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Posted: 5/3/2018 1:56:26 AM EDT
[#1]
Picked up a almost brand new RL 500B from a garage sale, came with a 3 tool heads, 2 powder measures (one brand new), unused strong mount and bullet tray. Only one caliber change kit but it was $350 so I don't think I did too bad.
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Posted: 5/3/2018 7:56:11 PM EDT
[#2]
Loaded up 150 38 Specials tonight with Bullseye and 150gr SWC
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Posted: 5/4/2018 7:24:24 AM EDT
[#3]
Got my new Lee Pro Auto Disk powder measure lightly tweaked and up and running. Loaded 500 rounds of 9mm. Probably load up another 500 tonight.
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Posted: 5/4/2018 8:55:02 PM EDT
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I've been getting my old (circa 1985-ish) Dillon 550 setup again after many years of not loading. Took it apart - cleaned, oiled, and tuned it up.
I've ordered and have started receiving the parts I've lost during 5 moves or never had to begin with. I want to get everything setup for quick change on several calibers. I've ordered some enhancements for the press while I'm at it. When I'm finished next week, I'll have quick change setups for 9mm, 45ACP, 5.56, 300BLK, 7.62x39, 7.62x51, 6.5CM. Then I can start replenishing my inventory since I've just about used up all of my old reloads. Also making a couple thousand rounds of 45 practice ammo for a friend. That should keep me busy for a little while. Then I need to make a decision about spending the $$$ to get quick change setups for my remaining calibers; 380ACP, 38/357, 44 Spc/Mag, 40 S&W, 30-30 Win, 30 Rem (not AR), 30-06, 7.62x54R. I may just get one quick change setup and get the dies setup with locking rings for all of these, since I have never loaded more than a few hundred of each over the years. While digging thru all of the boxes, I have found a number of extra RCBS and LEE dies and die sets. Is it worth the effort to clean them up and take pictures to put them on EE? Thanks, Steve |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/4/2018 10:34:00 PM EDT
[#5]
Trimmed close to 300 rds of 223 brass and broke a decap pin on the Dillon
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/5/2018 11:58:10 AM EDT
[#6]
Turned 500 pieces of Starline 357 Max brass into 300 Whisper Rimmed. Awesome little cartridge in a TC Contender.
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Posted: 5/5/2018 2:53:20 PM EDT
[#7]
So far loaded 500 rounds .45 ACP and hoping to get in a few more today or tomorrow.
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Posted: 5/5/2018 7:24:42 PM EDT
[#8]
Have a load of 9mm range brass going in the FART.
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Posted: 5/5/2018 7:36:27 PM EDT
[#9]
Decapped some 41 Mag a friend gave me. Waiting for some 40 S&W to make a wet tumbler load.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/5/2018 9:25:52 PM EDT
[#10]
Decided to load a couple of magazines worth of the 62 gr SP blems for any coyote opportunities
Cases were already trimmed from a while back but only had time enough to prime them Noticed some light rust developing on a small portion of the seating die and took care of that Funny, thought they were safe as I have them in the cases in a tight Tupperware container and were supposedly oiled Other dies were fine but gave them a precautionary light oiling |
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Posted: 5/5/2018 11:58:04 PM EDT
[#11]
Decapped about 90 35 Rem cases and another 50 7mm cases. Then threw them in the wet tumbler with a bunch of other brass I'd been meaning to clean. Got them in the dehydrator now.
Also found some of the 35 Rem appears to be pretty old. The headstamp is "WRA Co", which from my research looks to be pre WW2. I'll probably save them just for the novelty. |
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Posted: 5/6/2018 1:20:45 AM EDT
[#12]
Deprimed and sized ~500 pieces of 30 Carbine brass, will get them in the wet tumbler in the next few days. Inspected some LC 5.56 brass for dents before running them through the 1050 to make 300 Blackout. The dented stuff will get processed into 5.56 blasting loads to blow out the dents.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2018 1:21:59 AM EDT
[#13]
I got on the phone with Dillon, and found really good pricing on most of what I needed to go from 45 ACP to .223.
The sales people I dealt where awesome. |
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Posted: 5/6/2018 3:05:41 AM EDT
[#14]
Broke out the FART for the first time and wet-tumbled a light load of .577 Snider and .303 British brass. Came out pretty nice.
Also took a fresh cut at some bullet casting. Managed to make 15 passable .575 Minie bullets with a lot of hassle. Last time I cast some was many years ago. I don't know what I used for a heat source then, but the butane burner I used today was too hot, I think. For sure need more practice. Rob |
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Posted: 5/6/2018 7:58:14 AM EDT
[#15]
Loaded 150 9mm and ran about 100 223’s through the de-prime resize die the Tossed them in the tumbler to clean the lube off.
