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OH, USA
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Posted: 7/4/2024 8:02:18 AM EDT
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Sorted out my bench-mount APS priming tool. Come to find that RCBS has discontinued the large primer plugs for their APS tools, so I started emailing a few people. Managed to get a couple from a reloading supplier who's on the auction site. As a last resort my ex bro in law is set up to machine and produce them so if push comes to shove, there's a source.
Then...I bit the bullet (a big one at that) and bought an RCBS Big Max plus the auto shell holder. Was going to get a Rock Chucker as a single stage but the frame layout isn't conducive to run the press left-handed. Which is how this one will be set up as it's going on the left side of my bench. Only things left on the list are some sort of shotshell reloader (an RCBS Grand if I can find one; a Ponsness if not), then bullet casting equipment and a Lube-A-Matic plus dies. A Corbins swaging press for 22/30 cal bullets is on the list too but I need another bench for it. |
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Posted: 7/5/2024 12:33:54 AM EDT
[#2]
Cooked 10 batches of bullets.
 Including these 230 gr for 45 ACP. 4th of July, just had to.  |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 7/5/2024 7:10:23 AM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dryflash3: Cooked 10 batches of bullets. https://i.imgur.com/W5C0CTKl.jpg Including these 230 gr for 45 ACP. 4th of July, just had to. (Urge to begin casting intensifies...) |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 7/5/2024 8:15:48 AM EDT
[#4]
Today I will be pulling 42 rounds on 9MM 124gr because when I loaded them in 2021 (Remember no primers) I used what I had CCI #450 SR mag.
I needed 8 rounds to fill out my range mags 2 weeks ago and of those 8 2 were light strikes with a Sig M11A1 hammer fired with recent springs installed about as strong as you can get with smacking a primer So, I will one at a time pull the bullets and will have 42 decapped SPP primed flare mouth cases waiting. Oh the joy (Yes I considered just throwing them away but the primers man the primers I could trade the pulled primers for a BMW) So, today I am not just reloading no; I am re-reloading |
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MT, USA
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Posted: 7/5/2024 9:36:50 AM EDT
[#5]
Emptied some 45 and 30-06 and picked up about 300 misc. brass at the range. A lot of it was 270, 6.5 Creedmore, 357 mag.
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Posted: 7/5/2024 2:59:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MtnGrouseHtr]
[#6]
Went 25 for 25 fire forming 22 Hornet Brass to 22 K Hornet, without any split necks.
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USA
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Posted: 7/5/2024 5:47:23 PM EDT
[#7]
Prepping and loading the 9mm & .223 brass I emptied yesterday!
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Posted: 7/5/2024 10:24:59 PM EDT
[Last Edit: WeimaranerDad]
[#8]
I got the first one done:
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Posted: 7/5/2024 11:07:08 PM EDT
[#9]
Cooked 4 batches of 120 gr 9mm bullets, about half done with the 9mm, then I'm finished.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 7/6/2024 12:57:45 PM EDT
[#10]
Spent mo' money.
 Got the power line from the receptacle at the reloading room breaker box run across the ceiling and to the power strip on the bench. Then it was time to test all the tumblers, lights and bench accessories. A couple pages back I mentioned buying an LED light for my Pro 2000. Was meant for a Dillon 750 but could be used on the RCBS press. This is going to be one of the best reloading accessories I've purchased. Another thread I started talks about Rock Chuckers and gets into on-press priming. This led me down a Redding rabbit hole: My T7 apparently came with a large primer arm but try as I might I absolutely cannot find the small arm. Might not have gotten one as apparently they only started shipping with both after 2020. So I cracked the wallet for one of the small arms plus the tube priming accessory. And I know I'll find the damn thing in a couple of days. 
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Posted: 7/6/2024 9:15:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: WeimaranerDad]
[#11]
WOOHOO!
