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Posted: 8/19/2024 2:24:59 PM EDT
[#1]
Trimmed some .308 win cases.
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Posted: 8/19/2024 2:30:25 PM EDT
[#2]
Pulled a .40, punched out the backwards loaded primer and reloaded it.
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Posted: 8/21/2024 9:26:05 PM EDT
[#3]
Received a big pile of range and drill bullets. My first order from AR. Got here pretty quick.
 
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Posted: 8/21/2024 10:09:11 PM EDT
[#4]
I loaded 250 rounds of 6 Creedmoor for a PRS match this weekend.
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Posted: 8/22/2024 1:29:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Cascade-Dude: Received a big pile of range and drill bullets. My first order from AR. Got here pretty quick. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/582146/AR-1-3301000.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/582146/AR-2-3300999.jpg I use corn cob and Nu Finish. Don't overload your tumbler, bullets are mush heaver that brass cases. I grab a small hand full of bullets with one hand and dump into tumbler. I do that 3 times for a load. For me that works out to about 4 tumbler loads for 500 223 bullets. |
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Posted: 8/23/2024 1:06:09 AM EDT
[#6]
Ordered a thing.. great addition to the base unit. Just in time to help with the 5k pieces of 5.56 LC brass..
   
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IA, USA
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Posted: 8/23/2024 10:11:03 PM EDT
[Last Edit: kwg020]
[#7]
I went to the range twice today. Before going I loaded up 20 rounds. 10 rounds each with the same bullet but 2 different powders. I recorded the velocity with my Garmin. I went back home and did the same thing. Only this time I switched to a different bullet but kept the same 2 powders. It's only 7 miles from my house to the range. I had primed brass ready to go. All I had to do was measure the powder and press in the bullets.
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Posted: 8/24/2024 6:38:50 PM EDT
[#8]
Loaded more 6.5 CM today and will probably do some 300 Win Mag later. It is so fricken relaxing to put on a good military documentary in my nice, cool basement while assembling little warheads
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USA
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Posted: 8/25/2024 12:37:16 AM EDT
[#9]
Got a dandy trickler today, loaded up some Lehigh 62 gr
223. Now I'm thinking about using it for an open trickler. |
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Posted: 8/25/2024 12:45:23 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2024 1:20:37 AM EDT
[#11]
Bought 200 once fired STARLINE 350 legend brass for $15 a hundred.
No idea how this site got one fired starline... but hopefully it's good. |
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Posted: 8/25/2024 10:07:29 AM EDT
[#12]
Spent Saturday loading shotgun stuff.
A batch of 20 ga, 28 ga and .410 TSS turkey loads. Roll crimped the 20 ga and .410 loads. I like to keep 12 boxes minimum of clay shooting ammo for all shotguns (12, 16, 20, 28, .410) on hand and was seriously falling behind on all. Got those back up to inventory after doing the TSS loads. |
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Posted: 8/25/2024 5:54:44 PM EDT
[#13]
Acquired a bunch more lead from an estate deal my son and I have bought from previously. Mostly linotype still in type form, about 200 lbs. Need to smelt some of the stuff I have and do some casting before the weather turns crummy again.
Son also bought what he thought was a 1k of CCI LR primers still in the outer cardboard box for $40…. It was actually 3k in the older small packaging. Dumb luck on his part. I am sure they will work just fine in .308 plinking loads. |
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Posted: 8/31/2024 3:05:04 PM EDT
[#14]
Loaded 10 test loads of 5.6x50R Mag for my combination gun.
Going to the range tomorrow to test them out against lighter factory loads, but it might be that the twist rate of the gun is wrong for my 62 grain bullets and it would like 55 grain bullets (which I don't have) more. Have to figure an accurate load before the grouse season starts in a couple of weeks. |
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Posted: 8/31/2024 9:49:06 PM EDT
[#15]
Loaded 30 test rounds of 350 legend with SW SBR SOCOM and 2 different bullets.
28.0, 28.5, and 29.0 with Hornady 170 gr Interlok and 160 gr Fusion Blems. I SMELL VENISON BABY! |
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Posted: 8/31/2024 11:41:51 PM EDT
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My gun mentor's good friend passed away recently. I ended up with a bunch of reloading stuff that gentleman left behind. Today I sorted through it.
 Attached FileThese boxes are bigger than a fat .50 cal can. One is full of partial boxes of projectiles, the other full of brass and random loaded ammo. I spent some time today sorting them out. I DO NOT plan to shoot the reloads. I squirreled them away for a rainy day to pull down.  Attached FileThese were the oldest looking boxes of bullets. Among other odds and ends, I got a Lee progressive press and a box full of dies, turrets, and other bits and pieces. I will most likely start a thread once I decide to graduate to a progressive press. It looks like it would be handy. |
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Posted: 9/1/2024 9:15:50 AM EDT
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Shot 10 test loads of 5.6x50R Mag for my combination gun.