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Posted: 5/6/2018 9:16:54 AM EDT
[#16]
Got a load of 223 range pick ups going in the wet tumbler this morning.
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Posted: 5/6/2018 4:11:38 PM EDT
[#17]
Finished trimming, chamfering & debutring resized .308 Win brass.
Started loading part 2 of a charge ladder, this one from 50% of max to around 80% of published max. |
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Posted: 5/6/2018 4:18:54 PM EDT
[#18]
Loaded 300 more rounds and ran all 1,100 through the gauge.
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Posted: 5/6/2018 6:20:58 PM EDT
[#19]
I bought a welding apron and face shield in preparation for starting to melt some lead. I have two days off this coming week, so hopefully I'll get started then.
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Posted: 5/6/2018 8:09:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: buoux]
[#20]
Deprimed, wet tumbled, annealed, re-sized, wet tumbled, annealed, and opened the neck up for .001" neck tension for the brass - .308 LC '09, Federal, & Windchester ,in this photo.
 Attached File
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Posted: 5/6/2018 9:01:07 PM EDT
[#21]
Tumbling some 458 socom brass...
While sober, for real, bid on an upper on gunbroker to see how much it was at. Ended up winning it. Only bid $5 increments till I was winning... Guess I found the guys limit. Looking at bullets and moulds for it now... |
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Posted: 5/6/2018 9:35:15 PM EDT
[#22]
Converted 200lbs of lead pipe and poured joints into clean lead ingots
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Posted: 5/6/2018 9:47:15 PM EDT
[#23]
Ordered a 3D printer so I can make some 650 parts and accessories. That's what I'm telling myself and I'm sticking to that story.
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Posted: 5/6/2018 11:03:20 PM EDT
[#24]
Charge ladder for 165gr Nosler BT over CFE223 in .308 Win complete.
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Posted: 5/7/2018 9:02:34 AM EDT
[#25]
I'm 1k rounds into a 5k round run of 300 Blackout 125 grain Ballistic Tip supersonic loads. I should have enough for a few range trips with all these.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2018 9:18:58 AM EDT
[#26]
Sized and trimmed 70 pieces of 223
Trimmed 80 pieces of 308 with the new rcbs three way cutter Pulled down reloads that were given to me 30~32 years ago with the new hornady puller. That was my second bad experience with someone elses reloads. Charge weights were all over the map with what LOOKED like 335 in some and 4064 in others. Should have took pictures of how clumpy some of that powder was. Labeled the reloading manuals for quick reference. 
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2018 3:07:45 PM EDT
[Last Edit: gODZOOKIE]
[#27]
Saw that my .223 case gauge is covered in rust, now... ugh
In original cardboard box with instructions (certainly held the moisture in). had it in a different* tupperware box my .223 seating die was in that I found rust on yesterday. Hadn’t loaded .223 in maybe a year so need to check and oil all tools, periodically I load in a 100yr old + non insulated shed but I keep a low heat going all winter Anyway, finished loading 60 rds of the 62 gr blems this a.m. |
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Posted: 5/8/2018 3:27:10 PM EDT
[#28]
I got my first reloading press setup, Lee turret. Have everything except dies and a manual, time for a nice long learning session before I go any further. Lol
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Posted: 5/8/2018 6:16:11 PM EDT
[#29]
I inventoried my powder stash.
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Posted: 5/8/2018 10:05:17 PM EDT
[#30]
Melted down a bunch of gross old bullets to make lead for new bullets for my 458 socom upper coming soon.
Ordered a 330g HP mould for it. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2018 5:16:15 AM EDT
[Last Edit: acman145acp]
[#31]
In the last two days between my brother an myself.
We joined an actual gun range....... added 30 pieces of 45 acp range pick up once fired brass to the stocks
13 guns we've fired 1200 rounds to make empty brass. Loaded 40 rounds of precision 308. Loaded 70 rounds of good 223. "Proven" at least to ourselves having sized your brass "correctly" eliminates flattened & backed out primers in ammo that's otherwise loaded correctly. Got 13 more guns ready to go for tomorrow. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/10/2018 1:19:37 AM EDT
[#32]
13 rifles 7 hours on the range making Empty brass.
Finally made progress developing a load for 223 with 53 v max looks like 24-24.5gr of 335 is going to be the sweet spot for wide variety of guns. 25gr shot exceedingly well in one gun but not so much in the rest. |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 9:11:23 PM EDT
[#33]
Emptied some brass this morning shooting a local IDPA Match and this evening casted up some 130 gr 9mm.
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Posted: 5/12/2018 9:44:58 PM EDT
[#34]
Taught a new reloaded how to do a workup in 308 starting from once fired lake city brass.
