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Posted: 6/21/2018 8:59:54 PM EDT
[#1]
Enriched Cabelas coffers (I know, Bass Pro).
1 set .40 S&W dies 250ct Berry's 180gr flat point .40 1 10mm/40S&W Loadbook I don't care how close they are, I really don't like that both calibers are in the same Loadbook. I really love those little books, but having load data for both like that presents an issue to me. Put big "X"s through all the 10mm pages, they're still usable but not easy to confuse. |
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Posted: 6/22/2018 11:25:41 AM EDT
[Last Edit: ReefRaider]
[#2]
How's your 1050 running ? Just finished processing 30,000 5.56 cases. On the same set up. Aside from case feeding issues no parts were changed. Primer punch pin finally busted and bent the bolt too. End of a great run. Now for another set-up. Only now I need to do both presses. Time to call Dillon that was my last spare bolt and need a neck die too. Both presses will be processing Lake City 5.56 soon.
ETA Found everything needed in the spare parts. That includes the die. 90% of one set-up complete. Add brass adjust swage, headspace and trim. Want to see if I can do 60.000 |
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Posted: 6/22/2018 10:17:14 PM EDT
[#3]
Reloaded:
22x 22tcm (37g PCC over 2.5g of unique) 35x 6.5CM (100g Nosler CC over 38.5g of H4895) 35x 458 Socom (330g PCC over 29.5g H110, mild load but shoots accurately) Gonna go to the desert tomorrow and make brass from loaded ammo. Had to be ready. |
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Posted: 6/22/2018 10:31:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AJE]
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Since I sold my .44 mag, I listed the last of my reloading stuff for that caliber on the EE and sold it.
That funded my new conversion kit for .450 Bushmaster, which I setup the 650 for and processed some brass. It's in the tumbler now. Before I could set the press up for the .450, I had to finish loading the .40S&W run I was in the middle of a couple months ago. 
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Posted: 6/23/2018 1:26:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AJE:
Since I sold my .44 mag, I listed the last of my reloading stuff for that caliber on the EE and sold it. That funded my new conversion kit for .450 Bushmaster, which I setup the 650 for and processed some brass. It's in the tumbler now. Before I could set the press up for the .450, I had to finish loading the .40S&W run I was in the middle of a couple months ago. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/84914/20180622_210538-584621.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/84914/20180622_215917-584620.jpg Me? I bought one of those shallow/rectangular-ish Plano tackle boxes to put my 650 spare parts in. It just so happened to be long enough on the inside that the primer fill tubes fit. And the little dividers/partitions made it modular enough to neatly organize all the other doodads. |
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Posted: 6/23/2018 9:37:58 AM EDT
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A got a new mold in the mail this morning. It's a MP-Molds 359-130 2R brass 6 cavity no lube groove.
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Posted: 6/23/2018 9:59:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WeimaranerDad:
That's pretty slick with those crimp on wire connectors and the brass locator pins. Me? I bought one of those shallow/rectangular-ish Plano tackle boxes to put my 650 spare parts in. It just so happened to be long enough on the inside that the primer fill tubes fit. And the little dividers/partitions made it modular enough to neatly organize all the other doodads. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WeimaranerDad:
Originally Posted By AJE:
Since I sold my .44 mag, I listed the last of my reloading stuff for that caliber on the EE and sold it. That funded my new conversion kit for .450 Bushmaster, which I setup the 650 for and processed some brass. It's in the tumbler now. Before I could set the press up for the .450, I had to finish loading the .40S&W run I was in the middle of a couple months ago. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/84914/20180622_210538-584621.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/84914/20180622_215917-584620.jpg Me? I bought one of those shallow/rectangular-ish Plano tackle boxes to put my 650 spare parts in. It just so happened to be long enough on the inside that the primer fill tubes fit. And the little dividers/partitions made it modular enough to neatly organize all the other doodads. 
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Posted: 6/23/2018 7:50:09 PM EDT
[#8]
Fnaly set up my s1050.
Ran 100 rounds of 223 on it while making some minor adjustments. |
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Posted: 6/23/2018 8:01:42 PM EDT
[#9]
Went to the desert, made lots of brass.
Tumbling it all now. |
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Posted: 6/24/2018 10:47:29 AM EDT
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I planed to do some more lead melting, but Central Texas weather seems to have different plans. Melting ME isn’t part of the usual process. We’ll see in the next hour or so...
