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Posted: 9/23/2021 9:33:00 PM EDT
[#1]
I wet tumbled a couple of loads of .223 brass this afternoon, with a couple more standing by for tomorrow. This should be the last of the already decapped cases sitting around. I should be able to get these sized and trimmed in a few days.
My powder measure base looks good, but I’m letting the poly varnish take its time drying/curing before I put it together. I plan to post pictures when it’s done. And while I was putzing around in my loading room I found a box of Highborn (now Accura Outdoors) 120 grain .308 bullets I bought a long time ago for 300 Blackout. I may get to actually load these soon. |
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Posted: 9/23/2021 10:09:05 PM EDT
[#2]
Made some 45acp empties and sorted another 5 gallons of brass.
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Posted: 9/23/2021 11:19:29 PM EDT
[#3]
Loaded some 32 ACP today.
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Posted: 9/23/2021 11:36:02 PM EDT
[#4]
Loaded another hundred or so 300 BLK subs. Hoping to do some shooting this weekend after ROing for the morning.
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USA
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:58:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: thenning]
[#5]
Went to Sportsmanship to pick up my new single action, picked up a set of Hornady 38 dies, and LNL bushings. Going to setup the older Lee set for 357 only.
Also got shipping notification from Buffalo Arms for some StarLine 45 colt blank brass. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:23:54 PM EDT
[#6]
Finished off loading the last 38 .277 115 gr Gold Dots in 6.8 SPC.
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GBR
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Posted: 9/24/2021 9:01:49 PM EDT
[#7]
Waited in most of the day for the courier. Finally appeared, late, with the box I was expecting...
Dillon XL650 casefeeder assembly and a few misc. parts and spares for the 2nd hand XL650 I picked up the other week. The press came with a #8 shellplate, now I also have a #5 too. Will give it all a lot of study before final assembly The original manual has a 1994 date to it Been using the Dillon 550 models for a while now, but feel the 650 will allow a more streamlined production of a couple of the most common calibers I use. I can see it being a slow process finding some of the parts I need given the present shortages and such in the US...but I've been lucky with a few things already - just a case of thinking laterally (i.e., I needed a .357 conversion kit, but found an unused kit in .22 Rem Jet at a silly low price last week; parts are the same apart from the powder funnel) |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 9:33:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Shootindave]
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Posted: 9/24/2021 10:06:25 PM EDT
[#9]
Finished loading 400 300 BLK subs for this weekend. Then as I was getting everything ready to be packed up I realized I never filed my 5320.20, so the 300 BLK SBR is staying home.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 10:16:18 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SuperMoose]
[#10]
Swapped my 550 out for my Co-Ax on my Inline Fabrications quick change mount. Since I cut down my old Dillon ball handle to replace the co-ax I 3d printed a tube to fill the gap since the diameter was smaller and then installed it. Got the press set up.
Then I deprimed ~300 6.5 Creedmoor cases I had and wet tumbled them.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 10:31:45 PM EDT
[#11]
Went shooting and found out my 35 Remington Marlin likes 180 gr XTP and plated 158 gr RN.
Tried Unique, IMR-4895, and IMR-4227, all worked well and no pressure signs. Came home and decapped the 223, 9mm, and 35 Rem I shot today. Love the Lee APP. Got the 223 going in the wet tumbler now. Got in my order from American Reloading yesterday, 500 mixed 380 HP's and 500 mixed 9mm HP's. Got the 380 bullets sorted and I'm dry tumbling them in plain corn cob. 85 JHP's done. Now doing 90 HP's. After they are done I will start on the 90 gr Gold Dots. |
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Posted: 9/25/2021 6:00:17 AM EDT
[#12]
Bought 5 lbs N133, 5 lbs Rel. 19, and a bunch of Barnes and Accubond bullets locally.
Decapped about 1500 7.62 LC. |
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Posted: 9/25/2021 10:06:04 AM EDT
[#13]
Processing some nickel 223 for some gold dot loads
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Posted: 9/25/2021 5:28:44 PM EDT
[#14]
I decrimped all of the brass that needed it from my wet tumbling Thursday and Friday - about 270 rounds.
