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Posted: 3/20/2021 10:03:52 AM EDT
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Loaded 200ish 9mm with getting towards the last of my RMR 115gr bullets. I have another backorder for more 115 gr sitting out there in the queue.
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Posted: 3/20/2021 1:18:08 PM EDT
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Went to a HTF reloading swap meet / garage sale.
Got a Lee size/lube kit for .430 and .457. Also a Lyman M Die for 30-06. |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 1:24:26 PM EDT
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Started videoing my double Alfa primer pro in action to come up with repairs to make it work.
1 problem I’m having is primers hanging up where the molding process left circles so I sanded those smooth and now those work. My next problem is where the primers are suppose to got to the outer rim and ride up to the Shute. They seem to not be able to cross over the arrow to the outer rim , I’ll polish those and see what happens. Next is the tilt of the Shute. If you tilt the machine back a little they go down fine . It seems to me this thing still has bugs to work out. They say they run 500 primer in each machine before it ships but I’m calling BS on that or this One would have never left. |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 2:50:17 PM EDT
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After my gempro 250 died last night, I pulled out an old lee balance scale that I have had for years. Fiddled with it for a while till I got it working ok. It is slow, and tedious work. I would hate to do a load work up or precision loads with a balance scale.
I ordered an FX120i scale... |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 6:30:46 PM EDT
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Loaded another 250 9mm. This finishes off my stock of 115gr FMJ projectiles.
Checked the porch when packages arrived, snd my .380 Starline brass backorder arrived, plus my PPU 7.62x39 soft points. |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 7:11:17 PM EDT
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1000 rds 9mm. Got lazy while ammo was cheap.
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Posted: 3/20/2021 7:39:23 PM EDT
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Went shooting with the Boy Scouts today and unloaded about 80 rounds of .223, then 50 rounds of 12 gauge on the trap field.
Got home, sorted the brass (ended up with about 50 extra pieces of .223 brass and about 100 9mm  . Threw the .223 into the tumbler.Also opened two boxes that came in the mail - 500 pieces of .45 ACP brass from the EE, and 100 pieces of .270 brass from Bison. Tested lead hardness on 4 ingots that my buddy sent over. He gave me the ingots as a thank you. He also found me 500 Federal 209 primers from a contact of his. Good day in the shooting/reloading world! |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 7:57:17 PM EDT
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Tumbling some 6.5c.
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Posted: 3/20/2021 8:07:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GHPorter]
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 I wound up with a scratched sizing die...  No idea how that happened, since I was sizing very, very clean brass. So I contacted Hornady and we'll see how that goes.Since I wasn't going to size any more brass, I tumbled the lube off of the 200 or so .223 cases I'd already sized. And I deprimed another 100 or so once fired range cases - also .223/5.56 - to get a wet tumbler load ready. I'll probably run that tomorrow. |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 8:22:52 PM EDT
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Hours and hours wasted on this DA primer pro.
It’s not going to work well with Winchester primers or cci41 primers. It does work well with all other cci small primers. You have to pour 200 primers to get the 100 you want. You can’t pour 100 and expect it to work , doesn’t matter the primer you use. Back it goes for a refund. |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 11:43:26 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dryflash3]
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 Got out my 45 ACP SDB and changed the tool head to 10mm. (my only SDB set up for large primers) Got a new PM with the caliber change over kit, so I tuned and waxed it, then installed an Easy Dial. Also installed the Unique Tech powder funnel/expander. Bought months ago before AssaultRiflers thread. Got 100 rounds loaded while tuning and adjusting dies. All set up for a 500 round batch tomorrow.  This post brought to you buy the good folks at Skull Ammo.  |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 11:45:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dryflash3: https://i.imgur.com/dGwV6yBl.jpg Got out my 45 ACP SDB and changed the tool head to 10mm. (my only SDB set up for large primers) Got a new PM with the caliber change over kit, so I tuned and waxed it, then installed an Easy Dial. Also installed the Unique Tech powder funnel/expander. Bought months ago before AssaultRiflers thread. Got 100 rounds loaded while tuning and adjusting dies. All set up for a 500 round batch tomorrow. https://i.imgur.com/Wm3rN6Hl.jpg This post brought to you buy the good folks at Skull Ammo. Neat |
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Posted: 3/20/2021 11:54:52 PM EDT
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Did some loads of 150gr hotcor bullets over H335 in 7.62x39.
Switched over to loading some 75gr PCC bullets over unique in the same cartridge. Makes for a fun soft shooting load. Some friends came over and we made brass. Lots of it. Tried the dueling tree with the single shot AK loads using the 75gr boolits. Worked good. So, we needed a contender. Tagged in the 458 socom. 285gr PCC boolits over 8gr of unique makes for a soft load that also requires single shot action. Loaded up a few dozen of those. Then, we proceeded to make more brass. Duels were had, training was done. Now, I have a lot more reloading to do. I am almost completely out of 9mm. |
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Posted: 3/21/2021 1:05:31 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2021 9:07:49 AM EDT
[Last Edit: lilMAC25]
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Found some .430 projectiles at a small LGS. Speer Deep Curl and a box of 265 gr FTX. I’ll try to work up a load for .44 Mag with the FTX.
