash of 300 Savage brass grows.
atr

[Mal Paso]

I got 300 hollowpoints and 600 solids of the 38-200 RCBS clone gas checked and sized. I've got the bench cleared to work up new loads. The new batch of 11FS is producing 100 fps less velocity than the first batch, more in line with recently published data for the 350 Legend. Don't think it was the chronograph as I had 2 good sessions on 2 days at 1950 fps and the latest loads are 1850. 170g Hornady SP was running 2,000 fps and could go 2,300 but I was 3.3g light according to Hodgdon.

[44Blam]

Cleaned up the work bench after the 1911 build... LOTS of metal flakes/dust! And a few new dings to the bench...
One other remnant is a book and a whole pile of Brownelle's tools that are very specific to a task.

Gun turned out nice.
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[Mandoair]

Carved out a space in the shop to set up a dedicated boolit molding spot with a light and exhaust fan. My new mp hollow point mold got here in around one week and wow what a beautiful piece of work. Sure hope to try it out very soon.
Been thinking about trying out powder coating where you shake and bake.
Thanks Mal never thought bout that but I have a very antique acetylene bottle with a flat bottom. When I get it hot I’ll post a pic.

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[taco650]

Hi guys.
Was looking for the introduction thread but couldnt find it.

So here goes
From South Africa
Started casting TODAY

Got my 2nd hand 2 cavity Lyman 356402 120gr TC this morning and couldn't wait

Equipment used
Cast iron pot
Gas stove
Soup ladle...yeah...

Sped up the melting of the lead with my forge burner

First 300 bullets took me 4 hours. Took a break
Next 370 took two hours.
Gonna get me a melting pot cause the spoon man....the spoon

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Welcome to the addiction Lol!

[taco650]

I got 300 hollowpoints and 600 solids of the 38-200 RCBS clone gas checked and sized. I've got the bench cleared to work up new loads. The new batch of 11FS is producing 100 fps less velocity than the first batch, more in line with recently published data for the 350 Legend. Don't think it was the chronograph as I had 2 good sessions on 2 days at 1950 fps and the latest loads are 1850. 170g Hornady SP was running 2,000 fps and could go 2,300 but I was 3.3g light according to Hodgdon.

You might’ve mentioned the answer to the question I’m going to ask already so forgive me if I’m retreading… what kind of rifle is your 350 Legend?

[Mal Paso]

You might’ve mentioned the answer to the question I’m going to ask already so forgive me if I’m retreading… what kind of rifle is your 350 Legend?

AR15 with a 16 inch barrel, carbine length gas system. It's currently sporting a Primary Arms 1-6X24FFP Raptor Sight. I found I can't use a Red Dot with my eyes.

Hodgdon's latest data for the 350 Legend uses a 16 inch barrel for the test so it's apples and apples. Check it out, more powder listed than a few months ago.

[Mal Paso]

I have a very antique acetylene bottle with a flat bottom.

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Acetylene tanks are filled with ceramic and acetone, the acetylene is dissolved in the acetone, not something to mess with. The acetone is flammable and ceramic is difficult to remove.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fn4BI6SkDE

I wish you were closer, I have a bunch of propane cylinders burned in a wildfire that the valves were melted out, ready to cut with no preparation.

[Mandoair]

Acetylene tanks are filled with ceramic and acetone, the acetylene is dissolved in the acetone, not something to mess with. The acetone is flammable and ceramic is difficult to remove.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fn4BI6SkDE

I wish you were closer, I have a bunch of propane cylinders burned in a wildfire that the valves were melted out, ready to cut with no preparation.

Thanks I have propane tanks. Who knew. Going to try out new casting station today
For

[Davy Sprocket]

I got one of these semi laboratory grade scales a while back. Just for fun, i decided to try to see just how consistent I was using my Redding 10x micrometer powder drop. Loaded up 9.4 gr of WAC for my 41 mag. The average for 25 rounds was 9.435 and the extreme spread was 0.18. I could usually tell by feel if I was going to be heavy or light. I like it a lot better than trying to eyeball with a beam scale.
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[David2011]

Figured out how to rearrange the loading room to gain a little more walking space. No walls; just sloping ceilings so all of the space with headroom is right down the middle. Then I saw that a few other things could be moved around to improve the situation further. Wishing I had worked on the design a little longer; pretty sure I could have gained a lot more vertical space and still satisfied the architectural committee of the HOA. No flaming; our HOA is fantastic. After all the rearranging some brass went into the polisher.

