What did you do in the reloading room today?

[sigep1764]

600 rounds of 223 and 100 rounds of 38 special got loaded today. All my days off for the next two weeks are full with visiting Grandma after shoulder surgery and bow hunting with a friend. Maybe we can squeeze some range time before work one of these days. I am shooting through all the lubed 223 as I have switched to powder coating. Need some more W748, got one pound left and whatever is in the hopper.

[1I-Jack]

I was swaging primer pockets on a bucket of 223 and found this gem...
Aguila brass with a severely off center flash hole.

[15meter]

I was swaging primer pockets on a bucket of 223 and found this gem...
Aguila brass with a severely off center flash hole.

From the photo, it looks like it was oversized to compensated for the off-center

[Soundguy]

Reminds me of hornady brass. A few years ago I found quite a few in a batch with odd, small or off center flash holes. Maybe their primer hole employee changed employers...

[sigep1764]

Lubed about 300 9mm/38Special boolits and loaded a 100 38 cases. Now getting ready for the evening shift at work.

[1I-Jack]

I'm working through a couple of thousand cases and have found quite a few more of these Aguila shells. Most are off center (by varying degrees) and yes, they are all oversize holes. Oh well, guess the recycle bucket needs to be fed too.

[jdfoxinc]

I've been casting 175 gr .401 soft lead bullets to use as cores for .451 jacketed bullets made from .40 S&W brass, also .187" cores for 5.56mm jacketed from 22lr cases.

[SOFMatchstaff]

I set the old RL-1050 up for 7.62x51 and ran off 800 rds of ball. only another 10K to go. I've been told numerous times I cant load that case on that press, Hmmm, well guess what......

[15meter]

Loaded ~10 boxes of 20 gauge 3/4 oz. skeet loads, got three coats of finish on a Remington 511 stock I'm refinishing. Prior owner had boogered up a refinishing job. Another 8-10 coats and it should be considerably better than what I started with. Turned a nice ash bowl(loading room is kinda multi-purpose).

[John Guedry]

Loaded some .45 Colt amunition.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Made a bunch of Lee 125 rn 9mm boolits with one of their six. cavity molds. Really like the production with these!

[robg]

prepped some 45-70 brass yesterday .did a bit of casting today 70 x 340 grain lee boolit 45-70 and 70 x 180 grain 358 rcbs sil boolit .tumble lubed .

[lightman]

My Wife and I just finished a major clean-up and reorganization in the storeroom. How does this fit "what did you do in the loading room)? Well, the storeroom is next to my loading room and is where I store my Ammo, Brass stash and cast bullets. We worked an hour or so each day over 4 days. I hauled a load of junk off to the county dumpster and have a load of better junk to take to the auction house downtown.

Right now, all of my brass is sorted by caliber and headstamp and resides in Folgers coffee cans. Marked with a sharpie. The straight walled brass is all resized, deprimed and tumbled. The bottleneck brass is all deprimed and tumbled. Except for the tub of range brass that I picked up this year. I saved that for something to do in the Winter after hunting season.

[Cast10]

Loaded a box of 9mm Lee 356-120-TC as hopefully a final test for function in Glock 19/26.

https://imgur.com/a/9b49FgX

[15meter]

Loaded 3 boxes of 20 gauge skeet loads, emptied the polisher, those 38 specials sure do shine. Forgot them in the polisher for the last three nights. The polisher is on a timer that runs at night while I'm snoring. But they be shiny!

Took a Remington 511 to the gunsmith after that to be re-blued. Have the stock almost finished, another half dozen coats of finish and it will look better than new. Have 8 on it now.

Trying this gunsmith out on the old Remington that I got in a trade for an RCBS Lubrisizer.

If he does a good job, he'll get the Winchester model 74. I got that one in trade for a porta-potty ~40 years ago. The prior owner had screwed it up in a moron attempt to refinish it, I got it in pieces, put it back together and have been shooting it ever since.

A year after I got the rifle, he introduces me to his sister, who I married 2 years later. 37 years after that it's time to refinish it properly so I can give it to my daughter. The Winchester 74's original owner was my wife's father.

My daughter gets this rifle that was her grandfather's rifle on her mother's side, she's already inherited a nice walnut stocked 10/22 that was my dad's. Yea, she's pretty spoiled.


Then as a bonus, stopped at a motorcycle shop and found a helmet that I both liked and it fit. Usually a search for a helmet can be a year long ordeal. And ice is coming

And the brother-in-law is still a moron. If you handed him the same rifle today, he'd probably booger it up just as badly as he did 40 years ago.

[Hodagtrapper]

^^^^

Chris

[cwtebay]

Set my 2 teenage boys on around 5000 5.56 and 3500 9mm brass. They sure like to shoot them, time for them to figure out the reusing part!! I gave them an order of events - they have them tumbling now (they have a football game to win tonight), then depriming, swaging the primer pockets, and resizing.
I told them that I would join the venture after 100 are done. Hoping that they've paid attention when helping over the years!!!!

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[243winxb]

Almost KABOOM 44 magnum
Short story-Don't use oil on a powder measure. Screw was hard to put back in last reloading session. Oiled 1 drop of BF CLP. 2 days later, went to load 44 with 296. Powder drops under weight. Found the problem. Use Isopropyl Alcohol 91% to clean. It will remove graphite deposits also.

[centershot]

Loaded up a box of ammo for the old Ithaca SxS, an ounce of 5's over 16.0 gr. of 700-X. It runs at 1150 fps, the old girl is choked Skeet 2 on the right and Imp. Modified on the left. It was probably Mod and Full when new but that was 1915, so a few rounds thru the bores since then. She kills squirrels real good with that load!

[Butzbach]

Sorted a “quart” of range brass prior to decamping and cleaning. Mostly 9mm, some nice nickel 9mm +P, handful of nickel .40 S&W, 8 308, 4 .22-250, 2 .556 duds, 20 .45 ACP.