Then I prepped the first batch of brass for sizing tomorrow. I plan to spend much of tomorrow churning through this brass…it isn’t “all of” the .223/5.56 brass I have on hand, but this is all of the brass I’d already deprimed. It makes a big dent in the stash. |
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Posted: 9/25/2021 8:55:13 PM EDT
[#15]
Popped off about 200 rds. of 308 match(ish) handloads that were made from pulldown brass and pulldown 168 SMK’s.
Ahhh…. The circle of life. Definitely gives me motivation to get my presses up and running again. |
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Posted: 9/25/2021 9:12:12 PM EDT
[#16]
I have some 45ACP RN rounds that need to be bumped back to 1.200. 1.23 was fine in a 1911 but in other pieces, there was occasional binding in the magazines.
I have the Dillon set up to bump and re-crimp. I'd like to set up the case feeder and see if I could auto feed the loaded rounds. No dropping them either. |
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Posted: 9/25/2021 11:48:16 PM EDT
[#17]
Took batch of 223 out of wet tumbler, ran a batch of 9mm, and now have tumbler doing 35 Rem.
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LA, USA
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Posted: 9/26/2021 12:38:36 AM EDT
[#18]
Picked up 200 pieces of new Starline .357 brass, for my brother Gary and did an investigation into 9mm reloading and the Wasp Waist syndrome. Posted results here:
https://www.ar15.com/forums/armory/9mm-die-oversizing-brass/42-528318/?r=5566336&page=1&anc=5566336#i5566336 Oh, almost forgot. Served as navigator to direct/supervise the contractual spousal unit while she drove me to several reloading supply stores. I let her go to Dollar Tree, but only after all gun/reloading mission objectives were achieved  .
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Posted: 9/26/2021 8:15:36 AM EDT
[Last Edit: SuperMoose]
[#19]
Looked at the brass I had on the shelf that I haven't attempted to organize since we moved two years ago. I reduced the number of boxes, got rid of some trash brass and found a bunch of cases that needed to be deprimed since they failed the case gauge and I had already pulled the bullets.
So now I've got a little over 100 small rifle primers that I didn't have before. I also sorted through some brass that a co-worked gave me. .308 was already kind of segregated so I only had to find a few straggler .223 cases. Ran the rest through the .45 shell plate I printed (waiting on the 9mm one and then I have to do the .40 as well). Also deprimed some fire 10mm I had and wet tumbled it. Unfortunately, I think I may have used too much lemishine so they're a little more dull than I'd like. Oh well. Also searched high and low for the bullets I was using for 10mm and can't find them. Guess I'll have to go grab new ones when I'm at the shop next.  Attached File |
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ID, USA
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Posted: 9/26/2021 5:57:11 PM EDT
[#20]
Switched to my seat and powder die.
Made 7 10 round batch's of 9mm using Titegroup, Unique and 124 grain 9mm XTP's and 124 grain X-treme plated RN |
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Posted: 9/26/2021 6:33:59 PM EDT
[#21]
Cleaning the lube off my 8000 .223 cases. Got one batch to go in the wet tumbler then trimming.
Should be ready to load in november. |
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Posted: 9/26/2021 8:30:23 PM EDT
[#22]
Loaded up my final 200 rounds of 135gr Blue Bullets over some True Blue, and tumbled about 1500 9mm brass. Will need to reset my dies for working up the Kimberlin Creek bullets I picked up awhile back as they are 125gr TC's .
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Posted: 9/26/2021 9:11:06 PM EDT
[#23]
I sized around 500 .223 cases today. I had to scrap a lot of brass, though.
