It's a Perfect Time to Reload! What Are You Working on?

[Hanzy4200]

With all the social distancing, it's a good excuse to fire up the lead pot or crank on the press handle. What projects are you all working on?
I picked up a Stribog SP1 9MM sub gun accouple weeks ago. I've been working on some 147 gr Lyman subsonic loads. Powder coat as I am using a suppressor and don't like using bare lead.

Also meticulously picking through a mountain of range pickup 9mm brass. Sorting out all the beat up and oddball brand headstamps. Getting ready to retire my current use 2,500 cases.

Browsing Gunbroker. Anyone have a matching P08 Luger or Jap Nambu for sale?

[jdfoxinc]

Swaying 9x19 to .40 190 gr.

[lar45]

That Stribog 9mm looks Awesome.
I ordered a 7.62x39 AR Pistol last week, it should be in tomorrow.
I've got a bunch of brass for it already, but I'm not sure that I have an appropriate mold for it.
https://p1.gunbroker.com/pics/860371000/860371617/pix217005890.jpg

Other than that I'm still trying to get the Ruger Only 320 to fly straight in the 450 Bushmaster.

[remy3424]

A little powder coating, seemed to be too easy. Learned quickly they only need one coat and dont need to be "photo quality" to shoot well and not lead a barrel. Loaded 700ish 45 acp, now getting my new to me 550 dialed in for 9mm. I had the lead-lubed 9mm figured out in my XDm pistols. With the dillon, I had a custom powder funnel (expander) made, so I think I can get this handled. Where I get furstrated is that within 100 rounds of powder coated boolits through an XDm 9mm, I get a few failure to fully chamber rounds. I think this is from a build-up of powder plus the powder coating itself. I can see the paint on the shelf that the case headspaces on. Might just have to clean every 50 rounds. I will keep playing and try to get things equal to jacketed, which I haven't loaded for a decade now. Am I am still working, I might have to slow down, once the courthouses close, my job will slow to a crawl. I still need to get to rifle boolits (22 & 30 cal). I want to shoot some prairie dogs (when the conditions and terrain allows) with my cast boolits (thinking 222 Rem), so I need to break-out a 22 caliber mold. Plenty to occupy my attension.

[Chihuahua Floyd]

Loaded a box of 30-06 with 180g lead, some 40 S&W, 44 mag, cast some 44s, 30s cleaned and prepped a bunch of brass.
CF

[shootinfox2]

259027259027Turning my stash into boolits. .452, 130 gr Barnstormers for Cowboy.

[shootinfox2]

259028The boolits.

[NC_JEFF]

Bringing all my calibers up to an acceptable number of loaded rounds, I've got plenty of components and I'm about 3/4s done.
Jeff

[Biggin]

Cast some 45acp HPs and 30cal for my marlin. I was scrolling through CB yesterday and thought hell instead of reading about it I just go cast a few. So I did!

[jimb16]

Yesterday I cast and powder coated 350 260 gr. lrnfp bullets for the .45 Colt. This morning, I sized them and this afternoon I loaded 150 rounds with 3 different powders using differing charge weights so I can finally ladder test for the rifle. Later I'll do the same loads for the revolver. I hope I can get lucky and find a powder/charge that works well in both. At least I can still go to the outdoor range at my club. I need some outdoor time before I go stir crazy.

[jlm223]

Had couple good casting sessions, and been working on powder coating them, reloaded some 9mm, just trying to stay busy!

[Huskerguy]

Reorganizing my reloading cave, benches, and storage. Then I plan to get my 9mm back in stock, then some PC 158 grain SWC.

Just before the "vacation" hit I melted several hundred pounds of range lead into ingots ready to make into beautiful bullets. Now if I can just get to my bench.

[Digger]

Been a bit of a stretch , cast about 500 45/230gr with a new Lee 6 holer ...
Took a bit of time but worked out all the nuances with that mold and wow ! ... totaled up fast.
Turned around and put them thru my San Diego star luber .... fun and nice !

[Sig556r]

Got bored with 9s & 45s so set up the blue presses for 277WLV, 300BLK & 9x39...

[Patrick L]

You ain't just whistling Dixie. I'm going out of my head with boredom. In the past week, here's what I've accomplished in the reloading room:

Weight sorted, lubed and sized @ 400 .22 cast boolits
Ditto about 200 .30 cal.
These are for this summer's Highpower League, which in all likelihood will be cancelled

Loaded @ 500 .38 wadcutters
Loaded @ 350 .45 ACPs
Loaded @350 .44 Specials
Loaded 1 box .44 Mags (I baby my pre 29. I only run about 1 box of fairly moderate Magnums through the gun a year.)
Lube sized enough various boolits to replace all of what I used to load the above

Loaded 300 12 ga skeet loads.