[Mal Paso]

All volumetric powder dispensers are limited by the powder's ability to pack consistently.

What scale? What did it cost and do you like it?

[Davy Sprocket]

All volumetric powder dispensers are limited by the powder's ability to pack consistently.

What scale? What did it cost and do you like it?It is the A&D EJ123 and it runs about 400 bucks. It's really nice. I've read that scales that get plugged in work so much better than battery powered ones. This one has a built in bubble level and 4 adjustment legs. The only real downside is the calibration button is underneath instead of on top with the rest of the buttons.

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[Texas by God]

I discovered that a Weaver 429M( Rem 870) base is a good fit for my Topper 44-40.
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[Brassmonkey]

.300 BO from .223 Did these yesterday but I'm still feeling it today, my cutoff jig could be better but I'm done cranking that lil handle. Time to motorize this process.

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[Mandoair]

Casted about 500 of these MP 40-160 with 3 interchangeable boolit configurations. Amazing machine. I’m very happy with the results. My best session ever #5 as I recall.

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[hc18flyer]

.300 BO from .223 Did these yesterday but I'm still feeling it today, my cutoff jig could be better but I'm done cranking that lil handle. Time to motorize this process.

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Really simple to motorized, never crank my Forster Trimmer.

[uscra112]

I just use a wadded-up shop rag to push and crank. Have done hundreds of cases needing as much as 1/4" taken off this way.

Task today was to final size, chamfer and expand 57 cases for the .25 Stevens centerfire project, using a 310 tong tool.

These were previously cut down from 1.400" Hornet brass to 1.125" using the above technique. Took about 10-15 seconds actual cutting time. It does need some muscle, but the hand doesn't cramp up from gripping that tiny crank handle.

[openbook]

Loaded and tested some light Bullseye loads with the Lee 356-102-1r in 9mm. I bought this low weight for 9mm to save some lead and to crossover to 380 ACP when I start loading that. Interestingly the starting load was ejecting brass almost straight up—a problem I've had with Titegroup using the same bullet. But increasing charge by 0.1 gr started the brass kicking in a clean arc that worked fine with the brass catcher. My lube still isn't doing enough though: no lube star on the muzzle. Using Ben's Red, pan-lubed.

Later I scored some Unique at the LGS, after over a year of searching. I passed up one opportunity to buy an 8-lb can, and have been kicking myself for it ever since. But today I finally found some and picked up two pounds. Can't wait to see what this can do in 45-70 and 22 Hornet.

[Brassmonkey]

Yep found the hex adapter, should be here soon.

[robg]

just loaded up 100x 357mag and prepped some 45-70 brass

[Texas by God]

I loaded .410 shotshells.
That's the first time that I have ever said that.

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[Iron369]

Made half a bucket of wheel weights into ingots. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220822/eec1f67560df2caa987f009868b970fd.jpg

[Mandoair]

Lubed and sized about 200 of the new MP 40- 160 HP boolits I cast the other day. Going to load up and fire some test rounds tomorrow with AA#5. For 10 mill.


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[414gates]

Sized some .459 600 and 510 grain PC bullets. To try my new PAST shoulder pad.

[Texas by God]

I loaded some Hornady 110gr HP and some 130gr Spire point in the neat little 6.8 SPC cartridge. Like all the AR 15 cartridges; its "almost"something else- in this case the .250 Savage.[emoji16]
I have ordered cast bits as well for it.


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[Bookworm]

Emptied my 5-gallon bucket bullet trap(s). Almost 50 pounds of raw range lead between the 2 of them.

Man I love free lead.

[44Blam]

Tested a load for 10mm. I estimated my starting load to be about 1120 fps and my ending load of the ladder to be 1220 fps with the top end of the ladder being fairly high pressure...

Well, my starting load was right around 1220 fps - so I get to pull some boolits and now I know my ending charge...