The NPA cases I found were all too blown out. Sizing them shaved a thin ring of brass from near the web…I gave up on them after five or six all did the same way. I also had just over 100 IMG Guat cases. A bunch had burs on the rims - and many of these were also bulged at the base. I only wound up with 75 usable cases. I wonder if burs or other rim defects correlate with hot loads. I have another 250 or so cases left to size, then I’ll trim the lot of them. I’m really going to load this brass, honest! But having it all sized gives me a lot more options, and doing all of this prep work has gotten me back into the swing of things. |
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Posted: 9/26/2021 10:06:50 PM EDT
[#24]
Decapped 1k of 380 brass on my APP.
Sorted the 500 mixed 9mm HP's I got from American Reloading, mostly 147 grs. Pulled 35 Rem out of wet tumbler, dried them and put them back in plastic ammo boxes for next loading. |
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Posted: 9/27/2021 9:33:52 AM EDT
[#25]
I fired a bunch of tula and wolf steel cased 45acp over the weekend. From mentioning previously in a different thread (related to 45acp loading) I was inspired to load up the steel cases after firing. I plan on doing that now that I have about 200ish freshly emptied steel cases. sometime this week I will load them up with some unique, wolf LPP's, and some older remaining stash of MBC 200gr SWC and 230Gr RN lead projectiles I still have laying around.
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Posted: 9/27/2021 5:23:20 PM EDT
[#26]
Brownells has CCI41 primers so I bought my allotment of 2K.
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USA
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Posted: 9/27/2021 8:16:42 PM EDT
[#27]
I scored(?) some stuff
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Posted: 9/27/2021 9:19:17 PM EDT
[#28]
I sized the last bunch of .223 brass (for quite a while, I think). It was 235 total cases, mixed LC, WCC, and commercial Winchester. I’m really happy with how consistent I kept them.
Tomorrow I get to start trimming cases. Somewhere around 600 or so of them. |
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Posted: 9/27/2021 9:50:54 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LavaDomane: Brownells has CCI41 primers so I bought my allotment of 2K. I did also and was able to score 2k small pistol from them an hour earlier for a total of 8k in the last week or so. Time to start stocking up for my Idaho winter sport, reloading. |
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Posted: 9/27/2021 9:53:12 PM EDT
[#30]
Received a new in box Lyman 55 powder measure that I bought off of the EE.
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USA
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Posted: 9/27/2021 10:10:25 PM EDT
[#31]
Got in 100 Starline 45 LC Blank cases, finished up priming and expanding 100 45 LC cases. I'll load them tomorrow, and maybe a few blanks to try. Now I'm going to look for more 45 LC Cases.
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Posted: 9/27/2021 10:26:26 PM EDT
[#32]
While bulk loading some 223, i figured out that if you thread a lock ring to the top of the powder measure stem, it is much more stable on the inline fab mount.
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Posted: 9/27/2021 10:51:03 PM EDT
[#33]
 Got in my order of bullet sizers to fit the APP. Lower left, already had the .401 sizer. Tried it to see if I liked how it worked. So now have a complete set for what I need. |
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Posted: 9/28/2021 7:36:31 PM EDT
[#34]
Loaded up some test loads of Kimberlin Creek 125 TC bullets over some True Blue. Should be able to hit the range tomorrow night to chrono and verify accuracy before moving to full production mode again.
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Posted: 9/28/2021 8:46:21 PM EDT
[#35]
Ordered 500pcs of .30-06 brass for M1 I will someday own...
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Posted: 9/28/2021 9:00:17 PM EDT
[#36]
Finally broke down and bought 600 458 projectiles from Missouri Bullet. I'm down to my last magazine (7 rounds) of 458 SOCOM ammo.
 Now just need to wait a month.
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Posted: 9/28/2021 10:58:48 PM EDT
[#37]
Wet tumbled a load of 380, they are drying overnight.
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Posted: 9/28/2021 11:15:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Strikefirst]
[#38]
Finished processing 200 nickel 223 cases. 350 to go.