Cleaned every handgun I own (that's quite a few.) They were already clean, but I'm bored. Rifles and shotguns on deck.

Started the grip refinish I posted about separately

Probably did more and just forgot. This sucks. I never thought I'd say I miss work!!

[Nodakjohns]

Been working my way through 3000 pcs of .45acp range brass. Got a big plastic coffee can cleaned, sized,primed, and belled. Already loaded a 100 last night. 5grains bullseye individually weighted between 3 scales didnt take long on a single stage. Running out of 230 hardball. Got my new mold in and cast idk how many 200 grn #68 h&g clone got them all powdercoated and am awaiting a .452 sizer and punch for my lee app to have more .45 to do. Will have to try different bullseye charges to see what works best. Also casted up about 30 or so 225 grn wfn .459 powdercoated, sized, and gc for the 45-70. I have about 20 different styles of bullets to try out in that yet

[Old colt]

Finished up a 6.5 grendel build. And put it through it's paces. Found a load of likes. Next is a bunch of Lee 200gr 45a to get coated. Funny how far behind you can get while renovating a house.

[Hanzy4200]

That Stribog 9mm looks Awesome.
I ordered a 7.62x39 AR Pistol last week, it should be in tomorrow.
I've got a bunch of brass for it already, but I'm not sure that I have an appropriate mold for it.
https://p1.gunbroker.com/pics/860371000/860371617/pix217005890.jpg

Other than that I'm still trying to get the Ruger Only 320 to fly straight in the 450 Bushmaster.

Looks like fun! You are gonna slap a "brace" on that girl right? The Stribog is my 3rd non-NFA SBR. Love them. Have a 5.56 and 300 blk. The SB braces are really nice, but if you don't want to spend much, KAK industries sells a kit including the buffer tube for around $60. I have one on my 10.5" 5.56. These braces really have taken AR pistols and the like out of the range toy category and into practical use. Once you shoot a 10" barreled sub gun it's hard to go back to a 16".

[kmw1954]

Lee 356-102-R1 have a bunch to size and tumble lube.
Lee 452-200 RNFP have two different loadings waiting to test fire if the range ever reopens.
Lyman 452-374 225gr RN also have two of these to test fire.
Lyman 358-495 148gr WC just received this mold and need to cast some.

Also started building a new bench for bullet casting. So far I think I have found the correct height.

[Shopdog]

Brand new,mid 70's Lyman 225415,the small version,black/white storage box.

Breaking it in today or tomorrow. I have other,VERY accurate 22 moulds but this one has always been on my radar. Loading for a "Sendero" (assemblage of parts) R700,14T 22-250. It has done very well with the Lee 225-55RF but,wanted to go even lighter.

[ubetcha]

I have a lot of bullets cast and everything load. Now can't shoot because the range is shut down until further notice due to the bug.

[am44mag]

I PCed a bunch of Lee 358-125-RF and sized them down to .356" for use in a 357 Sig. I have a whole pile of 356-120-TC to PC now.

I also plan on working up some loads for and reloading a ton of 7.62x39 just as soon as my order of powder gets here.

[Patrick L]

Add to previous list

Load another flat of 20 ga skeet loads. I know that's not a lot, but when you already have 10+ flats ready, sort of pointless

[lightman]

I've been organizing my brass stash and I'm about 90% through. I just about have my 45's and 44's ready to load and have enough bullets cast to cover them. I'm about to start loading for a 41 Magnum. I have 500 new Starline cases primed and ready to go and a new mold waiting to be used.

[Texas by God]

I need to load 30-30, 38-55, 44-40 with cast and .300 BO with j-words. Not quarantined yet.

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[ioon44]

I have been pulling .45 ACP 200gr SWC for a friend, he had a few cases rupture so decided to stop shooting the whole lot which is around 1000 rounds, this should keep me busy for a few days.

[oneofsix]

I found out approx a month ago that 650~ rounds of 45acp that I loaded a while back were not taper crimped properly and were causing failures to feed-
So I corrected that over the weekend.
Yesterday I started prepping about 1000 40S&W cases I've had cleaned and waiting for 6 years lol.

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[Wayne Smith]

Still working online, but playing retro - Husky 9.3x57 loads.

[tdoor4570]

getting ready to cast up some Lee 457-500F for my 1884 trapdoor using pyrodex RS. Brass is ready to go cleaned,primed,belled now just get out to shop and cast.