[Scrounge]

Spent it looking for the set of 7.62x54R dies that I had my hands on 3 days ago... And not done looking yet!

[Mal Paso]

Spent it looking for the set of 7.62x54R dies that I had my hands on 3 days ago... And not done looking yet!

Ya I was adjusting a scope mount yesterday and have been looking for the wrench ever since. If I could just get my Looking For Stuff to line up with my Can't Remember Stuff I wouldn't have to worry about stuff.

[414gates]

Ya I was adjusting a scope mount yesterday and have been looking for the wrench ever since. If I could just get my Looking For Stuff to line up with my Can't Remember Stuff I wouldn't have to worry about stuff.

Check inside any cupboards or drawers you may have opened around then. Don't ask how I know this.

[Ajax111]

I made 50-68 grain swaged bullets. Using BT Sniper's -no anneal method.

[Mal Paso]

Check inside any cupboards or drawers you may have opened around then. Don't ask how I know this.

I just tried that, no luck. Time to buy a new one on Amazon so when the old wrench shows up I can send the new one back. Or does having a plan disrupt Murphy's Laws?

[Mandoair]

Tested a load for 10mm. I estimated my starting load to be about 1120 fps and my ending load of the ladder to be 1220 fps with the top end of the ladder being fairly high pressure...

Well, my starting load was right around 1220 fps - so I get to pull some boolits and now I know my ending charge...

Wonder what boolit that is. Just loaded some mp 40-160-hp at 157.7 gr. For the 10 I’m looking to get 1325 out of it. Trying to interpolate between the 145 and the 170 in the data. Well that was yesterday I haven’t fired any of those yet but today cast 18 pounds accurate alarms 40–1 65 -H. And 40–215 –F. They come from the same mold. Good combo.

[44Blam]

Wonder what boolit that is. Just loaded some mp 40-160-hp at 157.7 gr. For the 10 I’m looking to get 1325 out of it. Trying to interpolate between the 145 and the 170 in the data. Well that was yesterday I haven’t fired any of those yet but today cast 18 pounds accurate alarms 40–1 65 -H. And 40–215 –F. They come from the same mold. Good combo.

My boolit is the Accurate 40-180 BG but without the lube grove. I'm getting that guy just over 1300 fps with about 14 grain of AA#9. But I was looking to tone it down just a little so the steel challenge guys don't get so pissed and I can actually double tap with acceptable accuracy.

[David2011]

Sized 300 pieces of .44 Mag brass and polished them. Set up my Magma Case Master Jr. with the case feeder from my Dillon 650 and push-through sized about 1250 pieces of .40 S&W and polished them. Cleaned up the little bits and pieces from setting the reloading room up. Loaded a few .357 Mags and 4 dozen .30-'06 for the M-1 Garand. Found a few bullets that look a lot like 53 grain Sierra Match Kings but didn't match anything else I had and they were all 0.3-0.4 gr light of 53 grains so I loaded them up as .22-250 plinkers. Took pictures while it was clean. Posting them in a separate thread. OK, this was over two days but it was fun getting the room ready to use again.

[15meter]

Went for a cruise on the Sportster, passed a 5 gallon bucket sitting next to a mailbox on the side of the road.

At 45 mph it looked like was 3/4 full of brass. Had to make a u-turn to make sure I wasn't imagining things.

I wasn't. And the bucket had FREE scrawled on it. Quick scruff through the bucket found a handful of 7.62x54r boxer primed. Time to swap the Harley for the GMC.

75% of the bucket was steel but I did get 100+ 7.62x54r, and a bunch of 7 Remington Magnums, 30-30's, 357's, 7.62x39 that got sorted into the keep pile. Bunches of brass 223, 308 45 ACP and a few more of the usual suspects to go for scrap. Steel will go in the recycle bucket, not the landfill. Unfortunately it doesn't pay as well as brass.

[44Blam]

Loaded up 200 more 10mm for my new 1911. I think I've got about 200 more to go.

[Texas by God]

I re-loaded some Wolf steel case .45 ACP with Power Pistol and Lee 200gr swc for night time raccoon hunting. No worries if I lose the empties....one use only.

