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Posted: 10/4/2019 8:14:17 AM EDT
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IM sent to GHPorter with a link to proper silicone baking mats for cooking his powder coated bullets.
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Posted: 10/4/2019 7:08:26 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dryflash3:
IM sent to GHPorter with a link to proper silicone baking mats for cooking his powder coated bullets. Anyway, Saturday morning plans are now pushed to Sunday morning, but I have time Saturday to shop for baking needs for cooking my bullets. |
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Posted: 10/5/2019 5:23:31 PM EDT
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I got my car's battery replaced today. It was under warranty, but it took most of the morning to get it done. It was too hot to start casting by then, so I set up my Rock Chucker and sized and expanded my small stash of .45 Colt brass. I'm going to de-lube the brass this afternoon.
Unless "the creek rises," I'll be working on casting tomorrow morning right around the crack of dawn. The projected low overnight for San Antonio is 71, so I'm stoked about casting tomorrow! |
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Posted: 10/5/2019 7:50:22 PM EDT
[#4]
Ladder tested 77gn SMK, found a sub MOA load and came home with some 30-06 cases.
Have the 30-06 resized and tumbling, hope to finish processing the brass tomorrow before my flight. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 10/5/2019 8:16:17 PM EDT
[#5]
Loaded a batch of .223
24.0 grs Varget 75 gr Hornady BTHP CCI No 400 Win brass POW! |
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Posted: 10/5/2019 11:22:10 PM EDT
[#6]
Started on a batch of LC 10, they are going to end up as 300 blk.
At the crimp reaming/uniforming PP's stage. Much easier to do when cases are still 223, 300 blk is too hard to hold on to. |
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Posted: 10/6/2019 10:28:28 AM EDT
[#7]
Finished resizing/depriming the last 1800 pieces of 9mm brass (range pick-ups, EE purchases). Gee, do you think I have enough now?
Been an ongoing project for the past several years. And this is just one caliber. Perhaps it's time to consider buying a progressive press. 
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Posted: 10/6/2019 1:01:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ThePontificator:
Finished resizing/depriming the last 1800 pieces of 9mm brass (range pick-ups, EE purchases). Gee, do you think I have enough now? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ThePontificator:
Finished resizing/depriming the last 1800 pieces of 9mm brass (range pick-ups, EE purchases). Gee, do you think I have enough now? 
https://i.imgur.com/l1jDMqT.jpg Originally Posted By ThePontificator:
Been an ongoing project for the past several years. And this is just one caliber. Perhaps it's time to consider buying a progressive press. My own input: I just made a very large number of bullet-like objects in my first bullet casting attempt. I took advantage of the low morning temperature (it was about 71 when I got started), and went through somewhere around 15 pounds of alloy. Aside from the obviously mutant/incomplete/finned/etc. bullets, I’m sure I have about 30-50% rejects. And I really don’t have a clue how many I actually cast. Once everything (including ME) cools down, I’ll start counting and inspecting the bullets. I’m pretty sure I have enough good ones to start playing with powder coating them, but whether that’s a couple hundred or several hundred, I have no idea yet.
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Posted: 10/6/2019 2:30:17 PM EDT
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Sized, trimmed, tumbled, and expanded 50 45-70 cases, and also fully prepped 100 .223 cases which are tumbling right now. Got another order in of 200 405gr cast bullets from ACME. Have already gone through 100 ACME Bullets, and a 100 LaserCast in about a month. Haven't reloaded 223 in over a year so I figured I'd also prep some brass.
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Posted: 10/6/2019 4:48:25 PM EDT
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Sorted out a bunch of brass I picked up yesterday before and during the break at Steel Challenge match.
Added quiet a bit of 9mm to the pile as well as a decent amount of 45 and a few 40's. Have shot about 500 of a load I worked up for my Carry Optics Glock 17 and have been pretty happy with them. Will load up the 3k or so I have sitting under my bench now starting this week. |
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Posted: 10/6/2019 4:52:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ThePontificator:
Been an ongoing project for the past several years. And this is just one caliber. Perhaps it's time to consider buying a progressive press. I don't know how I managed to load 800-1000 rounds of 9mm a month before I got the 650 (was using Lee Classic Turret). I couldn't believe I waited so long to get one...now I want a bullet feeder or something else to speed it up even more. |
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Posted: 10/6/2019 5:04:18 PM EDT
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I had issues with my casting. Apparently the molds or the alloy (or both) weren't hot enough. I've dug into a lot of resources, and I've asked for help on Cast Boolits. I'm somewhat bummed, since I put three hours of effort into the casting, and made over 350 bullet-like objects. Only a very, very few of them turned out to be real bullets.
