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WI, USA
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Posted: 9/24/2020 8:16:10 PM EDT
[#1]
Shot my first powder coated reloads and picked up 2lbs of True Blue.
Working on portable target stand now. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 9:15:31 PM EDT
[Last Edit: tortilla-flats]
[#2]
Just got a shipping notice for an order of 9mm bullets from Xtreme bullets. Order placed a week ago.
Still waiting on an order from Gallant Bullets; order date 8/12/2020. Still waiting on an order from Blue Bullets; order date 7/15/2020. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 10:31:50 PM EDT
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Got my 1911 back from armscor, but I didnt get my 1911 back from armscor, they sent me a new pistol with new barrels...
My 9mm loads work fine in it. My 22 TCM loads... do not chamber. The headspace is too long. I now have about 1k 22 TCM rounds to pull down and resize... |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 10:56:38 PM EDT
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 Attached FileFinally got around to loading my first batch of 6.5 grendel. 120gr SMKs and and 8208XBR. |
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Posted: 9/25/2020 3:51:50 AM EDT
[Last Edit: muta4warrior]
[#5]
Ran the last 150ish pieces of 30-30 brass through the wet tumblers. That should put right around 1000 pieces of Winchester and R-P marked brass to keep me stocked for a long time.. Had probably 5-10 lbs of Misc projectiles that got tossed into the wet tumblers for a quick clean/shine with the left over dirty water from the 30-30 brass.
I also consolidated a lot of the 1lb partials into bigger jugs and blended them to make one lot. 
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Posted: 9/25/2020 9:34:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: devildog93]
[#6]
Got everything i need to start reloading .308. Have never done any rifle bullets, so i had to get a few tools and now i'm brushing up on the info portion watching videos. I got a brass smith case trim xpress, a case prep multi tool, and a case lube pad.
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LA, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2020 9:57:29 AM EDT
[#7]
Beefed up the area of my work bench my 750 is mounted to. Felt like it flexed a little to much. Polished the powder funnel to get it to quit sticking when belling case. Also ordered one of those ufo led light kits for the 750.
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USA
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Posted: 9/25/2020 5:50:09 PM EDT
[#8]
Annealed 500 pieces of 308
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Posted: 9/25/2020 6:47:57 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SideSalad]
[#9]
De-capped about 5k 9mm.
Ran x2 batches thru a wet tumbler. Cleaned up and painted 11 ammo cans (for long term storage). Edit: bought 1k 62gr Dots (.224) |
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OR, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2020 7:23:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Donut777donut]
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Ordered a ton of warranty parts from Dillon.
My press is so old there’s a new platform I need for it... |
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Posted: 9/25/2020 7:49:32 PM EDT
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Got in the 1K .45acp bullets ordered from Scheels. The other pkg containing 2k 9mm bullets is showing " delayed" on the UPS tracking
 Tumbled some range pickup brass. |
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Posted: 9/25/2020 8:04:16 PM EDT
[#12]
Decapped a couple hundred 5.56 LC cases.
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Posted: 9/25/2020 8:29:10 PM EDT
[#13]
Got in a bullet order, 77 gr and 55 gr SP's in .224.
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Posted: 9/25/2020 8:32:16 PM EDT
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Pulled down another 300 Rounds of 300 BLK, then loaded 40 110gr black tips.
Started reaming primer pockets. Have about 2k to process. |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 2:34:47 AM EDT
[#15]
Annealed 400 pieces of 30-30 Win brass while I had a load of 30-06 brass in the 2 wet tumblers. Just pulled that load of brass out and replaced it with another batch of 30-006 brass.
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OR, USA
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Posted: 9/26/2020 3:38:29 AM EDT
[#16]
Recieved 3k 9mm stainless shellshock cases and am going to load them as +p subgun loads.
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UT, USA
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Posted: 9/26/2020 8:36:15 AM EDT
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I got 200, 75 grain Gold Dot Projectiles from my buddy. As well as, 100 73 grain ELD Match, 100, 85 grain Barnes Match Burners, and 100, 60 grain tipped Match Kings.
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Posted: 9/26/2020 10:06:53 AM EDT
[#18]
Back ordered Dillon Casefeeder for my Yet to be setup XL750 and ordered Dillon 9mm dies extra and Powder measure.
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WI, USA
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Posted: 9/26/2020 5:00:43 PM EDT
[#19]
Found 1K Federal Match Large Rifle primers and 1K CCI BR4 primers. Got them both on sale. Not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough. and beggers can't be choosers these days. Coupled that with 1# each of BL-C(2) and W231. All in all it was a decent week of local scrounging.