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[uscra112]

Those must be some honkin' raccoons if you need a .45 to knock 'em over!

[Texas by God]

Those must be some honkin' raccoons if you need a .45 to knock 'em over!They're eating the corn meant for the deer and turkeys- so yeah, they's big uns!
[emoji16]

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[WRideout]

I had hit my restock level on 9mm, so rolled up 200 of them. 356402 sized .356 over 4.3 gr of Promo; Servicios y Aventuras primers.

Wayne

[Mandoair]

Loaded more tests of the AA 40-215-f. 220gr 11.0–11.2-11.4 AA 9. With fed SPM Want to see 1135.

[openbook]

Sorted my last half-bucket of wheel weights and melted them down. I'm spitballing that in ingots I got 50-75 lb of COWW and another 30-40 lb of SOWW.


Update: actual take was 47.0 of COWW and 20.0 of SOWW.

[txbirdman]

Loaded up some test rounds for my ‘03 Remington using 311041’s over 32 grains of H4895. I plan on using it for deer hunting this year.

[15meter]

Those must be some honkin' raccoons if you need a .45 to knock 'em over!

Toughest one I had to deal with took 12 38 Specials with 125 grain cast boolits to stop trying to get away. The front paws were still motivating it forward up to shot 11 and 12. And the longest shot was under 10 feet, so even 600 fps loads still hit with SOME authority.

I attributed it to being too close to the Fermi plant--nuclear coons.

[414gates]

Drilled holes in a square of composite to hold primer filler tubes on the loading bench.

[RED333]

Cast a few 300 gr for 35 Whelen, resized some 30-06 to 35 Whelen. Measured and remeasured throat depth for the 300 gr, looks like they will seat into the case a bit. Cleaned up a bit, then messed the place up again, time to clean and put stuff away.

[Mandoair]

Okay so this was all on Friday. Fluxed about 70 lbs of cww biscuits, with Sulfur, from my last huraw with available ww s. Had some zinc sneak in. Thanks for the sticky on sulfer and zinc. Haven’t cast any yet but it looks more like lead now. The biscuits had like little flat shiny flecks before. Also got to fire 50 different 10 mill test rounds. Got 1138 ‘/sec 220 gr over 11.4 gr AA#9 fed gm200m mag primers spm. No visible side effects stopping there. Good accuracy. This accurate arms 40-215-F has decent accuracy all the way from 9.5 gr 1000 ‘ per. I like it. Reed

[44Blam]

I re-loaded some Wolf steel case .45 ACP with Power Pistol and Lee 200gr swc for night time raccoon hunting. No worries if I lose the empties....one use only.

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Does seem like you should be using full power 44 mag just so there is an example for the others that'll show up...

[44Blam]

Cast about 15lbs of my NOE 454-237-RN for my 1911 and then cast about 7 lbs of this new MP-359-125. That new MP mold only threw 4 or 5 wrinkled boolits and the nose fills out great!
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[Mal Paso]

Cast about 15lbs of my NOE 454-237-RN for my 1911 and then cast about 7 lbs of this new MP-359-125. That new MP mold only threw 4 or 5 wrinkled boolits and the nose fills out great!
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Dude! You need to cut back on the PC, you're changing color!

I cleaned, primed and loaded 95 223 55g and 100 350L with the 38-200 GC. Got another 400 350L cases primed yesterday and will fill them today. That RCBS clone is every bit as accurate as the 170 Hornady SP if not more so. I'll leave the last 90 Hornady on the shelf if I ever want to revisit but all the loaded 350L ammo will be GC'd lead.

[Mal Paso]

Got another 150 350L loaded and 100 more started. Still over 100F here, taking it slow.

[Mandoair]

Ordered 3lbs of powder from smoke and bbs from Amazon. Going to plunge into shake n bake PC.

[Mal Paso]

Only 95 today so I fired up the Pro Melt 2 and cast 5-600 38-200s with the 8 cavity MP Mold. The pot is dripping like crazy and I'm tire of cleaning every few pots. I ordered a new PID from Auber for my original Pro Melt. The thermostat died, the Ink Bird PID shows symptoms of being a fake so $50 shipped sounds like a deal to get that pot running again.