Gun does NOT like 62 grain projectiles. Poor accuracy, no grouping to speak of, and even the V0s were not very consistent. Have to next buy and try 50 and 55 grain ones as the commercial 55 grain ones I shot as a comparison group shot decently. |
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Posted: 9/1/2024 11:13:10 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Strikefirst]
[#18]
Destroyed a alot of that $15 starline. Ripped rims off a dozen.
Must have been shot in a really out of spec chamber. Cartridge base is .15 thousandths larger than my unsized twice fired in an AR Starline. Cleaned the die 4 times. Two different kinds of lube... ridiculous amount of force. Tried doing small increments at a time to figure it out... still rolled off rims. Contacted seller. Preparing for CC dispute. |
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NJ, USA
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Posted: 9/2/2024 1:51:32 AM EDT
[#19]
Made 10rds of 7-08 for the maten.
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Posted: 9/2/2024 9:12:08 PM EDT
[#20]
Made brass out of some ammo. Shot some 9mm 124gr PC lead bullets loaded in .38 SPL at a chunk of wood about 75 yards out and I hit it! That revolver really likes those bullets.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 9/7/2024 7:21:46 PM EDT
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Shot 50 rounds of 7 mag and 50 rounds of 7 mm-08 I made. Banged steel repeatedly at 750 yards with the 7 mag and 500 with the 7 mm-08.
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USA
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Posted: 9/7/2024 7:59:20 PM EDT
[#22]
I loaded the 9mm & .223 brass from last week's shooting.
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Posted: 9/7/2024 8:34:20 PM EDT
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Stopped at Harbor Freight today for other reasons, and stumbled on the display model 18 pound vibratory tumbler on the clearance shelf for $50. I figured a spare at that price was worth it.
I guess they have replaced the old version with one of their new brands. |
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Posted: 9/8/2024 12:28:26 AM EDT
[#24]
Cut the wood to build a shelf over my reloading bench.
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TUN
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Posted: 9/8/2024 1:05:53 PM EDT
[#25]
Loaded 50 5.56 77gr OTM loads after mic-ing 1k projos I got from midway on a sale after realizing that there was a 30/100ths range of lengths of projos in the lots I received and separated them into bins that had a 5/100ths range.
I didn't expect them to be perfect, don't need them to be. But they're loading to different COAL with the different lengths, which was making things come out weird or required resetting my die every cartridge to achieve the desired COAL. Purchased 10lbs of powder from American reloading (their blue dot analog) and 500 9mm hst blems. Planning to load another 100 this afternoon. |
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Posted: 9/8/2024 7:03:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/9/2024 3:21:18 AM EDT
[#27]
Sorted and wet tumbled some brass.
Went to the range, did some shooting, picked up a boatload of 9mm and some 5.56 brass from an LE training day. I know it is cheap to buy 9mm brass, but free is free… |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:17:28 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Strikefirst]
[#28]
Added a shelf attached to and above the reloading bench.
I now have an even larger and more disorganized mess than before. |
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TUN
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:25:40 AM EDT
[#29]
Fought with 9mm loading yesterday.
PITA! |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:22:11 AM EDT
[#30]
Loaded my first testers in 45 Cowboy Special. Have to use both 45 Colt and 45 ACP dies with light 45 Auto Rim data...we'll see how this works.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 9:06:03 PM EDT
[#31]
Loaded up 300 rounds of 135gr TC Blue Bullets over some True Blue, with the Argentinian primers, needed to replenish Sunday's range trip expenditure.
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Posted: 9/17/2024 7:27:42 PM EDT
[#32]
Stopped at my LGS on my way home from work.
Grabbed another pound of Win244. I've been stocking up on this as they have it on sale for $28/# While there I picked up four 50rd plastic ammo boxes for my .38S&W project. |
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Posted: 9/17/2024 9:04:13 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dryflash3]
[#33]
Picked up a pound of True Blue from Graf's since dryflash talks about it so much.
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Posted: 9/18/2024 11:49:15 AM EDT
[Last Edit: kalju]
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Ordered a rifle size micrometer insert for my L-N-L powder measure and a Hornady Camlock bullet puller die.
Edit: Aaaand I forgot to order the darn collets for the bullet puller. Dammit! |
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Posted: 9/18/2024 12:02:39 PM EDT
[#35]
100 rounds of 180 grain .357 XTP.
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Posted: 9/19/2024 10:05:06 PM EDT
[#36]
Loaded up 400 rounds of 135gr TC Blue Bullets over some True Blue, with the Argentinian primers, down to only 1100 of these projectiles left, need to order some more.
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Posted: 9/19/2024 10:38:17 PM EDT
[#37]
Decapped and recovered about 150 primers from 38/357 I'd primed some 30+ yrs ago. These were from an era before I even dry tumbled cases prior to reloading. The things you come across when doing a complete inventory of your components and ammo.
