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Posted: 7/22/2024 12:30:38 PM EDT
[#1]
Unloaded a bit of 5.56 over the weekend and picked up some mixed range brass. One batch is in the tumbler and the other's ready to go.
I'm waiting on a case feeder funnel for my new-to-me Lee APP. In the meantime I've 3D printed and tweaked a new case feeder assembly. In the process I managed to bend my decapping pin, so my spare's been installed and I've ordered a new set from Squirrel Daddy.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/23/2024 12:27:01 AM EDT
[#2]
Sorted a bunch of dad's .38 brass, primed 200 and loaded 50.
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Posted: 7/23/2024 1:28:34 PM EDT
[#3]
Got all my steel 7.62x39 cases sorted, bagged and put into the 7.62x39 steel ammo can.
Primed 51 Berdan steel cases (in case I have a bad case and have to scrap 1) Finished drying the 380/9mm/357 wet tumbled batch as well as the 10mm batch. |
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Posted: 7/23/2024 5:58:19 PM EDT
[#4]
Loaded up 50 30-06 new cases with 49gr w748 under 150gr Hornady fmj and 50 168gr pulled match kings over 44 grain pulldown powder in .308s.
Hopefully I get some time after my kids go to bed to finish the box. I'm almost out of powder. I wish I got 2 jugs  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/23/2024 11:21:42 PM EDT
[#5]
Got the 50 steel 7.62x39 Berdan cases i primer the other day loaded.
 Seating bullets here. Case mouths were expanded with a M die, so my home cast PC 155 gr bullets started easily. Yes they have a gas check. Loaded with my favorite cast bullet load of 15.0 grs 2400, crimped with a Lee collet crimper, runs the AK fine. |
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Posted: 7/25/2024 11:47:11 PM EDT
[#6]
Finished loading 150 more .38s while on a conference call.
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Posted: 7/26/2024 11:55:24 PM EDT
[#7]
Loaded up some ladder trials of VV N540 with the 69 TMK & 77 TMK.
Prepped about 100 pieces of 6.5CM brass for loading tomorrow. Last week I gave away 8.5 lbs of AR Comp and 1 lb of RL15.5 to an employee because I can’t use them anymore. 
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Posted: 7/27/2024 2:18:11 AM EDT
[#8]
Gun show- picked up a sealed bottle of HP38 for $30, and partial bottles of 2520 for cheap. Got a sealed bottle of 4831 SC for my dad as well. Some buddy of the seller asked if I wanted some H414, and I ended up getting some of that cheap as well- old stuff but still good.
Then picked up about 4 lbs of HS-6 from someone I know for dirt cheap ($40) because it was poured into a different container. Looks legit, will need to verify it before doing a run with it. Ordered some .224 pulls from AR. Grabbed 3k of Fiocchi SR primers at Bi-Mart. Bricks are 1500, so it comes out to $60/k. Need to do some actual loading, but so busy with fishing and other projects! |
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LA, USA
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Posted: 7/27/2024 6:02:02 PM EDT
[#9]
Yesterday I cleaned and organized 2 shelves. Today I loaded a quick 500 rounds of 9mm
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Posted: 7/27/2024 6:12:33 PM EDT
[#10]
Played musical chairs with a lot of components to clear out the basement for a remodel.
Fun. |
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Posted: 7/27/2024 10:05:47 PM EDT
[#11]
Straightened up one of my bullet forts, getting the AR bullets of the same caliber together.
Weighed out 500 165/180 gr FMJ's from AR. About 20 165 grs, rest were 180's. Just what I like. 
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Posted: 7/30/2024 10:39:10 AM EDT
[#12]
Friday I test fired some 60gr tmk and n133 loads I had done, with satisfactory results. Yesterday I finished loading the rest of that box of bullets, so 85 rounds, and put them up. Getting ready to do some more sizing today in preparation of loading up my go to load for my sbr, 50gr vmax over lt30. That’s a laser beam of a round out of my 12.5’er
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Posted: 7/31/2024 3:11:16 PM EDT
[#13]
Processed all the brass we made at the range Sunday afternoon. Now awaiting some .380 FMJ from AR and will load some for my wife once they get here.
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Posted: 7/31/2024 9:49:08 PM EDT
[#14]
Finished a 600 rd batch of .223. 55g Hornady FMJ's over 24.5g H335
and CCI 450 primers (my blaster load). The remaining 164 prepped and primed cases will be for a light varmint bullet. |
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Posted: 8/1/2024 12:03:04 AM EDT
[#15]
I picked up a used Dillon 650 this weekend with casefeeder and conversion kit for 45 acp. Snagged it for 625 otd which I didn't think was too bad.