On the drive back from the skeet range yesterday, I stopped off at the used / surplus furniture store. They had another WrightLine media cabinet. I bought it yesterday. I went back with my truck today to pick it up. WOOT! Granted these next few pics are from a bing image search, but they all kinda look like this more or less:  Attached FileSome have fixed shelves. Others have shelves that are more like drawers….they pull out. Like pictured above. And they have a tambour door kinda like an antique roll top desk:  Attached FileThis latest one is like a solid tan color. No blue stripe on the door. I mounted casters to the bottom of it right before I unloaded it from my truck. Wheeled it right in. So now I have even more storage space to put reloading stuff. EDIT: the one I picked up today is 6 feet tall. This is the first one I bought:  Attached FileIt is a 6 footer. The second one I bought is a 7 footer. I don’t recommend that since most doors are 6 foot 8 inches. |
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Posted: 7/7/2024 1:17:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: dryflash3]
[#12]
 Continued cooking 9mm 120 gr bullets, what's left is in the wood tray. Tray in front was just coated, tray in back has been cooked.  Last batch going into toaster oven.  What's left to size. Far right, only 1 jug of 9mm bullets shown. When I finished the 9mm's, I got out the APP and sized 2 jugs of .452 45 cal RNFP I'm going to load in 45 Colt. The 2 jugs on the left. Jug marked Lee, bullets from a Lee 6 gang mold, Accurate same bullet from a 4 gang Accurate mold. |
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Posted: 7/7/2024 8:45:06 AM EDT
[#13]
In a desperate attempt to clear the clutter off the reloading bench I made some drawers.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 7/7/2024 12:17:55 PM EDT
[#14]
Made a trip to the LGS to check out reloading supplies.
Scored some brass and a powder baffle for my 3rd Uniflow. |
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ON, CAN
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Posted: 7/7/2024 8:26:55 PM EDT
[#15]
A quiet day so I decided to clean and anneal some brass. Still didn't have much to do so I resized and primed them as well.
Then looked at the piles of brass that need trimming and decided that was enough for the day. |
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Posted: 7/7/2024 11:39:38 PM EDT
[#16]
 Finished sizing my 45 ACP 230 gr bullets on the APP. upper left is the 2 jugs of 9mm to do.  Close up on the auto feed mechanism.  Here are the 120 gr 9mm bullets. Any guess what I will load them with? Rhetorical question is Rhetorical.   7-30 Waters success and failures. Top is what you get when you run 30-30 case into 7-30 sizer and then load a forming load. (start load for the bullet weight) Middle 2 had neck failures with annealed cases. These were some range pickup, Headstamp WW Super. 2 failures and 7 successful cases formed from these. Bottom case a RP case that had a successful forming. |
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Posted: 7/9/2024 11:12:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/11/2024 5:12:13 PM EDT
[#18]
I've been away from reloading for a minute and have finally decided to get this program running again. This week I've completely cleaned off my reloading table and my gun room workbench, finished hanging my small press collection on the wall (Inline Fabrication plates and brackets), cleaned several thousand cases in multiple calibers, sorted a bunch of 9mm by headstamp to help ID some bulge problems with my 147gr loads, and then completely packed the aforementioned benches with sorted brass, trays of random cases, etc.
It's a never ending battle 
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Posted: 7/11/2024 7:35:39 PM EDT
[#19]
Well I burned out the motor in my dry tumbler so there's that...
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OH, USA
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Posted: 7/11/2024 9:06:27 PM EDT
[#20]
Added more pieces to the bench.
Started a thread about it and depending on the responses I'll detail what I did to make it work. Also started down the cast bullets rabbit hole. So much to learn and to buy. |
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Posted: 7/11/2024 10:00:32 PM EDT
[#21]
I snagged a decent amount of extra reloading stuff, including an RCBS competition powder measure/drop. I have quite a few powder measures, but never played around with one with a micrometer adjustment. Also picked up a decent amount of primers, as well as some H4831, RL22, H322, Varget, H4227, IMR4198, and a little bit of H335 and BL(C)-2
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Posted: 7/12/2024 3:31:21 AM EDT
[#22]
After a year long hiatus from reloading due to school and moving, today I got my new bench built and started unpacking my equipment. Hoping tomorrow to get both presses mounted and get the bullet primers and powder put away.