Powder, seated about 25 44 Mag. Fiddled with crimping some of the 44 Mag loads. |
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Posted: 3/21/2021 10:28:46 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Morgan321]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lilMAC25: 265 gr FTX. I’ll try to work up a load for .44 Mag with the FTX. You know the FTX generally require brass to be shorter than standard due to length - that's why hornady FTX ammo has non-standard length brass. If you have spl brass you can use that and spl load data and it'll work in your 44 rifles, but may not work in a gun chambered for 44spl. I have tons of powder, medium quantities of primers, and not enough bullets. So I got a 45colt mold from midway and it came in yesterday. Made almost 200 of them and almost 200 357. Coating is mixed clear and clear/red because I'm almost out of powder. First batch more than paid for the lee mold and sizing die.  Attached FileThat was all the lead I had ready to cast. I have 50+ lbs of pure lead, need some linotype to mix in to harden it up! |
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Posted: 3/21/2021 1:20:59 PM EDT
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Bought 750 more Berrys plated 9mm 124 grain bullets. I recently purchased my first batch of these and liked them so well I have bought a good supply. I plan to load and shoot all of these over the summer months.
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Posted: 3/21/2021 5:40:04 PM EDT
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Loaded up another small batch of my 175gr SMK 308 loads them switched the 550 over to 44 mag/spec. I managed to find some 44 mag brass from eons ago at my parents place. I’d decapped and wet tumbled them last week so I loaded up some test rounds using some 25 year old Herco I had laying around and Acme’s 240gr coated SWC. I picked a load in the middle from an older Lyman book. Went with 10.5gr of Herco with some old CCI LP Magnum primers. Seated the bullet to the crimp groove with a light roll crimp.
Test fired the five test rounds in my Smith 629 3” round butt. It’s got Smith finger groove combat grips on it that look awesome but don’t do much to help recoil control. They felt like what I would call “midrange” 44 magnum. Out of the little beast it was stout-ish. The cylinder release did bite my thumb..... I’ll be loading up a batch of 50 for use in my 4” 29’s and will probably use the rest of those 240’s in 44 Special loads. I also decapped some range pickup brass from yesterday along with some more 308 brass from a friend. |
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Posted: 3/21/2021 8:24:07 PM EDT
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Reloaded about 200 rounds of 9mm, powdercoated and sized another few hundred boolets.
Me and my friends went through all but about 50 of my 9mm ammo yesterday. |
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Posted: 3/21/2021 9:15:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2021 10:34:29 PM EDT
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Rigged up a crude test platform for a homemade induction annealer.
Played around with induction times using Tempilaq. Once I get it squared away and do a bit more testing I may start a thread on it. 
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Posted: 3/21/2021 10:39:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2021 11:54:51 PM EDT
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Sorted some 9mm brass again
Sorted some .223 brass again Set up my PhotoEscape .45 M type powder funnel on the 550B Made some dummy rounds to test in my .45s before making ladder loads These are also the first rounds, dummy or not, made with my wet tumbled 45ACP brass  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/22/2021 12:40:21 AM EDT
[Last Edit: dryflash3]
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Got busy on that 500 round batch of 10mm I set up for yesterday.
 200 rounds in.  500 finished. eta, RMR gives you a couple extra bullets. |
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Posted: 3/22/2021 1:53:39 AM EDT
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Finally got off my butt and re-skinned my loading bench:
 Attached FileThe old one was as old or older than I am and I recently managed to crack a corner on it while swaging some primer pockets on my Rock Chucker. Fortunately for me, my cousin had these old solid core doors laying around and let me take one off his hands. I was a bit skeptical at first but the intact door must have weighed 75 lbs or more. Anyway, I cut it down and added a couple more inches of overhang to the front, then used some lag bolts to attach it to the cabinet. |
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Posted: 3/22/2021 8:53:47 AM EDT
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Set up my 9mm Lyman M-Die this morning.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 3/22/2021 2:40:25 PM EDT
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Finally got around to loading my first .38 spl snake shot rounds. Have 6 or so factory cci left, and I have plenty of snakes on my property.
8 shot (leftover fron crayola slugs ), Corona beer box wads, over Bullseye. Shellac'ed the overshot wad.Shot at 9 ft. Some went through 8ins of foam board. Happy with the pattern..I counted 2 pellets that didnt hit the target. 
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Posted: 3/22/2021 4:38:45 PM EDT
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I got an RMA and shipping label from Hornady for my scratched die. I’ll be packing it up and sending it tomorrow. They said: “We'll get you a shipping label to get it back and we'll try and repair the die. If we are unable to do so at that point we will get it replaced for you.”
Gotta love the great service from these guys. |
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Posted: 3/22/2021 8:06:47 PM EDT
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Got a 25 lb bag of #9 shot, a pound of HP38 and 100 CCI LP primers from Sportsmans Warehouse today.
My buddy dropped off some more lead samples for me to test today as well. |
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Posted: 3/22/2021 8:57:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/22/2021 10:55:08 PM EDT
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Got my 9mm turret set up for loading 115 gr coated projectiles.