[ole_270]

Between casting and loading, my shelves are about to break down and my empty case containers are about empty.

[725]

Casting & prepping. Want to get ahead before the dreaded mowing season starts.

[Maineboy]

I just got done loading up a bunch of 30-30s. Last year I developed, mostly by accident, a super accurate load consisting of 25 grains of surplus CMR100, Winchester LR primers, and the Lee 150 grain FP. I shot them all up in my Savage 340, giggiling to myself as I did, and didn't try them in my Marlin 336 or Winchester 1894 so that would be a plan for this year. Because I can't leave well enough alone, I loaded some with 24 grains, some with Winchester magnum primers and also loaded up a bunch with the Lee "soup can" and the same charges of CMR100. It's still winter here so it may be quite a while before I test them.

[Mal Paso]

Think I'll clean up my Pro Melt 2. Now that it's "Rare" I should keep it pristine. LOL I cross pinned a six cavity and want to see how it casts.

[lar45]

Still working online, but playing retro - Husky 9.3x57 loads.
Hi Wayne, both Doc44 and I have 9.3x57 Huskys. I have a couple of really good loads if you want them. CFE223 and the 270 Speer was crazy accurate, but only around 2200fpsish. 4895 seemed to burn the best and gave 2550ish with a resized Speer .375" 235, which gave near 1" groups. Took a Deer with the 235, penetrated stem to stern and kept going.

[RogerDat]

Working on brass for 308 test loads to be loaded as time permits. Have about 100 annealed, sized, and trimmed so ready for powder.

Have some PC I can do as the weather has warmed up a bit outside making the garage more comfortable.

Have a brass MP mold that I have only cast 80 of one HP pin from. Three more pins to go and I would like 160 of each.

If I get incredibly bored I have a 5 gallon bucket of 223/5.56 to sort by head stamp. Then I could swage primer pockets, size, trim and put up for later. Saving that for if the internet breaks or all the streaming services die.

[robg]

cast some yesterday ,sized and lubed today ,cast some more tommorow. then load some up.

[jimb16]

Got the .38 specials done today. Tomorrow I'm going for the .45 acps. Then I'm heading for the .300 BLKs. When I finish with those, I've got a 5 gal. bucket full of 12 gauges waiting to be reloaded. After that, the 20 gauges are waiting. When those get done, I 've got a bunch of 16 gauges that are calling out. By that time, I'll need to start making shot again. Then.....

[Win94ae]

I had all my cast bullet shooting firearms stocked-up and ready for action before curfew, so I was zeroing my AK's red-dot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzqppW8fZQA
...I might load up some 38spl, since I do have a few thousand cases to fill; but I'll have to see what kind of powder is available, before I make my decision.

[Bad Ass Wallace]

25/20 and 218 Bee cases are on the unobtainable list down here. I spent yesterday necking down near 200 32/20 cases.

https://i.imgur.com/6AFUHJM.jpg

[Land Owner]

I took both a blue and a stainless Walther PPK completely apart (each by itself), sparingly polished mating surfaces, put them back together and took out some of the roughness and a little bit of the resistance in the trigger pull.

I had first done the same with my stainless Ruger SP101, completely apart, moderately polished, which helped lower its trigger pull and smooth the action.

I am considering powder coating (for the first time), 2500, Lee, 50 grain, 22 Bator boolits. Taking those to 223 caliber velocities would be a fun ride. Making them was hours and hours (and days and days) of fun dropping from that 2-cav. aluminum mold.

I need to reload 223 caliber, 55 grain, jacketed rounds for my AR15, but I don't have a single "accurate" load as the rifle is "inherently" accurate at my starting load when I put it down for larger caliber practice.

[gwpercle]

Casting Boolits , got some new moulds last year for my Model 58 S&W in 41 Magnum.

NOE 412 - 237 - SWC ( KEITH) Signature mould , 237 grain SWC , plain base (of course)

NOE 413 - 215 - WC (413432) This design is based on the Lyman 358432 160 gr. wadcutter .
I have some of these cast and sized .412" , even loaded some 41 mag. target loads with Bullseye , HP-38 and Red Dot but haven't got to the range yet to test them .

I have high hopes for the 41 wadcutter , the NOE 360 - 160 - WC , a recreation of Lyman's discontinued # 358432, that Al makes , seems to be more accurate in 38 special and 357 mag revolvers than the boolits I cast from my old used Lyman mould .... in fact , in all the testing I've done the 360-160- WC holds the accuracy record . I have been testing them the last few years in a model 64 S&W set up with a Millet SP-1 Red Dot sight...always trying for that mythical 1 hole group.
Gary

[Land Owner]

There is something visceral and primal in launching a stabilized "Ash Can" down range.

