Cast up about 15lbs of bullets for my 444 & 45/70. Headed to the local scrap yard in the morning to see what goodies they have.
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Cast up about 15lbs of bullets for my 444 & 45/70. Headed to the local scrap yard in the morning to see what goodies they have.
Emptied my pot of rifle bullet lead and loaded with pure. Cast about 100 1oz slugs
Spent the day reorganizing brass and accessories on the brand new shelving that my brother-in-law built for me down in the reloading room. I love it, it's getting so that I can actually move around down there without tripping over "stuff"! I'll try to finish up organizing the last of it tomorrow and then on Thursday I'm taking him up to my local club for a day at the range in appreciation of everything he's been doing around the house for us while he's been out here visiting.
Loaded 100 rounds 9mm.
Finally bit the bullet and took apart one of my Dillon 550b to clean and lube, also set up a new 650. Hope to load 45 acp this weekend on the 650.
Just finished up my 3rd evening after work annealing military 30-06 brass. All once fired and have not swaged the primer pockets yet. 994 pieces.
Wow did that ever suck eggs.
Another day organizing and filling up my new shelves down in the reloading room. A LOT of stuff finally got off the floor and out of boxes. I can actually move in there now!
This came home with me today.
Hatfield .410.
Wal-Mart special 99.00
Now i need to decide if i want to reload it or not.
Realoding brass looks like fun.
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Over the past couple of days: Smelted wheel weights for the first time ever. Cast a few 148gr wadcutters from the wheelweight to use to test hardness in 7 days. Two air-cooled, two water-dropped. Loaded 4 different loadings of 38 Special using a Lyman M-Die for the first time ever. Mic'd samples of the two commercially cast bullets I used for the 38 loadings. The 148gr double end wadcutter averaged 0.3581, but the 158gr LSWC averaged 0.3574". I'll chronograph these loadings tomorrow.
North East - we have had a nice break in the weather....got out to cast 15# of 9mm, Tumble lubed about 38# of them with JPW LLA mix, no solvent. Ordered a Lee C309-170 FP, going to get into gas checks and set up my deer rifle with CB. I have taken three deer with hand loads, now want to add a CB. I hope to have it dialed in for this November.
Matt
Sized, checked and lubed some 44 pills cast from a Lee C429-240-SWC mold.
Absolutely nothing! In appreciation of all the work he has done for me lately installing some new shelving in my reloading shop I took my brother-in-law up to my local range today with four different rifles (a .223, a .300 Blackout, a .30-30 and a .25-06) and he made a bunch of live ammo into empty brass that will now need cleaning and reloading! He had a great time ...
Worked on developing new loads for my new 452-200RF mold. In batches of 10 rounds using W231 in increments of .2gn from 4Gn to 5.3gn
We had a work day at the range today and I picked up 30# of scrap while I was there, came hole and smelted it and cleaned up the shop a bit , casted up some 22 bullets lastnight , testing out a new 6 cavity mold from lee...I can already see that I may have a few 2 cavity molds for sale .Attachment 189640Attachment 189641Attachment 189642
Finally installed the damn ceiling fan! Tired of sweating like a .... in here. :)
Cast up over a hundred .452-200grain RNFP for the .45 colt project, SS pin tumbled a load of 9mm,.38's and some rifle rounds together!!! Cleaned, washed, drying out now!!! Rearranged the loading room, cleaned up, put away, you guys know this drill!! Yesterday, loaded some 300+ 9mm's plus shot some PC'ed 230 grain ,45;s for function test. Boy, do I love 700X! it was a good day, Tater!!!! LOL.
sized and deprimed a few hundred 300 WSM cases for my neighbor. was gonna do some casting but still finishing the new work bench. ( think I'll cast in the morning)
Tried powder coat for the first time. Really disappointed that it wasn't brighter than this. But can't really complain, they didn't fall over in the oven and was able to do it without BB's. Plus they passed smash test.
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Harbor freight red and Lyman 311410
I fired up a new in the box MasterCaster shot maker the other day. After an initial failure due to the item sitting in the box since the 70s and some oxidation on the aluminum chute, I polished it down with some 600 grit paper and the second run was a huge success. I made 5 pounds of #8-9 shot in no time. I ordered a 12x12 screen of the appropriate size to sort out any bits that aren't quite right from McMaster-Carr. I'll cast more today - its dang neat watching drops of lead fall out of the jets and into coolant. Its fast too. They will work great from knocking over steel or bangin' steel plates for cowboy shooting.
Last night I started pulling the handle on the Master Caster for 2,000 130 grain RNFP for cowboy shooting (see a pattern here...). I'll pull more on it today.
So many projects these days...