[David2011]

Ordered 3lbs of powder from smoke and bbs from Amazon. Going to plunge into shake n bake PC.

Mark this date and let us know how many years 3 pounds lasts!

Finally after taking apart my old reloading room and moving, I cast boolits for the first time in four years.

[44Blam]

dude! You need to cut back on the pc, you're changing color!
ha!

[robg]

just loaded 50x 308 163gn lgc boolits

[openbook]

Made some .380 brass at the range and also made up a cake cutter for pan-lubing .45-70. I've used the suggestion of a member here to make several: paper patch an unsized bullet extra-thick using a receipt. Flare the case mouth enough to accept the fat paper-patched bullet, seat it, then pull it. This expands the case mouth just several thousandths. A little trial and error and I've got a cake cutter tight enough to clean the driving bands, leaving lube only in the grooves, but not so tight as to shave lead or swage the bullet down.

Also picked up a toaster oven and some miscellaneous pans at the local salvage store, for lube, heat cycling molds, and trying out PC at some point in the future. Running some heat cycles on a new MP HP, PB "227-640 Hornet" mold tonight.

[openbook]

Today, finished the heat cycling on my first brass mold, and gave it a go.

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This was after the first heat cycle.
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They're sticking a lot on the hollow point pins, despite my efforts with a graphite pencil. Will try again tomorrow.

[Tripplebeards]

Broke in my group buy .402 HP mold!

https://i.imgur.com/SqTTVYx.jpeg

[Texas by God]

Those are pretty bullets, Tripplebeards!
I loaded some j- words for the 6.8 SPC at a "Brisk" level for testing.
And some experimental Lee 309 230gr with gas checks in the 30-06 just for the halibut.[emoji16]

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[taco650]

Those are pretty bullets, Tripplebeards!
I loaded some j- words for the 6.8 SPC at a "Brisk" level for testing.
And some experimental Lee 309 230gr with gas checks in the 30-06 just for the halibut.[emoji16]

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I’ll be interested in seeing how that 30-06 load preforms…

[Tripplebeards]

16/1 pure and pewter alloy always comes out shiny! Kills my to PC them.lol. I normally weigh first and then PC color seperate in 1 grain increments. Got too excited and am tumbling some in a mix of Smoke's traffic purple with black and blue mixed in. Might make some in the brown I used in my sinkers I have mixed up and left over.

[Tripplebeards]

I took my mold apart yesterday and cleaned off a little bit of tinning. I put it back together and lubed it up. Ran about 15 pounds of 16/1 alloy through it again today. I hand polished my HP pins with mothers chrome polish. My boolits fell right off the pins when I opened the mold up for the first 2/3’s of my casting session today. Towards the end I had to give the pins a slap with my glove and they would then release and fall off.

https://i.imgur.com/MA6QzPi.jpg

[Michael J. Spangler]

Wow. I found some 16:1 in a small pot with some cast bullets sitting on top. Man does that make some amazing looking bullets.

[deltaenterprizes]

I took my mold apart yesterday and cleaned off a little bit of tinning. I put it back together and lubed it up. Ran about 15 pounds of 16/1 alloy through it again today. I hand polished my HP pins with mothers chrome polish. My boolits fell right off the pins when I opened the mold up for the first 2/3’s of my casting session today. Towards the end I had to give the pins a slap with my glove and they would then release and fall off.

https://i.imgur.com/MA6QzPi.jpg

Beautiful boolits!

[robg]

just loaded up some 45-70 with lee 340gn boolits

[Mandoair]

Really a couple of days. Cast Boolits MP 40-160-HP and did my first shake n bake going to like this PC‼️ 304446304447

[Texas by God]

I enlarged the gas port a bit on my 6.8 AR to cure the short stroking bolt. And loaded some 30-40 Krag/150gr corelokt to use up the last of my 4350.

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[openbook]

Pan-lubed 50 MP "227-640 Hornet" 39gr boolits, sized .225, and tumble-lubed along with 50 Lee-Midsouth "Bators" (C225-55-RF: 55 gr, GC) . Lubes were Ben's Red and Ben's Liquid Lube.