The WC boolit provides this useful Primordial Chemical Soup Cocktail.

[Conditor22]

loaded a bunch of 45/70 doing load development. Made a boolit trap to catch those 500 grainers - couldn't fathom throwing away 500 grains of lead per shot.

[Rug480]

Man I want to so bad, but we have a three month old so all my time is taken up helping out the wife. The irony kills me hahaha

[Iron369]

Loaded these up earlier today. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200325/311a51914941d31b827f876e8998d804.jpg

[2wheelDuke]

I'm still working at least 40 hours a week. I fear that may go up as more of our guys have to be quarantined. If I wind up in quarantine, I have a whole ton of cleaning and organizing to do in my loading area, not to mention loading.

I have been staying home alot more when I'm not on shift, and I have been loading up .45acp and tinkering with the new Lee Automatic Processing Press.

[kerplode]

I'm working from home, but doing some cleaning and organizing in the meantime.

Might head to the outdoor range if the weather holds and if it stays open...Otherwise might work on some 45LC and 45-70 loads. We'll see how it goes.

[Dieselhorses]

Everybody busy! That's a good thing! Idleness is the devil workshop! Now if you all load everything up, run outa brass, bullets, lead there's always "one more thing" you can do! That is to rebuild your spent primers! Yea, tedious process and I'm still in the learning stages but it can be done! Gonna come a day where no amount of hazmat $ will get you new primers. But of course, this is a last resort.

I'm painstakingly prepping 223 brass on one side of bench and loading on the other. You all be safe.

[Dieselhorses]

I found out approx a month ago that 650~ rounds of 45acp that I loaded a while back were not taper crimped properly and were causing failures to feed-
So I corrected that over the weekend.
Yesterday I started prepping about 1000 40S&W cases I've had cleaned and waiting for 6 years lol.

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Not trying to tell you what to do but 45 ACP usually doesn't need crimping. I do a very light taper crimp on mine but not a whole lot as the case headspaces in the chamber. But if it fixes your issue go for it! What 45 you got?

[oneofsix]

Not trying to tell you what to do but 45 ACP usually doesn't need crimping. I do a very light taper crimp on mine but not a whole lot as the case headspaces in the chamber. But if it fixes your issue go for it! What 45 you got?It would be more accurate to say that I didn't remove all of the belling when I first put the cartridges together- I could actually feel it with my finger.
Measured several samples from each box, case mouth was .473-.474.
Lymans 49th shows it should be .473 but comparing to some factory ammo, those were .469
I'm hoping to be able to do a little testing this weekend to confirm if bumping them down to .470 does the trick.

I'm shooting an XD service model (4" barrel, compact grip)

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[sledgehammer001]

I've been working up a cast load for my .380acp. Using Brazos Bullets 95gr cast RNBB, Hitek coated. Fuelling it with my stash of W540. Set my target up at 21ft. No chrony, sorry.
Started with 3.3gr and worked up 0.2gr a step. 3.3 was promising, but a little mild. 3.5 and 3.7 really opened up my groups. 3.9 closed it up to about 2" and still mellow recoil, no pressure signs. Next batch will be 3.8gr, 3.9gr and 4.0gr and I'll fine tune it.
Was nice to burn some powder, been too long.

[PAndy]

Working on 30-30 loads for silhouette shooting. Trying to find a subsonic load that will reliably shoot well out to 150 yards. Jury's still out. Good way to use some quarantine time.

[Randy Bohannon]

Between this , Iv’e been doing some paper patching a new dual diameter bullet from a mould from Steve Brooks for a Shiloh Sharps 45-70 it’s nearly a 45-90 with 82 grs of Old Eynesford 1.5 fg room for for more powder if I choose. Will chrono these next time at the range.

[Terminatorret]

PAndy, not to look as if I'm beating my own drum, but a few days ago I posted my results for subsonic 30-30 with red dot. May be of interest to you. I'd be very interested on what else you have come up with!

...Woops...apologies PAndy...you were a contributor on that post! BUT, I'm still interested in any new findings you may discover.

[Ron in PA]

Yesterday I loaded up 300 45 ACP. Today is my 45-70 run. I got 100 brass to load. Have a good self quarantine day.😙😮🤐😫

[Cheeto303]

Loaded these up earlier today. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200325/311a51914941d31b827f876e8998d804.jpg

They look like Easter eggs!

