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Loaded up some 55gr FMJs over 25.0 of Tac. Test fired my 55FMJs over 24.5 and 24.6 of Tac respectively, both shot great at 50 yards.
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Originally Posted By ChevelleDave:
Nice score! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ChevelleDave:
Originally Posted By edgephoto:
Met a dude from a local forum and picked up 8lbs of H335, 1000 55gr Hornday FMJ, 1000 Lake City 55gr FMJ and 2100 CCI #41 primers. All for $260. Nice score! He has a bunch more stuff that I will be buying. He asked me when I was picking it up if I wanted more bullets and primers. Who doesn't? |
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WA, USA
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Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
Today, I orfered a chronograph.
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Ignorance is not a point of view.
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Today I get to test my reloading skills by journeying into the world of 9mm major!
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Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here!
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Currently running 9mm brass through the wet tumbler from my last few outings to to the range.
Sorted approximately 1000 .45 acp cases I ordered online. Found 97 small pistol primer cases in the mix. |
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Originally Posted By AJE:
I haven't been posting in this thread, but I've been loading a couple hundred 9mm at a time the last few weeks to keep up with my USPSA and GSSF practice. Today, I started an experiment for a new lower recoil .45ACP load for GSSF competition. A coated 185gr semi wadcutter from Bayou Bullets, over 4.5 grains of Bullseye. I don't recall the OAL but the adjustment that I used for 230gr put the shoulder just out of the case so I went with that and it seemed to work okay. Also loaded some over Red Dot to try. I had one empty not completely eject on the first magazine I tested so I bumped up a tenth of a grain of powder and the rest seemed to feed just fine through my Glock 21. Very mild recoil compared to my old 230gr load. http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p505/arfcomaje/reloading/IMG_20160730_072527256_zpskb4pry05.jpg View Quote Marking your brass for recovery or does the color mean something? I do different colors for different times fired for my rifle brass. In the spirit of this thread on tumbling my third batch of brass and working on resizing 308 brass. Someday I should buy a gun that shoots .308. |
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I cleaned my press.
I loaded up 800 rounds in between all the "honey do" stuff today. I put 1500 rounds that were loaded last week and today into ammo cans. Tomorrow I will load another batch. I am hoping to be able to load 800 or so. This of course if the wife unit agrees. I also made a deal with a local guy to buy 47lbs of 55gr .224 bullets, 3000 CCI#41 primers and 1000 each small and large pistol primers. He might have some other misc stuff when he cleans out his apartment. |
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Finished tearing down 500 9mm hp. Got 499 cases, about 450 have good primers, 498 bullets. I will have to sort the bullets as they are definitely 2 different weights.
Not bad for $35 and a couple of hours of labor. Bullets appear to be hydrashoks. |
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This one time..on Call of Duty..it was soo cool..
AZ, USA
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Finally got to go out and shake down some New subsonic 300 Blackout loads that I had loaded up but never really got to play with other then the dozen used in the chronograph work.. The load consisted of using the Berry's plated 220 grn FMJ... The coolest thing I noticed was that the sun was hitting just right and I was getting some glint off the bullet and I could see the bullet going down range (lit up like a dim tracer), was very cool..
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Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Marking your brass for recovery or does the color mean something? I do different colors for different times fired for my rifle brass. In the spirit of this thread on tumbling my third batch of brass and working on resizing 308 brass. Someday I should buy a gun that shoots .308. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Originally Posted By AJE:
I haven't been posting in this thread, but I've been loading a couple hundred 9mm at a time the last few weeks to keep up with my USPSA and GSSF practice. Today, I started an experiment for a new lower recoil .45ACP load for GSSF competition. A coated 185gr semi wadcutter from Bayou Bullets, over 4.5 grains of Bullseye. I don't recall the OAL but the adjustment that I used for 230gr put the shoulder just out of the case so I went with that and it seemed to work okay. Also loaded some over Red Dot to try. I had one empty not completely eject on the first magazine I tested so I bumped up a tenth of a grain of powder and the rest seemed to feed just fine through my Glock 21. Very mild recoil compared to my old 230gr load. http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p505/arfcomaje/reloading/IMG_20160730_072527256_zpskb4pry05.jpg Marking your brass for recovery or does the color mean something? I do different colors for different times fired for my rifle brass. In the spirit of this thread on tumbling my third batch of brass and working on resizing 308 brass. Someday I should buy a gun that shoots .308. Marked the Red Dot powder with a red mark. Bullseye brass is left blank. I don't expect any difference as low as my charges are, just curious to look at them later. Also to see if the ejection is significantly different. |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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Cooked a couple of batches of powder coated bullets.
