What have you done in the reloading room today

[DMW1116]

Did a little QC test shooting. Found out I should have done more QC during loading. I have one round that will not chamber in my Blackhawk. Now I have to go check for more. This has only happened with my first batch of 357 Mag Berrys DEWC. I’m not sure what the issue is. I have a box if 100 to plunk and see what I can learn.

I pulled three rounds out of a batch of 357 Mag using the last of my 125 grain XTPs. They all fired as expected and grouped as well as one can ask for when shooting one handed without support. Now I have a handful to sight in this load and three complete cylinders to shoot.

 

[irishlad]

My Protektor Front Rest showed up(with a sticker). Punched some holes in it and installed it.

 

[Captain*kirk]

If you do all that for pistol cases, I can't imagine how you prep rifle cases.....

Why would I not? I'm not in a hurry. Might as well make the best ammo I can while I'm at it. Besides, some tasks like pp uniform and flash hole chamfer are one time deals.

 

[3sport]

I just got this travel pistol cleaning kit. I wanted something small and compact that I could throw in my range bag for cleaning at the range. I know there are a lot of these out there, but Amazon had this one on Flash Sale for an incredible price. The everyday price is not bad either at $15.00. Plenty of patches. Two bottles for fluids of your choice, and a good assortment of brushes. Does most caliber pistols.

 

[irishlad]

I just got this travel pistol cleaning kit. I wanted something small and compact that I could throw in my range bag for cleaning at the range. I know there are a lot of these out there, but Amazon had this one on Flash Sale for an incredible price. The everyday price is not bad either at $15.00. Plenty of patches. Two bottles for fluids of your choice, and a good assortment of brushes. Does most caliber pistols.

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Nice! I think I’ll get one for my range bag.

 

[DMW1116]

Took some measurements of the offending case and some others that fit and don’t know any more than I did before. I guess I’ll just pull and resize and see what happens.

 

[Blue68f100]

Not a thing today. Spent most of time cleaning up after the storms came through last night. Had several limbs that got broken out of the top of some oak trees that I had to get the chainsaw out, so I could pick them up. My brush pile is turning into a barn fire pretty quick. My 200/300 yrd rifle range has water standing on it, about 30 yrds long, it's in a flood zone. Got over 1.5" of rain yesterday, alone with a lot of lightning and high winds. The tornadoes went around of me, north and south. Lost power for ~3hr, so I had a few candles burning while I researched some info another project with my MBP.

 

[Boom Vang]

9mm is the new old newest hotness. I have actually spoken to young people at the indoor range who think the 9mm Parabellum is a new-new cartridge.

I still have a small bucket of mixed 9mm waiting for processing. I guess I’ll toss it in the tumbler before we go to the farmers market.

Does it even pay to reload 9mm anymore? To my mind, it is the 12 gauge target load of handguns.

I'd rather use those high-priced SPP on Super 38, .32 S&W Long, .32 H&R Mag, .32 Smokeless Rimless and .38 Special... factory ammo that is overpriced.

 

[Boom Vang]

I just got this travel pistol cleaning kit. I wanted something small and compact that I could throw in my range bag for cleaning at the range. I know there are a lot of these out there, but Amazon had this one on Flash Sale for an incredible price. The everyday price is not bad either at $15.00. Plenty of patches. Two bottles for fluids of your choice, and a good assortment of brushes. Does most caliber pistols.

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That's a nice looking compact kit! Add Q-tips and you're GTG.

I'm conflicted about pull-thrus however. They are way more compact, but you're not clearing a squib with that.

 

[IALoder]

Deprimed the brass from my range trip today. Also cleaned my new P365X after it's initial shots. Pretty easy shooting for a cc pistol!

In the .300 blackout 8.2gr Lil Gun cycled, but no BHO at 975fps, 8.4(1002fps), 8.6(1025fps), and 8.8(1051fps) all shot as well as I can with a red dot, cycled, had BHO, and had 12-15fps SD. 9.0 averaged 1075fps, but had a crazy ES of over 100fps. I think 8.6 is a good spot to try again and see if it repeats!