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Posted: 9/26/2020 5:21:17 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bigsapper: Just got a shipping notice for an order of 9mm bullets from Xtreme bullets. Order placed a week ago. Still waiting on an order from Gallant Bullets; order date 8/12/2020. Still waiting on an order from Blue Bullets; order date 7/15/2020. |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 5:55:01 PM EDT
[#21]
Lucked into 2k SPP and 1k LPP today at sportsman’s! I had zero LPP so that was some good luck.
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Posted: 9/26/2020 7:14:44 PM EDT
[#22]
Unloaded some ammo with my dad, unloaded some ammo with my mom, then unloaded some ammo by myself
 5.56, 9mm, 38-40, 32-20, 300 BLK, 380My wife got me a Frankfort Arsenal wet tumbler for my birthday last week. Got it set up and tumbled today's 9mm   Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 8:44:02 PM EDT
[#23]
Tumbled about 1500 pieces of pistol and rifle brass.
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Posted: 9/26/2020 9:43:24 PM EDT
[#24]
Armscor sent me a new pistol instead of replacing the extractor on my old pistol.
The new pistol has new barrels (22 tcm and 9mm) The 22 TCM barrel is way tighter than my last barrel. I have about 1000 loaded rounds of 22 TCM. Found out my CH4d trim die does not size the neck, I was able to body size the ammo down so it functions in my new barrel. Saved me hours and hours of pulling down ammo and stuff. |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 10:11:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SG55xdude]
[#25]
I finished up loading every piece of .223 brass I have. I had a couple weeks of nothing because I ran out of small rifle primers. I finally found someone local to trade a box of my small pistol primers for their small rifle. I loaded the last 820rds today.
 Attached File Attached File Attached FileThose are all different bins. There are half full bins because some are mixed headstamp, and some not. Some have cci primers and some Winchester. |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 10:13:37 PM EDT
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I got my scale camera set up and tested. I still have to work the cable part a bit - it's gotta be neater than it is. Anyway...
 Yeah, I have to work on focusing the camera a bit better, and yes there's still that film on the monitor, but I'm pretty happy with how the camera is working. Here's how it's set up:  It's a tiny, square camera that I have fastened to a fake credit card - the paper clips hold short rubber bands that keep the camera on the card. The card is held in a "shelf tag holder" that has two ball joints and a big clamp at the end; the card fits in the spot a price tag would sit in. Between the camera, the card and the holder, I think there's about an ounce of weight clamped on the shelf the scale is on. And that little bit meant I had to re-level the scale. Anyway, I'm happy with it so far. Coming up next is using it for loading up some .380s. I have dies in the toolhead, but I haven't really set anything up yet. That's for another day. |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 10:16:51 PM EDT
[#27]
Nothing super exciting today. Ran 3 loads through the FART. Going to start playing around with Dawn and Lemishine levels. Tried Dawn professional degreaser. Cleaned the brass, but now it has an antique brass color to it.
Might play around with tumble times too. Ran it for 2 hours, then put new water in it after rinsing everything, added new dawn and lemishine and ran it for another 2 hours. Water was black both times. The testing continues. |
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Posted: 9/27/2020 2:48:08 AM EDT
[#28]
Ran x2 loads through a FART.
Finished (finally!!!) de-capping my stash of 9mm. Cleaned the bench and surrounding area up; prepped for tomorrow. |
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ON, CAN
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Posted: 9/27/2020 10:09:02 AM EDT
[#29]
Pounded out some .577/450 on the new press and actual dies for that calibre.
Rather nice not having to use the hacked together dies for another calibre on a press not built to handle that round. |
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LA, USA
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Posted: 9/27/2020 10:41:09 AM EDT
[#30]
Used 106 reloaded 9mm rounds at yesterday's match came home with over 200 9mm cases. Washed all of the sand off using a sifter and water hose. Got them dried off, tumbled and ready to go. Doing a little bit of rework on my 9mm load, since I believe my length is to blame for a couple problems I had at yesterday's match.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 9/27/2020 12:07:43 PM EDT
[Last Edit: COSteve]
[#31]
Done
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IA, USA
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Posted: 9/27/2020 12:51:38 PM EDT
[#32]
I have been annealing 308 and 30-06 brass and tumbling it.
kwg |
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Posted: 9/27/2020 1:50:36 PM EDT
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LA, USA
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Posted: 9/28/2020 10:06:45 AM EDT
[#34]
Cranked out 500 9mm this morning since it's my last day of vacation and it looks like its going to be a long nasty day of nonstop rain. About to have to swap over to 45 since im getting low on small pistol primers, and have more large pistol than I'll probably feel like shooting in the next year.
