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Posted: 6/14/2016 6:41:52 PM EDT
[#1]
Received my Hornady 62 gr HP's
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Posted: 6/14/2016 7:25:33 PM EDT
[#2]
Got a RCBS collet puller in my Midway order yesterday, so I am starting to break down 1 of the 3 30cal cans full of 9mm loaded with 124 grn gold dots I got super cheap a few years ago. It only took a few rounds to get it dialed in but I blew through 100 rounds in no time, way faster then "the hammer"..
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USA
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Posted: 6/14/2016 7:29:49 PM EDT
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Ordered more reloading bullets before the prices jump. Since numb nuts stated he wants the semiauto ban this morning, prices started going up. Get what you need fast.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 6/14/2016 7:41:21 PM EDT
[#4]
I went to the range and made some empty brass today.
Ran some test loads with less than satisfactory results. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 6/14/2016 7:48:06 PM EDT
[#5]
Resized and then retumbled to clean off resizing lube.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 6/14/2016 10:53:28 PM EDT
[#6]
ran some test loads and had great results
took a buddy shooting for the first time he enjoyed it. now cleaning and separating brass |
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Posted: 6/14/2016 11:14:56 PM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By muvef: Received my Hornady 62 gr HP's http://<a href=http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/b573/dkoetting/KIMG0116_zpstugum5nt.jpg</a>" /> http://<a href=http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/b573/dkoetting/KIMG0114_zpsmbonrkst.jpg</a>" /> http://<a href=http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/b573/dkoetting/KIMG0112_zps8qw9bp1a.jpg</a>" /> Great pics.  |
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MT, USA
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Posted: 6/15/2016 12:46:16 AM EDT
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Annealed, resized, and trimmed 40 pieces of .260 Remington brass. Also annealed, converted, and trimmed 25 pieces of 7-08 to .260.
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Posted: 6/15/2016 9:19:18 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By anbrumm:
Loaded another 200 rounds tonight for an IDPA match next Tuesday. Opened up my primers to start loading tonight, and found this. http://i.imgur.com/n5aIKz5.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/vd6wuBX.jpg?1 2 Out of the 10 packs are Magnum in a standard brick. I accidentally bought 5000 magnum primers, I used them, I could not tell any difference at all. |
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Posted: 6/15/2016 10:28:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/16/2016 12:25:50 AM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By muta4warrior:
Loaded 500 rounds of 9mm with some Frontier 124grn CMJ bullets. Mr Brown dropped this off this afternoon.. Mark 7 auto drive for the super 1050. <a href="http://s46.photobucket.com/user/dogpile_album/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160615_190129251.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f144/dogpile_album/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160615_190129251.jpg</a> I'm SOOOOOO jealous. I had a PW and sold it, cause I really don't need an Autodrive, but I'd love to play around with one of those. 
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Posted: 6/16/2016 7:55:15 AM EDT
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Peeled off 200 of my 9mm load on the LNL last night. Only had about 45 minutes to get something done.
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Posted: 6/17/2016 9:34:50 AM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By muta4warrior:
Did up 25 of the prototype Nosler 123 grn bullets that someone posted about a few weeks ago and 25 of the Barry's 220 grn "Blackout" bullets for some cronograph work. The Berry bullets are a little bit shorter overall then the 220 SMK's I have been using in the past and using the same powder charge for these as the SMK's. <a href="http://s46.photobucket.com/user/dogpile_album/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160617_245636373.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f144/dogpile_album/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160617_245636373.jpg</a> <a href="http://s46.photobucket.com/user/dogpile_album/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160617_245801530.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f144/dogpile_album/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160617_245801530.jpg</a> Looking forward to hearing how those Berry's bullets do. |
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Posted: 6/17/2016 4:37:12 PM EDT
[#15]
Got a new (to me) bullet unloader. Shoots well, very accurate.
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Posted: 6/17/2016 5:17:23 PM EDT
[#16]
Picked up 3k primers.
Received my custom Billet 550B toolheads. Raising my 550 Toolhead count to like 11! Also loaded up 1007 9MMs on the 650 in a couple hours. That thing will almost spoil you!!!!!!!!!!! Still waiting on a Dillon order that USPS is jacking around. It's been out for delivery for 3 days now. 
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Posted: 6/17/2016 6:54:02 PM EDT
[#17]
Loaded 250 rnds. of .45 acp.
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Posted: 6/17/2016 7:20:40 PM EDT
[#18]
Ordered 2k Blue Bullets 147g 9MM.
I feel like I am cheating on my wife. Wife = Xtreme. ;) Wait, they're for my wife.
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Posted: 6/17/2016 9:07:13 PM EDT
[#19]
1000 Speer GD 124gr 9mm
8 pounds of TAC 1000 CCI 450 primers |
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Posted: 6/17/2016 9:16:47 PM EDT
[#20]
Unloaded 250 rounds of .223.
getting ready to order some .308 bullets. |
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USA
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Posted: 6/18/2016 9:47:30 AM EDT
[#21]
Smelled down about 30lbs of lead pulled out of old cast iron pipe this morning.
