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Posted: 12/15/2020 7:48:54 AM EDT
[#1]
Spent about an hour and a half cutting crimps out of primer pockets. Feel like I didn't even put a dent in the pile of brass I have.
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Posted: 12/15/2020 9:49:45 AM EDT
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Started up one of the vibrating brass cleaners. Sorted through brass from the last range trip and put the 9MM and .223 brass in the walnut shell media. Then I saw that baggy of old nasty coins and the BMW key we found under the seats in my youngest son's 98 323i convertible and tossed that stuff in there, too. I wonder why the previous owner never looked under the seat for that key??
Get home in time this evening I'm going to load up some more 9MM. |
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Posted: 12/15/2020 10:17:15 AM EDT
[#3]
Got another 500 rounds of 147grn 9mm done.
Need to decide what to switch the 550 over to next. |
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Posted: 12/15/2020 10:18:11 AM EDT
[#4]
Resizing some 9mm case.
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Posted: 12/15/2020 10:41:51 AM EDT
[#5]
Got the shipping notification on my 1,500 9mm 115gr pills.
Still cleaning up after the 10 man, 5 day class they had. Each shooter lit off about 400 rounds a day - I’m gonna need a bigger bucket. |
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Posted: 12/15/2020 3:42:58 PM EDT
[#6]
Score the last bottle of H4198 powder probably in the whole county.
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Posted: 12/16/2020 1:53:48 PM EDT
[#7]
Got in x200 pcs of virgin Win .308 brass.
Ordered a jug of Varget. |
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Posted: 12/16/2020 7:14:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Shootindave]
[#8]
Used my Redding powder thrower for the first time. I set it to throw 24g of powder and then I trickled up to 25g. It threw 24g every time, seems very accurate.
Testing some of these bulk Berrys 55gr FMJ using 25g of H335. Hoping to make that my standard bulk load since i have enough to load a bunch.  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/16/2020 8:08:29 PM EDT
[#9]
Finally finished picking up the once fired 9mm cases from a class that ended on Sunday. 25 gallons ought to make for a bunch of decaping fun!
Traded 1# of tightgroup for a # of Clays. Loading up a small ladder of 147gr pills over some true blue. Looking for about 850fps. |
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USA
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Posted: 12/16/2020 11:24:25 PM EDT
[#10]
Got my Lyman Brass smith powder measure 'tuned' and it's throwing consistent 700X charges. Loaded exactly one .44 Mag shotshell, and one .44 SPL shotshell. Then had to go back to work.
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Posted: 12/16/2020 11:24:28 PM EDT
[#11]
Scored 1k small pistol primers yesterday and another 200 today.
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Posted: 12/16/2020 11:43:32 PM EDT
[#12]
NW556 came over and we finished his batch or 500 45 ACP with 770X and Extreme 230 gr RN.
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Posted: 12/17/2020 3:03:05 AM EDT
[#13]
Swage and prime, swage and prime.
Spent $10 in gas driving all over town to find a $8 RCBS #3 shell holder for 6.5cm. But I found one finally. |
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Posted: 12/17/2020 1:18:44 PM EDT
[#14]
Cleaned out my Dillon 550b hopper and powder drop system of powder (from another thread) and general maintenance, greasing, oiling, cleaning, etc.
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Posted: 12/17/2020 6:41:28 PM EDT
[#15]
Finished swaging and priming about 1400. Gonna actually load some up tomorrow.
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Posted: 12/17/2020 6:44:50 PM EDT
[#16]
Bought a pound of 296 & LIL'GUN.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 12/17/2020 7:39:02 PM EDT
[#17]
Found Ramshot Tac in stock and ordered an 8 pound jug.
I buddy of mine made a cool crimp cutting tool for .223. I am tooling up to process a five gallon bucket of brass. Clean, sort, segregate by case mfg and then process. |
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Posted: 12/17/2020 7:53:23 PM EDT
[#18]
Got in 8lbs of TAC and 8lbs of H4350, alongside a new small base die for 223. Not a bad day.
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Posted: 12/17/2020 8:27:01 PM EDT
[#19]
Went to the local reloading haunt.
The shelves are BARE. It's pretty crazy... It was never this way through any other panic in my memory. So... I moved over the SDB to get a run of 9mm done over the weekend. It's not for me - I'm going to load up some Christmas gifts for good friends who have a level of mutual trust. 
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Posted: 12/17/2020 11:27:04 PM EDT
[#20]
My friend needed 2 lbs of powder suitable for 30-06.
Powder valley got powder in today... Couldn't just order 2 lbs. So I ordered 8 lbs of IMR 4451 and 8 lbs of H335 along with the IMR4895 my friend needed. |
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USA
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Posted: 12/17/2020 11:34:44 PM EDT
[#21]
Got two M dies delivered today- -9mm and 38. Cabelas emailed me and I picked up my ship to store 1,000 CCI LPP.
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Posted: 12/18/2020 1:05:59 AM EDT
[#22]
Sorted some brass and bought some primers.
Anyone have a resource for a 750 with all the bells and whistles? I'm not familiar with Dillon products but almost bought a 550C today, held out for a 750 but would like a guide or retailer that sells the whole kit so I don't buy the wrong accessories. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 12/18/2020 2:27:33 AM EDT
[#23]
Happy day! Ordered 8# Tac from Powder Valley, $193 shipped.
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Posted: 12/18/2020 3:11:46 AM EDT
[#24]
Ordered a few k of pistol brass from Capitol Cartridge.
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Posted: 12/18/2020 3:00:12 PM EDT
[#25]
Loaded x600 9mm
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Posted: 12/18/2020 4:33:05 PM EDT
[#26]
Sorted the rest of my 9mm brass.