77smks and AR Comp all shot right at 1moa except for the last group at max was .7moa, 2700fps , SD7. No pressure signs, so I may try some higher charges. I'm starting to think this Norma brass has more case capacity than the LC I used last time I worked with 77smks. Staball Match didn't do well in the accuracy department, no further loads with it and 77smks. So far N140, 8208XBR, and AR Comp are powders to continue development with, I have left to try N135, PP Varmint, and TAC.

 

[Soonerpesek]

Nice! I think I’ll get one for my range bag.

That’s a good idea…….

 

[AJC1]

Took some measurements of the offending case and some others that fit and don’t know any more than I did before. I guess I’ll just pull and resize and see what happens.

Put the case in calipers long ways to look for bulges...

 

[DMW1116]

Those were the same measurements as a cartridge that fit. I’ll explore more tomorrow.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Does it even pay to reload 9mm anymore? To my mind, it is the 12 gauge target load of handguns.

I'd rather use those high-priced SPP on Super 38, .32 S&W Long, .32 H&R Mag, .32 Smokeless Rimless and .38 Special... factory ammo that is overpriced.

I guess it depends on what you load and what you mean by, “worth it.” I don’t reload to save money, I do it because I enjoy it. At least as much as shooting. I also don’t do mag dumps so I’m not worried about stockpiling. Nor do I exclusively load the cheapest, lowest cost for components for competing. I don’t care about power factors or profiling John Ick. My 9mm loads are the equivalent of premium top-shelf ammo.

“Worth it”? Yup. To me. Your mileage may vary.

 

[3sport]

I don’t reload to save money, I do it because I enjoy it. At least as much as shooting.

That sums it up for me as well. I never reloaded to save money. I originally got into reloading because I was curious about the mechanics of putting together cartridges at home by my own hand. The whole idea of reloading fascinated me. Then, over time, I realized I enjoyed reloading at least as much as shooting.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

That sums it up for me as well. I never reloaded to save money. I originally got into reloading because I was curious about the mechanics of putting together cartridges at home by my own hand. The whole idea of reloading fascinated me. Then, over time, I realized I enjoyed reloading at least as much as shooting.

Yuppers.
I didn’t manage to get the brass into the tumbler but I did manage to make four batches of lentils for cold salads, two batches of quinoa, and a pint of hummus.

I think I will go now and correct that situation. Tumblin time!

ETA: tumbler filled with miscellaneous gift brass from years past. I didn’t count but it’s about three pounds so… around 500?

These will get decapped tomorrow and rough sorted by condition, thickness, and brand. Then they will get the primer cups normalized and resorted before getting tumbled in treated walnut.

 

[shoebox1.1]

Put my new antique pacific press to use today and sized and deprimed 50 44 spc cases. I don’t have a primer catcher nor know what it looks like even if they had one! So a couple pieces of making tape and I caught them all. Worked pretty darn good too! Cleaned the primer pockets and went to prime them but my pre owned rcbs univ primer tool doesn’t have the large primer parts in the box so I’ve got to call Rcbs and hopefully they can supply me with what I need

 

[Boom Vang]

I guess it depends on what you load and what you mean by, “worth it.” I don’t reload to save money, I do it because I enjoy it. At least as much as shooting. I also don’t do mag dumps so I’m not worried about stockpiling. Nor do I exclusively load the cheapest, lowest cost for components for competing. I don’t care about power factors or profiling John Ick. My 9mm loads are the equivalent of premium top-shelf ammo.

“Worth it”? Yup. To me. Your mileage may vary.

Indeed, it does vary. If you only load 9mm, well then that is time well spent.

I also enjoy reloading.... all 43 calibres I load for. And my ammo is also the "equivalent of premium factory ammo". But I enjoy shooting more, and there's only so much time in the days, weeks and months. More time reloading = less time shooting.

It has nothing to do with "mag dumps", or whatever else you think people who reload do with their ammo - and really, that is their own business how they enjoy the shooting hobby.