[Cheeto303]

I loaded 500 rds of 380 ACP with Berry's 100 gr flat base FMJ RN bullets I was given for my B-day. I then decided to load 100 rds of 32 ACP with a box of Hornady 60 gr FTX's I found in my "stuff" area. What a PIA. I loaded them on my Rock Chucker as I was only doing 100 rds. Those cases are tiny and of course I managed to "re-size" my left thumb. I think I'll switch to 38/357 today. I have a big ole pile of RCBS 38-150-SWC's. My thumb hurts. :)

[BrutalAB]

In February i loaded 1500 38 specials, filling a 50 cal can. At some point through the loading i read a way to make the lee auto drum not leak ( tighten the screw the holds the whole thing together) everything looked good and comtinued my standard practice of only checking upon stopages (refill primer tray, crushed cases, whatever else) and around the end found out that the super tight adjustment was preventing the drum from getting powder to drop occasionally.
Didnt think it was happening too often and decided to just shoot them up.

Ive shot up about 300, and probably have 50 squibs. This did prompt me to invest in a nice brass rod.

Im still working, but i do know what i have to do if we get shut down.

[Land Owner]

That's almost too brutal Brutal...gotta be done though. I had a similar problem with a few 380 ACP rounds, until I purchased and installed a Powder Checker die in the Progressive. Now I watch for the tell tale indicator prior to moving to the next step. It is like another pair of "eyes" in the process.

[roverboy]

Loaded up some .38 Specials day before Yesterday. Ran out of primers. Hope that's not gonna be a big problem finding more and not finding out that they are twice the price. Lol.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Been cleaning up my basement shop area after a couple years off from casting and loading. Tumbled brass and loaded up some .357.
Picked up some powder and primers while my gun store is still open. Loaded some gas checked .308 with 2400. Going to load some light 30-30 and .308 for clanging steel with, probably use Titegroup and Unique. We are at the start of mud season so that limits my boonies shooting excursions for a couple weeks.

[Walter Laich]

I've been casting 32, 38, 44 and 45 bullets. Do about 15 lbs a day and next PC and size

keeps me off the streets

[ioon44]

I cast 33 lbs of 9 mm .44 & .45 bullets yesterday and will coat them with Hi-Tek today. I am going to be really caught up on casting by the time we get back to shooting matches.

[la5676]

I've been casting 32, 38, 44 and 45 bullets. Do about 15 lbs a day and next PC and size

keeps me off the streets

Same here. If I'm gonna be part of this self-quarantined group, I'ma gonna make use of the home time. Been casting 9mm (four different profiles) 38/.357 (4 different molds), and the good old 45 ACP 230 RN. I'm up over 300# now should last me into '21 and '22, lead stores well ya know. Looks like this may go into another week, will prolly start on some rifle projos next week.

[rockrat]

Been setting up a new to me press to load 9mm. finally got the dies adjusted and ready to go. Have some 38's and 30cal to cast too.

[ndnchf]

Loading .32 Ballard Extra Long for a 100+ year old Remington rolling block. Collecting chronograph data too.

[gmsharps]

I have been casting before the hot weather hits and found I needed to have somewhere to store the boolits. I had a bunch of containers my sil gave me some time back and built some shelves for the containers. The containers hold about 25 lbs of boolits with 7 containers on a row and 5 containers high. Comes to about 1,000 lbs or so of lead but have a ways to go to fill all of the containers.

259215

gmsharps

[Jal5]

Doing some brass prep: decapped 9mm range brass today about 500 pcs. Will clean them tomorrow and start on decapping 45 acp

[jonp]

Been using up some Power Pistol in stuff I hadnt considered.

[FLINTNFIRE]

Been loading 45acp , using coffee cans and animal cracker tub thats a heavy one and licorice containers , ran out of powder went to look thinking I had another 8lb jug , big oops no jug , switched to loading 45gap almost out of 200 grain hollow point cast only a couple cans filled , went and loaded 30-06 as the oldest son wanted to fill his 2 bandoleers the LGS gave me , so a couple hundred of those , had to donate him some more enblocs , now its load some 55 grain psp for 223 and some 52 match hollow point I bought by the pound from lolo sporting goods a long time ago , 45 colt and 32-20 next on list as the new cases came in from starline , sounds like this group has their priority's straight .

[2A-Jay]

Loaded up another 100 rounds of .357Mag with 8grains of Unique, 125gr HornadyXTP

[Win94ae]

I ordered new powder, Ramshot Hunter to replace IMR 4350. I noticed the old IMR 4350 that was in loaded ammo, in my ammo box for 5+ years, looks different than the IMR 4350 in my newest jar. Maybe that is why my favorite load shot so badly, of course both powders were not shooting properly.

