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I bought 190 22 cal hunting and match bullets. Sized and decapped 200 38 special brass.
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[#2]
Originally Posted By durtychemist: Wet tumbled some 223 brass. I might have overloaded it, not run it long enough or be expecting more. It isn’t as shiny as expected. Two 45 ACP cases of Lemishine, a healthy squeeze of Dawn and they’re not spectacular bright. Tumbler weighed 7.2 kg before I removed some brass because the first tumbling didn’t seem to allow much tumbling. View Quote You put way too much Lemishine in there. I use 1/4th of a tsp. More will. Make it dull, which is what you're probably seeing. |
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[#3]
Began sorting and cleaning of the brass haul from all the shooting last weekend!
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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[#4]
Pulled last load of 45 ACP out of wet tumbler.
Three loads out, and three more in the dry tumblers. Got my 52 7-30 Waters cases trimmed, deburred and primed that I formed the other day. |
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Originally Posted By slowr1der: You put way too much Lemishine in there. I use 1/4th of a tsp. More will. Make it dull, which is what you're probably seeing. View Quote Yeah that's what I figured. I did a second batch with less Lemishime, and I assumed part of it was also less total brass so the stuff could tumble more. |
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[#6]
Disassembled, cleaned and lubed the SDB. Not much dirt, but showed signs it was used for 9mm before I got hold of it.
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[#7]
Started resizing .223 brass and a BLH (Black Hills) crimped primer 5.56 snuck in there even though I checked all the brass before hand..
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[#8]
Buddy heard I bought a Swedish Mauser and gave me a NOS bag of brass he had from when he had one. Took a little bit of the sting off of getting into a new caliber.
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[#9]
Loaded another 200rds of SPP .45acp. I was five bullets short (home cast) luckily I had a handful of pulled FMJ stored away and was able to finish without five errant primers
After that I trimmed and removed crimps from about 80 aught-six cases and threw them in the tumbler. |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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[#10]
Loaded 50 7-30 Waters rounds with 139 gr spire points and H-335.
Loaded another 50 30-30 to 7-30 Waters case forming load with the 139 gr spire points. Emptied/refilled 3 dry tumblers. |
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[#11]
Case prep for 800+ cases until my trim mate stopped working.
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[#12]
Decided to get some of those “factory seconds” hard primers AR was selling. If nothing else, I have an open bolt UZI that flat out crushes the primer, so no chance of it not setting it off, plus it goes thru the ammo….
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a loaded gun won’t set you free, so you say…
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[#14]
I got a couple hundred cases of .357 mag in the toaster oven, drying after a ss pin wash.
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[#15]
I loaded 150 rounds of 6 Creedmoor. Those along with what I already had will be enough for tomorrow’s PRS match as well as next months.
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Proud member of Team Ranstad
Member of the National Rifle Association, the Texas State Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America |
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Worked on brass prep of 300 .30-06; have to trim and cut the crimps on about half still.
Switched the square deal back to 9mm from .45 |
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[#17]
Switched the aught-six in the tumbler.
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I am not an AFT agent.
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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[#18]
Dry tumbling 115 gr nukes in 3 tumblers. 2k down started the last 1k today.
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Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
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Measuring a bunch of cases for length. Separating into piles of ‘trim’ and ‘don’t feel like trimming.
Setup the Dillon 223 die using a Lyman case gauge and a feeler gauge. Should bump the shoulder back 0.003 +\- Dillon tolerances. While doing al this I was wondering how frequently I’d need to chamfer and debur rounds. Solution was ‘when you trim them’ since firing the case shouldn’t remove the bevel, right? |
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[#20]
Switched tumbler loads.
Started sizing home cast and coated 9mm bullets. Loaded 100 with American Reloading factory second SPPs. Going to start a thread on those primers shortly. |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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[#21]
More dry tumbling, 3 tumblers emptied/refilled.
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Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
[#22]
De-primed, re-sized and tumbled about 200 rounds of 5.56. I've got a fat stash of ready brass, just need to get more powder and primers.
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FJB.
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[#24]
Dropping powder now for another run of 5.56 tracers. I load these in
batches of 100 when I get enough "left over" cases from loading batches of 100 to 500 rounds of "normal" 5.56 rounds. Using pulled tracer bullets that have about an 80% light rate. |
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...behind every blade of grass...
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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[#25]
Shooter709 came over for our weakly reloading get together.
Started trimming his first tote of 223, (sorted RP) about 4-5 K. Used the Giraud, first he trimmed one as he pulled away from trimmer, I trimmed one. He was ready with his next case as my hand cleared the trimmer. And so on. We wore gloves, and it took us 2 hours. |
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Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
[#26]
Made some rounds. Might test them for velocity and OAL function later this week before making more. New recipe I haven’t tried. Should be fun.
