What did you do today in the world of reloading?
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Thanks for all the info on the calibers I listed under never heard of. I forgot to take out the 22-250 sorry Mike_From_Texas. I didn’t even catch it until HCS told us it’s origins. Thank you HCS and RP- for the info.
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Nice find! I'd call that a win.
Finally finished reloading 4,700+ rounds of 9mm in both FMJ and LRN yesterday.
It took me 2 months to complete everything and 4 spam cans later it is done.
The process started in late August.
- Found a few heavily used desert berms to mine out the lead using a sieve, shovel, and burner.
- Over two Saturdays of mining both my son and I were able to dig out, melt, and produce about 85 ingots of lead, cleaned at the source with the portable burner. I need a bigger sieve, as this was the worst part.
- Spent the next few weekends of September casting 124 grain LRN (16 BHN) bullets and powder coating them in Ford Blue, and sizing them.
- Ended up with around 3500 cast bullets after all was said and done. The lead supply was nearly exhausted.
- Found a STAUCTION bag of 1100 115 gr. FMJ's... Loaded all of these also.
- Three weekends straight I loaded up all of my empty 9mm brass that I had stored, and they are now ALL re-loaded.
- There isn't one single empty case of 9mm in the house, including the kitchen junk drawer, my sock drawer, or the washing room shelf.
It was great spending this time with my son. He really enjoyed the time with this Dad.
It took me 2 months to complete everything and 4 spam cans later it is done.
The process started in late August.
- Found a few heavily used desert berms to mine out the lead using a sieve, shovel, and burner.
- Over two Saturdays of mining both my son and I were able to dig out, melt, and produce about 85 ingots of lead, cleaned at the source with the portable burner. I need a bigger sieve, as this was the worst part.
- Spent the next few weekends of September casting 124 grain LRN (16 BHN) bullets and powder coating them in Ford Blue, and sizing them.
- Ended up with around 3500 cast bullets after all was said and done. The lead supply was nearly exhausted.
- Found a STAUCTION bag of 1100 115 gr. FMJ's... Loaded all of these also.
- Three weekends straight I loaded up all of my empty 9mm brass that I had stored, and they are now ALL re-loaded.
- There isn't one single empty case of 9mm in the house, including the kitchen junk drawer, my sock drawer, or the washing room shelf.
It was great spending this time with my son. He really enjoyed the time with this Dad.
I've got the same scale and it works great.
Out the door was $190.00. I mainly got them in case someone on here ran into a bind and needs some. Otherwise they will be backup.
I might be willing to sell you some. I ran across a sweet deal on flood damaged Fiocchi FMJ 357 a while back. I've been pulling the projectiles and cleaning the brass.
I also have 500+ plated projectiles
I don't currently own a 357. Traded them away but still have the components.
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So 5.4 cents per primer.
More than I like to pay, but not bad for this climate.
I picked up SRP for 5 cents per with the same mentality.
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