I tried load development with the old stuff. Ladder test went well, but the load I tried didn't shoot well, I'll try a different charge weight tomorrow.

[megasupermagnum]

Shotguns, lots of shotguns. Smokeless and blackpowder, cartridge and muzzleloader. 16, 12, and 10 gauges.

[dale2242]

45ACP. I have been working up loads with small primer pocket brass.
I am using 700X and now trying some 231...dale

[ioon44]

dale2242

I have really good results loading the .45 small primer using WSPM this gives me the same FPS as the WLP using 700X under a 200gr SWC coated with Hi-Tek.

[whisler]

Trying to develop a mild load for the wife's Keltec P3AT. She has wrist problems and can't take a snappy load. Using the Lee 105 gr. SWC.

[35isit]

Loaded 600 plus .357 magnums for IHMSA. 182 25-20 for IHMSA next up is a few hundred 7tcu and maybe 8-900 .38 specials. Lubed and sized about 700 .38 wadcutters.

[TyGuy]

I dug a bunch of the bullets out of my backstop, melted them down, and cast and powder coated some .311” bullets with the lead. Tried loading up some 7.62 Nagant for the first time and also sized a handful down to .308” to see if they’d work in my CZ52. The Nagant round takes some die (Lee) modification/substitution to get a workable result but they go bang and hit mostly where I ask them to. The Toks were functional as well though not quite as accurate as my other loads. Neither resulted in leading so that’s a big plus.

[robg]

did some casting prepped some brass .

[onelight]

You ain't just whistling Dixie. I'm going out of my head with boredom. In the past week, here's what I've accomplished in the reloading room:

Weight sorted, lubed and sized @ 400 .22 cast boolits
Ditto about 200 .30 cal.
These are for this summer's Highpower League, which in all likelihood will be cancelled

Loaded @ 500 .38 wadcutters
Loaded @ 350 .45 ACPs
Loaded @350 .44 Specials
Loaded 1 box .44 Mags (I baby my pre 29. I only run about 1 box of fairly moderate Magnums through the gun a year.)
Lube sized enough various boolits to replace all of what I used to load the above

Loaded 300 12 ga skeet loads.

Cleaned every handgun I own (that's quite a few.) They were already clean, but I'm bored. Rifles and shotguns on deck.

Started the grip refinish I posted about separately

Probably did more and just forgot. This sucks. I never thought I'd say I miss work!!
If your for rent I'd could use you for a couple of days in my loading / gun room :-D:-D:-D:

[wolf3006]

Loaded 150 45 Colts .Powder coated 250 40 cals.

[charlie b]

I am simply refining my casting techniques. Trying a bunch of different temperatures and pace. Cast up some bullets, inspect and weigh, make notes. Toss bullets back in pot. Change something. Repeat. Once I get my technique where I want it will cast up some more bullets.

Reminder, have to order some more lead :)

[Loudy13]

I have been going back and forth with trimming 223, shaking boolits, baking boolits, sizing boolits, loading 45 ACP, and 300 BO. If I ever get through all that I have more brass and bullets to combine and I just ordered a new mold to replace one I wrecked....so plenty to do! Still working but with a limited schedule so not getting cabin fever yet.

[Jniedbalski]

Did 600 or 700 32 acp .800 45acp .600 9mm. 800 40s@w now prepping 1000 223 brass. Iam almost getting tired of reloading .almost just like work. I was laid off work form a hotel. Then working one day a week now two.Iam only using my lee single stage press and lee anniversary kit. So that amount of ammo on a single stage press keeps me busy. Got my press bolted to a school desk top in the living room. My wife keeps asking me when Iam going to put my stuff up. I loaded this all up the last two weeks. More to go

[jimb16]

Actually, I've been reorganizing my ammo shelves and cabinets. I found 3 boxes of ammo for a gun I no longer have. Salvaged the primers and powder. Melted down the bullets for recasting. Tossed the brass in the scrap bucket. I've got a 5 gal. bucket nearly full now. I'm waiting for things to settle down before I take the brass in for recycling. By that time, I may have a second bucket full. That should be enough to pay for a keg of powder.