Broke a pin on my Dillon messing with it too much. I flipped the seating die. I might have had it on the wrong side. It seems to work just fine. |
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[#27]
Finished trimming a batch of .30-06 and put it in the tumbler.
Sized some cast and coated 9mm boolits. |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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[#28]
Smelted all my scrap lead today, took some pics, posted a thread.
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Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
[#29]
Picked up 300 pics. of .357 Starline, 300 Fiocchi 20ga primed hulls, and 20 more pounds of #6 nickle plated shot.
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[#30]
Loaded 100rds of 3/4oz 20ga for trap tomorrow
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[#31]
Sized more cast and coated 9mm. I use a cheap Lee 'C' press upside down.
Attached File Started brass prep in 7.62x54R. |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
[#33]
Nothing “light” about the rain here today! Scheduled a load testing range day for Tuesday when it is supposed to let up though.
Inspected my AR SPP seconds today- look good so far. Picked up a brick of CCI LPP at a show, along with a bunch of partial powder cans at $1 each, and a couple full powder cans at reasonable price. Picked up some reasonably priced .22 LR as well, since I can’t reload those quite yet! |
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a loaded gun won’t set you free, so you say…
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[#34]
Loaded a ladder of WC872 surplus powder in 7.62x54R under a Lee 312185 coated and gas checked.
Loaded it at 50, 52, and 54 grains. 54 was a full case with maybe minor compression. Attached File |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
[#36]
Sized more 9mm bullets.
Local store had Win244 for $30.33 after tax. I brought a few pounds home with me. |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
[#38]
Loaded up 50rds of .45acp over 5.7gr 231 under ac200gr swc and 20 rounds of .308 with some pull down powder from cdvs. Wish me luck with those.
Besides my .308 and 7mm mauser brass I've got primed I'm pretty much caught up to my shooting. |
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"If you cant do something smart, do something right"
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[#39]
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[#40]
FW Arms Auto-Centering Decapping die (Mark 7 Label), I bought on Ebay, came today. Glad I checked, I almost bought one for full price. I also setup the 750 for my 55 gr load and got the PM adjusted and ready. Then I remembered it's going to be close to 100 this weekend, so I won't be loading in the garage for a while.
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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[#41]
Ran 2 loads through the casting furnace, then Shooter709 came over and we trimmed more 5.56 on the Giraud.
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Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
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[#42]
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"Penetration , however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense" -UCMJ ART. 125
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[#43]
This gets a bit long, but:
I had a reloading bench over at my old place for years. Around 2014 I let that end of things sit for a while...first due to a divorce, then some other life changes. A couple years ago my new lady and I bought a place which features a dedicated safe/reloading room. Took until a couple weeks ago to get the bench top over here but I had everything else staged and ready to go. So...this past week saw me set everything up. New shelves and pegboard on one of the walls for all my reloading tools. Presses are a Pro2000 auto-index and a T-7. Since the former was discontinued a while ago I've been chasing spares down. Need to finish wiring up the bench's electrical distribution and I'll be ready to play the one-armed bandits again. |
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Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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[#44]
More casting today, going to run some different molds tomorrow.
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Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
[#46]
Loaded some more 62gr SP pulls over 24.4gr H335.
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[#47]
Bought another RCBS accessory plate for the left side of my bench. I may move the T7 to a more centralized spot (using holes where I had a bench vise mounted, if possible) and set the new plate up so I can put a Trim Pro 2 or another press on it as needed.
Also got a new belt ordered for my Thumler T-100. It was bought decades ago by my late mother for me as a Christmas gift - years before I got into reloading. Never tumbled the packet of rocks which came with it. The rocks and media were handed to a friend who actually was into lapidiary stuff and I put it to work on small runs of pistol brass. Started looking for the model number for it online and saw the prices of new ones. Ho Lee Fook. And I have the big 15lb rotary for which I -think- I paid $120 new... |
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[#48]
Sorted a thousand 9mm brass by headstamp before breakfast and another thousand after. Looks like I barely made a dent in the unsorted cans.
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"Call a magazine a clip again. I dare you, I double dare you mother******, call a magazine a clip one more ******* time!"
-- Jules Winnfield |
Global Warming Hoax Skeptic before it was cool
WA, USA
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Selling agent for Algores carbon credit scam.
Shooting and Reloading, one hobby feeds the other. |
[#50]
Took delivery of 1,500 SNS cast/coated bullets in .357, .40 and .45.
I don't think the mail carrier is very happy with me. |
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