Fortunately no materials were wasted, just time and sweat. So the rejects will be melted down again, and hopefully I'll get some useful advice on the how-to of temperatures for casting. |
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Posted: 10/6/2019 8:27:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Vegitan:
Ladder tested 77gn SMK, found a sub MOA load and came home with some 30-06 cases. Have the 30-06 resized and tumbling, hope to finish processing the brass tomorrow before my flight. |
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Posted: 10/6/2019 8:36:52 PM EDT
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Wet tumbled 300+ pieces of 4x fired 458 socom brass. About to update my data with Brazos 405g boolits over CFE BLK. Turns out they don't like to be pushed past 1600 fps.
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MT, USA
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Posted: 10/6/2019 9:36:12 PM EDT
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Rollsized 20,000+ pieces of 9mm brass in preparation for delivery of my RL110 and Ammobot Rev 3.
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Posted: 10/6/2019 9:47:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GHPorter:
I had issues with my casting. Apparently the molds or the alloy (or both) weren't hot enough. I've dug into a lot of resources, and I've asked for help on Cast Boolits. I'm somewhat bummed, since I put three hours of effort into the casting, and made over 350 bullet-like objects. Only a very, very few of them turned out to be real bullets.
Fortunately no materials were wasted, just time and sweat. So the rejects will be melted down again, and hopefully I'll get some useful advice on the how-to of temperatures for casting. For me, I sized the last of the linotype 37 gr .22 cal PCC bullets I cast up a few weeks ago. That's about it. Work has been busy, life has been busier. |
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Posted: 10/6/2019 9:57:12 PM EDT
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Loaded up 300 AAC.
4 runs of 5 rounds of 125 gr Speer TNT over H110 from min to max. I need to grab some lil’Gun to throw under my 150 gr GD. Considering acquiring a Lee FCD (I think I’ll need the 30 carbine version for this cartridge) |
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IA, USA
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Posted: 10/6/2019 10:38:27 PM EDT
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I had some ammo I reloaded a little too hot. (200 rounds) I pulled all of the bullets and kept the powder. I resized the cases and reloaded the brass with a reduced load with the powder and bullets I just pulled. It was a long day.
kwg |
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Posted: 10/6/2019 11:57:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dryflash3]
[#19]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GHPorter:
I had issues with my casting. Apparently the molds or the alloy (or both) weren't hot enough. I've dug into a lot of resources, and I've asked for help on Cast Boolits. I'm somewhat bummed, since I put three hours of effort into the casting, and made over 350 bullet-like objects. Only a very, very few of them turned out to be real bullets.
Fortunately no materials were wasted, just time and sweat. So the rejects will be melted down again, and hopefully I'll get some useful advice on the how-to of temperatures for casting. Finished the primer pockets, cut 223's to 300 blk length, and deburred. Ready to anneal and form. Maybe tomorrow. Batch is 230 cases all LC 10. Also took a few 223 cases and trimmed them to 1 inch and deburred. Ready to anneal and form into 7.62x25. |
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Posted: 10/7/2019 9:40:12 AM EDT
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Tumbled a bunch of 6.8 brass this weekend.
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Posted: 10/7/2019 11:40:08 AM EDT
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Unsuccessfully looked for a pound of RL16. Going to work up some SRP-Alpha 6.5C long range rounds - if I ever find some powder....
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Posted: 10/7/2019 8:06:04 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Hanzerik]
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50ea 45-70 405gr Cast
50ea 45-70 405gr Cast HiTek Coated 100ea 223 55gr V-Max Ready for dinosaurs or prairie dogs
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Posted: 10/7/2019 9:41:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dryflash3:
Start a thread so we can discuss. This evening, I cleaned the molds I used on Sunday. I'd been advised that maybe I hadn't cleaned them thoroughly enough, so I was really diligent about scrubbing out the colds using alcohol and a soft tooth brush. Then I started arranging my die sets, since I've recently bought several new ones. I noticed that I'd bought newer versions of several dies, and it turned out that I still had the old ones still set up with Lock n Load bushings. So I went through and removed the bushings from dies I'm not using. That gave me bushings for my .45 Colt dies, as well as a few spares.