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Posted: 6/18/2016 10:43:10 AM EDT
[#22]
Teaching my 17 year old nephew how to reload, he finished brass prep and priming 70 300 BLK cases yesterday. We will do powder drop and bullet seating today.
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Posted: 6/18/2016 12:35:25 PM EDT
[#23]
Went out and unloaded some brass reloads.
Picked up every brass I could find (minus .22lr/.17hmr) The gentlemen next to me brought some nice factory 7.62 x 39mm rounds. He doesn't reload so I was extremely happy when he said I could have them! 
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Posted: 6/18/2016 12:56:01 PM EDT
[#24]
Got busy yesterday. 9's & 40's
Love my Dillon! 
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CA, USA
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Posted: 6/18/2016 6:19:07 PM EDT
[#25]
Ordered a FA tumbler and media separator kit.
Going to be used in conjunction with my HF wet tumbler set up to knock the worst of the range grime off .223 rifle cases prior to running them through the RT 1500 trim and size case prep toolhead I have. |
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Posted: 6/18/2016 6:27:49 PM EDT
[#26]
Finally got the last load of brass through the tumbler.
I now have ZERO dirty brass.
I've been trying to get one load a day through the Thumblers. I have ALOT of sorting to do. All the .45 is mixed large/small primer, and all the .223 range pick up needs to be sorted. My Son hurt his foot at work, and is currently sitting on the couch sorting the .223. |
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Posted: 6/18/2016 6:31:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Sabre19]
[#27]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ChevelleDave:
Finally got the last load of brass through the tumbler. I now have ZERO dirty brass.
I've been trying to get one load a day through the Thumblers. I have ALOT of sorting to do. All the .45 is mixed large/small primer, and all the .223 range pick up needs to be sorted. My Son hurt his foot at work, and is currently sitting on the couch sorting the .223. I love getting to that stage! ETA: As for me, I loaded up 300 rounds of 9mm today. |
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Posted: 6/18/2016 6:42:35 PM EDT
[#28]
Only thing I have done today is pick up 2 bottles of liquid lanolin to have on hand.
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Posted: 6/18/2016 6:44:39 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ChevelleDave:
Finally got the last load of brass through the tumbler. I now have ZERO dirty brass.
I've been trying to get one load a day through the Thumblers. I have ALOT of sorting to do. All the .45 is mixed large/small primer, and all the .223 range pick up needs to be sorted. My Son hurt his foot at work, and is currently sitting on the couch sorting the .223. I have a months worth to wash . |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 6/18/2016 6:55:33 PM EDT
[#30]
ordered another lee pro 1000 40 cal
now sorting and cleaning brass |
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Posted: 6/18/2016 7:51:35 PM EDT
[#31]
We drove up to Austin today, to enjoy the drive and visit Zilker Park. The drive wasn't terribly enjoyable because of I35 (it's just "full" in the Austin area, not totally FUBARed like between Waco and north of Dallas, but that's another story), but Zilker was definitely worth the trip. We walked our "miniature Australian Shepherd" (mixed breed) in the park and enjoyed the sights.
As granola-on-the-brain as Austin is, there are a lot of people who keep fit in an old fashioned way by jogging/running/biking on the trails in Zilker Park. And Austin has this lovely and logical ordinance that says "anywhere it's socially appropriate for a male to be without a shirt, it's legal for a female to be topless." Honest, that's the law. And it's a great reason to visit Zilker Park in the summer, even if it is 101 bleeding degrees out. 
Anyway, about 3/4 of the way between San Antonio and Austin is Buda, TX. (It's pronounced "b' you duh".) And pretty much the biggest thing in Buda is Cabellas. So I stopped in (Bucky's doesn't have a patent on clean restrooms!) and bought two bricks of S&B SR primers, a couple of Hornady bullet puller collets, and some Magpul followers. I didn't see any powders I needed, but they had plenty of them, though I bought the last two bricks of S&B rifle primers on the shelf. It was pretty busy today with tons of people just milling around the various displays of "buy dad these things". The parking lot was hotter 'n Hades, and most people don't realize "there's cars driving in this lot" and sometimes get surprised by a vehicle when they cluster in the middle of a traffic lane just to chat. But finding the primers and collets was a nice experience - not only were other primers about 75% more expensive, most were out of stock, too. So on the way back home I started pondering using the S&B primers in .30 Carbine instead of Winchester SR primers... |
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Posted: 6/18/2016 8:56:12 PM EDT
[#32]
Loaded up some X-treme 147 grain RN
3.7 grains of Zip, CCI primers, 1.155 OAL Clocked 904 FPS from an 4 1/2" XDM Nice and tame and cycle, cool. |
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Posted: 6/18/2016 9:14:26 PM EDT
[#33]
Did some casting today.
