Put the final polish on 20 ea 7.62x25 cases I made for my Tokarev pistol. I find if I limit myself to twenty at a time, it's not too tedious. Cut down 5.56/.223 cases, run through Tok dies and trimmed to length.
Wayne
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Put the final polish on 20 ea 7.62x25 cases I made for my Tokarev pistol. I find if I limit myself to twenty at a time, it's not too tedious. Cut down 5.56/.223 cases, run through Tok dies and trimmed to length.
Wayne
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Pulled 250 pieces of 204 Ruger out of the polisher after annealing them last night. As much as I could handle after spending most of the day on the ice.
May load some tomorrow.
Weighed n segregated bout 2,300 MP 356-358 NLG BB. NOW TO PC while the humidity is low around 27%.
It was past time to do some clean up of the reloading bench so I did some of that today .
When I think back on all the **** I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all ! And then my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall.
Got the red ones PCd (132.0-132.4gr) green blue and black to go.
.357 Mag, HS-6, FWFL, NOE 360-160-WFN
I could be wrong - it happens at least daily.
Worked up loads for 6.5x55 in an M38 Swede: IMR 4831 and 140gr Hornady SST. Have to say, I like it!
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Loaded 250+ pieces of 44 Special with my target load of 5.5 231 behind a 240 gr. RCBS Silhouette boolit.
Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway!
Men who don't understand women fall into two categories: bachelors and husbands!
Forced myself to lube some 230 gr RN for 45 ACP,
PCd the green boolits today. MP 356-358 NLG BB. 131.5-131.9 gr. .356”. About 1200+. Build a certain around my oven to keep the fumes out of the room and out the fan. Does a good job..
Loaded up a few Speer shot capsules with #9 shot, for 45 Colt. Now need some snakes to shoot at.
Loaded some 6.5x55 with the newer Lee 266-140 cast boolit. Shot a few and it functions great with poi low but all close offhand. Further testing coming…
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Loaded Some 12 Gauge on the size-master, Sized and primed a few hundred clean 9mm's for later, Loaded 200 45's for this week, Like always, need to clean and organize again.
Wet Cleaned some 300 W. M, 300WinMag, and some 7mmRM, I didn't realize how much I needed to clean...
I cast about 500 Lee TL358-148-WC for 38 Special loads with Red Dot. Will tumble lube them tomorrow - should have done it tonight but didn't want to hunt for wax paper.
Believe it or not but this is the 1st wadcutter I've ever loaded after shooting for nearly 50 years.
Coated the bullets from the previous post with Lee Liquid Alox last night and again this morning. Currently have them laid out of wax paper drying. I figure that I might as well start using the 13 bottles of the stuff that I have!
Been doing lots of measuring for max COL for a couple of S A 9mm. MP 356 358 NLG BB. 132 gr. 8 cavity mold. My measurements are consistently inconsistent. I realized hay 8 holes in aluminum how perfect can they be and with me casting well now I get it. Go with the flow and get a one holer if you want perfection. Hay it’s only plus or minus. .017” max. Big news was I was loading up to .000 head space. Seeing good accuracy but it kinda scared my self. That’s all I got to say about that.
Loaded 150 pieces of 357 Maximum to shoot this Saturday.
Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway!
Men who don't understand women fall into two categories: bachelors and husbands!
I have been working on percussion cap making dies and priming mix I have about got it down when weather warms I am going to do some shooting with my replica 1859 Sharps .
Out of curiosity I tried the same mix in pistol primers and they fizzled and did not fire . The mix is 8 grains Barium Chlorate two grains charcoal and .3 grains red Phosphorous mixed wet with water. A second mix of 11 grains Barium Chlorate 2 grains charcoal and 1 grain Red Phosphorous works quite well . The powder was mixed wet dried then .2 grains (small primer cup full) was poured into large pistol cup . That was then wet with 1/3 spray lacquer & 2/3 acetone the anvil seated and dried .
These primers seem more energetic then factory magnum primers but I did not try yo measure force yet . I did have a first ever happen in reloading since 1973 and I have no idea how many round loaded . The primer got sideways when seating I crushed it so I could get it out of the shell holder like I have down many times over the years . That caused it to go off! It was quite the noise too!
When I think back on all the **** I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all ! And then my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall.
.218 Bee day- loaded a bunch of 40 gr Z-Max over 4227 and a handful of Lee Bator 55 gr over Red Dot with Fiocchi SPP.
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