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USA
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Posted: 9/19/2024 10:54:10 PM EDT
[#38]
Setup the APP for swaging and pulled the handle a few hundred times. Having the Dillon case feeder attached to it makes a huge difference. Unfortunately, I still have more to do. I think I'm done picking up range brass, until I actually need brass.
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Posted: 9/20/2024 3:00:12 PM EDT
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Last student called me, as he had bought out a reloading estate and had some powder to sell.
2 powders he couldn't use, AR Comp and A-1680. Full cans $20 each.  |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 9/20/2024 3:10:43 PM EDT
[#40]
Yesterday, loaded 10 rounds of 223 for load development.
Today, making some 30-06 food for a Garand. |
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Posted: 9/20/2024 10:08:18 PM EDT
[#41]
Wet tumbled about 4k of 9mm brass, and about 1k or so of .223 stuff.
Decrimped a few smaller batches of .223 brass. |
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Posted: 9/21/2024 7:50:15 PM EDT
[#42]
Loaded up 400 rounds of 135gr TC Blue Bullets over some True Blue, with the Argentinian primers, down to only 700 of these projectiles left , need to order some more, good thing their somewhat local.
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MT, USA
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Posted: 9/21/2024 10:46:16 PM EDT
[#43]
Sorted my range pickups, tumbled and sized the 45's loaded 50 rounds of cast for my 30-06 with SR4759 and my own 311291's
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CO, USA
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Posted: 9/22/2024 4:11:15 AM EDT
[Last Edit: COSteve]
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Went to the range and grabbed a 5 gal. bucket full of assorted brass from our brass bins at our various ranges. I sorted it at home for possible useful brass and found 48 pieces of Win 30-30 brass, 56 pieces of Win .308 brass and 12 pieces of Rem. 30-06 brass that looked to be fresh, once fired so I tumbled and case prep'd them and put them in a baggie for further inspection and possible use.
I also found 152 pieces of Win .45 acp brass and 37 pieces of Win .357 Mag brass that look fresh and new so I tumbled them and put them into a baggie for further inspection and possible use. The rest of the brass was either obviously reloaded or random head stamps so those went into my scrap bin for sale to the metal recycler. I also found that Murdoch's Ranch and Supply was selling 1 lb cans of Win WSF powder for only $24.99/lb so I stopped by and bought the 3 lbs they had on the rack. I've tried it before loading up 10 rds of 165 and 180 grn from a friend's stash so I decided to add to my stock. It worked well in my .40 carbine loads so now besides Power Pistol, Unique and TiteGroup, I also have WSF as well. |
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AR, USA
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Posted: 9/22/2024 6:34:52 AM EDT
[#45]
I can totally relate to your disorganized reloading bench. Maybe I will get to that one day. Best of luck to you.
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Posted: 9/22/2024 8:58:55 AM EDT
[#46]
Working on putting together a couple toolheads from the piles of random things I've been accumulating over the last year or two.
Semi-universal dies with no markings are fun when you have them all mixed together! I won't be doing that again. Getting the dies cleaned up, in the toolheads, and the toolhead labeled so there's no confusion next time I need to load some 300 SAUM or whatever. |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 9/22/2024 1:41:43 PM EDT
[Last Edit: COSteve]
[#47]
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday, it was mid 80's and sunny but the clouds came in the afternoon and it rained most of the night in our valley while it snowed at the higher peaks. Some high peaks got as much as 8" of snow. Not bad for the first day of fall.
Today it's 48 and cloudy (summer to winter in 1 day) so instead of going to the range to shoot, I decided to load up some 30-30 plinking rounds with the brass I collected the other day. Here in Colorado we don't use a 30-30 for hunting as the ranges typically are longer than the round is effective at. I have a 30-30 'just because' so I shoot mostly about 2,000 fps plinking loads using 33.5 grns of W-760 I have a keg of I got at a steal about 12 years ago for my son's Win model 70 30-06. So, this morning I took out the 48 pieces I set aside, checked them and determined that they were in fact once fired. Then I took some of my X-Treme plated 150 grn plinkers, some W-760 powder and a few of my stock of Win LR primers and added to my plinker stock. If I can't shoot, then making more ammo is the next best thing. |
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Posted: 9/24/2024 3:40:26 PM EDT
[#48]
Sized and decapped all of the .38 and .357 brass we made over the weekend. Loaded the 17 .380's I picked up.
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Posted: 9/25/2024 11:05:18 AM EDT
[#49]
Took apart some reloads using my Hornady collet bullet puller die. Thing works like a charm when you pull the press handle to the right direction... Managed to destroy one, kind of rare (at least for me) case by trusting muscle memory
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USA
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Posted: 9/25/2024 10:34:02 PM EDT
[#50]
Swagged the remaining 223 pickups I had. Ready to load a big batch when I get some time.
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