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    230gr 300blk from lee mold approx 400 cast today. Great day to cast only 77deg today...usually much warmer.
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    Broke in- and broke a .223 Hornady sizer decapping pin with crimped primers- duh, there was a Lee universal decapper die two feet away....... Good news, Hornady takes care of idiots with 48 years of reloading experience- free parts on the way!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hossfly View Post
    I shared some powder, primers, and boolits with my son whom will be a new reloader in the future. Tuff times finding what you need to fill a new hobby like ours.
    Loved this post as I spent much time this weekend answering my son's questions about reloading. His eyes lit up when I told him about the excess equipment I had acquired over the years that would give him a good start. It made me feel good when he said he still really wanted to order a Lee Loader so he would have everything he needed in a small kit he could use anywhere. Oh my... how the memories flowed. I'll never forget that first assembled 6mm round out of the Lee Loader some 40 years ago and the pride I felt when my first three rounds clustered neatly on the target. Happy to know my guns and casting/reloading gear will never require an estate sale.

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    sorted 3buckets of ww got less than 2usable started with ww in the 80s what the heck happened
    thought this was gonna save money

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    Got out my first Lee Loader (22 Hornet) and got my twin neighbour boys going with a Savage I had lying about. Cast some bullets, gave them a nice starting load, loaded 50 rounds and turned them loose on their father's gopher problem.

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    Loaded up 200 rounds of 45 Acp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by todd2 View Post
    sorted 3buckets of ww got less than 2usable started with ww in the 80s what the heck happened
    Albert Gore.

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    Today is a casting day. A couple of buddies are coming over and we'll spend the day in the shop casting. I just moved the truck out, took a few chairs out, put some beer in the beer fridge and came in to sit down for a minute. My MS won't let me do much more at a time anymore. In a few minutes I'll go out and clean my mold and turn the casting pot and hot plate on. Looking to cast about a thousand bullets before I quit!

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    Wife said she wanted to wrap presents so she sent me to the reloading room... 150 40 S&W later I came back and now she'll do it tomorrow...
    Guess I'll have to go down there again!
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    Over the past few weeks,,,, I'm working on getting my back log of 9mm brass loaded up. I have discovered that My G2c won't pop a wolf Small rifle primer but will pop a Federal small rifle match primer. I will be trying out some remington 6 1/2 primers shortly, I wanted to know before I run out of my winchester spp supply. Also started to work through my 38 special brass, the Federal primers will work in them and I have Herco and 150 gr round nose to put in them also some 105 gr wad cutters to use up. Used up my old partial cans of Unique, bluedot and PB. on different loads. 45 is next on the agenda to clean up empty brass laying around. May be I can find some time to go shoot some but then I will have empty brass again. What a vicious circle.
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    Turned my last 150-odd pounds of harvested range scrap into a pile of 2-pound muffin-pan ingots and, while I had the old plumber's furnace fired up, melted and poured all my accumulated lino (40+ pounds) into 1-pounders. May be my last time smelting; my entire stockpile of lead/alloys is now in the form of ingots, boolits, or loaded ammo.

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    Walked upstairs into the area destined to be the reloading room. Useless tinsel fairies haven’t set up anything yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rico1791 View Post
    Albert Gore.

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    i never seen it this bad
    thought this was gonna save money

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    Went to the range yesterday and shot my P365 and my 10/22 m1 carbine today I cleaned them .

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    Prepping military 5.56 brass. Thank goodness for the Hornady motorized prep tool.

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    Take it slow and easy Lightman
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    Well......not today, but my last couple of sessions. The lead boolits, lubed and PCed, came from Casting Machine. The JHPs came from MidwayUSA which has seemed to always have something I want to reload even during this shortage.
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    Rainy day here in Ky so I assembled 500rds of 55gr .223 with 24.8gr of h335 and 400 124gr 9mm with 3.9gr of titegroup.

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    Rainy here in STL as well. Finished trimming, chamfering, and deburring a few hundred cases of 30-30. Primed half of them. Hopefully friends kids will pop these off in the near future. Gonna load soft with 6.5-7 grains of Red Dot.

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    Pulled some stuff, made a couple .40 rounds and need to try and figure out why I'm having issues with .40. I have PC Lyman 401043s and had a couple that were wonky. Think I'm going to start looking at the brass.

    Over the weekend I loaded my .450 Bushmaster brass up. I got some 300gr 45-70 bullets cheap and ran em through a 45 ACP sizer to get em down to 452. I have em loaded behind 40 grains of H4198. It's only about 20 rounds but your hand stings enough after you don't really need more than say 5ish.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check