Then I hand primed my small stash of cleaned, sized and expanded .45 Colt brass. I had CCI large pistol primers on hand, and I noticed, as others have mentioned, that they were more of a challenge to seat than Winchester primers are. Not a problem, just more work. I'm looking at a particular load from Lyman 49; they used a Speer 230 grain swaged bullet over TightGroup, and marked the starting load as "potentially the most accurate" with that bullet. Since I have a large pile of (commercial) lead 230 grain round nose bullets, I plan to use that load to "get my feet wet" with loading this caliber. |
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Posted: 10/7/2019 11:40:46 PM EDT
[#24]
Annealed the batch of 230 300 blk I'm working on.
Also some 223 cut down to 1 inch to form into 7.62x25, and formed the 20 or so cases I have by lubing with Imperial and running them through the 7.62x25 sizing die. Have to trim them to .980 next. Then investigate reaming/turning the necks. |
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Posted: 10/8/2019 9:29:22 AM EDT
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Made empty brass!
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PA, USA
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Posted: 10/8/2019 8:49:45 PM EDT
[Last Edit: abpcl9]
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ThePontificator:
Finished resizing/depriming the last 1800 pieces of 9mm brass (range pick-ups, EE purchases). Gee, do you think I have enough now?
https://i.imgur.com/l1jDMqT.jpg Been an ongoing project for the past several years. And this is just one caliber. Perhaps it's time to consider buying a progressive press. |
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Posted: 10/8/2019 11:46:13 PM EDT
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Continued working on my 300 blk batch, got them formed and in the tumbler to clean off the lube with plain corn cob.
Got my 300 blk case holder for the Giraud adjusted for a trim length of 1.360. |
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Posted: 10/9/2019 8:02:53 PM EDT
[#28]
Went to Graf's of St. Charles, MO. Cha ching!
Talked to one of the employees there about my runout/ cincentricity issues. The next batch of .308 I do, I am going to do on my RCBS single stage and trickle the powder. Since I talked to the dude for a while, I felt obligated to buy some things. Walked away with an 8 pounder of Winchester 748 and some other miscellaneous stuff. Then I went to Academy Sports and picked up the last 3 boxes of these:  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/9/2019 8:40:02 PM EDT
[#29]
I got a hot plate for keeping my bullet molds hot. Actually my wife got it for me while I was at work. Yes, I'm lucky, and yes you can be jealous.
When I got home I reviewed the load I'd picked out in Lyman's 49th edition. I was going to substitute a standard cast 230 grain bullet for the "Speer Swaged FP #4681" 230 grain bullet in the manual, but apparently Speer doesn't make that bullet anymore, so I can't just do a little math and come up with a COAL for my substitute bullet. So more research is in order... |
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Posted: 10/10/2019 12:22:01 AM EDT
[#30]
Trimmed some 6mm Creedmoor brass. Ready for priming and loading.
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Posted: 10/10/2019 10:20:50 AM EDT
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Jealous on those Hornady HPBTs.
Over the past few days I resized (just in case) and primed 500 pieces of purchased 300 BO brass. I still get disappointed when I ruin a primer on "pre-swaged" brass, but oh well. Bought a chrono. Yay! Loaded up some sub ladders in the 300 BO. Pretty sure I just about over dosed on fumes while cleaning multiple rifles (same room as the reloading room, so this counts). |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 10/10/2019 5:13:39 PM EDT
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Made brackets from Lowe's 1-1/2"x1/8" aluminum stock and 3/4" inch bolts. Now my tool heads aren't buried.
I shamelessly stole the design from someone else here a couple of months ago and finally got around to making them. The trick is finding 3/4"x3" bolts that are completely threaded. 
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Posted: 10/10/2019 6:18:00 PM EDT
[#33]
Ordered some powder.....now the wait.....is it here yet?
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Posted: 10/11/2019 12:07:25 AM EDT
[#34]
Loaded up 170 77gn SMK over 23.4gn of Varget and put on stripper clips
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Posted: 10/11/2019 7:53:36 AM EDT
[#35]
Ordered another 500 175 SMKs from the P. Valley sale.
Bought another 3k 147gr JHP from Everglades, along with some of their .308 cal offerings. Scored some more 7.62 LC on the cheap. (Stuck in IQ so all I can do is buy) |
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Posted: 10/11/2019 8:09:07 AM EDT
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Loaded up 120 rounds of long range ammo for the varmint rifle. One ammo box and one 20rd mag.