[Green Frog]

I had a batch of bullets that I got back the first week in December that needed to be sized and lubed. I got the solids sized and lubed and even added beagle's special gas checks for plain base bullets to 50 hollow points. I'm trying to build up my supply of loaded 32 S&W Long ammo for the range. I have several revolvers that use this caliber but my little I-frame 32 HE snub and my recreated K-32 are especially begging for some serious range time. Beagle sort of threw me a little curve when he suggested WW 231 for these bullets (now that it's been discontinued) but I found a pound of HP 38 which is the same and almost half a pound of the actual 231. This doesn't sound like much powder, but these little 32s only take 3.2 grains of powder per round, so even a half pound goes a long way!

I also tried to load some 38 Spl HBWCs with my old Dillon 550. It was acting cranky, so I may break out my old StarProgressive to continue loading the 38s, then when I get around to it, I'll tear the Dillon down for a much deserved and needed cleaning, I'll probably set it up for 45 ACP.

This enforced home time will give me the opportunity to do a lot of stuff I've been putting off.

Froggie

[Pete44mag]

Loaded 1000 each of 9mm, .38 special and .357 in the last week. Change the press to large primers then .45ACP, .41 mag, .44 special and .44 mag.

[engineer401]

I cast over 1,000 32 and 38 bullets. I'm trying my hand at powder coating for the first time. It went OK. I plan to hone the skill a little more tomorrow night. The powder came from Smoke4320 in record time. I had some nice talks with them. They're great people.

[mjwcaster]

Cleaning and organizing, moving my setup mostly.
Boy did I have a collection of junk.

Just loaded around 500 380’s from various batches of boolits laying around, some of which I normally would have remelted.
But I didn’t cast or reload much last year, low on ammo and my 380 is a pocket gun so as long as they don’t lead and leave the barrel straight they will be fine for holster work and instinctive shooting under 20yds.

Planning on shortening one bench tonight to bring it down to a better casting height, finishing up some leftover plated 380’s and resetting to load a couple hundred leftover 55gr Hornady SP in 223.
Then calibrate a new thermometer, check my convection oven temp and start casting and coating.

And if it ever dries out some berm mining is in order to further test out my new to me turkey fryer. My lead supply is down to just a few hundred pounds.


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[alfadan]

I'm pulling down about 600 8mm turk rounds to download 10%. glad I bought the forster collet puller!

[Shopdog]

Page 1,I was yappin about a NOS Lyman 225415.

The dang sprue plate holes are the same size(huge in 22 terms) as their .30 cal moulds. So took a little time and made 4 replacement plates.

Used 3/16",ground steel a bud gave me. Don't know the particular metallurgy but will ask when I see him. Machines sweet though. The Lyman's are "punched" 1/8" so,a little improved there.

Cutting,and finishing 4 took an hour. Then instead of just diving in on the holes,took a break from the shop and did laps mowing the grass. I "was" going to make a drilling fixture to use now and in the future but after thinking about it..... there's no real guarantee Lyman's fixturing is perfect and me basing another fixture off that is just begging for trouble.

Decided,each mould needs to be dialed in and have the plate holes to match. Takes longer to describe than laying out. We have surface plates,and a wheelbarrows worth of metrology tools. Anyway,layout was simple and drilled/countersunk the holes. Much smaller holes than factory. Only did the one,here it is back on the loading bench. Ran out of cold blue so left it in the white.

[charlie b]

Those of us who have used Lee molds know that the sprue plate is one of the more important parts of the mold (the place where Lee is a bit too cheap). Nice work and a good idea.

[ndnchf]

Maybe I've just been lucky with Lee molds. The only thing I do to the sprue plates is polish the bottom side when I first get them and add a screw to lock the pivot screw in place. They work fine after that.

[Hootmix]

Loading 44-40 w/ 215 gr. ( 427098 ) & 40-60 win. ( 403168 , copy) w/ my new BACO 2- cavity mould , Beautiful mould,, @ 11-13 BHN,, did 400 40-60 & ( already have 500 cast ) 300 44-40,, rain'n like crazy here ,, oh! well just have to cast more,, whaahaaaa!!!

coffee's ready ,, Hootmix.

[bikerbeans]

Casting and loading 69 cal round ball 12ga plinker loads for my son to burn up in his Komrade semi auto.

Casting 60 round balls and trying to work up a feral pig load for my Mossberg 500 20ga. Also loading and testing 20ga slugs from Fury Custom Bullets for the hogs.

BB

[tdoor4570]

getting ready to cast up some Lee 457-500F for my 1884 trapdoor using pyrodex RS. Brass is ready to go cleaned,primed,belled now just get out to shop and cast.

