This ought to be interesting.. bookmarking this thread. :)
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I recently bought some 7.62 x 51 brass, once fired. I've been sizing / trimming / etc for the last couple of weeks. When I get done, I'm going to have LOTS of brass to load for that caliber. It's all WCC 13 too, no mixed head stamps.
I'm about half way there, but I also did some commercial .308 for my bolt guns along the way.
Sounds like a plan but you might want to read this little gem first.
http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_Contents.htm
It's in pdf or on line but I downloaded the pdf version.
When I see the name GONRA, the image of bad Japanese horror movies instantly spring to mind, think Godzilla VS GONRA, and the associated horrendous dialog.
Back to the thread original context: cast up 100+ .460 x 480 grain slugs. Pot drops pretty fast using a 4 cavity mold. Almost 2000 grains every cast you can almost hear the giant sucking sound as the pot goes down.
Mine is a reloading room / gun room so I was doing a bit of gunsmithing yesterday. I have a 30 year old (or more?) Rossi 92 SRC in .38 / .357 Mag that only has about 200 rounds through it so far. The action jammed open and won't close. It comes up hard against something inside the action and refuses to budge. Now it on the bench half apart (buttstock off, lower tang and hammer assembly removed, but it still won't close yet, so I will need to continue the disassembly until it will finally move forward. Sounds like the bolt retaining pin might have shifted out of place so will need to remove the lever and locking block and try to push it back over into the bolt body. Hopefully this will resolve itself with my tinkering and I won't have to take it to my local gunsmith in pieces in a box ...
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Was supposed to pull everything from the safes and give them their yearly cleaning. Was only able to get four ARs done because of the newborn. I realized I don't have a lot of them cataloged. So I'm going through and making a new list and taking pictures of them. I don't know how many I have and I really don't want to know the count. It may be time to sell some off because I don't shoot most of them. But I've only ever sold off two so I'm really hesitant to do so.
Got a Lee sizer in the mail and decided the size as shown isn't going to be large enough and decided to lap the die. Only problem is the calipers show 461 on both ends (this is a 457 die). So, I'm going to wait until I get some bullets cast and then lap the die to make it right on the mark.
I had a productive day, for me. I deprimed and resized about 750 .45 ACP and around 350 9mm cases. I've got around 4000 more 9mm cases to work on while I'm waiting for my .223 case trimmer to arrive.
Rick
Knocked out 50 Schofields ......... Then found that half wouldn't chamber freely ........
That'll teach me to trust the random measure as cast size and try to cheat .....
Made test rounds for subsonic 300BO, 150gr HP with trail boss and 230gr with IMR 4227. Trying them in my handi rifle tomorrow
Not a dang thing...... :sad:
Not sure I can even find my bench anymore.....too many irons, too many fires.
Sized, trimmed cleaned more 6.5 brass for the ljungman. Tomorrow loading more.
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