What did you do today in the world of reloading?

[Eastexasrick]

Didn’t plan on using my 6mm creedmoor for hunting, but I was ordering powder last week, and MidSouth had Sierra 90 grain tipped Game King factory seconds for $25 a box of 100. Figured even if 1/3 were bad, it would still be a halfway decent deal. Found a few with broken tips, but not many. Worked up a load with IMR4350, and sent them across the chrono this morning. At the max charge weight (43.7), 5 shots averaged just over 3,300 fps, and shot a .30” group. May not be a bad hunting round. May take it in case I get a shot at a coyote.


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[Eastexasrick]

All the posts in the loading bench picture string got me off my ass. Put Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms on and cleaned the crap off the loading bench. Now there is a big pile on the radial arm saw.

 

[TxStetson]

All the posts in the loading bench picture string got me off my ass. Put Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms on and cleaned the crap off the loading bench. Now there is a big pile on the radial arm saw.

That sounds exactly like my garage.

 

[Mike_from_Texas]

Typical ackley or more of something like the Sherman short mag stuff?

Sherman cartridges set the shoulders back a good bit on the case and shorten it overall. I did this one in Ackley fashion by blowing the shoulder forward and removing most of the taper out of the case but the angle is steeper at 45°.


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[Eastexasrick]

I was going to order a 1/4-28 ( old style) bullet seater plug in .45, but no. New style is 1/2-20. No one has any in stock and RCBS and Lee no longer produce them, they were the last to do so. Now by special order only. They used to run 5 to 6 bucks, 30 bucks and 30 days, now. I have some 1/2 rod stock so I can make one. Its raining and will for the rest of the day so off to the shop to spend a few hours making a 6 dollar part.

 

[xdmikey]

Finally got the couple thousand 44 mag brass cleaned up then moved to the 1000 357 mag cases cleaned only to find they were half 38 spec.

Started my Pawn shop job(Sunday/Monday off but working my book job on Mondays)then found I still need to size all the brass.

Thanks to my Lake Fork buddy anyway!

 

[paknheat]

Got some .308 cases in the tumbler this morning. It’s been quite a while since I loaded any .308 Winchester. This is going to be fun.


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[Eastexasrick]

Trimmed a few 50-90 to 50-70, stuffed 450 gr. soft lead over 65 gr FF. Old guy hog load.

 

[hullhullhull]

Ordered 2000 bullets for my 9mm training load and 250 .224 bullets to develop an AR training load.

 

[reddog]

Installed these on my Hornady L&L case feeder, best thing since sliced bread. Loading 380 auto half the time the case would fall off the ramp, now it's held in place while it gets it's balance and slides right in. The inserts are great as they make that whole operation of the case feeder smooth as silk.

 

[wakosama]

bought 2 digital scales... 50% off Black Friday, on Amazon.

 

[dee]

Ran the 6creed I had sized the other day through the neck mandrel then through the giraud.

 

[hullhullhull]

bought 2 digital scales... 50% off Black Friday, on Amazon.

Which scales?

 

[Nofir55]

melted some lead into ingots

 

[deemus]

Emptied a storage locker a while back and been going through the stuff I brought home. Mostly stuff I bought at an estate sale.

Found a bunch of projectiles in a bucket. 9, 40, 45ACP and 44. Moved them from brittle plastic bags to some plastic peanut containers. At my age I likely won’t ever need to buy any for those calibers. I haven’t loaded most of those in a decade.

 

[country_boy]

25 rds of 41 magnum 215 swc

 

[Mike_from_Texas]

25 rds of 41 magnum 215 swc

Love me a 41 mag.


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[rr2241tx]

Received an immoderate number of 25-20 Winchester brass, virgin R-P, and an equally senseless amount of Hornady 60 gr FP bullets. The bullets are in old Hornady boxes, so I expect the brass, although unused, is likely also from the 1980s. They won’t be unused at my estate sale.

 

[Vaquero]

Received an immoderate number of 25-20 Winchester brass, virgin R-P, and an equally senseless amount of Hornady 60 gr FP bullets. The bullets are in old Hornady boxes, so I expect the brass, although unused, is likely also from the 1980s. They won’t be unused at my estate sale.

You don't hear that everyday.

 

[Eastexasrick]

Cooked down a couple lead vent flashings. casted into ingots. Then cleaned the lead pot, cleaned it like new. It was sputtering at the spout.
Casted 100, 50-70 450gr and 100, 45-70 425gr. That ate up the two flashings.