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Posted: 7/13/2024 4:11:28 PM EDT
[#23]
Got 500 pieces of starline 10mm brass delivered so I can get to loading
 Attached FileAlso having issues with flare die for 650 Dillon 9mm trying to solve |
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Posted: 7/14/2024 10:43:58 PM EDT
[#24]
 Shot Friday, car camped that night and shot more on Saturday.  Made lots of spent brass/steel. 7.62x39 back, steel on the left, brass on the right. All my Berdan primed loads. Front left, 223 and small amount of 380. Right middle, 10mm, 9mm in the front.  Fire formed fifty 30-30 AI in the Contender. Before forming in the front, formed (shoulder blown forward) in the rear. Had a great time hanging out with two Reloading Forum members. 
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Posted: 7/17/2024 1:33:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: redleg13a]
[#25]
Loaded 100 rounds of .38 SPL with 125gr cast PC. Primed another 100 cases that I'll probably load tonight.
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Posted: 7/17/2024 1:35:55 PM EDT
[#26]
Started dry tumbling the steel cases.
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VA, USA
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Posted: 7/17/2024 3:03:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: rlester]
[#27]
Loaded up 45 rounds of 7.62x54r reduced loads with 32gr of H4895 and 180gr Speer TNT SP
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Posted: 7/17/2024 9:30:30 PM EDT
[#28]
Finished reaming 800ish LC19 5.56 primer pockets last night.
About 1/3 of the way trimming with the Giraud Tri-Way/grinder motor combo.  
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Posted: 7/17/2024 9:46:39 PM EDT
[#29]
Found a couple of boxes of 20 gauge reloads in with an ammo can filled with 12 gauge reloads.
I got the 20’s moved to the correct ammo can. |
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Posted: 7/17/2024 10:53:21 PM EDT
[#30]
Got my steel cases dry tumbled.
 Got out the APP and started decapping 30-30 AI. |
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Posted: 7/17/2024 11:16:19 PM EDT
[#31]
Loaded 100 more rounds of .38 SPL. Cleaned up the fun room some.
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Posted: 7/19/2024 12:37:14 AM EDT
[#32]
APP made short work of 223, 10mm, 9mm, and 380.
 Then started on the Berdan 7.62x39.  Decapper pin in primer strike, claw on decapper in extractor grove on case.  Depress decapper and primer is pried out and is still on the decapper pin. Easy to pick of and place in bin.  Decapping fixture is a 5/16 bolt attached to wood block that is bolted to my bench. These Yugo cases are ready to be wet tumbled. |
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USA
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Posted: 7/19/2024 10:23:50 AM EDT
[#33]
Got 100 rounds of 124r RMR Nuke JHP in 9mm loaded, and began processing brass from last weekend.
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Posted: 7/20/2024 12:03:27 AM EDT
[#34]
WHEW!
I thought I had misplaced my large rifle primers. I found them. Then did inventory:  Attached FileI was worried.
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VA, USA
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Posted: 7/20/2024 12:32:58 PM EDT
[#35]
Friday, I prepped 120x 30-06 Springfield brass and 25x 7.7 Japanese brass. Goal for today is to prep 100x 8mm Mauser brass and 100x 7.62x54r brass. Been shooting my milsurps a lot! lately
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Posted: 7/20/2024 1:10:55 PM EDT
[#36]
Got my new FA dry tumbler in yesterday and have run a couple batches of .30-06 through it.
Sorted through a bag of brass from Thurs range trip |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 1:27:28 PM EDT
[#37]
Went to the local club/range this morning and bought 2 bags of wads. 1 ouncers and 7/8ths ouncers.
And something I will share in the shotgun reloading thread that a club member was nice enough to give me.m  |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 3:27:03 PM EDT
[#38]
20ga 1/2oz extra extra extra light loads for my son. He wants to shoot tomorrow.
It's 1/2oz of #7.5 in a CB 3/4 wad over 12gr of Longshot topped off with rice.  Attached File Attached File |
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LA, USA
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Posted: 7/20/2024 3:30:22 PM EDT
[#39]
Loaded 1200 rounds of 9mm. Zero 147 jhp, 4.0 WSF, CCI spp
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Posted: 7/20/2024 4:09:41 PM EDT
[#40]
Made three action checking rounds of 358 Winchester.