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Posted: 5/13/2018 2:42:04 PM EDT
[#35]
I finally got to melt some lead today, and it was (mostly) successful. I had a couple of issues, despite pre planning an plenty of study, Nothing major, really.
My biggest issue was that it is quite warm out today, and a little muggy feeling despite 50% humidity and a breeze, so I didn’t melt as much of my wheel weights as I wanted to. |
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Posted: 5/14/2018 9:58:40 PM EDT
[#36]
Melted down 29lbs of wheel weights. Ended up with about 25lbs of clean ingots.
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Posted: 5/14/2018 10:40:07 PM EDT
[#37]
Got about half of the cases deprimed from the the Aprox 650 cases I put through my AR 9 last weekend.
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Posted: 5/15/2018 7:18:36 PM EDT
[#38]
Last night I finished up messing with the ingots I cast on Sunday. I think I have about 18-20 pounds of alloy at the moment.
The hassles I had with managing a muffin tin for ingot molding wound up making the tin an additional chore rather than a work saver. And the muffin-shaped ingots, while all shiny and stuff, aren’t very conveniently sized or shaped. I’m ordering a Lee ingot mold to use for the rest of my wheel weight rendering. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2018 10:16:09 AM EDT
[#39]
Removed my 1st, and hopefully last stuck case(.223).
Glad I read a little on this before it happened, wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Building a stuck case remover into the die...Awesome I found out it was there about a week ago (noobs). |
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Posted: 5/16/2018 12:17:46 PM EDT
[#40]
Moved into a new (to me) house over a year ago.
Had to set up metal and wood shops. New sub-panel for both, but the 30 feet of 30 inch x 30 inch by 30 inch deep storage cabinets I had before did not come with me. No place to put them anyway. I was throwing some stuff on some shelves and found three cases of FMJ (two 230 gr. .45, one 130 gr. .38 Super) in the 'wrong' pile. They are the old 72 pound weight limit cases so many thousands of each bullet. |
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Posted: 5/17/2018 8:09:31 PM EDT
[#41]
Loaded a few hundred 10MM this evening.
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Posted: 5/17/2018 8:30:46 PM EDT
[#42]
Busy day, for me anyway.
Loaded 500 .45 ACP w/ 225gr coated. Changed LP 550 press head to .308 Ran 250 new .308 cases through the size die to round out case mouths, chamfered the case mouths then tumbled lube off. Primed cases, ready to load. Deprimed 200 once fired LC .308 cases, in tumbler now. Sorted 300 once fired LC .308 brass by year. Ready to process. Changed out SP 550 head from .300 BO to .32 H&R Mag to get ready to load. |
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Posted: 5/17/2018 10:53:35 PM EDT
[#43]
Finished decapping the 600 9mm cases, and got half (100) of the 357 cases deprimed.
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Posted: 5/17/2018 11:26:50 PM EDT
[#44]
Finished off a box of 165 gr .308 Noslers bullets into .308 Win loads.
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Posted: 5/18/2018 6:38:34 PM EDT
[#45]
Trim 400 223-5.56 as was raining most of today. I did removed crank handle on RCBS trimer use cordless drill my right hand was happy should have did this a few years a go
Gunman53
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Posted: 5/19/2018 12:07:56 AM EDT
[#46]
Decided this evening to figure out my Lee Safety Prime. Up until now I’ve primed off press, but I want to figure out the Safety Prime so I can reload pistol with an indexing turret.
My first run was not successful, with less than 50% success rate. |
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Posted: 5/19/2018 3:22:10 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Decided this evening to figure out my Lee Safety Prime. Up until now I’ve primed off press, but I want to figure out the Safety Prime so I can reload pistol with an indexing turret. My first run was not successful, with less than 50% success rate. Sorted through a couple 5-gallon buckets..... |
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Posted: 5/19/2018 3:25:53 PM EDT
[#48]
Finished off 50 158 gr .38 Special loads.
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Posted: 5/19/2018 4:47:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: ppknut]
[#49]
Processed 233 pieces of M1 Carbine brass:
F.A.R.T. tumbled Sized and primed and then to the Giraud. I love my Giraud, but the .30 Carb is the most time consuming of all the calibers I trim, because of the extra step of using the shell holder to hold the brass. |
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Posted: 5/19/2018 11:12:55 PM EDT
[#50]
Went to funshow this morning, didn't find much. Bought 20 223 mag spoons for $10. They were marked $2 each, did some bargaining.
Finished decapping the rest of the 357 batch. Wet tumbled a load of 9mm/357's. Got another load tumbling now. Dry tumbled some steal 9mm's for future loading. |
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