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Posted: 6/24/2018 12:09:47 PM EDT
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Loaded a couple hundred 45s
 Attached FileMade some test loads with IMR 4320. Going to test them in a couple hours  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/24/2018 2:35:18 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GHPorter]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GHPorter:
I planed to do some more lead melting, but Central Texas weather seems to have different plans. Melting ME isn’t part of the usual process. We’ll see in the next hour or so... It was less smelly and smoky this time than my first melt - I didn't use hamster cage filler for flux! - and the breeze and shade made it far less uncomfortable than I'd worried it might be.
Annnnnddd.... A PICTURE! 
There are 10 sets of ingots in the picture: in the center there are 4 ingots (2 1# and 2 1/2#) stacked on top of another 4. That board is HEAVY. 
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Posted: 6/24/2018 9:41:09 PM EDT
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Cast about 15 330g .458 cal bullets, then went to the store and got some valve lapping compound, and lapped the mould to help with bullet fill out and release. The result, bullets came out .4585" instead of .4575" and weigh in at 5 grains heavier. They also look much better and are crisper.
I cast a bunch of those newer better bullets and melted down the older ones. It is a single cavity mould and timing myself, I only made 35 in 10 minutes... super slow. After the casting session, I heated all the bullets to about 200 degrees and did the shake and bake method on them with harbor freight red. They baked for 20 minutes at 400 degrees after that. While the forge was heating up, I resized 45 6.5 creedmoor and about 60 or 70 458 socom brass. Then, while the bullets baked, I resized and trimmed a couple hundred 22 TCM on my 550 with the RT1200. Lessons learned for the day: 458 socom cannot be dry tumbled (or wet tumbled probably) with any caliber smaller than 45 ACP. 556, 9mm, 40, 38 spc, 357 mag, and 22 tcm all embedded themselves inside the cases of the socom... Iron moulds take forever to heat up... |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 6/26/2018 9:56:51 AM EDT
[Last Edit: dryflash3]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Henny:
I didn't get a whole lot done in the way of reloading today. I made some empty 223 brass with my SCAR16 and I did the last of my 223 brass that needed processing. I also explained to a non reloading friend about processing 223 brass. I
want to get him into reloading, and I think he's leaning that way. 
I then switched the 1050 back into reloading mode. It's really simple and quick with Hornady's lock rings. Once again, thanks Angus6! I had always thought about the differences in brass webs and primer pockets and the affect it has on swaging. I thought it might be easier to set up the swager if I could actually see the primer pocket while making adjustments. So I cut some of the common 223 brass that I have around. I was pretty surprised that the different manufacturers are pretty similar. At least with the brass I have, not enough to make a difference in the swaging station. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/schenninge/GUN%20STUFF/E4B8EC2E-808C-4B7C-9D69-68BF13D96A97-3553-000009975900528E.jpg How about you? What did you do today in the world of reloading? |
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Posted: 6/26/2018 9:00:00 PM EDT
[#15]
Did a load work up with 458 socom bullets made from 45acp brass version 2.0.
These are much prettier and I decided maybe a different powder. So, so imr 4198 I had laying around did the trick. Version 2.0 (left) and version 1.0 (right)  Attached FileMay get to see how they shoot Saturday. Will be my last weekend before my daughters come down for the summer. Then I shut down the shooting and reloading and focus on them. |
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Posted: 6/27/2018 1:07:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AJE: Oooo.... I'm going to have to ask for a picture of that @WeimaranerDad  Attached FileI put the sticker back on it just for that pic. And with the lid open:  Attached File@AJE The primer tubes are empty. Just extras I bought years ago. |
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Posted: 6/27/2018 8:32:39 PM EDT
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Bought 8 lbs of N340
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Posted: 6/27/2018 8:56:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WeimaranerDad:
Ask and ye shall receive.... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/369122/20180627_000246-588590.JPG I put the sticker back on it just for that pic. And with the lid open: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/369122/20180627_000541-588591.JPG @AJE The primer tubes are empty. Just extras I bought years ago. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WeimaranerDad:
Originally Posted By AJE: Oooo.... I'm going to have to ask for a picture of that @WeimaranerDad https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/369122/20180627_000246-588590.JPG I put the sticker back on it just for that pic. And with the lid open: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/369122/20180627_000541-588591.JPG @AJE The primer tubes are empty. Just extras I bought years ago. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:37:33 AM EDT
[#19]
Bought 2 pounds of titegroup, 1k CCI small pistol primers, and a new bullet puller.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 8:21:15 PM EDT
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I did some serious neatening of my loading room. Lord it needed it.
