I think I have worked out the sizing for the .243, if I am real careful, go slow and back off and restart a couple times each stroke I can keep them from sizing off center. I got 25 good ones with only 3 bad this evening.
Tim
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I think I have worked out the sizing for the .243, if I am real careful, go slow and back off and restart a couple times each stroke I can keep them from sizing off center. I got 25 good ones with only 3 bad this evening.
Tim
Measuring and figuring for expansion. Going to slide in an old metal office deck which will give the gunvise a new home which will free up a bench which will have a turret press and a single stage which will cause the mec loaders to be moved which will cause a moving of the safe-not far only a few feet on a concrete floor in the basement. Kind of a rearranging kind of thing!
I love the old SteelCase desks. They are built like tanks! I have my 1000# lathe mounted on one and use another for my casting bench.
I have the matching armoire, on one end a Mec 9000 in 410 and on the other end an old Mec 762R grabber in 12 ga. It has 2 sliding doors on the front of it and I keep all my shotgun shells on one side and bullets primers etc on the other side.
I went through all of my random brass last night to consolidate and straighten up that area. I never realized I had so many duplicate bags and containers of the same thing. The goal this year is to finally settle on one or 2 loads in my Security Six, and putting away all of the .38 Spl brass and getting out more .357 was the start.
Cast bullets for .357 with my new Accurate mould.
Stuffed some 2400 into a few .223 cases looking for accuracy .
Jack
I loaded my first two boxes of 12 gauge! And made a mess.....
Mauser48, did your buddies not tell you to mount the press above a cookie sheet pan to catch the shot and powder that you will spill??
You can use these or you can get cheaper ones :)
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Mike
" I am out of empties".............." I am out of empties"....................." I am out of empties"
Sorry, nope I just can't wrap my mind around that. :-P
Spending the day doing a little early Spring cleaning. It's nice to open up the shop and let some fresh air circulate!
I am about to see if I have to wade to the shop or if my back yard has drained from the rain the last two days.
Tim
I finished installing my second safe (locking metal cabinet) bolting it to the floor and wall.
I picked up a Winchester 24 gun at TSC this week at a very good price.
I am having a serious case of buyers remorse over this one.
Turns out it only looks really strong :-( and the nice price was about appropriate for what it is.
IMO It is really a fancy locking metal cabinet, I think they have a lot of nerve calling it a gun safe.
Better than a cardboard box or wood and glass gun cabinet.
It in no way compares to the Winchester 24 gun I bought 10 years ago made in USA
Seated some gas checks on thirty caliber bullets . Loaded some RCBS 22-55-FN into some two twenty-three cases .
Jack
Sized some more 6mm bullets, reject rate for off center sizing is still too high.
Tim
Powder coated and sized .357 bullets today.
Loaded up some 145gr .357WC over 3.4gr of BE. I have a 4lb jug that has been sitting on my shelf for a few years and decided to use it up.
Loaded up 400 rounds of .357 with left over bullets from molds I sold this winter and some Clays I am trying to use up. Next up is loading the last 600 rounds of swaged .38 HBWC's that I cleaned up and relubed after someone gave them to me and then promptly forgot on the shelf. I hate to melt down useable boolits when I can load and shoot them instead.
Looked in the door. :-( Tomorrow is range day so I'll have some feedback from the rounds I loaded a few weeks back. May sort some WW's tomorrow, scored an 80# bucket this week and have four about like it in the shed. May get to do a smelting session in a week or two.
Yes, I could run out of primers, been there before and I am down to 1000 large rifle. Out of brass, no way and the solution to that is easy, just go shoot some to make more empties.
Tim
Had a little time after splitting wood and before supper so I got 20# of monotype rendered and poured into ingots.
Could not sleep this morning so made a couple hundred 30 cal gc's from doubled .006 copper sheets.
Lab
Powder coated several hundred bullets for 9mm/38 Super. Then I set up one of the Dillon's to do .357.
Reloaded 5 boxes of 12 ga shells, loaded 20 test rounds of 357 max, and installed 2 grind to fit recoil pads on my buddy's shotguns
Had a good weekend... My shooting bud and I built a new bench, 10'x27.5". This thing is built old school stout, now to get some special carpet on it and the presses and such. We have $125 in this, we did have to buy most of the lumber and the fasteners.
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Then I hung a range hood above the casting bench and now I can get the flex duct and dryer vent for it!
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Nice bench, mattw!
Too pretty around here today to spend much time in the reloading room, I grabbed an armful of test loads and headed for the range!
I poured about 300 boolits from a Winchester 32 WCF mold I recently acquired. Plan to feed these through a Colt Police Positive and a Winnie '73.
Thin Man
Prepped about 200 pieces of 223. Nothing but trouble I've written about elsewhere but learned a few things too. Setup a table giving me extra work area in the reloading space.
Today I cast some .45 ACP bullets, I also honed my lee sizer out to a true 452. I drilled and tapped 2 lee molds to accept a set screw for the sprue plate screw. Tumbled some brass and deprimed some other brass. I love snow days.
Sad to say, i did not work in the reloading room. I worked outside on my boat. 55 degrees... A beautiful day.
Put a brand new RCBS .310 sizer die & top punch into my Lyman 450. Hope to get the lube melted and poured into the reservoir tomorrow. Hope it stays soft enough in my unheated garage to size some boolits cuz I don't have a heater.
I use a small propane soldering torch and heat up the casting a little. Some put a 100 watt work light up to it.
Loaded about 200 rounds of .357.
I ran about 400 pieces of 40 s&w brass thru the Lee bulge buster and left them in the tumbler to polish. This was after I "unlocked" a friends M&P 40 that had jammed up on a glock bulged brass. I warned him of the possibility (experience speaking) :smile:
Loaded some 44 special for the flattops.
Now, it is time to warm the 429421 up for a session.
Loaded 50 303 Savage with a NOE 311291 169 gr. .311'' atop 16.5 grs. 2400
Horace
Yesterday, loaded up some powder coated boolits:
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Today, coating some more boolits:
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Tried out my new .356 Star sizing die from Lathesmith finally. And a punch.
Pumped a buncha 356-402 120gr TC lube gruves full of Blue Angel hard lube.
Then I ran outta boolits. Too cold and rainy outside to cast more so I played pinball.
The best thing about pinball machines in the reloading room is you can play a pinball machine for hours
and when you stop you have the same amount of powder and primers as when you started!