Casted up some 200 grain group buy .360 HP out if 16/1.
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Casted up some 200 grain group buy .360 HP out if 16/1.
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Installed a flexible led light on my 550 to match the one on the 650.
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PC’d all of them today. Mostly clear PC. I mixed smokes purple and black together and had some blue flakes that stuck to the boolots that I did not get wiped completely out of my separate bounce container to knock off the uneven build up after tumble coating. The blue and purple are my rejects as they had flaws and the HP cavities were a little oblong. I just had fun testing colors on them. I’ll use them for plinking and sighting my gun before testing loads.
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Spent 4 hours in the garage casting 22lbs worth of MP227-75grain boolits. It was from a harder alloy and they came out at 68.8 grains on average. The mold drops WW at 70-71 grains. Calculator says I made around 2300 boolits. I need more gas checks and powder.
Put away tools and cleaned up mess in my reloading room. Admired the cabinet I built yesterday to house my collection of molds.
Wayne
Wife was watching Q stuff, so I went in and cast about 600 125 grain 357s for my 357 sig setup... Will GC and PC those guys in the next couple days.
One thing that might be post worthy is that I don't think that I have that many gas checks. But I do have a PM GC maker for 35 cal... So maybe I'm making GCs this week..
I machined a batch of cases for my 44 rimfire/centerfire 1870s vintage Remington rolling block. This is a real oddball that takes an externally lubricated, 218 gr heel bullet. I made a video showing how I do it.
https://youtu.be/iVzb4WopeAM
I boiled my tools.
Well actually it was more like an initial simmer and then a steeping with the heat off.
I had been using muriatic acid on my bench top for zinc detection. The pegboard of hand tools right above it did not care for the fumes. A few days later I grabbed one to use and found it heavily rusted on the exposed side. All the others were in the same condition.
After I finished cussing my stupidity, I remembered the thread here about citric acid for brass tarnish removal. There was mention there that it removes rust from steel. Well, it works! A soak in a hot 10% solution took off the rust. Granted, the tools aren't pretty with the finish gone, and the badly rusted ones have surface pitting, but at least they're functional (and coated in Sheath and with the acid now removed).
Loaded 6 boxes of 12 ga for doves this season.
Smoked 4 bacon wrapped pheasant breasts and then set up to load Norma 203b/52 gr Hornady match in the 22-250-50 of them. It’ll take most of the week.
.458 and 45 acp bullets
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I have a machinists vise that belonged to my grandfather; it may have been made in the 20's or 30's. It had gotten so rusty that it wouldn't slide back and forth anymore. I had the same light bulb moment you did, and soaked it in a citric acid solution. It cleaned up to a perfectly functional condition. I still use it regularly.
Wayne
Went to the garage and decided to clean it out. Threw out a bunch of stuff, hung a bunch of tools, cut the rickety bench the last owners left in half and shortened the legs. Made a casting bench out of it just tall enough to match my folding camp chair. Powerwashed the cement slab. Looked so good after it dried, I broke in the bench and cast 300 Accurate 31-157's for the 30-30 I haven't shot yet.
Picked up about 1500 lbs of wheel weights from a local tire shop. I have to go pick up two more buckets tomorrow. My poor truck was squatted down too far to risk adding any more weight. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ae0f401a70.jpg
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Nice haul!!
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Loaded some 32 S&W long for my vintage Colt and newly acquired H&R 732. Tim
Ps: what is a bench top?
Sorted by weight the best of the last batch of lee c309-180-R I cast. Got 85 ish within one grain separated by .5gr increments and ordered a .313 and .309 Lyman lube sizing dies and a #467 top punch