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Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
Primed fifty 9mm cases. That's all.
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10/22/14 I stand with Canada
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Loaded my SNS Casting smaller 25 pack of 125FPs over 3.7gr of Titegroup, gotta pull a couple that won't case gauge :(
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gf got me the power drill adaptor thing for the lyman trimmer for my birthday (SSOOO excited to use it) so im going to hammer out my 3k brass today.
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"Some folks should just stick with Glocks.....pistols for the mechanically inept."- gwitness
RIP Grin! 10/09/2015 NorCal_LEO issued nickname: Tombstone |
Sizing brass.
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The human body is the only machine that breaks down from a lack of use.
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I drove up to Buda to buy some VV N133 powder. Yes, they got me to help pay their mortgage, but with a coupon and my military discount (5%...yay) it wasn't too bad. Hopefully I'll get a chance to mess with this stuff some time soon; work's been crazy busy and while overtime is nice, you gotta be awake to spend the extra money.
Added: This evening I went through my stash of LC 7.62 brass. I sorted out the non-LC stuff (just a few from scrounging), then checked out the rest. I had about 30 scrounged "not once fired" cases - their primer crimps had already been removed - and then organized the rest (about 200) for crimp removal. These will be for load development. This is outside of the 1200 I haven't done anything to but deprime and wet tumble yet. |
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Heinlein NRA Life Member Glock Certified Armorer Certified AR15 Armorer Certified M1911 Armorer |
I loaded 200 rounds of 223 last night. First time I have been able to load ammunition in a few months. Used a new to me powder, BLC-2. Hope it works well, it's much cheaper than H335 and 748.
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I AM DARREN WILSON
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Picked up a RCBS charge master combo
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Been doing some load experimentation with 147gn 9mm Blue Bullets in my CZ-75 SP-01, Beretta 92A1, and my Sig 228. Trying to find a nice shooting Power Pistol load that will run all 3 and not be too punishing. Started off at 4.2 grains and finished off at 4.9 grains today. Alliants website sucks for info.
All loads worked fine but got alot of smoke staining on the cases with the 4.2 load. Probably going to settle on the 4.6 gn load. No staining and really good accuracy at 25 yds. Waiting on next payday to order a chrony so I can see what speeds I am looking at before I load up the rest of the 1K I have. |
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Yesterday, sonic cleaned the lube off the 308 cases. Head stamp sorted the 223 brass I picked up from the range. Planning on trimming and priming the 30-06 brass I picked up as well, like having fully prepped brass for M1 Garand reloading.
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FBHO
Team Ranstad |
Getting ready to tumble some 5.56/,223 and 9x19 brass that we emptied during a lunch break from work
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"Some folks should just stick with Glocks.....pistols for the mechanically inept."- gwitness
RIP Grin! 10/09/2015 NorCal_LEO issued nickname: Tombstone |
Resized spent 300 BLK cases, need to throw them in sonic cleaner to get the lube off.
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Let me get my coffee first...
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Originally Posted By Bearcat24:
Why use a sonic cleaner for that. Just use corn cob in a tumbler for 10 minutes. Easier. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Bearcat24:
Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Resized spent 300 BLK cases, need to throw them in sonic cleaner to get the lube off. Why use a sonic cleaner for that. Just use corn cob in a tumbler for 10 minutes. Easier. Small batches and I don't like picking out cob from the primer pockets. I could use a universal decapping die but I reload 300 BLK on the single stage and don't want to add another step. |
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Let me get my coffee first...
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Bought a pound of TAC and a box of 100 Hornady 55 FMJ's.