I was going to try one of those double alpha plates and get a 9mm kit for it since that's mainly what I got it for and see how it works. I currently have a 550 and single stage. Oh, first I need to find another workbench or something to mount it to. |
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Posted: 8/1/2024 9:01:59 AM EDT
[#16]
Primed and expanded 200+ .380 to load once the bullets get here.
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Posted: 8/2/2024 10:36:11 PM EDT
[#17]
Bullets got here. Loaded 200+ .380.
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Posted: 8/3/2024 3:27:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GunsNotPuns]
[#18]
Trimmed a pile of brass for various calibres, always my favourite part of handloading.
Lately I've been doing some load testing for a few different calibres, mostly to improve upon prior recipes. That means I've been going through my stash of bullets (and remaining primers) a little faster than usual. So I stopped by my LGS this afternoon to pick some bullets up when I saw something on the front counter that made me double take: A customer was buying a brick of large rifle primers. I haven't seen a brick since the early days of an event concerning an unknown virus of unknown origins. Turned out that the store had one more brick of the Federal 110s so I jumped on it immediately. CAD$169.95 for 1000, which Americans will probably raise an eyebrow at but that's about what they're going for up here a) when you can find them (it's usually just Ginex and not that often) and b) when they aren't CAD$25 for a sleeve. It'll be enough to keep me supplied for a while. So it was a good day for reloading activities -- as long as I don't remember I just paid three times the price for LRPs that I did just a few years ago. |
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Posted: 8/6/2024 3:46:25 PM EDT
[#19]
Cleaned the ex heating oil tank room (switched to geothermal some time ago) as the first step in turning it into a gun room. Installed two HEAVY commercial grade packing tables (second hand, steel frame) into an L-shape. Asked for quotes for for electrical work in the "armory". Tomorrow I will install the shelves on one wall and map the blind nuts positions on the reloading table top so that I can easily switch between the SDB and a single stage press. The gun cabinet and cartridge cabinet should also be moved from one room to the gun room, but it takes a few guys to move the gun cabinet in particular.
I was also considering getting a Garmin Xero C1 chronograph, but couldn't justify the price yet. |
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Posted: 8/6/2024 6:08:37 PM EDT
[#20]
Loaded 40 350 legend
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Posted: 8/6/2024 6:47:14 PM EDT
[#21]
Expanded 2k 9mm, primed 150 .38spl cases, destroyed the neck expander on my 5.56 die like a dumbass. A new one is only $11, but it was a dumbass move.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 8/6/2024 7:27:32 PM EDT
[#22]
After getting situated back into reloading --after about two years..... I got my reloading area set up.
I bought some Midwest Powders MP842, probably 4 years ago, and just got around to loading some 55 gr .223 rounds--starting low. I am going to the range really soon with my chronograph to see how they do. I have read that some lots of this power can be a little hot, so I am being very cautious. |
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Posted: 8/6/2024 8:36:03 PM EDT
[#23]
I resized 400 pieces of Lapua 6 Creedmoor brass.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 8/6/2024 10:00:14 PM EDT
[#24]
Turned a small batch of wheel weights into 1lb ingots this morning. Yield was just under 30lbs worth.
Also ran a batch of .223 brass through the wet tumbler. Yesterday I dropped off a partial 5 gallon bucket of scrap brass at the recycler. Trying to get as many small projects done as I can. I have a mountain of brass to process, but no time. Need to cast bullets, work up some .300blk loads, etc, etc, etc. Not enough hours in the day. |
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Posted: 8/6/2024 10:15:56 PM EDT
[#25]
Stopped by the range and picked up a 2 gallon bucket of brass. Lots and lots of boxer 7.62x39, 300BLK, 30-30, 30.06, a bunch of 10MM, a few .45 GAP, quite a few .38s and .357s 10 or so 45-70,a few 8mm and a couple handfuls of other calibers. There was more .223, 9mm, .40 and .45 than I could pick up in a week. Left that there. I already have a few 5 gal buckets of those.
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Posted: 8/7/2024 1:11:09 PM EDT
[#26]
Bit the bullet, went and bought the Garmin Xero chrono. Can't wait to go test it next Saturday.