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Posted: 3/22/2021 11:54:02 PM EDT
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Busy day.
Set up Lee C press upside down for sizing bullets Powder coated and sized yesterdays casts. Side note, it has been at least 3 years since I've casted and coated. Always just used HF Red for "shake n bake"... I think some better powder is in my future...  Attached FileLoaded up test loads in 45 with 2 different powders.  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/23/2021 11:30:28 AM EDT
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Received a large order from Dillon.
Everything I need to reload 223, 308, 30-06. Just waiting for the dies from Dillon, and a case trimmer from Giraud. |
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Posted: 3/23/2021 12:36:38 PM EDT
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Sorted through 2000+ M856 tracer projectiles I received. About half had the copper disk punctured by bullet points but that can’t be avoided.
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Posted: 3/23/2021 12:44:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/23/2021 2:45:00 PM EDT
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Trimmed primed and Lyman M die expanded 130 30-30 brass. Going to fire up the old Lyman 61 and cast my new mold; an NOE 175 plain base flat nose 30 cal.
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Posted: 3/23/2021 5:42:59 PM EDT
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Almost finished a 30 cal can of 223 brass squaring(wrong term maybe?)the primer pockets. This will be followed up with sizing/trimming aforementioned cases when time allows.
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Posted: 3/23/2021 8:34:33 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AssaultRifler]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xdmikey: Almost finished a 30 cal can of 223 brass squaring(wrong term maybe?)the primer pockets. Sorted another piddly amount of 9mm by head stamp, my heart's not into it much any more but almost done with it Made big gains in sorting once vs non-once fired .223 brass Tumbled 500 once fired .223 brass and my mind was blown, never seen such pretty cases and I've wet tumbled 9mm, 38, 357, 45, 762x39, 40, 10mm, 44mag, 45 LC Some of them had big blotches of brown and black spots, it now looks like jewelry Was worried I'd get a bunch of pins stuck inside the cases, didn't find any  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/23/2021 9:13:20 PM EDT
[#39]
Loaded (300) rounds of 9mm 147gr XTP
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Posted: 3/23/2021 9:22:13 PM EDT
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1000 Win 209 primers arrived today.
Also tried out my new Eastwood Light Blue powdercoat on a batch of 9mm bullets. I'm getting great adhesion per the hammer test, but I think my temp is off a bit in the toaster oven. I think I'm seeing a hint of mushrooming in some of the bullets. I'll run them through the sizer to see. |
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Posted: 3/23/2021 11:04:57 PM EDT
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Loaded 50 rounds of 9mm with a new to me powder to try tomorrow.
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NV, USA
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Posted: 3/24/2021 12:55:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By esa17: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/232306/B964A84E-A40D-4252-8B14-E71ADEF0E4CD_jpe-1876843.JPG Cannot wait to try it out. I see your unused Annealeez and raise you a used one :) Cooking up some 6 creedmoor. 
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Posted: 3/24/2021 10:08:32 AM EDT
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I shipped out my scratched sizing die yesterday.
Then I tried to see if I could size my cast and coated bullets. I’d had to re-re-re coat them because of powder coverage issues, and they wound up being really oversized. So I’d ordered incremental sizing inserts from NOE to work them down in steps...0.456, 0.454, then the normal 0.452 insert. Well the 0.456 worked fine. The 0.454 was really, really challenging. And then the 0.452 just wasn’t working. So I’m going to remelt those bullets and try again.... I don’t like this trend of “this isn’t working” in my reloading room. |
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Posted: 3/24/2021 7:07:39 PM EDT
[Last Edit: lilMAC25]
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Purchased a new implement to test out my reloads with.
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Posted: 3/24/2021 10:00:45 PM EDT
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Loaded another couple hundred of the 146gr 9mm's.
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Posted: 3/24/2021 11:17:44 PM EDT
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Went to the range for the first time in a year and a half....
 Was a pretty successful trip. Shot a ladder in .223 using Tubal 3000. I'll start a thread with my findings in the next day or two. Tried some 9mm with Clay dot. Found that my new AR9 build works wonderfully with my reloads. Some disappointments too though. Loaded 45s with Lee 452-228-1R and found they don't work well in 45acp (must be a 45LC bullet?). Anyway it jammed up my new to me USP45 and couldn't shoot it.  I also brought some 45s loaded with Lee 452-230-2R and those worked fine in a buddy's 1911.But I came back with more brass than I started with! |
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Posted: 3/25/2021 4:25:52 AM EDT
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finished sorting my .223 by once fired, non once fired
blinged out another 500 cases of .223 with the FART  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/25/2021 4:53:32 AM EDT
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Cleaned off part of my bench to inspect the 4000 .224 bullets RMR sent me.
Word of caution- the bullets are loose in the box, not in bags of 500 like most places. 
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Posted: 3/25/2021 6:24:57 AM EDT
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After a lengthy search I finally managed to find and order an RCBS shell holder #3.
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Posted: 3/25/2021 2:17:22 PM EDT
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After a little tinkering I have my 9mm turret set up for 225 costed bullets, including a Lyman M-die. Ran 30 through the process before lunch break was over,
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