Got those done and went ahead a cast up some 410-195 swc for my wifes 41 mag. all powder coated and ready to go , now load up some test loads and head to the range

[rbuck351]

Making an upstairs bedroom into a bathroom so don't have a lot of time for reloading but while drywall mud and paint and such are drying I have been cleaning and prepping 22H, 22KH, 25/20, 256Win and 223 cases. I traded places with the wifes laundry room and my gun room this winter and I'm still trying to organize brass ,bullets, primers, powder, dies and all the other loading stuff that I've stuffed into the new smaller loading room.
What is this "bored" thing. I haven't seen such a thing since I got married 47 years ago.

[elmacgyver0]

I don't ever recall being bored. I can always find something to do.
Today I ground off the welds on the picatinny rail and removed it from my home built 50 BMG rifle.
Now I need to clean it up, make some kind of a jig to hold the rail in position and reweld it, hopefully straight this time.

[charlie b]

Maybe I've just been lucky with Lee molds. The only thing I do to the sprue plates is polish the bottom side when I first get them and add a screw to lock the pivot screw in place. They work fine after that.

I like Lee molds too, especially for the price. I've had many over the years. But, when you compare to a good quality mold there is a difference in the ease of casting.

[trixter]

I cast a bunch of Lee 358-105-SWC and powder coated them, then brought them inside and let them cure for a week. Then I ran them through the .357 sizer (the original style) and started loading them with my Lee Classic Cast Turret. They look so nice. Hopefully the weather will clear up so I can go shoot them, if not I will make some more.

[FarNorth45]

I was off work for 2weeks , and the wife is still out of work (no pay ) rrrrrh!!! So i casted and loaded several hundred each of 9mm , 45acp , 45colt , 45-70 , 30-30 and 8x57 . I've always wanted to try Paper Patching so i started my learning journey on my 8x57 Mauser . But this week they opened work up , and today they informed us we will go to lots of overtime starting tomorrow so paper patching is on hold for a while . Happy for the overtime because things was getting tight with the wife out of work , but i was burn out on overtime years ago Ha!ha

[2A-Jay]

I cast 200 .490 soft lead round ball today. might cast some hard lead.50cal Conical tomorrow.

[brass410]

cleaned up casting bench from last falls run of casting run of .460 for my 45-70. found a hole peanut butter jar full of 44's I had forgotten about and another full of 311 to be sized. guess I'll have something to do after all.

[Jevyod]

Cleaned off the load bench, cast 1200 RCBS 35-200 for my 358 win, pan lubed 150 of them, cast about 650 358-158 from my arsenal mold from the recent group buy, and powder-coated 200 of them, and been working on load development for the 2 bullets. I tell you, those Arsenal bullets (weigh in at 164 grains with powder-coat and gas check) loaded with 11.5 grains Unique for 1500 FPS are the most fun things to shoot. Puts a smile on my face, especially when I switch from shooting 20 rounds of the RCBS bullets at 2200 fps! Quiet, very minimal recoil, and should be able to get them fairly accurate. So far I have gotten 3/4 inch at 50 yards. Still room for imrovement there which is where I am going to work next.

[Mitch]

Been working on the varment rifles least best i can with the weather.so far i have my loads for 220 swift all done did about 270 rounds.shulld kill at of Ground hogs this summer.The bext thing is a remington 700 classic in 221 fireball.I am working up some loads for it.I have some test loads ready to go when i get a ggod day.40gr and 52gr bullets and LIL gun.CFE BLK and some H322 loads.id dint make many loads with the H322 thinking it is a bit slow for the 221.then some trigger tuning and a remington mod 7 in 243 and the fireball.

[MDC]

Loaded about 200 30 Carbine and 100 357mag. Cast, PC'd and sized +/- 400 311359 to replenish stock. Next will be casting 358156's because I ran out of those.

[Jal5]

After cleaning 1000s of brass the past several weeks I am starting to reload 9mm and 45 acp. Got a long way to go to fill all that shiny brass though!

[jimb16]

Not reloading anything right now. I'm all caught up! Pretty well caught up on casting too. I NEED some range time!

[sharps4590]

Loading, casting for, shooting and chronographing a bunch of stuff most folks have never heard of. Worked up not one, but two excellent loads for my Vierordt double rifle. Been burning some BP in a few cartridge rifles. Spring is trying to act like it's here so we've been in the yard, garden and flower beds a lot as well

[Boolseye]

Fortunate enough to be able to shoot on my land...I'm concentrating primarily on 9mm, I enjoy moderately hot cast loads that still retain a lot of accuracy. Current favorite is the Lee 125 gr. RF offering along with a charge of Accurate #7.

[trixter]

Replenishing my 9mm.

[ndnchf]

Making some long obsolete brass for a .44 cal rolling block from 303 British cases.