What have you done in the reloading room today

[dartor]

Noticed I was getting low on Lee 358-158RF so I poured about 600. USPS delivered five bags of bullets. New to 25ACP, started setting up my dies and made a few dummy rounds. They're still long and haven't been crimped yet. Gotta see how they fit the barrel of my Beretta.

 

[.45Coltguy]

Got a jump on 1500 45acp loads for my 1911. This is 500 done today.

And looks to be spp's to boot! They work just fine.

 

[.45Coltguy]

Those are 405's from T&B Bullets.

Glad to see T & B bullets getting some love here. They are very good cast/ coated bullets.

 

[CQB45ACP]

Never heard of 7.62x54R?
It's the Russian (pre-Soviet Union) military cartridge developed before 1900, around the same time as 7x57 Mauser, used for WWI and in WWII (Soviet Union) in their bolt gun, the Mosin Nagant, and is still used in Dragunovs and some machine guns. I'd hazard a guess it was responsible for more Axis soldiers than any other cartridge, just because of the size of the Red Army and the morass of the Eastern Front.
The R means "rimmed".

That's pretty cool. You & @GeoDudeFlorida and others here are compelled to reload. It's not a choice.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

That's pretty cool. You & @GeoDudeFlorida and others here are compelled to reload. It's not a choice.

That was made clear to me when I asked about hunting the first time. Along with all of the duties and responsibilities of proper conservatorship. Hunting , whether on public or private land, isn’t like any other civic responsibility; I was taught to take it very seriously. We were made to be the caretakers of this world and to use from it responsibly. From dust we were made, etc.

 

[bigpower491]

Got up this morning and run another 100 lite 40 loads for a new shooter I've been working with. 4.3gr of Ramshot Zip behind a 165 Xtreme plated HP

 

[lightman]

Still in the same rut, tumbling and sorting brass. If I hang with it today like I plan I should finish tomorrow afternoon.

Well, not going to finish tumbling today! A buddy, the same one as last week, came over yesterday afternoon with a big tub of 32 ACP brass and we spent the afternoon depriming 32's and drinking beer. When he got ready to leave we spotted a puddle of water in the laundry room floor. Thats where I empty my drum and fill it at. Had a crimp-on fitting on the faucet spring a leak so I'm at a standstill until I can get to Lowes for a new faucet!

To keep the thread on track I did sort the brass that I tumbled yesterday morning and got it put away.

 

[AJC1]

Built 200 38-44s in Win brass cci 550s older than me and cardboard can blue dot. That can is now gone. 8.8 grains bd 180 rcbs sil at 1.555. Then I pulled my ram from the t-7 and cleaned the grease dirt and sand from the shaft and hole. Coated the ram in clp and let it dry. Now I'm killing time while the 223 wash from Saturdays range trip goes round and round getting clean... be putting it out to dry here in a sec....

 

[IALoder]

Ran a pilot run of .300 Blackout with N110/220 Berry's on the six pack pro. After fine tuning seating depth and crimp to remove the flare, everything ran great! Looking forward to shooting these!

 

[stormshrike]

Sorted the last of about 1200 pieces of 9mm range pickup while watching the early NFL game. Tried to talk myself out of sorting by headstamp, but it's habit at this point. At least I shouldn't have to do it again for awhile.

Most - if not all - was stuff I had picked up at local ranges over the past year or so. I didn't take exact counts, but F.C. was the most-common headstamp by far, with Blazer and G.F.L. the next most common, followed by CBC, WMA crimped, WIN, RP, PMC, and handfuls of random stuff. For whatever reason, much less WIN than in the past.

 

[DMW1116]

Nothing. Not a single thing. Flu has had me down for a week. Last time I had it was many years ago and it was way worse but it was no cakewalk this time. I felt just good enough to walk out to the reloading room and realize I didn’t need to be there.