[44Blam]

Resized about 300 MP 359-125s. They end up weighing about 134 with a couple coast of hi-tek.
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And loaded up a couple to see where we are at:
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[Mal Paso]

I bought an inch pound screwdriver style torque wrench a while ago and today I remounted my 6-24X50 Vortex Sight on my 18" 223 Wylde using a level and Loctite this time. I had it on the 350L and the scope slid all the way to the stops. I put 20 inch pounds on the M4 screws, will see how that does, tomorrow hopefully.

[The Dar]

I bought an inch pound screwdriver style torque wrench a while ago and today I remounted my 6-24X50 Vortex Sight on my 18" 223 Wylde using a level and Loctite this time. I had it on the 350L and the scope slid all the way to the stops. I put 20 inch pounds on the M4 screws, will see how that does, tomorrow hopefully.

Please let us know how it works. I've been entertaining the thought of buying one. Which model did you buy?

[Mandoair]

First pc batch with blue went well but today i ruined a 200 rd batch of red. Tried to second coat them and put them into the pwd too hot big mess need to recast the whole mess. Going to try the green tomorrow. can’t do worse.

[Mandoair]

Today, finished the heat cycling on my first brass mold, and gave it a go.

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This was after the first heat cycle.
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They're sticking a lot on the hollow point pins, despite my efforts with a graphite pencil. Will try again tomorrow.
I have my first MP mold and found the 5 point hp releasing much better than the round ones. Just saying.

[Mal Paso]

Please let us know how it works. I've been entertaining the thought of buying one. Which model did you buy?

Neiko from Amazon. I had bought some of their wrenches which were decent. Obviously I had the screws too lose but all I could find for specs was 15-25 inch pounds so I went 20.

[openbook]

I have my first MP mold and found the 5 point hp releasing much better than the round ones. Just saying.

Thanks for the tip! Mine only came with round hollow point and blank (flat-point) pins. Maybe because it's only a .227 boolit? The solids cast much easier. I'll return to the HPs but solids meet my needs for now as I work up a small game load. A couple good suggestions I've been given are to polish the pins and to coat them with a chalk solution in alcohol.

[stubshaft]

Threw together some 45/70 loads for my Sharps Carbine.

https://i.imgur.com/hIv8Cnk.jpg

[Mandoair]

Today did a quick experiment with od green on accurate arms 40-215-f. 304561

[414gates]

https:///ysterhout.net/images/stand/stand.jpg

[gliebegott]

Cleaning out and coming upon things I need to get rid of to make room.....

Why the heck am I holding onto things I will never use? But I guess we all do that.

[Mandoair]

Today loaded some test rounds of the od green 304603aa-40-219-f and sized a few of the other colors. Liking this pc stuff hope they shoot good.

[taco650]

Today loaded some test rounds of the od green 304603aa-40-219-f and sized a few of the other colors. Liking this pc stuff hope they shoot good.

Keep us posted on how those loads perform please. Do you think the 10mm is an adequate bear defense round?

[414gates]

Do you think the 10mm is an adequate bear defense round?

No. But better than a stick.

[farmerjim]

Yesterday I pulled down 150 300 BO that I assembled a week ago. Why?

Day before yesterday I started to load up some 9 mm Lee 358-125-RF with 5 grains of herco. The charge just didn't look just right weighed on my reading beam scale. Weighed on my Chinese electronic scale 4.5 grains. Got the old hard to use lee scale down from the back of the top shelf, and again 4.5 grains. Then I tried to balance the beam on "0". No go. I have 2 reading beam scales, so I got the other one out. It would not "0" ether. ????
Then moved the pans and hangers around and both worked fine. I got out the black marker and put X'es on all parts of one and O's on the other.
Now back to why I pulled down the 300 BOs. I had loaded them with the scale that was still together on the bench. I pulled one of them down and instead of having 18.0 gr of 1680 there was only 17.5.
So out came the Hornady cam lock bullet puller. Much faster than the inertia puller.
Problem no. 2.
All of these boolits were gas checked. 1/2 of them came off while pulling the boolit. It is not easy to get a gas check out of a bottleneck case.I used a small screwdriver to punch the check down into the case dumped the powder and got out my tweezers and holding the case above my head, proceeded to shake and poke the check till I could grab it with the tweezers. After I had done about 15, I found that if I pulled the boolit out very slow, I could get about 85% of the checks to come out with the boolit.
Project for today.
1. Replace the checks on the boolits where they came off.
2. Properly charge the cases.
3. Re-seat the boolits.