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KS, USA
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Posted: 6/18/2016 9:35:19 PM EDT
[#34]
Loaded 100 9mm bullets 124 gr Montana Gold on a Dillon 550.
Only 87 passed the case gauge. |
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Posted: 6/19/2016 12:07:32 AM EDT
[#35]
Did 1800 rounds on the weekend so far between my 650 and 550.
Loaded up some lipstick tubes. Also loaded up some Nickel 40s with pink SWCs code named vampire slayers. 
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Posted: 6/19/2016 1:43:36 PM EDT
[#36]
celebrated Father Day
HAPPY FATHERS DAY ARFCOM RELOADERS loaded up 500 230 45ACP converted XL650 to 40 Loaded up 500 180 .40 IPSC loads I love my 650, such a joy to use not one malfunction 
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Posted: 6/19/2016 4:21:35 PM EDT
[#37]
O yeah it's on.
Left to right PMC, Wolf, LC, .45 and 9mm. 
Poor little tumble. 
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Posted: 6/19/2016 4:54:13 PM EDT
[#38]
Mine has been running itself to death.
I got two spare belts and a spare motor.
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USA
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Posted: 6/19/2016 4:55:36 PM EDT
[#39]
Celebrated Father's day and got a new gun to play with, the world's most expensive cordless hammer drill Dewalt makes.
Then had time to resize some of my cast powder coated 175gr TC .401 for the 10mm and 40 Smith & Wesson. Good times. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 6/19/2016 7:59:27 PM EDT
[#40]
Tumbled about 500 cases of .223 and close to 600 cases of 300 AAC. Lubed, resized, and decapped the .300. I was planning on trimming the 300 tonight also, but I am not sure I have it in me.
Trimming has got to be the most time consuming part of it. I have a lathe style trimmer that I have on a Jig I can attach my cordless to. But gauging the brass, locking it into the holder, trimming, removing, next, can get monotonous when there are hundreds of cases. . Then I still have the chamfering to do. There are no crimps o I do not have to clean them out. This batch is the one that will make me buy a RCBS, or similar, case prep station. Or the trimmer that looks like a whole saw for the drill. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 6/19/2016 10:10:42 PM EDT
[#41]
Finished a basic wood fixture to hold a HF cut-off saw for processing .223 brass into 300 Blackout, using an idea I picked up here -- a routed groove with holes spaced to allow the cut-off tips to go into one bin and cut-off cases into another. One addition: took apart the HF saw clamp and attached the threaded rod to use for an adjustable length stop.
Cut, formed, trimmed, deburred ~60 cases. :) |
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Posted: 6/19/2016 11:22:59 PM EDT
[#42]
I did some more casting.
Got my 55 gr 22 cal, 200 gr 357, and 120 gr 9mm molds casting correctly. |
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Posted: 6/20/2016 12:26:22 AM EDT
[#43]
The wife surprised me with 5,000 small pistol primers for father's day.
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Posted: 6/20/2016 7:46:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: wildearp]
[#44]
Last Friday I made a lot of empty brass at the range. It was a good day.
Yesterday and today I have been leisurely turning out 62 gr M855 type rounds, although loaded to TAC velocities which look a bit light on the data book, but worked just fine at the range. Those lip stick rounds posted up there look pretty cool.  |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 6/20/2016 10:22:57 PM EDT
[#45]
reloading cast 9 mm
waiting patiently for the 40 cal press to arrive
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Posted: 6/21/2016 4:00:30 AM EDT
[#46]
Spent the last 3 days reorganizing all my buckets and bins of brass. Found a bucket of de-primed, swaged OFB LC that needs to go through the wet tumbler.
So I have not conquered the dirty brass.
Fortunately, my son has been here sorting brass like a madman, I am happy to say that ALL the brass is sorted by headstamp, and put away. I learned how to make the 4"x6" labels on the computer, so all the buckets and bins are now labeled. I also have a rough idea of how much brass I have on hand, just need to figure out how many de-primed LC cases are in a 5 gallon bucket. Also, the NOE molds showed up today, very nice looking molds, can't wait to make some .45 HP's. |
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Posted: 6/21/2016 8:09:06 AM EDT
[#47]
Got all of the bullets I cast last weekend sorted and bad ones picked out.
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MI, USA
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Posted: 6/21/2016 11:36:38 AM EDT
[#48]
Been busy the last few days.
Saturday - Did some casting of 9mm Sunday - Scored a bunch of 223 and 9mm brass at 3 gun match Monday - Sorted said brass Tonight - Plan on powder coating all those 9's |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 6/21/2016 9:56:57 PM EDT
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Put up a shelf at eye level for my scales.
Got the new micrometer poise sticker from RCBS for the 10-10 scale I picked up at the gun show a week ago. Having a hard time getting the scale to zero though. Got the new tumbler and media separator set up. Going to sort my most recent range brass and run it through the universal decap die to get it ready for wet tumbling. |
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Posted: 6/22/2016 12:27:25 AM EDT
[#50]
Trying to keep the wet tumbler running non stop.
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