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OR, USA
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Posted: 9/29/2020 11:07:37 PM EDT
[#35]
Ordered a Lee universal decapping die and Lyman M die for my 300blackout case prep tool head.
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WI, USA
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Posted: 9/29/2020 11:26:38 PM EDT
[#36]
Loaded 100 rounds of .223 plinking ammo.
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Posted: 9/30/2020 8:26:12 AM EDT
[#37]
Annealed the remainder of my .308 brass.
Sorted several thou 5.56 LC and MHS. Ran 3 loads through a wet tumbler. Ordered 40 lbs. TAC |
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Posted: 9/30/2020 11:01:46 AM EDT
[Last Edit: lilMAC25]
[#38]
Tried (AGAIN) to finish cleaning up my bench and finish installing my RCBS RC into its new position and AGAIN got called into work. Blanking Blanking Blank.
 I was able to get it into position and crank down the bolts, but had to abandon my tools and stuff on the bench to go relieve a colleague whose 13 yr old son has to be taken to the ER because he swallowed I don’t think the universe wants me to finish this up. |
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Posted: 9/30/2020 12:20:48 PM EDT
[#39]
I loaded my son a box of SGK for his ruger american
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Posted: 9/30/2020 6:31:01 PM EDT
[#40]
Finally received my order (147gr 9mm) from The Blue Bullet today. 11 weeks after I ordered. When I ordered, they were quoting 4-6 weeks for delivery.
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Posted: 9/30/2020 7:47:42 PM EDT
[Last Edit: lilMAC25]
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lilMAC25: Tried (AGAIN) to finish cleaning up my bench and finish installing my RCBS RC into its new position and AGAIN got called into work. Blanking Blanking Blank. I was able to get it into position and crank down the bolts, but had to abandon my tools and stuff on the bench to go relieve a colleague whose 13 yr old son has to be taken to the ER because he swallowed I don’t think the universe wants me to finish this up. I was able to finish up one end!  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/30/2020 8:06:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: -Obsessed-]
[#42]
Mounted some lights on the trusty single stage. Works perfect, actually. Just had some leftover LEDs from my under cabinet lighting project.
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Posted: 9/30/2020 8:31:47 PM EDT
[#43]
Today I got into my work room and did not actual reloading, but something related.
I started dealing with the clutter away from the bench. Mostly I reorganized the “I will need this later” stuff from my shelves, and consolidated much of it in a 17 gallon tote from Home Depot, like this one:  It fits on the top shelf with room to spare, yet it gets a bunch of stuff out of my way. Next comes the folding work table that’s accumulated too many things. A bunch of these things need to be vetted or tossed, but I haven’t had time to do that. I’m hoping to dig into that sometime soon. |
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Posted: 9/30/2020 11:21:16 PM EDT
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Got an order in from Graf's today.
500 Starline 7.62x25 cases and 200 50 gr FMJ for 25 ACP. 25 ACP stuff just pops up every now and again, so you order when it's available. Same with 7.62x25 brass, just stacking a bit. |
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Posted: 9/30/2020 11:48:04 PM EDT
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Finished trimming a full 5 gallon bucket of .223 and loaded a few hundred 147gr 9mm.
Received an order of small pistol and small rifle primers in the 6 digits. I should be good for a bit.  
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Posted: 10/1/2020 3:54:21 PM EDT
[#46]
Spent time the last couple of days processing 500 5.56mm cases. They are currently in the wet tumbler and will be ready to prime and load after they dry off.
Now I just need some more 55 gr FMJ-BTs , as I'm about 100 short. |
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Posted: 10/1/2020 4:59:45 PM EDT
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Received a .401 6 gang mold from Ebay.
Ordered a .356 6 gang mold from Midway. Having molds for all my pistol calibers now ... priceless. 
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Posted: 10/2/2020 2:07:40 AM EDT
[Last Edit: SideSalad]
[#48]
x3 loads though a wet tumbler.
Reamed about 2k 5.56 LC Sorted about 1k 5.56 by yr. Resized and flared x608 pcs of Win 9mm brass. Primed 100 of them. Edit: Bought x4 lbs N340, 100 150gr SST’s, A gallon of sonic cleaner solution and 400 150gr Hornady #3031. Edit #2: Bought 10k CCI # 34 |
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Posted: 10/2/2020 4:45:22 AM EDT
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Loaded up 30 rounds of 45 Win Mag WW Super brass loaded with 15.5 grains of Bluedot under a 230 grn Federal HST JHP pulldown bullets I have been waiting to finally load in this caliber.
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Posted: 10/2/2020 10:59:51 AM EDT
[#50]
Received 3200 158gr Semiwad cutters this morning. Should be set for a few days
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