After my casting work last weekend I had stuff sort of "unorganized," but I haven't had a chance to do anything about it until today. So the ingot mold got put away, and the ingots stacked, but that was it. Today I put away things like the general purpose tools I'd used, and that sort of thing. Doing so meant some real thought into where stuff should go, so lots of stuff got organized that had nothing to do with casting. After that, I started researching loads for 120gr truncated cone 9mm lead bullets. I'm thinking I need Lyman's Cast Bullet Handbook, because that's a bullet that isn't well covered by Hornady, and even Lyman 49 just skims over it. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 8:44:01 PM EDT
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Did some training for some new reloaders who want to try to start out loading soon.
Went through the process of loading 30-06 from start to finish. Then talked about a few other rounds. Only thing I am worried about is that one of them has a 458 Socom he wants to load for soon. Not a beginners round. Then, I started sizing and powder coating some 458 cal bullets. Going to test the accuracy difference between plain base powder coated, gas checked after powder coating and gas checked before powder coating. 20 rounds of each. Should be interesting. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:12:27 PM EDT
[#22]
Swaged a bunch of 5.56 cases... sizing and trimming up next.
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MI, USA
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:51:03 PM EDT
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Sorted through a bag of brass I picked up over the weekend at the range. Most of is so filthy inside from the rain I elected to deprime them for wet tumbling this weekend. Wish I didn't have to do that but hey free brass is free brass.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:45:58 PM EDT
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Wtf....
Plain base gas checks worked great after the first coat. Did not after the second coat. PC after gas check  Attached FilePC before gas check, the. Gas check  Attached FileThe bases after everything  Attached FileI'm going to shoot them all. See how they compare. The damaged ones will get a separate target. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 6/29/2018 12:13:11 PM EDT
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Realized the greatest benifit to having two of the same presses is you can
Compare whats going on when something is wrong and steal a part if you need to. My small primer seating punch is bent on my old 550b. Installed the small primer bar complete assembly from my 550c and its back runing. Turned out 200 rounds 115gr 9mm for my new cz75b sa. |
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Posted: 6/30/2018 12:04:48 AM EDT
[#26]
Sized / trimmed / sorted a batch of 5.56 brass.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 6/30/2018 12:14:32 AM EDT
[#27]
I sized/lubed/gas checked 75 440 gr .500 cast bullets. Loaded 20 450 marlin with 400 gr Barnes jsp. Pretty good day.
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Posted: 6/30/2018 1:33:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/30/2018 4:58:59 PM EDT
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Tested some 458 Socom, 22 TCM, and a bit of 6.5 CM.
TCM tests were men. 48gr bullets are too heavy for the 1 in 16 twist. They grouped about 1" at 50 yds though. CM surprised me. Did not group well at all. Will have to redo the test. I know the rifle will shoot. Socom was interesting. Turns out, gas checks are mandatory. 29.5g H110 under 330g PCC bullets seated to 2.07" No gas check. I stopped shooting after 10 rounds. I had 20 to test.  Attached FileGas check applied after all powdercoats  Attached FileGas check applied after first powder coat but before second coat.  Attached FileI also shot a bunch of my swaged bullets made from 45 acp brass. These were very accurate. I will be pushing them hotter and shooting at 100 yards next time. They may be sub moa capable. Maybe. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 6/30/2018 6:26:09 PM EDT
[#30]
Loaded up another 200 rounds of 9mm this am.
Went to the range. Emptied 400 9mm , 100 45acp ,100 38spcl and 100 44 mag cases. |
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Posted: 6/30/2018 7:48:16 PM EDT
[#31]
Washed 3 loads of 9mm .
Loaded 4K of 223 on the new 1050 . Loaded 1200 9mm and 1200 .45 on the 550c . Ordered 3000 9mm 147s and 3000 .45 230s. All in all it was a good week. |
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ON, CAN
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Posted: 6/30/2018 8:59:16 PM EDT
[#32]
I reloaded today for the first time since February -- just haven't had the urge to do any lately. Ironically, with the weather at its hottest so far this year I sat down in my warm work room and pounded out some 11mm Mauser.
And for good measure I resized a pile of 7.62x54r, 30 Carbine and 30-06. |
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Posted: 6/30/2018 9:28:15 PM EDT
[#33]
We smelted a bucket full of wheel weights into ingots. Hopefully we'll do some bullet casting next time.
