coating ~20lb of dewc with hitek copper in batches. melted down some larger tin (5-6lb bars) into smaller bits to work with. next will be cleaning the reloading bench off again and picking what caliber to load up next, I think 44 magnum sounds good.
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coating ~20lb of dewc with hitek copper in batches. melted down some larger tin (5-6lb bars) into smaller bits to work with. next will be cleaning the reloading bench off again and picking what caliber to load up next, I think 44 magnum sounds good.
Cast a few over 1,200, 124 grain TC 9mm projectiles. They came out great! Still saving for the conversion kit and dies for the Dillon but at least I'll have the projectiles ready so I can start cranking them out once the parts get here.
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Waiting on my 38/357 mold to be refurbished then I'll be casting a bunch of those up so I can get back to reloading.
Mixed up a half gallon of Ed's Red and a quart of Ed's lube. Also bought a toaster oven at Goodwill for 4 bucks. Soon i will try my hand at powder coating.
where did yall find the liquid wax for bll? I checked the grocery store and local wally world with no luck. Just curious if its a regional item perhaps.
It seems J&J has stopped making the liquid floor wax. There is a thread here somewhere where they are discussing alternatives.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...id-Lube/page45
Cast and loaded more Lee 1 oz slugs.
Started off pulling out the shop vac and sucking up around a half pound of walnut/corn cob media I spilled yesterday while trying to separate some brass form it. That stuff is like little tiny ball bearings when it hits the floor form about 3' up. WOW....
Then I fired up the little shop heater, and once it got nice I hit the progressive and loaded 500 rounds of sorted 9mm ammo. Some of it was Berry's though, so only 200 of it counts right now as cast loads from the MP 356-125 mold. I'll be putting together another 2-300 after supper of powder coated Lee 124's like pictured above.
Then tomorrow, I will be pouring up who knows how many HG-68's along with another decent supply of the 130's and 78's, and last but certainly not least some of the MP 452-200 HP's. Hopefully I will be able to load these up shortly, once I finish replenishing my 9mm rounds.
finished installing my bench, put up shelves, unloaded powders and put on shelves. Bolted the Breechlock to the bench. Still have much more to do before it is setup enough to start reloading... a little at a time
Sized some 300 Savage brass, it's in the cleaner now. Range day tomorrow so I better get up early and continue up the ladder with my test loads. This cartridge and boolit like to go (relatively) fast, could be fun.
Had friends over one of whom was interested in checking out the reloading process because he is thinking of getting into reloading. He left here with 35 rounds of cast 45 ACP he made himself on my Lee turret. All plunk tested in his 1911, his wife an mine came to the bench and learned what the heck we were up to in each step then went and talked 38 revolver vs Glock 9 by comparing their respective handguns. BTW - she cooks very well too.
Not today, but yesterday, I loaded some 180gr wadcutters up for the 44mag lever...and dog if I didn't go out and shoot all that I loaded. SO, now I have to start all over.
Cast about 600 9mm projectiles then sat there and stared at my Dillion 650 wishing I had the conversion kit to load these bad boys up, sitting at around 2k projectiles for 9mm.
Saturday: Caught the mailman, and asked "No Package?", he went back to his truck and sure enough there it was, the new ram for my Pro 2000. Opened it up and installed it carefully, lubed it and the lower pin set and loaded 200, 223's. WOOO Hooo, it is good to be back in business. Then I cleaned the reloading table and Today, after church, and before Super Bowl, i'll go to Sportsman's and get some consumables.
Loaded up some test loads using some Hitek coated boolits I purchased at a gun show. I have used that particular boolit without the coating and it worked well so I am looking forward to the results.
In the process of building another (new) reloading bench.....need more reloading space.
Loaded 100 223 coyote loads for a friend. He's got a big coyote competition coming up next weekend.
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Added another Star. Made the base mount with heater and now working on fabing up a bullet feeder.
Loaded 15 "try" rds for the 300 Savage just in time for a range trip. One worked quite well. Came home and decapped/resized the cases and they're back in the cleaner with some 45-70 cases.
Dried some mixed caliber range brass and sorted. I also cut around 1/4" off a .380 mag to fit another .380. I made two tiny wings to hold the slide on plastic bottom. I was 99% done when one side snapped (fell) off. The dremel wheel must have made it brittle, or the harden metal isn't made to be bent. I then re-fixed the old mag.
Sat in the reloading room for hours feeling over whelmed, seems I lost my load book in the move from Ca to Oregon. I dont remember what powders I used with what calibers so I now have to start over (I bought multiple powders for each caliber to try) Primed a couple hundred each of 44 Mag, 300 Savage, 6.5x57, 7mm Mag, 45-70 and 35 Remington.
