What did you do in the reloading room today?

[robg]

prepped a hundred 357 mag cases .got to do some casting as im getting low on boolits for my 45-70 .

[44Blam]

Cast about 350 NOE 454-237 HPs...

[kmw1954]

Just started annealing my brass. On my 3rd load and so far have about 500pcs of 223 finished. Using a propane torch and a small battery screw driver with a deepwell socket.

[rainmaker62]

Loaded a few more .45x2.4 rounds to get ready for the SE SASS regional.

[Eddie2002]

I have spent the last few days working on about one hundred 30-06 berdan cases that were range pickups. I have about two bricks of berdan primers sitting around and with the component shortage decided to use some up. Decapped the brass using the punch and pry method, washed them in an oxalic acid solution which worked great and then resized and trimmed them down to 58x7.7 Jap for my Arisakas. Not sure why I went through all the trouble, already have hundreds of 7.7 Jap reloads on the shelf but I needed some reloading therapy and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Loaded up 50 using 150 grain condom bullets, the rest will get lighter weight cast for 50 yd plinkers.

[44Blam]

Finished PCing the 45 cal boolits I cast the other day. Should be good to start testing Sunday...

[Texas by God]

I'm going to load 130 gr bullets(not boolits) in the 6.8SPC if the ogive agrees with the OAL for the magazine....
And I received some .358" gas checks for future use thanks to Sage Outdoors.

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[44Blam]

Loaded a ladder of 45 ACP for the new 1911.
This pistol is a good shooter, I think I'm really going to enjoy loading for/shooting this gun. Should be able to test this Sunday.

[2A-Jay]

Deprimed and tumbled 400 .38spl Deprimed 300 .45acp, then loaded 300 30-06 to M-2 Ball specs 50gr IMR4895 topped with 150gr BTSP.

[onelight]

Last two days pin tumbled about 3000 cases 9mm , 38 special , 45acp & 44 special , loaded 200 44special 300 38 special on the LCT and 500 45 acp on the auto breech lock pro.

[1I-Jack]

What moving company?

Not sure. He said they were coming to pack everything up and that their stuff would then sit in a warehouse out here for a couple of weeks before it was shipped back east.

[Junnie]

Loaded a ladder of 45 ACP for the new 1911.
This pistol is a good shooter, I think I'm really going to enjoy loading for/shooting this gun. Should be able to test this Sunday.

Need load data for Miester 180 SWC... especially COLA.....

[44Blam]

Need load data for Miester 180 SWC... especially COLA.....

So the way I came up with my COL on this one was:
1) Lee's Modern reloading has almost all of it's have 45 acp loads listed at 1.20"
2) I have some magazines that state that (if reloading) a COL of 1.24-1.26 is the most reliable for feeding. - It's a Wilson Combat magazine, a friend recommended it and they are much nicer than the stock mags.
3) I tried a dummy round at 1.26 and it shaved off a little bit of the boolit, so I pulled it and sat/crimped it again at 1.24" and it cycled fine without mangling up the boolit.

So, as I was making these guys, I noticed that they were coming out right at or just on the short side of 1.24 and I was measuring with calipers and not a micrometer - so I'm calling my COL as 1.235" because it is somewhere between 1.235 and 1.24 - one day I'll buy a micrometer...

My load data is straight from Lee's Modern Reloading for a 230 grain round nose lead boolit. Now this design is a 237 grain design with the flat point - I found that they are weighing in at 217 grain or so with the HP. So my design plus the fact that my my COL is a tad bit longer probably makes that data very close to what they tested. NOE is also nice enough to publish QL bul files, so I bumped the load against that and it showed very similar velocities for the powder charges.

But - as always - we'll see when I get the chrony numbers vs the published numbers in the book vs the grouping on paper.

[RickF]

Loaded 100 Lee C309-170s for my Model '94 30-30 ... deer season is right around the corner!

[pls1911]

Whined because I can't even see my reloading bench.....
Life got in the way the past few months.
Salvation looms on the October horizon....

[El Gato]

I did some case prep for 8x57. I did some maintenance on my SMLE.

[Texas by God]

I JB Welded a Williams Guide rear sight and a Win m70 front sight on my Benjamin. 22 air rifle. The Centerpoint scope is kaput- shock-

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[Cast10]

Built a PID for my Lee Pro 4 20. Mypin TA4-SSR controller.

[Mal Paso]

Finished loading a ladder from 4.8g to 5.6g of N350 under MP's 125g HP in 9mm. I have air cooled and water dropped, unfortunately the public range is closed this weekend for Indy Cars whatever that is.

[robg]

help a friend get reloading his 6.5 credmoor .took a while but got it sorted .he had used the wrong decapper/sizer die in the lee set and bullets were loose in neck and bullets had to be loaded deeper in case as i think they were designed for the 6.5 x 55.