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Posted: 4/16/2018 11:29:08 PM EDT
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Finished my very first ladder for the 6.5C using Alpha brass. Hopefully I will find a node on the chrono and zero in on a great load for 140gr ELD-M's using H4350......
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Posted: 4/17/2018 8:50:43 PM EDT
[#2]
Used my new rotary tumbler for the first time. I am pleased.
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Posted: 4/17/2018 9:46:57 PM EDT
[#3]
My True Blue order came in from Powder Valley.
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WV, USA
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Posted: 4/17/2018 10:15:43 PM EDT
[#4]
Loaded up 70 rounds of 6.5 creedmoor for a long range shooting class I'm taking this weekend. 130gr Berger AR Hybrids
 I used my Saturn 6.5 powder funnel for the first time, it's a lot nicer than the old plastic one I've been using. Highly recommend.
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Posted: 4/17/2018 10:41:38 PM EDT
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Loaded up 69 rounds of M1 carbine. Only found 70 pieces of brass out of 120.
 . 1 split. Can’t afford those loses.
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Posted: 4/18/2018 2:10:06 AM EDT
[#6]
I traded a rifle in for a new rifle... and a new caliber! .450 Bushmaster here I come.
I did buy some 225gr bullets for my first reloads... but I'm still missing the brass (and time to experiment with it). |
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Posted: 4/18/2018 9:45:47 PM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dryflash3:
My True Blue order came in from Powder Valley. 
Today I scrounged one whole wheel weight while on my run after work. And I received a number of really neat bullet casting items, which I haven’t yet had a chance to mess with. It was a good day. 
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Posted: 4/18/2018 10:47:11 PM EDT
[#8]
Loaded up 10 rounds each of a couple of 'promising' nodes for the 6.5 Creedmoor using new Alpha brass. I'll shoot them tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
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Posted: 4/18/2018 11:48:38 PM EDT
[#9]
More 129 SSTs and ABLRs showed up today, along with a box of sexy ass 130 RDFs to try out, and promptly loaded up a few OBT ladders with the RDFs and a few powders
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ON, CAN
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Posted: 4/19/2018 9:35:33 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lakemoor:
Loaded up 69 rounds of M1 carbine. Only found 70 pieces of brass out of 120. . 1 split. Can’t afford those loses. |
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Posted: 4/21/2018 2:12:57 AM EDT
[#11]
FINALLY got my Lee Pro Auto Disk powder measure and got it set up and tweaked it a little bit. Used it to load some 9mm test loads (new bullet). Provided it only leaks a few granules here and there like so far, this thing is going to SERIOUSLY save me some time and movement.
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Posted: 4/21/2018 1:58:57 PM EDT
[Last Edit: wildearp]
[#12]
First time I have pulled the arm on my MEC shotshell loader in ten years. Punched out 200. I think I have enough hulls for 200 more. It has been sitting so long that I figured I better load what I have and sell the press. This would be to finance another Dillon 650. Shotshells are so cheap at Wal Mart that it doesn't make too much sense for the casual trap shooter to reload them. (I used to shoot trap twice a week) These are 1 ounce 7.5 shot with Cheddite primers, Blackhawk AA wads, and 21 grains of WST. They break the clays just fine. Every thing is dusty and that is after I cleaned it up a bit.
 
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Posted: 4/21/2018 6:56:48 PM EDT
[#13]
Knocked out another 20 rounds for ladder testing on the 6.5C.
Actually the same powder charge, but two different OAL’s. Long range shoot coming up too fast.... |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/21/2018 7:57:57 PM EDT
[#14]
Cleaned the reloading cave
Got components together for tomorrow. Plan to set up my extra 223 sizing die specifically for my bolt gun. |
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Posted: 4/21/2018 7:59:19 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mustb123:
Knocked out another 20 rounds for ladder testing on the 6.5C. Actually the same powder charge, but two different OAL’s. Long range shoot coming up too fast....
Before that, I loaded up about 70 22TCM with my 37g red PCC bullets. Experimented with a crimp on them. |
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Posted: 4/21/2018 10:00:42 PM EDT
[#16]
Finally shot the 6.5CM with some factory ammo so I could get some readings with the headspace gauge. Next step is to load up the Lapua brass with some 140 ELD's and H4350 after I check the seating depth on the gun.
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ON, CAN
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Posted: 4/22/2018 2:49:59 PM EDT
[#17]
Does picking up brass count? Had the .22LR out today but noticed some AR-15 owner didn't feel like picking up their brass so I scored a pile of good .223 brass for the cost of bending over.
I love people too lazy to pick up their own brass. I have .223 and 30-06 to last me for years. |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 4:26:42 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GunsNotPuns:
Does picking up brass count? Had the .22LR out today but noticed some AR-15 owner didn't feel like picking up their brass so I scored a pile of good .223 brass for the cost of bending over. I love people too lazy to pick up their own brass. I have .223 and 30-06 to last me for years. |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 4:33:45 PM EDT
[#19]
Picked up about 10.5k primers for 180.00.
