What did you do today in the world of reloading?

[fishingsetx]

Sorted my last haul from the range. I shot about 75 rounds of each (9mm, .40, and .45). The rest was from sweeping the floor and picking up brass that was left by other members before I got there. 60 rounds .45, 220 rounds of .40, and 440 rounds of 9mm extra over what I shot! Pretty good haul for 15 mins worth of sweeping!

Also ended up with about 30 rounds of 30.06 and about 100 rounds of .308!

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[jrbfishn]

Shot most of the 90 .45 Colt black powder loads today at the reunion. And managed to scrounge a bunch more .45 brass that someone else left on the ground.
30 grains of fffg black powder with 200 grain RFN. Them things are fun!


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[ROGER4314]

These hand ones leave me with blisters and don't really do the trick.

I don't have much choice. With arthritis, you can do repetitive motion like is required to deburr 500-1000 new brass and everything will work OK until the bone joints finally scream "Enough." Once you over-do it, there are weeks of pain and rehab to follow.

The cheapest way to motorize the deburr process is to chuck the tool in a drill. There are even adapters available to make that fat double ended chamfer tool work in a drill.

The motorized cutters work great and all you do is hold the case over the rotating tool. Gravy!

Flash

 

[xdmikey]

I need a good deburring tool. These hand ones leave me with blisters and don't really do the trick.

I saw a little tool advertised on the ultimate reloader blog that looked pretty good but then I saw your arthritis remark so it may not work.

 

[xdmikey]

I'm thinking about the giraud setup minus the motor(cause I'm cheap).
its still not cheap, just cheaper than the motorized version.

 

[xdmikey]

Oh yeah, loaded 200 rounds of 9mm, 100 with wolf SRP and 100 with remi spp.

 

[fishingsetx]

Loaded 80 rnds of .45 ACP 230 gr fmj over 6.5 gr CFE Pistol and cci 300.

Also loaded 60 rnds of .223, 40 gr Hornady BT over 26 gr win 748. Sad thing is, I don't even have an accurate .223! Only one I have is a ruger mini-14 with a shot our barrel (missing the last 1/3 of the rifling!!!)

Also rinsed and dried about 130 45 acp brass and about 220 .40 cal brass. Started pin tumbling another batch of 220 .40 cal and 50 or so mixed .308 and 30-06.

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[xdmikey]

My 45 rounds are giving me sooty cases but I'm loading them at 6.2 of cfe pistol. Are your cases clean outside with the 6.5 load?

Thanks

 

[fishingsetx]

My 45 rounds are giving me sooty cases but I'm loading them at 6.2 of cfe pistol. Are your cases clean outside with the 6.5 load?

Thanks

These were my first rounds to load with the CFE. I've been using bullseye and they were sooty.

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[deemus]

These hand ones leave me with blisters and don't really do the trick.

I don't have much choice. With arthritis, you can do repetitive motion like is required to deburr 500-1000 new brass and everything will work OK until the bone joints finally scream "Enough." Once you over-do it, there are weeks of pain and rehab to follow.

The cheapest way to motorize the deburr process is to chuck the tool in a drill. There are even adapters available to make that fat double ended chamfer tool work in a drill.

The motorized cutters work great and all you do is hold the case over the rotating tool. Gravy!

Flash

Flash, I do the drill chuck thing with my Lee, but I use those cheap white gloves with orange rubber on the fingers. No blisters! Which is important since I have sissy accountant hands.

 

[deemus]

These were my first rounds to load with the CFE. I've been using bullseye and they were sooty.

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That Bullseye really does burn dirty. I haven't had that issue since switching to Accurate powder. I have some 2, 5, 7 and 9 that I use in various loads. Its amazing how much cleaner that powder burns.

 

[jrbfishn]

Last night about midnight, .45 Colt black powder. 60 rounds of 200 grn RFN over 30 grns of Pyrodex P. 21 rounds of snakeshot. .451 lead round ball over about 16cc of number 8 shot over 10 grains of Pyrodex P. At 8 feet or so, the ball will penetrate a cedar fence slat but not go through and the shot paterns well enough to take a rattler out if the ball misses. My emergency snake stash if I run out of everything else.

from an idgit coffeeholic

 

[orbitup]

Last night about midnight, .45 Colt black powder. 60 rounds of 200 grn RFN over 30 grns of Pyrodex P. 21 rounds of snakeshot. .451 lead round ball over about 16cc of number 8 shot over 10 grains of Pyrodex P. At 8 feet or so, the ball will penetrate a cedar fence slat but not go through and the shot paterns well enough to take a rattler out if the ball misses. My emergency snake stash if I run out of everything else.

from an idgit coffeeholic

Neat!

 

[APynckel]

50 rounds of 6.5 Grendel 123gr SST over CFE 223. Got a new scope for the grendel AR, so need to get her sighted back in.

 

[Brains]

Started reorganizing and realized I was overwhelming my cabinet shelving with the weight of the boxes of bullets, so I cut a couple 3/4" melamine coated particle board shelves to reinforce the existing sheet metal shelves. Lets hope the brackets continue to hold up

 

[APynckel]

Going pig hunting this weekend, so loading up some 55 gr vmax in .223 for some ear ring shots. Got 25 done so far, just have to focus long enough to do the second half.

 

[rp-]

Picked up 1000 primers for $20 at Cabela's. Also sold my RCBS 44 dies and bought some Lee 44 dies to use on my progressive press. Also picked up a new set of Lee 223 dies. Now I just need more brass and bullets....

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[Dawico]

Loaded up 1,100+ 9mm rounds last weekend. Tore the press apart and set it up for 223. 20 or so rounds loaded now. 1500 or so more to go.

 

[Dawico]

Ran out of (that) powder for my 223s. Got about 1600+ loaded up for plinking.

 

[fishingsetx]

Loading up another 100 rnds of .223. Sad thing is, I don't have anything to fire it from! I'm telling you, reloading is a sickness!! Anybody have a good line on a .223/5.56 bolt action?

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