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"Some folks should just stick with Glocks.....pistols for the mechanically inept."- gwitness
RIP Grin! 10/09/2015 NorCal_LEO issued nickname: Tombstone |
Originally Posted By dryflash3:
<a href="http://s250.photobucket.com/user/dryflash3/media/Tumbling/P5290107.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/dryflash3/Tumbling/P5290107.jpg</a> If you use the correct size corn cob it flows through the flashole. The pet store corn cob will stick. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By dryflash3:
Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Originally Posted By Bearcat24:
Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Resized spent 300 BLK cases, need to throw them in sonic cleaner to get the lube off. Why use a sonic cleaner for that. Just use corn cob in a tumbler for 10 minutes. Easier. Small batches and I don't like picking out cob from the primer pockets. I could use a universal decapping die but I reload 300 BLK on the single stage and don't want to add another step. <a href="http://s250.photobucket.com/user/dryflash3/media/Tumbling/P5290107.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/dryflash3/Tumbling/P5290107.jpg</a> If you use the correct size corn cob it flows through the flashole. The pet store corn cob will stick. Using Lyman cob and get pocket and flash hole with cob. What untreated cob are you showing Dry? |
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Let me get my coffee first...
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Tumbling some 9x19 nickel right now
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"Some folks should just stick with Glocks.....pistols for the mechanically inept."- gwitness
RIP Grin! 10/09/2015 NorCal_LEO issued nickname: Tombstone |
Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Using Lyman cob and get pocket and flash hole with cob. What untreated cob are you showing Dry? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Originally Posted By dryflash3:
Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Originally Posted By Bearcat24:
Originally Posted By Vegitan:
Resized spent 300 BLK cases, need to throw them in sonic cleaner to get the lube off. Why use a sonic cleaner for that. Just use corn cob in a tumbler for 10 minutes. Easier. Small batches and I don't like picking out cob from the primer pockets. I could use a universal decapping die but I reload 300 BLK on the single stage and don't want to add another step. <a href="http://s250.photobucket.com/user/dryflash3/media/Tumbling/P5290107.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/dryflash3/Tumbling/P5290107.jpg</a> If you use the correct size corn cob it flows through the flashole. The pet store corn cob will stick. Using Lyman cob and get pocket and flash hole with cob. What untreated cob are you showing Dry? Probably this 14/20 corn cob media from Zoro Tools.. They're less expensive than Granger for exactly the same Econoline-brand media. Zoro wants about $35 for 40 pounds of the stuff, while Granger wants $38 and their shipping is more too. Hint: buy two 5-gallon pails when you buy 40 pounds of corn cob media. It won't quite all fit in those pails, but you can keep it dry that way. |
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"--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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Originally Posted By Flashbang1: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GakyKl7GVFY/V6E5GRo40GI/AAAAAAAALaA/5U8tuLZ8cBMAoQZQCaN0BHugF_4y-brFwCHM/s1280/upload_-1 Did a single batch of 9MM cases with Armor All® Ultra Shine Wash & Wax in the FA tumbler. First time deviating from Dawn® Ultra Dishwashing liquid soap. I'm going to see if the wax film left behind makes any difference in retarding or eliminating tarnish and if it will ease resizing in any significant way. I'm happy with the wash results and will likely stick with it anyways since Armor All® Ultra Shine Wash & Wax is cheaper than the Dawn® Ultra Dishwashing liquid soap. View Quote |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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Originally Posted By Vegitan: Using Lyman cob and get pocket and flash hole with cob. What untreated cob are you showing Dry? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Vegitan: Originally Posted By dryflash3: Originally Posted By Vegitan: Originally Posted By Bearcat24: Originally Posted By Vegitan: Resized spent 300 BLK cases, need to throw them in sonic cleaner to get the lube off. Why use a sonic cleaner for that. Just use corn cob in a tumbler for 10 minutes. Easier. Small batches and I don't like picking out cob from the primer pockets. I could use a universal decapping die but I reload 300 BLK on the single stage and don't want to add another step. <a href="http://s250.photobucket.com/user/dryflash3/media/Tumbling/P5290107.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/dryflash3/Tumbling/P5290107.jpg</a> If you use the correct size corn cob it flows through the flashole. The pet store corn cob will stick. Using Lyman cob and get pocket and flash hole with cob. What untreated cob are you showing Dry? |
Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
all I have been doing the past few months is stockpiling components,..you know just incase,..cuz November,..
did order some small replacement spare parts for the press also |
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I flew with Rotorhead and survived to tell about it!!!
kat is wise I'll listen to him again in the future Karma's a bitch, bitch |
Reloaded some 9mm today. Need to go put them on paper to see how they do. Ordered more LnL die holders. Started researching .40SW loads. Need to get more primers.
