What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Bookworm]

Got out my furnaces and bullet molds and then, it was time to go to bed. The older I get the harder it is to stay up after 10:00. I will finish this story at a latter date.

10 ? I'm lucky to make it to 9pm.

But, we get up at 4........

[trixter]

I loaded 150 9mm for practice. working of getting some 125gr lead boolits powder coated for more practice rounds.

[Ola]

Cooked my first batch of FWFL.

(The original Felix-sticky at lube section NEEDS a modified 1. post that has little bit more information. Now the info is scattered in those million and half following posts.)

[trixter]

My shooting buddy came over and ran the press (Lee Classic Turret) and made 50 9mm's (his first time) while we caught up on the latest. I think the hook has been engaged.

[ubetcha]

Started rummaging through a storage crate of assorted, thought to be empty, cardboard ammo boxes and found four boxes of 44mag cases and a bag of assorted commercial and mil 223 cases. Put all in a ultrasonic citric acid bath to clean and then polished them. Now to full length size and trim to length for future use. I didn't like the bases of a box of 44's that I would expect would separate at the head, so I flattened them with a pliers and into the scrape bucket they went

[trixter]

Walked by on my way out the door to go to work. I have to work to support my habit of saving money by casting and reloading. I will resume my endeavors at 4:15 pm.

[sleeper1428]

Finished lubing, sizing and gas checking 250+ each of RCBS 45-350-FN and RCBS 45-405-FN that I cast the previous week. That, along with the 150 rounds of 45-70 I loaded last month (NOE and RCBS boolits) should be enough for the next few months, especially at my age (79) and with winter setting in. With that fun chore finished, I started loading 223 and have already finished somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 rounds. I use my old Dillion RL550 to reload the 223 and it goes really fast since I don't prime on the Dillon but prefer to hand prime with the RCBS universal hand primer while relaxing and watching TV. My brother and I shoot up a LOT of 223 and we have a couple of new AR's to break in - I milled the 80% lowers this summer and we just put upper receivers, barrels and stocks on them last month. So I'm keeping busy in retirement.....

sleeper1428

[dragon813gt]

Setup the 550B for a run of Hornady 115 grain RN. It's ready to go. Just waiting for the wife to get back so she can watch my son. He has a habit of trying to grab everything on the table. Don't know how many I will load. Box looks to have about 300 bullets in it. May have more

[whisler]

Swaged primer pockets on a 3 lb. coffee can of crimped 223 brass. Plan on loading some up after the hoiday, to see what bullet weight the rifle prefers.

[dragon813gt]

Ended up loading 303 rounds because that's how many bullets were left. Took longer than it should because of a bunch of WCC brass. I was using range pickups and there was a lot of that brass. They went straight into the recycle bucket. I won't waste time swaging 9mm primer pockets.

[NavyVet1959]

Went to load some .45ACP in my Dillon, but it was operating with some resistance, so I wiped it down the shaft with carburetor cleaner and then put some Marvel Mystery Oil on it. It seemed to help a little, so I then loaded 50 rounds of .45ACP. Was having a problem with crushing primers, so I stuck a piece of all-thread that was slightly larger in diameter than a large primer pocket in the drill press and used a file to taper it somewhat. Then used that to clean out / remove the crimp on the primer pockets. It seemed to help somewhat since the frequency of crushed primers seemed to go down a bit.

[MOA]

Ha, ha. Just a few more nibbling and set the hook real good!

[Expat74]

finally got around loading up some 5.56

[Reverend Al]

Just annealed another 150 rounds of 9.3x74R brass to fire-form in my Ballard Pacific in .40-90 Ballard. Monday up at the range went really well and I test fire-formed the first 54 rounds and they formed up fairly well. They blew out to the chamber about 2/3rds of the way down and will require finish forming with a full house load and a 400 grain bullet to finish forming the bases ...

[HangFireW8]

I can't beat Reverand Al's post, but...

Had my nephew reload his first 9 30/06 rounds by showing him each step with 1, then having him do all the same steps with the other 9.

Then we took them out back and shot them.

[Harter66]

I've been buying brass and tossing it in a tub and tall 50 cal can as it came in..........good grief . Apparently I was under the impression that 30-30 would continue to be unavailable here . There's a bbl burner WM in the stash also , if I load and shoot all the 1x brass on hand it should be time for a new bbl . I did find some goodies I can part with as it is severely over stocked , even by last year's standards . A couple cartridges are in need of propping up but most others need no help . Slowly there seems to be some order coming into the mess .
I guess I was looking for a particular bullet and to put up some brass , I wound up sorting and canning about 1000 brass in 5 cartridges with another gob of unknown quantities .
I did find the bullets I was looking for before the neatness happened .

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[MOA]

HangFireW8 great going, another reloader in the brigade

[taco650]

Loaded some 40 S&W and sized a few more Lee 358-158SWC-GC.

[trixter]

Loaded up another 100, 9mm practice rounds. Then I loaded up 10 ladder rounds with TL 356-124-2R that I got from a friend (15lbs) in a trade for ingots, and then 50 rounds of 223 with lead boolits. Found what was stinking up the garage; lawnmower with old gas in it. It went outside until tomorrow when I can deal with it.

[labradigger1]

Primed and charged 100 222 Rem cases with 19.2 grains of IMR 4198. Will finish loading tomorrow with Sierra 50 grn sp.