Side rant I ordered these online. Great price great shipping. Brass looks good. Terrible sizing inconsistencies after sizing. Anywhere from 1.7400 to 1.775. WMA was the longest and had gorilla bullet crimps. I managed 120 wma and 80 speer and fc trimmed to 1.749. The rest I will measure and sort after primer pocket work and chamfer and debur. Looks like I will have 289ish around 1.745. The rest way under. Was just a little frustrated and should have expected it with mixed headstamps. |
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Posted: 9/29/2021 8:28:50 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Strikefirst: Finished processing 200 nickel 223 cases. 350 to go. Side rant I ordered these online. Great price great shipping. Brass looks good. Terrible sizing inconsistencies after sizing. Anywhere from 1.7400 to 1.775. WMA was the longest and had gorilla bullet crimps. I managed 120 wma and 80 speer and fc trimmed to 1.749. The rest I will measure and sort after primer pocket work and chamfer and debur. Looks like I will have 289ish around 1.745. The rest way under. Was just a little frustrated and should have expected it with mixed headstamps. Those short ones would make great 300 Blackout cases. |
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Posted: 9/29/2021 8:32:44 AM EDT
[Last Edit: SuperEighteen]
[#40]
I annealed some 7.5x55 cases, sized them and started the tumbler. I have a decent load with a 165 Hornady interlock and IMR 3031 to load.
 It’s a fun rifle to shoot and to load for. Edit: Grammer |
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Posted: 9/29/2021 9:27:08 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Geof_s: I annealed some 7.5x55 cases, sized them and started the tumbler. I have a decent load with a 165 Hornady interlock and IMR 3031 to load. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/88016/D2B52C87-6143-47C1-93C0-09685B307E2A-2110434.jpg It’s a fun rifle to shoot and to load for. Edit: Grammer Gorgeous!! |
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Posted: 9/29/2021 10:49:47 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LavaDomane: Gorgeous!! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LavaDomane: Originally Posted By Geof_s: I annealed some 7.5x55 cases, sized them and started the tumbler. I have a decent load with a 165 Hornady interlock and IMR 3031 to load. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/88016/D2B52C87-6143-47C1-93C0-09685B307E2A-2110434.jpg It’s a fun rifle to shoot and to load for. Edit: Grammer Gorgeous!! Thanks. She’s a 1941 model. Can’t believe I got it for a little over $100. Should have bought another one or two but I didn’t have the money. Feel fortunate to have it. Had to add the scope since my eyes don’t work well with irons anymore. Mount replaced the rear sight but no modifications to the rifle so it can be put back to stock. I hacked the stock on one milsurp and I regret it. Won’t do it again. |
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Posted: 9/29/2021 12:15:22 PM EDT
[#43]
Back on topic please.
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Posted: 9/29/2021 9:29:50 PM EDT
[#44]
Yesterday I trimmed around 600(?) cases, with about 240 left. I had an online class throughout the day today, and the “complete the post presentation survey”, cleanup and getting the certificate downloaded took up my available time afterward. Hopefully I’ll get those last cases done tomorrow so I can move on to other things.
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Posted: 9/29/2021 9:34:02 PM EDT
[Last Edit: USSRangerSM]
[#45]
100** 120sst 6.8 spc
50**. 143 eld-x 6.5 cm Micro steps, anal retentive reloading |
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USA
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Posted: 9/29/2021 10:32:33 PM EDT
[#46]
Got a 100 45 LC 200gr loaded up. I also may have loaded a couple of wax blanks and shot them in my garage.
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Posted: 9/29/2021 10:35:26 PM EDT
[#47]
Received a powder order today. True blue and HP38.
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Posted: 9/30/2021 9:58:47 AM EDT
[#48]
Field day my reloading bench. It was long overdue.
Then, did a little work up with LT32 in 458 socom using 480gr PCC bullets. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 7:41:10 PM EDT
[#49]
RT1500 showed up today.
Got an email from Dillon leading me to believe the 223 die for the 1500 will ship tomorrow  If so, time to start planning case prep for several gallons of brass currently sorted by headstamp. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 10:12:04 PM EDT
[#50]
I finished trimming brass, and got the whole bunch pretty well sorted by headstamps. Since it was from several different collections of brass, it wasn’t sorted at all before I started processing it.
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