Loaded the next set of 9mm test loads. |
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Posted: 12/18/2020 8:26:24 PM EDT
[#27]
200 more rounds of 135gr Blue Bullets over True Blue. Will be changing over dies to work up a load for my HST's since all my previous data is for Gold Dot's, though I don't expect there to be much difference in powder loads for the same velocities.
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Posted: 12/18/2020 11:57:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dryflash3]
[#28]
 Yesterday started wet tumbling a 50 cal can of 223 range pick ups for NW556. First load done, 4 more in the background. Clean primer pockets as always.  Second load dumped out of tumbler, getting the pins removed without a magnet.  2 loads dried on wood stove and in an ammo can. |
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Posted: 12/19/2020 2:53:38 AM EDT
[#29]
Ordered 25 pounds of powder tonight. Three 8 pounders of the powder I've come to use regularly and 7 one pounders of powders to try out on miscellaneous loads.
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Posted: 12/19/2020 3:34:39 AM EDT
[#30]
I took possession of my very first press.....barely. This was the condition of the box from ups. Good job.
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Posted: 12/19/2020 11:16:38 AM EDT
[#31]
Ordered a couple pounds of H335 and CFE Pistol from Midsouth.
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Posted: 12/19/2020 1:22:32 PM EDT
[#32]
Cleaned up the shop after tumbling several gallons of various calibers.
Opened up the Berry's stackable storage boxes from Dillon to better organize some of that newly tumbled brass, 4 of the 5 containers were cracked or had the hinges smashed in shipping, another thumbs up for FedEx. Will be contacting Dillon about returning/replacing these. Did a component inventory, come to find I'm way out of balance. I guess the up side is I'm short on bullets, not primers. I had stuff squirreled away in places I completely forgot about. |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2020 2:37:36 PM EDT
[Last Edit: COSteve]
[#33]
Done
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2020 2:41:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: COSteve]
[#34]
Done
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Posted: 12/19/2020 2:49:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SBR7_11]
[#35]
Disregard
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Posted: 12/19/2020 7:25:36 PM EDT
[#36]
I put my Super 1050 to work cranking out the 9MM, at least until I ran out of my beloved Power Pistol I hope I can get some again someday!!!
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Posted: 12/19/2020 7:40:33 PM EDT
[#37]
Casted 230, 115gr 9mm bullets.
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Posted: 12/19/2020 7:54:09 PM EDT
[#38]
Assembled 2.1k 147gr 9mm Everglades HP’s on my RockChucker.
Arm is tired
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Posted: 12/19/2020 8:11:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dryflash3]
[#39]
Quote HistoryOff topic post removed.
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Posted: 12/19/2020 8:49:12 PM EDT
[#40]
Put a new carrier and indexing rod on my lee loadmaster (wasnt pulling the indexing rod out enough for proper operation) and spit out 600rds of 223. Only about 3000 more to go.
Think I need some more powder and boolits. I vastly underestimated my brass pile. Fortunately I'm way deep on primers. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 12/19/2020 10:16:36 PM EDT
[#41]
Flared and primed 700 9mm cases in preparation for a batch of 1,200
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Posted: 12/19/2020 10:26:09 PM EDT
[#42]
 Today's bling brought to you by Lemishine and Dawn, and my 45 ACP case soldered to a 223 case Lemishine measurer. |
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Posted: 12/20/2020 1:30:37 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dryflash3: https://i.imgur.com/Gj8HGzJl.jpg Today's bling brought to you by Lemishine and Dawn, and my 45 ACP case soldered to a 223 case Lemishine measurer. Gotta wear shades when looking at brass like that. 
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Posted: 12/20/2020 6:27:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/20/2020 6:46:05 PM EDT
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Made some 9mm and 32 acp brass. Only found some of it though...
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Posted: 12/20/2020 6:52:17 PM EDT
[#46]
The annual 3 generation Christmas shoot is coming up, so I have been loading a few hundred 9mm, 38 special, 357 magnum, 45acp and 223's. The 4th generation youngsters (3 & 6yo) are a bit young yet, but hopefully they will follow in our footsteps.
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Posted: 12/20/2020 8:54:32 PM EDT
[#47]
Loaded some 9mm.
Thought my SDB was set up in 9mm but it was set up for 38SPL. Upon raising and lowering the handle with the first 9mm case I immediately realized things had gone horribly wrong. Oops... That was dumb. 
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Posted: 12/20/2020 10:34:02 PM EDT
[#48]
Decapping approx 500 pcs 9mm.
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Posted: 12/21/2020 7:57:38 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ThePontificator: Decapping approx 500 pcs 9mm. I picked up a crap ton Friday. Finished casting, lubing and sizing 250 115gr 9mm bullets. I will wash my lead well before doing it again. It made a mess in the pot. I got most of the dirt out. Ordered some PC off Amazon. I have to get the airsoft bbs and a plastic tub now. |
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Posted: 12/21/2020 9:54:31 AM EDT
[Last Edit: DUX4LIFE]
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dryflash3: https://i.imgur.com/Gj8HGzJl.jpg Today's bling brought to you by Lemishine and Dawn, and my 45 ACP case soldered to a 223 case Lemishine measurer. As happy as I am with my Big Dawg style tumbler without SS media you are doing a great job of convincing me to go with SS chips... You will win this round with the beauty of your brass.  Remember this thread is for "what you did in reloading today" and not for comments as they are off topic. I use pins not chips. dryflash3 Sorry, In keeping with the rules I Did set up the LnL for 9mm and ran about 350 rounds after tweaking the case feeder and adding a wiper to the area above the feeder plate. |
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