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Posted: 8/7/2024 8:46:25 PM EDT
[#27]
Received 300 free Hornady bullets; 6.5mm 129 grain JSP Interlock. Part of the Get Loaded promotion.
Cost me $33 for shipping and handling but I'm not going to whine about $11 per hundred in any way, shape, or form. If I paid full price for them, with shipping and tax, it would have been $195. They took awhile to ship them but that's okay too. They offered free bullets but they didn't offer them fast. I chose these bullets because I needed them and because they have the highest retail price of any of the bullets they offer in this promo.  
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Posted: 8/7/2024 10:36:54 PM EDT
[#28]
Went over to Shooter709's and he loaded 500 9mm 115 gr, 6.0 Power Pistol.
Got caught up with him, as the gun shows we go to take the summer off. |
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Posted: 8/7/2024 10:53:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: redleg13a]
[#29]
Sorted the brass I picked up. Even had some 460 S&W,41 mag, .303 Brit, 8mm Mauser , 2x.50Beowolf and a couple .32 long. It constantly amazes me what people leave behind. I wish I had more money than time and could afford to do that.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 8/8/2024 11:49:51 PM EDT
[#30]
I made a thread earlier this week about my first visits to Scheels while visiting family in Idaho.
While there, I made the rounds of gun shops in the area and ended up with a decent number of reloading components...things I have not been seeing in stock locally. In addition to the Scheels purchases (Win 296 and Hodgdon LeverEvolution powders, Remington 5 1/2 SP primers), I found cans of UNIQUE in another shop and bought one for the unhappy price of $52.95. That same shop also had an 8lb jug of Bullseye and a couple other Alliant powders! I literally have not seen new Alliant powder in a shop anywhere else in the last couple of years (home or Idaho). While on vacation, American Reloading got me for a 5 lb jug of their 2400 replacement and 5000 of the "blem" small pistol primers. Will be great once it cools down enough to make evenings in the garage loading shop pleasant again! Rob |
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Posted: 8/9/2024 9:14:32 AM EDT
[#31]
Tested my starting .357mag load of 158gr xtp, SPM, 8.7gr 3n37. Everything went well, will ladder it up to 10.5gr which gordon's says should be safe.
Working up a 3n37 load for 9mm, hoping to get a 6.7gr load over 124gr xtp for NATO pressure of 42k. Won't start that high obviously. |
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MT, USA
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Posted: 8/9/2024 10:21:07 AM EDT
[#32]
Bought a pound of H380 and 300 Fiocchi LPP from a going out of business store for $49.67!
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Posted: 8/9/2024 11:53:13 AM EDT
[#33]
Brownells had a smoking deal going on the other week, so I bought an 8lb jug of VV N540, even though I haven't shot any of the 1 lb I got a while back. I do have a powder hoarding problem... so this is making up for having to give away that jug of AR-Comp!
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Posted: 8/10/2024 1:27:45 PM EDT
[#34]
Bought 300 .380 brass at the fun shop.
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Posted: 8/10/2024 9:19:32 PM EDT
[#35]
We turned a lot of reloads and factory ammo into empty brass last week. Today I sorted out the .223 brass, found a bunch of that AMNT stuff that has the tiny flash holes, so I set it aside for emergency use only! Someone else at the range is shooting that stuff, not us.
My kid hit a gun show and found a bunch of powder from someone getting out of shooting, had him pick me up about 8 lbs of H335 and 3 lbs of 8208 XBR. 335 was $20/lb and the 8208 was $33/lb (not factory fresh stuff). Will work just fine for my .223 loading needs. |
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Posted: 8/10/2024 9:23:14 PM EDT
[#36]
Sized and decapped the .380 brass i bought this morning.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 8/11/2024 12:17:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: COSteve]
[#37]
With the hot and dry weather the last 6+ weeks our range has been closed due to a county wide Stage 2 fire ban as well as a wild fire nearby so I've been relegated to cleaning and prep'ing brass, inventorying my components, and ensuring I had the proper quantity of the various calibers I need loaded and ready to go.
