Reloading room? I have a reloading room? COOL! Been a really long week and chore list for tomorrow is pretty long and scary but someday I'll go looking for that reloading room. Always wanted one of those. ;-)
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Reloading room? I have a reloading room? COOL! Been a really long week and chore list for tomorrow is pretty long and scary but someday I'll go looking for that reloading room. Always wanted one of those. ;-)
My batch of gallery loads got a short trip through the crushed corn cobs just enough to remove any little patches of stray bullet lube on the exterior of the loaded rounds . When they came out of the tumbler they were nice and clean and went into six thirty caliber ammo cans for storage . Have enough to almost fill another can but likely I'll start shooting those up first using them right out of the big coffee can .
Jack
Powder coated then sized bullets for 30-30, 45-70 and some for 44 spl/mag and 44-40 that someone was kind enough to send me to see if I would like the mould as I need to buy one yet.
just finished casting a whole bunch of 9mm boolits, then loaded a box and a half of some that I had already loobed up. I think I gotta get a progressive press sooner or later.....
Who thinks this should be a sticky??? I DO! If there's a Moderator reading and you agree, please sticky this. We're 19 pages in now and it keeps building.
Wow...a post I started may get stickied?? That's awesome!
Tom, Thank you. That's a great idea, I'll see if I can find one. I did find a Pot Pie tin that I'm going to try, I don't think it will last too long though (thin aluminum)
taco650, I haven't really tried anything else I like the ideas. I cut down a pop can and that worked but it was hard to get the lead splatters out of it.
I don't see why this should become a sticky but maybe you could explain why you think so. I usually think a thread should be a sticky when it is heavy with techniques and data that will be referred to over and over. This thread seems to be more about normal everyday activities.
Tim
I checked to see what the inventory of on hand boolits is. I need to cast some LEE 125gr. RF and some LEE 200 gr. SWC H.&G. 68 clone with the BB removed by Buckshot.
Shiloh
Got side tracked and started cleaning and rearanging trying to improve storage. Found 2000+ .430 hard cast bullets, 3,000 165 gr 7.62 bullets, 10 pounds of R19 and 7 pounds of Unique that I did not know I had. Did not get cleanup finished but will stow stuff in the AM and get on with it.
Finished resizing all my 30-06 brass and miced a random sampling of the different headstamps. Looks like I'll need to trim the whole batch to get an uniform length before loading.
Spent four or five hours changing out the frizen on my rocklock. The frizen on my Investarm Hawkens just wasn't sparking right and I was getting misfires and hangfires. Did a little gunsmithing and was able to make a Siler small pistol frizen fit. It's a big difference, the flint hits the top two thirds of the frizen, not the bottom quarter. Going to a black powder shoot and rendevous this week and can't wait to see how the reconfigured lock works.
about 30 rounds of .30-30 win and 20 7.62x54r, and thats about it
De-prime and Wet tumbling some 44 Colt Brass and 454 Casull brass.
I started in on my next batch of used and abused mold rebuilds/cleanups today when a stuck sprue plate set screw held me up. I gathered up all my odds and ends handgun ammo for a 'clean out the old to make room for the new' range trip this week while they were soaking in some Evaporust. I never did find my easy outs since I cleaned up the shop last yesterday and probably put them in a nice safe place I can't find now.
I loaded MORE rounds in an effort to nail down a load for a new gun that I just got. FINALLY, I hit pay dirt and got it shooting on the money with just a small amount of sight tweaking...got to get the right load for those fixed sighted guns and this one proved to be a little daunting...but I prevailed.
i just wrestled with a vibra prime for an hour and a half. what a useless piece of manure.
anyone else have one?
Sorted all of the contents of ammo cans and re-canned a bunch of them to fit quantity better. Cast a few 38's and 40's as well. Oh, made another 40 pounds of alloy!
Haven't been in there all day, too pretty hereabouts to stay inside today. Going to slip in there in a few to put the two pounds of H4350 I scored today on the shelf. :-)
Oiled up the firearms,(rust is evil) and cleaned the work area.
Might even fire up the pot tonight. Find out if first session was lucky or good.
I was doing a small project out in the cave (a wooden box for magazines) and while I was out there I looked for and found an unopened pound of 4579. A guy in Missoula needed some and was willing to trade a pound of Unique for it. Now we just have to get together.
Sized and Primed some 45-70's.
Tomorrow drop some powder and load some 405 gr. Cast Boolits.
After years of loading 45 Colt 9mm 45 Auto I'm starting to load Rifle Cartridges.
I use Dillon Square Deal B for pistol and Lee Classic for rifle.
Loaded 50 44 mag rds with Lee 230gr SWC PC'd with HF Red. Rem LP primers sparking 7.5 gr of HP-38. Remington brass. Loaded 100 45ACP rds with Lyman 200gr SWC. Rem LP sparking 4.6 gr Red Dot. National Match 69 brass. Cleaned the work area prepping for a new storage cabinet. The old one is so full the shelves are bending (its plastic).
Ed C
Late yesterday afternoon I disassembled my swage press in order to make some revisions for an ejector to push the finished bullet out of the die. Got all the holes drilled today and tomorrow I will make the bar and connecting rods. Will post pics when I get it done.
I sorted and stored the range brass from yesterdays shooting along with range lead. Put away unused ammo and fired brass. Looked at the pot and was sad there was not enough time to cast and looked at the piles of bullets than need lube and was not sure what size they need to be. I think I am going to 0.310 on the 30 cal. was 0.311. I think I will hand lube the .22's and the 6mm are sizing off center and need a new plan.
Tim
Yesterday I set up my dies and press to load my 1st 9mm cast bullets. Looks like my 2 guns will plunk the same sized rounds. I was able to get bullets that are .3565 to load and and chamber correctly without reducing the size during seating and/or crimping. Gonna try to get some test rounds loaded and head to the range on Saturday.
Loaded forty test rounds for the two twenty-three Remington , hope to test them tomorrow .
Jack
Loaded my first rifle bullets today, 45-70. I had melted the wheel weights and cast them into ingots, then cast the bullets and then powder coated them and today loaded the rounds. Tested some in my Marlin LTD V and they seemed to work fine.
Lubed and sized a buncha 30-30 brass, and have some sweet new 40cal HC from 4given to make some food for the 40's.
Tumbled around 800 9mm cases and sized/lubed 300 9mm boolits. Loaded 200 rounds of the same
Sorted through a pitcher full of assorted range brass and deprimed it all. Ended up with about 200 9mm, 150 .38sp, and 50 .45acp ready to be polished...
200 230g powder coated LRN
#150 LPP Mixed brass
5.6g Unique COAL 1.25
cast 163 158g lee 357 boolits then lubed in lla,probaly load them up tonight.only had 1hr free.
Moved both presses to a different part of the bench. Gives more working space where I need it.
I cleaned up the mess from the last reloading session. I am out of empties so now I need to go shoot.
I spent nearly the whole day in there. I cast about 600 boolits for the 38/357 then sized and lubed them. In the afternoon I loaded 300 rounds for the 9mm, 150 rounds for the 38, and 250 rounds for the 40S&W.
I got a lot done.