Its going to be a long road to get load data book re-done.
Busy weekend!! I received my new Lyman M expender dies on Friday, and messed around with them a little. Loaded some 45 for next weeks shoot, and also started working on a WC load in 38spc. I have a ladder loaded up from 2.8-3.4gr and hp38/231. now I have to find time to get to the range and test them. Did a lot more cleaning and organizing of all my stock. Getting a handle on it...
Yesterday kicked out 400 9mms. My back didnt let me finish the run of 500 I was going for. So I took to the drafting table to make a new shooting bench. Got my lumber list ready will head to the yard this morning.
Made another test load for Unique and Berrys 115 plated in 9mm. Also cleaned up the reloading area adding a longer bench too. Next task will be adding more shelving.
Now that is certainly depressing. The only good point is it gives you a good excuse to do a lot of shooting and experimenting.
I cast a little over 500 of one of my favorites tonight, NOE-360-150-SWC. I tumble lubed them and set them out to dry. Tomorrow or Wednesday I will size them and have them ready to load.
While I was waiting for the pot to heat up, I loaded 100 rounds of 9mm for blasting/practicing. Lee 356-120-TC over 6.0 of HS6.
This could be a nightmare for Doc if he has a lot of custom rifles and pistols. I would not know where to start if I lost my load data. I guess it would not be so bad if I only loaded Jword bullets but cast projectiles and custom guns uggg. I hope it shows up in another box Doc H.
Oh for the reloading room not sure this counts but it is where I stock my loaded ammo. I scored 12 boxes of bird shot today for 3 dollars a box. So I put it away in the reloading room. .14 cents a round not bad.
Tough break, Doc. Hope it turns up soon. I spent a little quality time with my load book tonight. My new 45-70 made a big dent in the 40 hunting rounds I loaded a little over five years ago. It seems I've only fired 10-12 rounds with my favorite thumper (including sight-in rounds) over the past five years, nearly half of them put meat in freezer. That RD 460-350 is a pretty awesome hunting boolit, not much fun for plinking. ;-)
Wow, that's a bummer. Hopefully it'll turn up.
In the mean time, you can recover anything you've posted online. On google you can do a site selected search, like this:
If you post to other sites, substitute that forum name.Code:site:castboolits.gunloads.com "the real doc holliday" 45-70
Coated a few batches of boolits with Hi-Tek, re-sized and reloaded some .44-40 and .38 sp. Was going well until spilt powder jammed up the Pro 1000 primer feed.
Cleaning empties right now.
Well maybe in front of the reloading room, but rendered the lead out of one and a half Homer buckets of clip on wheel weights.
Put together three AR lowers. Put together two AR uppers. Having issues w/ the FA binding on the thrid one when the roll pin is installed. I think the FA is out of spec. Going to try to file the flat down a little tomorrow.
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Cast boolits for 32WS, 300 Savage and 38-40. Sized the 32WS & 300 Savage boolits and HT'd them. Replaced the diaphragms and safety bolt in the air compressor for my aerobic system. Loaded 20 "try" loads with a NOE 311041 clone and a PB RD/NOE 311-165 over 10grs Unique.
38-40 boolits were cast in my new Accurate (40-180A) mould, simply awesome. 32WS mould (323-170A) from Accurate perfomed quite well also. Finally figured out the NOE RG mould and it truly does rain boolits....but I was only doing a short run so had to quit as soon as things started going well.
OK, the compressor (and aerobic system) are actually just outside my loading room....but I used my gunsmithing screwdrivers so that ought to count for something. ;-)
I spent the day in and out of the reloading room. Mostly keeping an eye on the fire since it was going -40/-50 last night. No the wood stove is not in my reloading room. Hence the in and out. Anyway i had some flat wire in 18' lengths sitting around. After a few bad designs I finally got a good one. I made clay pigeon clips to hang from a branch or line. I had the idea after seeing some sure clips being used by one of the youtubers I dont care for. Some of these youtube channel guys are always plugging things buy this buy that. Instead I made a few.
Thanks. I started trying to use old coat hangers but soon learned round wire was harder to make work. Like I said had the flat stuff sitting around left over from another project.
For those who wish to buy clips these are great and priced cheap. Get the 50 round yellow bag that way you wont loose them and can send me 10 for turning you on to them. LOL Just make some its simple and well we all are DIY's that is why we are on this forum.
Link- http://www.suresiteinc.com/hangers.php
I loaded 50 6.5 jdj for fire forming. Waiting for the weather to improve to try them out
I loaded some test rounds for my 357 mag using 296 and IMR4227 with 158 grain XTP hollow points and 359156 boolits.
Hopefully I can get out in the near future to test them. We are having heavy snow at the moment.