When factory ball ammo in 9mm is about as cheap as it gets for shooting, and the quality and performance of 9mm factory ammo is better than it's ever been... there's just no incentive to load it. I'd rather spend the bench time on calibres that are either unobtanium (7mm Mauser, .257 Roberts, .375 Weatherby, .44 Russian, .480 Ruger, etc) or outrageously priced (that's mostly everything). And from I observe, there's a lot of agreement with that idea.

I shoot quite a bit of shotgun, and I don't know hardly anyone that reloads 12 gauge target shells anymore. The price vs performance is not worth the effort. But, there's always a few with plenty of time, and nothing else to do.

 

[3sport]

Yuppers.
I didn’t manage to get the brass into the tumbler but I did manage to make four batches of lentils for cold salads, two batches of quinoa, and a pint of hummus.

I think I will go now and correct that situation. Tumblin time!

You eat like I do. Lentils, Quinoa and Hummus. Very healthy and high in protein. Very low fat, even with the hummus. Nicely done, sir.

 

[3sport]

Put my new antique pacific press to use today and sized and deprimed 50 44 spc cases. I don’t have a primer catcher nor know what it looks like even if they had one! So a couple pieces of making tape and I caught them all. Worked pretty darn good too! Cleaned the primer pockets and went to prime them but my pre owned rcbs univ primer tool doesn’t have the large primer parts in the box so I’ve got to call Rcbs and hopefully they can supply me with what I need View attachment 1206879View attachment 1206881

Very nice press. It almost looks like a Rock Chucker primer catcher would fit that classic Pacific, with a monified longer retainer strap to fit around the back. I know RCBS still sells them because I just got one. I have my original, but lost the retainer clip, and you can't buy just the retainer clip, so I just got the whole assembly. It was inexpensive, so what the heck.

 

[LV Gun]

I am putting away 4.5 pounds powder I bought today at our swap meet for $70.00 , I think people were afraid of it I got a pound of IMR 4227 , 1.5 pounds of IMR 4756 , 2 pounds of IMR 4759. The guy that had it let me open all of them all were still factory sealed and smelled normal he is someone I know who is quite a stickler on all things reloading I used to use a lot of 4756 and 4759 and I can’t wait to shoot these powders again I wish Hodgdon would bring these two back into production again.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Indeed, it does vary. If you only load 9mm, well then that is time well spent.

I also enjoy reloading.... all 43 calibres I load for. And my ammo is also the "equivalent of premium factory ammo". But I enjoy shooting more, and there's only so much time in the days, weeks and months. More time reloading = less time shooting.

It has nothing to do with "mag dumps", or whatever else you think people who reload do with their ammo - and really, that is their own business how they enjoy the shooting hobby.

When factory ball ammo in 9mm is about as cheap as it gets for shooting, and the quality and performance of 9mm factory ammo is better than it's ever been... there's just no incentive to load it. I'd rather spend the bench time on calibres that are either unobtanium (7mm Mauser, .257 Roberts, .375 Weatherby, .44 Russian, .480 Ruger, etc) or outrageously priced (that's mostly everything). And from I observe, there's a lot of agreement with that idea.

I shoot quite a bit of shotgun, and I don't know hardly anyone that reloads 12 gauge target shells anymore. The price vs performance is not worth the effort. But, there's always a few with plenty of time, and nothing else to do.

Okie dokie. You do you and have fun doing it. My mind is just the same as it’s ever been.

 

[barnfrog]

Decapped and tumbled 100+ pieces of .41 magnum brass.

 

[Captain*kirk]

I can't make the range every weekend. Reloading allows me to tap my inner shooter as little or as often as I like, weather be damned, and to get the results I want whether it be range fodder or critical hunting rounds. Keeps me connected, the same way this forum does.

 

[Jim Watson]

Comedy of errors.
I had loaded some 9mm SWCs in an attempt to differentiate shots on target. Not effective but hey, it’s ammo. But where did I put it? I was ready to surrender to the old folks home.
But afterconsiderable searching, I finally found them behind boxes of JHP defense practice and sub-minor GSSF ammo.
I’ll shoot them in the one gun they plunk in, my #2 IDPA ESP.