Loaded one last test sample for the upcoming long range shoot - .020” off the lands. That makes 3 sets of 10 to test this week - pick the best and load up a bunch! |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 10:13:10 PM EDT
[#20]
Picked up 2 boxes of 125 XTP/FP for $21 at the LGS.
Tumbled some brass, moved some loaded ammo around for more efficient storage, sorted some brass, and made some more brass at the range. Slowly getting my kids (3 and 5) involved and helping, right now they find great joy in hiding brass in the media in the tumbler and are getting good at putting loaded rounds in plastic boxes for QC 
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Posted: 4/22/2018 10:28:45 PM EDT
[#21]
Loaded up a few 38 spc.
Resized 50 6.5 CM. They are tumbling now. Started making a custom seating stem for my 140g RDF bullets as my OAL and my Ogive to base measurements are not as consistent as I want them to be. +-.005 is not ok. The RDF has a very long ogive... Even with the issue I found with the seating stem, I found that 2.900" OAL worked best for my CM. That is only about .005" off the lands. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:23:05 PM EDT
[#22]
Ordered brass and bullets for my first 450 Bushmaster loads.
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Posted: 4/24/2018 9:29:12 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GunsNotPuns:
Does picking up brass count? Had the .22LR out today but noticed some AR-15 owner didn't feel like picking up their brass so I scored a pile of good .223 brass for the cost of bending over. I love people too lazy to pick up their own brass. I have .223 and 30-06 to last me for years. Fifteen minutes after I arrived, Sheriff’s SUV leaves, couple minutes later, another one, then another one ... and so on. Told my son to watch his kids shoot, I’m going to check something out. I hit the freaking brass mother lode! Got about 120 FGMM 308 brass, about a thousand UMC 223 and 80 300 blk. All new brass and the same type. I’m gonna dedicate this batch to my next purchase of 6000 Hornady 55 gr. Soft point bulk to be used as plinking ammo. I’m stiff and sore just picking up that haul. 
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Posted: 4/24/2018 10:36:00 PM EDT
[#24]
I bought a Giraud Power Trimmer with two extra trimmer heads and holders for .223, .308, .300blk, and .30-06
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IL, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2018 8:14:37 AM EDT
[#25]
New house, so starting to get things queued up for a new bench. New house has a workshop with an existing bench, so that's a plus. Still, I plan to use the same space for woodworking, some knife making, etc. that can make a mess. Trying to keep that all from making too much of a mess.
Ordered one of the new Lee Auto Breech Lock Pro presses and received it yesterday. Figured if it works well enough, they are cheap enough to set up one for each of a couple of regular calibers. Ordered a Flush Mount bench plate from Inline Fabrication and a few extra plates to swap out between presses, Super Swage, a bench vise, etc. Hoping to keep this bench space modular and flexible. Pic of the shop before I got started. (They left me the table saw and bandsaw too!) 
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Posted: 4/25/2018 8:25:26 AM EDT
[#26]
Trimmed, deburred, flash hole uniformed, and flared some .45 ACP cases.
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Posted: 4/26/2018 5:50:03 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2018 8:11:39 AM EDT
[#28]
My Arsenal 5 cavity 429421 mold came in.
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Posted: 4/26/2018 9:08:57 AM EDT
[#29]
1000 rds of .45 ACP.
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ND, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2018 9:20:04 AM EDT
[#30]
Chopped the heads off 500 .223 cases, mounted the new Dillon Swager and loaded 50 rounds of 147 gr FMJ for the 300 BLK. Ordered an RCBS Uniflow powder measure.
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Posted: 4/27/2018 4:14:09 PM EDT
[#31]
Cast, powdercoated and sized a bunch of 200 swc bullets. Going to see if I can get them to run in my Glock 21.
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Posted: 4/29/2018 10:09:08 AM EDT
[Last Edit: edgephoto]
[#32]
Finally had a chance to perform my last test run of ammo through the Dillon and Hornady presses. I was trying to decide which one earned the permanent spot on my bench.
Goodbye Dillon. |
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Posted: 4/29/2018 12:07:35 PM EDT
[#33]
Powder coated and sized a couple of batches for .38/357 this morning.
Did about 500 150 gr SWC and another 300 152 gr RN. |
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ON, CAN
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Posted: 4/29/2018 5:10:01 PM EDT
[#34]
Hit the local gun show this morning in the hopes of either picking up some reloading goodies or a rifle I could reload for. After dawdling on a nice and priced-to-move Westinghouse Mosin Nagant M91 and losing it to someone quicker on the draw I ended up buying some .303 British brass for a decent price. Not a good show for reloading unless you like paying higher than retail prices for powder.