 

[22250Rem]

Trying to finish prepping 300 PRC cases for my buddies rifle. While refinishing a new thumbhole stock for my CVA Scout, along with mounting a new Leupold VX Freedom 2-7x 33mm on the inline muzzle loader. This time of year is when I do all my "dead of winter" projects. Better now than trying to find time in the summer. It's not as bad as it sounds; today I got the brass sized and it's in the tumbler, so that gives me time for stock refinishing. Have some new scope rings due here tomorrow and I can work on the scope install and collimator set-up stuff in between checking 300 PRC case length, and trim if needed ( my power trimmer is already set up for those), and cleaning primer pockets and chamfering case mouths. Little by little it's all coming together.

 

[nastynatesfish]

And looks to be spp's to boot! They work just fine.

Yessir. I prefer them. Usually cheaper cause people don’t want them. And I generally use small rifle primers so I can just stock up on one. But I got 3k spp to run in these

 

[45/30-06OKIE]

Stopped by academy to see how their Hornady bullet selection was and got the only two boxes of 190gr SubX bullets and only box of 165gr Soft Point Boat Tail bullets they had.
Thankfully I don't have much issues with 300blk reloading or 30-06 now that I got a good die finally for it.

 

[74man]

I loaded 200 cases of 30 Carbine for my Ruger Blackhawk. I loaded with 14.7 grains of W-296 powder, 110 grain "Extreme" Round Nose bullet.. Wanted to do more but had to stop as I had other things to do but will continue tomorrow and will use 110 grain "Sierra Varmiteer" 110 gr HP bullets and "Sierra 110 gr. RN bullet'. Got about another 200 to load. The are already sized, belled and primed. Just need to load powder and bullet.

 

[JmacD]

What did I do in the reloading room? Spent 2 hours looking for my mag speed loader! only to finally discover it was in a wierd forgotten pocket on my range bag… so I’m putting stuff back on the shelves now… hmmmph!

 

[Soonerpesek]

What did I do in the reloading room? Spent 2 hours looking for my mag speed loader!

Get one in this color……
I couldn’t lose it if I tried…!!!…..

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Primed another 100 *-* brass in 10mm.

Also wet tumbled and dried a load of 9mm brass.

It was above freezing today so dizzy brass was outside.


round and round.....................about 18,000 times.

 

[AJC1]

Spent a few hours fighting my Lee casting pot. Was using a wire to try and get flow, it broke off and stuck the pot wide open... I grabbed my bulk reducing pot and dumped the contents of the Lee in it. Spent another hour cleaning the casting pot and getting the wire out of the spout. Three hours in I started making good bullets.... only a small pile of 358429 170 swcs but I haven't shot a bunch of them yet.... the 6.8 grain load of Silhouette in a 38 case is good fun, so I'll be shooting more of them soon. Pistol only.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

^^^ Frustration is hard to like.^^^

But glad you got some bullets cast!

 

[Pottimus]

Cast a small pile of bullets, got to try my PID control for real.

 

[CQB45ACP]

Primed another 100 *-* brass in 10mm.

Also wet tumbled and dried a load of 9mm brass.

It was above freezing today so dizzy brass was outside.

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round and round.....................about 18,000 times.

Someday in the distant future Josh Gates' grandkids are going to dig that up and scratch their heads and say "I think it was a...well I just don't know what it was."

 

[horsemen61]

Sized 100 44 mag cases

 

[Shovel]

Looked for 30-06 components on my storage shelves - all the 30-'06 brass I have I'd already resized to 7mm-'06. For some reason nobody around has 30-'06 brass and bullets - guess I'll hit Bass Pro and grab a box of commercial loads since I really want to shoot the 1903 NM Springfield today.

Did find another 200 7mm-08 cases that need to get cleaned up for silhouette loads.

Bringing a pile of .38 Spl reload ladders and 4 pistols to the range with the Oehler 35 to see what I want to load a few thousand of. Also dragging out a couple of 7.5x55 K31 Schmidt Rubens with Wolf ammo to play with. Need to generate some empty brass for these and I've been sitting on a case of the Wolf for a while.

 

[horsemen61]

I loaded the above 100 cases of 44 mag

10 grains of unique 240 SWC coated