[Cast10]

Had scrounged up some 125lb or so wheel weights; SOWW mostly with some COWW. As temps have gone down a bit, decided to make ingots. It was still too hot! LOL.
I cast for 9mm and 10mm. Still learning.

[Mal Paso]

I rebuilt my Pro Melt control box with a new PID from Auber. When I was putting casting back together I got an Imkbird kit from Amazon. It never worked right and someone here said there were fakes. The symptoms sounded like my PID so I ordered one from Auber which was what I had before. The are $50 shipped which is very good for the quality you get.

Rain today so I'm headed out to the shop to clean the old Pro Melt and fire it up.

[Jtarm]

Now that temps are down to a chill 95-degrees, I fired up the furnace for a couple thousand .38 DEWCs.

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[Michael J. Spangler]

Now that temps are down to a chill 95-degrees, I fired up the furnace for a couple thousand .38 DEWCs.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220918/d0be1420383d2932f79c9ab44df4b188.jpg

Nice! Is that the Lee mould?
My 1873 doesn’t so wadcutters but my Marlin will if it’s a button nose. I’m wondering if I could make those work. The 358495 works fine but I do like a Lee 6 cavity for pure speed.

[Jtarm]

Nice! Is that the Lee mould?
My 1873 doesn’t so wadcutters but my Marlin will if it’s a button nose. I’m wondering if I could make those work. The 358495 works fine but I do like a Lee 6 cavity for pure speed.

MP 8-cavity:

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220918/85caed2ec42922fd172abb524c50a363.jpg

[Texas by God]

I turned the fan on, clamped the 600 jr. down, and obtained the unobtainable- .410 shells! Happily the recipe fit in the old Super X paper hulls as well as the AAs.
Perhaps those dove getting gravel from my drive should beware…..304650

[Mandoair]

Keep us posted on how those loads perform please. Do you think the 10mm is an adequate bear defense round?
Yes on the tests. Better than most autos not so good as large mags but way more rounds on the bears. Got to do what you can the 200gr flat nose at about 1200fps better than nothing. I think it’s better to start with industrial strength pepper spray and maybe save the ammo. Bear’s are scary Big‼️‼️

[Michael J. Spangler]

MP 8-cavity:

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220918/85caed2ec42922fd172abb524c50a363.jpg


Even better! I need a new MP mould.

[Mandoair]

Garage sale 230lbs $100. Coww too hard to get and more expensive. Trying to guess the alloy. About 8 bn and very shiny. Tested with hydrocloric acid. Melted below 600F. Water hardened to 14bn tested with pencils ✏️. Going to cast some.
Anyone chime in on shooting PC Bollits with lube groove❓ Is there enough Bering surface to protect the barrel with apple to apple loads ❓❓. Thanks Reed

[Mal Paso]

I cleaned my old Pro Melt. I had used some questionable alloy and garbage metal was stuck to the stainless pot. Usually lead alloy will peal off, not this crud. I tore the whole thing apart and removed the pot so I could use a torch on it. I used the opportunity to remove the old dead thermostat and replace the power cord strain relief. I cleaned the valve seat and stem and put it back together.

I had rebuilt the PID yesterday so I filled the pot halfway and fired it up. I started casting the 38-200 mold that was still on the hotplate and ran the pot down. Not one drip which was why I'm moving back from my Pro Melt 2. I had filled it back up ready to start casting when my neighbor came knocking. Tree down, our road was closed. Unlike my Pro Melt 2 I just shut it down and I played tractor while my neighbor played chainsaw. We got paid in Romaine Lettuce, country life.

Look at that spout on the old Pro Melt, much easier to see than the Pro Melt 2. This was a rebuild, several owners ago it it really got trashed. It was well worth bringing back!