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Posted: 7/1/2018 12:54:04 AM EDT
[#34]
A friend I shoot with often gave me a box of 9mm and 223, about 400 of each.
Decapped them and the first batch is in the wet tumbler. |
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Posted: 7/1/2018 10:31:25 AM EDT
[#35]
sized about 3 gallons of .223 brass. Now in process of tumbling the lube off
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TX, USA
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Posted: 7/1/2018 3:40:44 PM EDT
[#36]
Loaded another 200 rounds of 9mm first thing this am to beat the blistering heat.
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Posted: 7/1/2018 3:49:28 PM EDT
[#37]
Ran some 223 thru my homemade tumbler.
Gonna run some loads with no pins and see how they look Cleaning out the pins is a pain 45mins with dawn and lemishine 20 mins with auto wash/wax and lemishine.  Attached File Attached FilePrimer pockets don’t seem to be any better or worse without pins. I’ll run a brush on my drill when I resize and trim. |
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Posted: 7/1/2018 6:06:03 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Doorman63:
Ran some 223 thru my homemade tumbler. Gonna run some loads with no pins and see how they look Cleaning out the pins is a pain 45mins with dawn and lemishine 20 mins with auto wash/wax and lemishine. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/469047/1B42D798-33B9-484B-A90E-782A0577DE56-593706.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/469047/A1554E96-A90E-4CC1-BA76-832508828AB7-593708.JPG Primer pockets don’t seem to be any better or worse without pins. I’ll run a brush on my drill when I resize and trim. |
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Posted: 7/1/2018 6:38:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bm3: If you want the bling look you’ll have to run it for 3-4 hours. After resizing/trimming/etc I’ll run them longer and see if they get better. |
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Posted: 7/1/2018 6:56:23 PM EDT
[#40]
Loaded 100 rounds of 22 TCM with 37g PCC bullets over 9gr of H110.
Loaded 57 rounds of 458 Socom with 330g PCC over 29.5gr of Win 296. Loaded 15 rounds of 350gr 45 ACP brass swaged bullets. 38gr of IMR 4198 seems to give best velocities so far. I may push them hotter later if I can get more powder to fit in the case. |
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Posted: 7/1/2018 7:27:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/1/2018 9:06:00 PM EDT
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I went to run a small batch of 9mm using some lead bullets I bought some time back, but I found that I had mis-remembered their weight. They are 125 grain RNs, and I'd thought I had a box of 147 grain RNs. So I have to throw out my research and start over...
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CO, USA
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Posted: 7/3/2018 2:42:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: COSteve]
[#43]
Done
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 7/3/2018 4:01:51 PM EDT
[#44]
My order of 2k 45 acp 230gr rn bullets from rmr came in a few days ago as well as 1k 175 smks. Yesterday I went to a local reloading store and got 8lbs tire group, 3k srp, 3k app, and 3k pl and 2k Berry's 55gr fmj rounds .
Couldn't resist and loaded up the 2k of 45 ammo earlier today. Also made between 50-60 7mm rounds and 243. Wet tumbled 500 308 twice fired brass and the last bit of 9mm brass. Unfortunately I have to get new tires for my truck this weekend so there goes my case feeder for my 650 till the following weekend. |
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Posted: 7/3/2018 10:20:24 PM EDT
[#45]
Knocked the primers out of my Alpha 6.5C cases and threw them in the tumbler. I'll load them up tomorrow.
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Posted: 7/3/2018 10:40:10 PM EDT
[#46]
Tumbled some 9mm cases, I have a 2 1/2 gal bucket filled with cleaned, deprimed, and sized 9mm's ready to go. I also made some more empty brass today.
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Posted: 7/3/2018 11:47:44 PM EDT
[#47]
Removed last batch of 9mm from the wet tumbler.
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Posted: 7/4/2018 8:04:13 AM EDT
[Last Edit: imtheflash]
[#48]
I've been slacking in the reloading room. Here's some 6.5 Creed ready to be primed, along with some new Hornady brass in 243 WSSM expanded to 25 WSSM.
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Posted: 7/4/2018 9:21:08 AM EDT
[#49]
Currently have the stainless steel drum going to clean brass. Does that count?
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TX, USA
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Posted: 7/4/2018 12:01:22 PM EDT
[#50]
Loaded 500 9mm this am before it got to hot in the reloading cave.
Nice to have the 550 running on all cylinders again. Looking for 4th deals on supply's now. |
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