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Decided to wait until spring to paint and stencil the cans . Instead I lubed and sized about a thousand 225462's for the project . Also loaded MD of .223 Remington gallery loads .
I may have to warm up the pot before this is over .
Jack
Today I casted probably close to 1000 9mm boolits of the Lee 124gr RN tumble variety (6 holes). Will be powder coating them sometime in the next week or two.
New to the forum, thought to add what little bit I did today. Cast a little over 100 HBRN Lee 405 gr 45-70. Still new to casting and really appreciate the help from my mentor, Fuzzy Foster. Thinking they're going to shoot okay. First pass at casting was last weekend producing a little over 200 .454 RB. Some look really good, some like wrinkly old farts (like me.)
Now, to figure out the lube problem on the 45-70. Double alox doesn't seem to help. Gotta try something else.
I turned down rims on 20 pieces of 50-70 brass and formed them to 12x44 Swedish, loaded them with Pyrodex and 365 gr. LFP.
Tim
Got the parts in the mail yesterday for my press. Reassembled it checked everything and loaded about 500 rds 45ACP with Lee TL 452 200SWC. I'm back in business.
I read a lot here, and hopefully contributed to the knowledge base.
Just adding to the list, cut BO brass, PC a bunch, try Smoke's powder, process a bucket of fired brass, load some BO & 30/30 - but it's too darned COLD in the garage. We did get 1" of good soaking rain last nite.
Still getting a little leading toward the muzzle. Have backed the powder down to well within trapdoor, using over powder card with HB 405gr Lee cast. I've been double tumble lubbing, which did improve the leading a bit. So, my buddies tell me leading toward the muzzle usually points toward lube issue. Thinking I'm going to give the 45/45/10 found here a try with my next batch.
Thanks!
I've had 500 pcs. of 7.62 Nato brass for a while and haven't done anything with them yet. Decided to get them all press ready. I figured I'd do 50 or 100 at a time until they're all done. Did the first 50 today.
I loaded 50 rounds of 9 MM. Sized and lubed 500 - 9MM boolits. Dusted off the Dillon calendar pics on the wall............. The Dove
Deburred 400 06' cases, powder coated 500 30 cal pills, gas checked and ran through the star, loaded up 200 rounds with imr 4895 and tumbled a couple hundred 22-250 cases.
Lab
I went thru a few hundred 9mm cases, culling and smashing all the AMerc brass, and got the good stuff primed. I only had a dozen or so that went into the scrap bucket this time.
Took a bit of time today to be in the ManCave. Sized/lubed some BRP 378-270 HP's and metered/weighed out some Varget to put in some shiny 375 H&H brass. I seated these boolits in the cases, put a light crimp on with the Lee collet FCD and will be testing for cold weather performance this coming Tuesday morning.............suppose to be 11-12 degrees F with light variable wind from the north when I plan on testing.
Cast 9mm, 45acp, and Tokarev bullets. Tumble lubed them all. Replaced the decapping unit on my RCBS .303 BR die, and then sized and primed some brass from my last range find. Loaded up some Tokarev rounds with 700x, developing a load that will function my Tok. A good day. :)
Cast up a bunch of crappie jigs and powder coated them. I was really bored.
It was cold, wet & rainy here today. Cleaned & polished a bunch jackets made from .22LR cases getting ready for making a bunch of AR .223 plinker ammo.
on Thursday I got tired of dealing with the having to mount and unmount my single stage press, so I pulled EVERYTHING out of the "dining room". and put it in the living room.
Friday, I went to the local office supply, and bought a 6 foot tall, heavy duty set of shelves, installed them in a L pattern to the original loading desk, (moving it out 18 inches) and then proceed to put everything back, and reorganize. On Saturday, the "final touches" (never really final are they) were implemented, giving me about 80% more room. I am now set up to load either press in a more organized pattern.
Today, I finished trimming cases, and tomorrow when the grandson is at school, I will pound out 200 card wads, and when he gets home, we will finish the blanks for my Henry.
Not a thing. Wasted weekend. :-(
Got up Sat morning with good plan and intentions.
Ha.
Grand kids showed up with plans for me to take them shopping. Took all day so postpone til Sunday.
Got family off to Sunday school and built a fire in the basement. Drama queen G Daughter shows up with a terrible (to her) problem.
Late in the evening I found a new (to me) office chair at GoodWill, for the casting bench.
Maybe after getting the G Kids off to school, I can start Sat. over.
I did have fun with the Kids though. I wouldn't have it any other way.
yes, I do, however there are much better pics on loading benches than mine. Also the large window is in the background, and the pics are not too good. I will share one, but as I say thee are better ones than mine, this will work for me
I let everything have the day off.
Sorted a couple hundred 30-06 cases by headstamp, decapped them and started to resize them on the Hertzer single stage press I picked up at the last gun show.
Unpacked the Sedgley Springfield 30-06 which came from my dad's collection and gave it a good cleaning. Need to use it to check some 150 grain condom bullet reloads that just are not working in my BDL 700 in 30-06. Going to try some cast plinkers in the Springfield next.
loaded up 100 rounds of 45 auto rim with 452423 and 6.5 grains of unique
loaded up 50 rounds of 45-70 with the lee 457-405 and 11 grains of unique.
switched over the dillon from 45 AR to load some more 38 specials. I ran out of brass recently, but i scored 500 more mixed cleaned once fired.
that should keep me loading for another night or two.
can't wait to hit the range this week
Turned down the rims on 20 Bell 50-70 cases, sized them for 12 x 44 R, loaded them and tested them on Sunday along with 9 made from 348 Win brass. Cleaned them last night and reloaded the ones with 348 headstamp tonight and primed the other 20 before honeydoo's called me back from the shop. I guess I can go back and finish loading them now.
Tim
Took some bullets out to the man cave that a nice person from Marlin Owners sent me to try out in my Marlin 44-40 cowboy. I am waiting on the sizing die and then will powder coat, size and load them up.
Nothing today, :( but yesterday I was able to reload 50 cases of 6.5 Grendel with 100gr Hornady A-Max over 29gr of IMR 8208XBR for this spring's rifle matches.
Used a Lyman 45 today for the first time. I bought it on gunbroker.com back in November. I have always tumble lubed until today. I had to download a manual from this site to figure it out. I sized and lubed about 200 hp 45s. I enjoy using and working on the older equipment.
Loaded up the second round of test ammo for the 250 savage. The first ladder tests went well... A little too slow in velocity.
Prepped a couple more cans for painting and cut cardboard liners for them . Perhaps may load some more today .
Jack
sized and expanded 100 .357 cases.cleaned the shell holders.
Since my reloading room is also my machine shop there's always something needing done. Today I am cutting brass and aluminum on the bandsaw to use in making reloading press parts. Aftermarket parts for the Lee Loadmaster are going to be a new sideline for me.
Greased 101 PJ Creedmoor boolits with Emmert's.
86 rounds of 40/65: 58.1 gr OE 2F, card wad, 410 gr 30:1 PJ Creedmoor for this Saturday's BPCR match.
100 rounds of 44/40: 7.0 gr Bullseye, 200 gr Badman for next Sunday's Cowboy Lever Action Pistol Cartridge match. 20 minutes of looking for my Stanley pick that I was poking corn cob out of the flash holes with when the phone rang. Found it in the funnel of my drop tube! CRS is coming to us all. 15 minutes pleading with Gato to get out from behind a stack of surplus ammo and leave the room with me so I could close the door.
Filled another can from the loading press , another D gallery loads for the two twenty-three Remington .
Jack