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Originally Posted By Southrnshooter:
Been doing some load experimentation with 147gn 9mm Blue Bullets in my CZ-75 SP-01, Beretta 92A1, and my Sig 228. Trying to find a nice shooting Power Pistol load that will run all 3 and not be too punishing. Started off at 4.2 grains and finished off at 4.9 grains today. Alliants website sucks for info. All loads worked fine but got alot of smoke staining on the cases with the 4.2 load. Probably going to settle on the 4.6 gn load. No staining and really good accuracy at 25 yds. Waiting on next payday to order a chrony so I can see what speeds I am looking at before I load up the rest of the 1K I have. View Quote I just ordered the Caldwell from Amazon for $70 and I can connect it to my iPhone(or Android), works great. |
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Originally Posted By dryflash3:
https://www.zoro.com/value-brand-blast-media-corn-cob-14-to-20-grit-526020g-40/i/G1695775/ View Quote Danke Removed the lube from the 300 BLK cases, dried them and got them primed. Also trimmed the crimp out of the 308 cases I picked up last week. Need to get them trimmed and primed before putting them away. |
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Let me get my coffee first...
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Loaded up 150 rds for the Recce.
The ARP barrel loves this combo: 69smk, 23.5gr of 8208, cci 400, once fired lake city brass. |
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This one time..on Call of Duty..it was soo cool..
AZ, USA
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Turned 3k pieces of 223 brass into 300 Blackout brass and wet tumbled 2400 pieces of 300 blackout..
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Switched the press to 9mm and loaded 500 rounds of 9mm practice ammo.
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GLOCK Armorer. USPSA & GSSF competitor
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a Glock 20 at your side, kid.” |
I just gotta ask........
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Originally Posted By ChevelleDave:
Jesus, I remember when you first got he 650, what did you do before that? Buy a lot of ammo? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ChevelleDave:
Originally Posted By AJE:
Switched the press to 9mm and loaded 500 rounds of 9mm practice ammo. Jesus, I remember when you first got he 650, what did you do before that? Buy a lot of ammo? Cranked away for way longer on the Square Deal B |
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GLOCK Armorer. USPSA & GSSF competitor
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a Glock 20 at your side, kid.” |
Originally Posted By AJE:
Cranked away for way longer on the Square Deal B View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AJE:
Originally Posted By ChevelleDave:
Originally Posted By AJE:
Switched the press to 9mm and loaded 500 rounds of 9mm practice ammo. Jesus, I remember when you first got he 650, what did you do before that? Buy a lot of ammo? Cranked away for way longer on the Square Deal B Ouch! You need to try out a Super 1050. You'll be ruined. I have spent some time in the garage each day this week, just tore a lot of stuff out. Packing up a ton of my car parts stash, and tools that I'll not be using for awhile, engine hoists, trans jacks, differential fixtures, all going to the storage unit. Sold the drag racing stuff, unloaded the last LS motor and turbo set up. I need to get organized and set up for reloading, and actually shooting. I am so tired of digging through boxes looking for what I need, sometimes I think I spend more time trying to put stuff away just so I can reload, by the time I get to reloading, I'm out of time. And to think it all started just because I wanted to get to the drill press, and table saw to make a jig for my beam scale. One of my friends is trying to escape Seattle and get up here tomorrow, I just might make it to the range and test out the cast BO loads I have been trying to shoot for 2 weeks. |
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I just gotta ask........
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I went upstairs and carefully blended in the new arrivals with the existing stock. The Jack Russell took a vow of silence in exchange for half of my corn dog.
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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Order arrived from Midsouth, and I now have a 6 gang .311 155 gr 2R mold. For 300 blk and 7.62x39.
Got my first M die (30 carbine) and started using it for 300 Blk. You guys have made me a convert. More M dies are in my future. |
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