Nothing at the bench today, but Just bought myself a RCBS Pro Melt 2. Can't wait to give it a go.
Nothing at the bench today, but Just bought myself a RCBS Pro Melt 2. Can't wait to give it a go.
Spent the last two days reforming 30/40 AI back to 30/40. Went well with only a few cases I didn't like the look of. So far today have expanded, trimmed and chamfered 70+ and have another hundred or so being tumbled before expanding and trimming. Expanded as a separate operation as I reformed them in a 30/40 FL die with the expander removed and after reforming decapped with the Lee decapping die. Using a Lyman M die backed out enough to expand the neck but not flare the case. Once I finish trimming and chamfering on the last ones will anneal all of them before loading, figure the reform operation is the textbook example of work hardening. Did try ten with my moderate loads for my Ruger No 3's and there were no issues, so if the trend continues figure I can put another thousand cast boolits down range over the next year or two. Not sure how these would work for full power J bullet hunting loads, but have enough good brass to cover that (about 10 rounds a year).
OS —— I haven’t ladle cast in 20 years, RCBS Promelt is way too easy —- BUT, I recently have read almost everything Paul Matthews ever wrote and had a new Steve Brooks mold. I had long ago given away my ladle casting stuff and big brown had brought me the same setup you just got. Everything I read said 30-1, ladle cast, etc. I just spent a really enjoyable few hours casting some of the nicest 400 grain 45-70 bullets I’ve ever cast. I had plain forgotten how enjoyable it was to slow down, take it easy and throw good bullets, I’m a hopeless reloading gun nut….
Art
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Just got in a new powder/shot cutoff for an ancient, non-progressive Pacific 366 shotshell press. Jazzed!
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I just separated the bucket of ww I bought from tire store last week. 48 lbs Fe. 31lbs Zn. 68 lbs Pb. Plus a few hours of dusty work. $80 not really happy with cost.
Managed 100 cleaned n primed 10 mm brass with reamed pockets and flash holes all the same length with fed 200 spm primers. Trying to get my velocities to balance out + or - closer. Haven’t been able to figure why 2 out of 5 are all ways way slower. Got a crono for Christmas. So don’t understand most of what I know.
Sometimes mag primers will tighten up Extreme Spread, sometimes not. Most powder burns more consistently as pressure goes up so picking a powder that's in the top end of it's range for your application helps. Extreme Spread is not an indicator of accuracy, or so I've been told over and over.
Mal
Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.
Load the first 19 500/450 #1 Express loads today.
New caliber to me, 10 loaded with Lyman 457122, Ben's Red and aluminum gas checks for non-gas checked boolits. Used 5744 at the lowest load. We'll see if this will regulate.
9 rounds with a custom Accurate boolit, ~295 grains flat point with G/C, same starting load as the Lyman boolit.
Loading was a bit of a challenge.
C-H only had a sizer die in stock, so I used that for case forming and F/L sizing 500 N.E. cases down to 500-450's.
Used the expander from the .458 Win Mag to expand the neck.
Seated boolits with a 470 N.E. seating die with a seating stem that I turned, the 470 stem was too short for the 2.750" cases.
And wrote a bunch of notes on how I'm doing this because I'll forget what I did by next week.
cleaned my loading bench
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Now That is a score I’m especially looking for the soft stuff‼️ But I got the Pox today so not the least bit interested in the room today. Sorted some alloy yesterday getting ready for my first day casting of bollits. And making of boolit lube and sizing and loading and sending them down range etc.
Deprimed 500 cases in 45acp. Will pin tumble tomorrow while I deprimed 500 in 9mm. Then on to the 380's. Then I've got to order 20# from Roto metals some super hard 30% antimony to treat 200# of roofing boots.
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Loaded 45 Colt with PB and cleaned up the machine shop, WHEW
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Deprimed, pin tumbled, and dried 1100 pieces of brass.
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I finally moved into the 21st Century and bought an electric trimmer setup.
I had no idea...
Disassembled my H&R Topper reciever to see about replacing the broken striker.
Cussing predicted.
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I decapped, tumbled and loaded my 87 pieces if 350 Legend brass. I used the penta HP 38-200 over 21g of 11FS and a CCI 450 primer.
I was going to chronograph the load yesterday but it was so windy I sat out the first relay when my target stand blew over. Had another target blow off the stand but by that time I had 2 targets up.
Mal
Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.
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 |