Outside of that, processed some .223 brass and then cleaned some 6.5 Jap brass. I keep meaning to reload some 11mm Mauser but the lazy has gotten a strong hold on me these days. |
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Posted: 4/29/2018 7:15:51 PM EDT
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I haven't been able to do much for a couple of weeks; I had some weird skin problem that is only now (after a week of treatment) "going away." It made doing most things more complex than eating or writing (slowly) pretty unpleasant. Since I work with my hands on people, that was a big problem. But now that it's substantially better, I got to messing around.
I inspected the 50 pounds of wheel weights I bought off eBay. It was delivered in a USPS tote - the corrugated plastic bin things that the PO uses to organize stuff. When I opened it, I found out why: the weights HAD BEEN packed in a medium flat rate box, but the box sort of disintegrated and the post office folks collected up the wheel weights and dumped them - and the remnants of the box - in the tote and covered it with more corrugated plastic. It looks like it's all there, but I have not yet weighed it to be sure. I bought a melting pot with some cool accessories (including a PID!), and some great dies from a fellow member, but I haven't had a chance to do anything with them yet except to read up on the pot and how the PID works. I hope to get a chance to put the pot and the wheel weights together soon, so I can move on to casting bullets. I also cleaned up after a couple of projects I'd done a while back, like making up test loads for .32 Auto and setting up to run through a bunch of 9mm loads. The test loads are labeled and put up, and the components for the 9mm project are all neatly arranged, and now are out of the way. |
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Posted: 4/29/2018 8:03:51 PM EDT
[#36]
Loaded a few hundred rounds of .45 hardball.
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Posted: 4/29/2018 8:08:39 PM EDT
[#37]
23 test rounds, 143 gr ELD X over 41.6 gr H4350, .010" off
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2018 9:09:53 PM EDT
[#38]
I built 5 more miniature shelves to help organize the reloading cave.
Tumbled some 223. |
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Posted: 4/29/2018 9:20:46 PM EDT
[#39]
300 rounds of .45 ACP
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Posted: 4/30/2018 10:16:28 AM EDT
[#40]
Loaded 50 rounds of 375 H&H last night at a fellow members house since has the dies set up already.
30- 235gr Speer Hotcor over 19gr Trailboss 20- 235gr Speer Hotcor over 77gr RL-15 I need me a T7.....  Attached File |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/30/2018 11:18:15 AM EDT
[#41]
Washed, dried, Cleaned and deprimed approximately 1,000 40sw casings yeaterday
Working on 223 brass now |
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Posted: 4/30/2018 12:04:08 PM EDT
[#42]
Resized 75 .308 win cases. Experienced my first instance of a stuck expander, which on the Lee dies pulled free of the main die body. Fixing this and resetting the die to working order was a learning experience.
Trimmed about 30 of the cases, then deburred and chamfered. Manual trim, deburr and chamfer is no fun after a while. |
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Posted: 4/30/2018 3:48:46 PM EDT
[#43]
Bought 1K 240gr .44Mag Nosler JSP bullets
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/30/2018 4:10:38 PM EDT
[#44]
Bought an inline fab roller handle for my t7. I've been meaning to do that for a long time, I have rollers on all my other presses.
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Posted: 5/1/2018 9:39:10 AM EDT
[#45]
Bought 3K Fed #215M
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Posted: 5/1/2018 11:43:17 AM EDT
[#46]
Bought 3 lbs ea of Superformance and 8133
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Posted: 5/1/2018 5:30:26 PM EDT
[#47]
Loaded some .45 200SWC and some hardball.
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Posted: 5/2/2018 2:49:20 AM EDT
[#48]
Picked up 1000 pieces of 45 Colt brass at the fun show this last weekend, almost 2/3 of it was brand new nickel R-P headstamp. 500 pieces of 10mm brass with little over half of it being new ELD (PMC) headstamp. 1000 pieces of 357 brass. 3k various cast bullets.. Only spent about $140 for all of it.. Not a bad haul..
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/2/2018 2:32:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: gODZOOKIE]
[#49]
Just received several hundred 62gr .224 SP cannelured Factory Seconds from Midway.
Measured 10 and all were consistent with no noticable blems. All looked nice and shiny. Got these for my stash as I’ve got plenty mags loaded and a few boxes of .223 still waiting to be shot... one day soon. |
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Posted: 5/2/2018 11:05:37 PM EDT
[#50]
Loaded 1000 rds of 55g 5.56 on the 650. Had the brass already prepped. Just kept chunking away till I had 1000 finished. Just a hair over 3.5 hrs.
Probably ordering a 6.8 conversion kit from Dillon in a day or so. 3 of us at work have a bunch of 6.8 to load and I'm tired of single staging it. |
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