77gr TMK 23.5gr 8208xbr CCI 450's Single year lot of 1x fired Lake City brass. It is holding well under 1 MOA as far out as I've gone so far during load development. Waiting on corn and beans to come out to really stretch it out. Very impressed with terminal performance in limited testing. Can't wait to hand some out to coyotes this year 
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CO, USA
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Posted: 10/11/2019 1:30:35 PM EDT
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Added a FW Arms decapper to my 1050 that I use to process 223 brass. I am a total Dillon fanboy, but this is about a million times better than the Dillon and Lee Universal decappers. It works awesome. Pops out primers easy and it doesent draw them back in which messes things up. Money well spent.
https://fwarms.com/shop/reloading/f-w-arms-auto-center-decapper/ 
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Posted: 10/11/2019 8:56:56 PM EDT
[#38]
Loaded up 30 300blk cases that were laying around.
Went to the range and came back with WAY more brass than I shot. Brass is tumbling now. Resized, swagged and trimmed 223 brass, priming it on the couch while watching YouTube with the wife. |
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Posted: 10/12/2019 6:52:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jbizzle: You have our permission....dooooo it! I don't know how I managed to load 800-1000 rounds of 9mm a month before I got the 650 (was using Lee Classic Turret). I couldn't believe I waited so long to get one...now I want a bullet feeder or something else to speed it up even more. |
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Posted: 10/12/2019 10:05:57 AM EDT
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Reloaded some more Nosler 135 hps for the P07/CZ75B in .40.
Got a bunch of 9MM brass ready to prime (today is the plan) so I can reload some PD 115 grain hps for the P01s, P09, etc. |
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Posted: 10/12/2019 11:44:35 PM EDT
[#41]
Made some more 77gn reloads finishing the last of the Varget on hand.
Resized and uniformed the primer pocket on more range picked up 30-06 and 308. Packed away more reloading gear as I get ready to move in a few more weeks. |
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Posted: 10/13/2019 12:08:45 AM EDT
[#42]
Bought some components and desiccant to toss in ammo cans.
Really frustrated with finding certain powders right now, I've been in five shops in the past week looking for a specific powder. All of them stock it and each was sold out. Damn. |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 10/13/2019 6:17:42 AM EDT
[#43]
Slowly going through some loads that worked well through my 16" AR-15 to find what works well through my 22" Compass. Shorter leade on the Compass changed the COAL on some of my good loads from 2.250" to 2.200". Plus 6" longer barrel may or may not have affected what charge works best so I loaded 50 rounds (10 rounds each of 5 different charges) of one load yesterday to find out. Headed for the range this morning to find out.
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Posted: 10/13/2019 5:10:21 PM EDT
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I cast some real bullets today! I used a bunch suggestions and advice from here and Cast Boolits, and lo and behold, it worked!
I’ll update my casting thread for more details. |
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Posted: 10/13/2019 5:17:18 PM EDT
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Measured COAL of a bunch of bullets for my recently rebarreled 300 WM hunting rifle.
Loaded up some 10mm test rounds with Longshot and 180 XTP's. I REALLY am liking my G40. Such a cool pistol. Just sat down to peruse ARF for a minute. Going to load a few of some random 300 WM rounds here in a bit to narrow down which bullets to look harder at. I like doing it that way, much faster than fiddling with one bullet at a time. |
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Posted: 10/13/2019 7:12:53 PM EDT
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Loaded up some 405g coated cast Brazos bullets for the ol 458 socom. Trying to nail down a blasting load w/ either H110 or Lil' Gun around 1550 fps. These bullets don't like being pushed past 1600.
Also got 15 rounds of clearly reloaded 45 LC from my friend (who is my local ffl) who got a bunch of crap from an estate. Disassembled them to find them packed to capacity with black powder, a couple of which the black powder had nearly completely cemented together. 15 free pieces of brass tho, lol. |
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MT, USA
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Posted: 10/13/2019 7:26:43 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mustb123:
Unsuccessfully looked for a pound of RL16. Going to work up some SRP-Alpha 6.5C long range rounds - if I ever find some powder.... Are there any Scheels near you? |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 10/13/2019 7:51:45 PM EDT
[#48]
The family unloaded 1000+ rounds of 9mm this weekend. The brass tumbler is going now.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 10/13/2019 8:52:11 PM EDT
[#49]
Cast 500 124gr 9mm and 150 175gr .40/10mm. Tumbled about 1000 9mm cases from last week's matches and 50 300 Blackout cases.
Be powder coating tomorrow. |
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Posted: 10/13/2019 9:58:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By chevrofreak:
The local Scheels had a big stash of it. I picked up a couple to play with. Are there any Scheels near you? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By chevrofreak:
Originally Posted By mustb123:
Unsuccessfully looked for a pound of RL16. Going to work up some SRP-Alpha 6.5C long range rounds - if I ever find some powder.... Are there any Scheels near you? |
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