Was curious if/how 180 grain Speer Hot-Cor flat points would feed in the AR-10. Answer is just fine. Seated them to the cannelure. Not too much tip deformation. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 7/20/2024 4:24:57 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AnalogKid]
[#41]
Flooded my 🤬 reloading room.
The original light setup was a single screw-in fixture and my old eyes need more lumens. I replaced that with a double-gang box and put two combination switch/receptacle assemblies in. The switches feed two T5 LED light pigtails - one to a 4ft tube which runs back towards the safe and two 4ft tubes in series which run towards and over the reloading bench. When I was getting ready to mount the second light over the bench I wanted to move a ground clamp (so I thought it was...) away from the axis of the light tube. Stuff got mighty wet when I loosened the clamp bolts. Turns out it was a self tapping saddle valve feeding my refrigerator ice maker. They're prohibited here because they can leak. Probably good I found and fixed it properly. If the thing started spraying water and I was away from the area for an extended period of time, lots of equipment may have been ruined. Back on the reloading front, began planning the casting and swaging equipment layout for the bench in the barn. If I can find the Special Duty accessory for my Big Max I have someone who can thread the blank die and shell plate adapters for me. If not I'm looking at putting a Walnut Hill 2 press out there plus a Lube A Matic and the bullet casting gear. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 10:37:56 PM EDT
[#42]
Primed another hundred .38's
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Posted: 7/20/2024 11:07:26 PM EDT
[#43]
Sized aprox 400 steel Berdan 7.62x39 twice fired now cases.
 Lost a few to neck cracks and a shoulder crack, probably happened when case was fired. Case on the left, the primer pocket fell out when I removed the Berdan primer, just a black hole where the anvil and flasholes were. Wet tumbled 2 batches, 7.62x39/30-30 AI (almost same mouth diameter) and the other batch 5.56. Rinsed and they are drying in a cooking pan under the ceiling fan, they will be dry tomorrow. Then got a batch of 9mm and a batch of 10mm going on a timer as I left shop. Tomorrow will dry tumble the lube off the 7.62x39. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 7/21/2024 9:11:27 AM EDT
[#44]
I did the fun part of reloading yesterday.
Now if i could just learn to shoot      
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FL, USA
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Posted: 7/21/2024 10:03:33 AM EDT
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Been tweaking my AR9. Added a maxim delayed buffer to try and reduce gas to face
Also bought a Huxwrx Cash9 supressor as well. I am making 147g subsonic rounds with RMR FMJ and 3.4g of VV N320. I was using 3.2g but upped it to 3.4g since it wouldnt cycle my G19. I meant to chrono @ 3.4 but forgot it. 3.4 barely cycled the G19 and oddly was extremely smoky. I only ran 5 rounds so I am going to test that again. I did switch primers to CCI400's over 500's but I doubt that would lead to smoky. No issues in the AR9. Not at 3.2g either. |
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Posted: 7/21/2024 11:36:41 PM EDT
[#46]
Sized/deprimed a few hundred .30-06 cases
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TX, USA
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Posted: 7/21/2024 11:53:21 PM EDT
[#47]
De-primed and cleaned 45-70 brass i shot today that I reloaded a few weeks ago.
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Posted: 7/22/2024 12:02:16 AM EDT
[#48]
Took 2 loads out of wet tumblers, got them drying.
Got lube removed on first batch of three 7.62x39 steel cases in the dry tumbler. Got them deprimed and primer pockets cleaned. Second batch was done today (outside), last batch going now in the dry tumbler on a timer. |
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Posted: 7/22/2024 12:14:35 AM EDT
[#49]
Loaded 200 more .38 SPL.
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Posted: 7/22/2024 12:58:46 AM EDT
[#50]
Loaded up 50 rounds 30-06 with 49gr w748. My load for forever has been 48gr but I recently chronograph it and it's just over 2600fps.
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