300 rounds of 223 loaded today. Ran out of W748. I really need a quick change kit, im whooped.
300 rounds of 223 loaded today. Ran out of W748. I really need a quick change kit, im whooped.
I loaded up a bunch of 223s with jackets yesterday afternoon for a ar . So I got to play with a 550 that a member passed on to me a wile back , I only load 223 on it so it's only used 3-4 times a year .
Saturday morning I found three boxes of 7Mag brass mixed in with small calibers... In the tumbler it went. Later on Sat Night, I pulled it out and sized and primed 60 pieces for later loading!
LOVE finding stuff I previously purchased! Its like its free!
CW
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↑↑↑ That's what happens when you clean your reloading area ↑↑↑
Cleaned my reloading bench and storage. Picked up 1k Winchester small rifle primers to try, 2lbs of W748, and a Dillon Quick Change for the 550. Dug down deep and made the budget stretch without touching "house" money.
Trimmed sized/expanded and primed 20 45-70 cases I shot on Sunday .only got to do some casting now.
Only had time to load up 12 rounds of .44mag. Better than nothing, right?
AMEN!
Im packed in like a sardine can... I "find" stuff all the time!
Yesterday I "found" 5-600 LC 30/06 Brass I knew I had but couldn't find... It was labeled 8MM Mauser with about 100 8MM Mauser that I reformed ON TOP!!!
I tumbled it, but its pretty badly tarnished. Times like this I could use the steel pins. But haven't gone there yet. I de-primed about 200 this AM, annealed them at lunch time.
Tonight I'll finish Uniforming the pockets, deburing the flash holes and form 6.5/06's out of them!
CW
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Primed and flared 12 30/30 a.i. cases and when my lubrisizer finally heated up I lubed and sized some 9mm boolits with CR to .357 diameter. Then I got a call from my oldest son saying that his current GF ex husband fell out of a treestand and ended up dead. I suppose Lori & I will go to the viewing tonight.....
Tom
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
Experimenting with .45 ACP loads.
Everything is accurate with the NOE HG-68. Also prepping for some .223 loading.
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Loaded 20 rounds of 303 savage.
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Finished fifty cases into perfect and completely prepped 6.5/06 Brass
Another 60-70 outside cleaned and annealed. Waiting to be de primed and swadged then uniformed and deburred. Finally re formed/sized Trimmed and primed.
Time for dinner...
CW
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After nursing a hurt back for a week I ventured back to the loading room for a little while today. I started resizing a gallon can of 380's. Prolly knock off in a bit and continue tomorrow.
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Melted 162# of SOWW and COWW into ingots got about 1500# to go.
I made a pile of 160 gr. 30 cal boolits and another of 120 gr TC 9mm. I also loaded up 4 rounds of 30/30 A.I. w/ 33 gr of Varget and some 160 gr. Lee cast.
Tom
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Did I ever mention that I hate to trim brass?
Dug up some forgotten .45 230gr XTP hp so I'm stuffing them over Unique in .45 ACP for SD/ hunting loads. I also found a LOT of 230 fmj to load. Come fall I'll cast some 200 swc and 230 tc and resume normal life.
Sized and loaded a bunch of .35 Remington boolits that I had cast last week. Sized and primed a bunch of 44 Mag brass as well. Would have loaded them too, but the powder coat formed a giant boolit glob and they kept jamming up my sizing die. Might just cast some more...darn.
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 |