Inventorying and weighing my powder kegs I found that I had 2 lbs less of W-748 than I thought but had 1½ lbs of Unique and 1 lb more TAC than I had listed on my charts. As I use more of the TAC and Unique by far than W-748 I consider that a win! I also found I had a loose wire to the LED taillight bulb on my custom $6.18 center toolhead light I made in 2018 caused by constantly pulling it out of the center of the toolhead to swap calibers so I re-soldered it and secured it with some silicone so it's GTG. In addition, I found a box with 198 Speer 180grn .40s&w Gold Dot HP, packaged under Vendor STK No. 953962B and sold in 250 rd lots back in 2004 for $30 as they had the wrong primer for the LEO contract they were produced for. I thought I'd shot all of those decades ago. Then I weighed my stock of ammo for count and found I had 53 more Hornady FMJ 62 grn 5.56 loads but 19 less 255 grn .45 Colt than I had recorded. |
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Posted: 8/11/2024 9:15:15 PM EDT
[#38]
Loaded the 300+ .380 brass and around 50 .357.
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MT, USA
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Posted: 8/11/2024 10:06:04 PM EDT
[#39]
Unloaded 50 rounds of Lyman 311467 and picked up 223, 9mm, 45 ACP & LC, 10mm, 270, 6.5 Creedmore, 5.7x28, 357, 308, 300 Win mag, Brass (about 3 quarts worth) and 15 rounds of loaded 5.56 green tip 2 loaded 380, 3 loaded 9mm, 1 loaded 6.5 Creedmore, +15 .22LR ; why people leave all that is beyond me.
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Posted: 8/11/2024 10:51:29 PM EDT
[#40]
Loaded a case of 12ga dove shells, 2 boxes of 7mm and tumbled a batch of brass
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Posted: 8/13/2024 9:58:36 PM EDT
[#41]
Unloaded 200 30-06 with 48gr w748. I was getting really low velocity and inconsistent velocity. Up to 49 I got no issues
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MT, USA
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Posted: 8/14/2024 8:26:48 PM EDT
[#42]
Picked up 3 quarts with of range brass, bought 300 Fiocchi SPP for $16.45, emptied 25 30-06 and 52 45ACP.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 8/15/2024 2:12:53 PM EDT
[#43]
With all these posts about picking up range brass, I thought I'd dive in too so I decided to go out to our range yesterday (Yes, we're still in a Stage 2 Fire Ban so it's still closed) and walked the different firing lines to see what was in the 55 gal brass bins. In all, I picked up a couple of 5 gal buckets of scrap brass.
I looked for good reloadable brass but found only 20 pieces of Winchester 30-30 and 19 pieces of Remington 30-06 that were clearly first fired. I could tell they were as I also found the boxes they bought them in. Then I culled out the minimal steel and aluminum cases I'd failed to screen out and shook out the dirt. Then I weighed my haul and was surprised to find that I had collected 57 lbs of brass. Adding that to the 61 lbs I'd collected since fall of last year, I had a total of 118 lbs. So, this morning I took a ride to our scrap brass place and was pleased to find that they were paying $2.15 per lb for yellow scrap brass. I walked out with a check for $253.70 plus a few more 30-30 and 30-06 brass for my stash. All for just helping to keep our range clean and tidy. Handloading is definitely enjoyable! |
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Posted: 8/15/2024 10:59:13 PM EDT
[#44]
Stuffed another x60 7mm rnds
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Posted: 8/16/2024 10:37:33 PM EDT
[#45]
It's been 6 months since I last loaded any ammo up. Fired things up tonight with my staple range load for 9mm. 400 rounds of 135gr Blue Bullets over True Blue.
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Posted: 8/17/2024 8:53:17 PM EDT
[#46]
Loaded some .30-06 for the M1 Garand. I must say I was quite pleased with them.
Was also going to load some 6.5 Swede for the AG-42b after buying some bullets this week only to find out I didn't have enough H4831. |
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Posted: 8/18/2024 8:25:22 PM EDT
[#47]
6.5 Swedish
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FL, USA
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Posted: 8/18/2024 8:49:51 PM EDT
[#48]
I loaded 200rds of 9mm today.
More than I usually do in a session. Im a small batch loader. Just enough for the next range day. 5.4g VVN340 and Berry's 124g plated. Should be about 1150fps out of Sig P365 X-Macro and 1300fps out of the AR9. |
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Posted: 8/19/2024 9:02:12 AM EDT
[#49]
Sorted a few hundred cases from range trip teaching a new shooter. 380, 9mm, 5.56, 350 legend
Finished processing a small batch (173) once fired by me lake city. |
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Posted: 8/19/2024 11:07:37 AM EDT
[#50]
Continuing to test-validate and input my own measurements into GRT for loads that sound interesting before I waste valuable range time/components/safety.
Lots of learning curve but it's getting better fast, thanks to the guys here for the pointers. |
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