What have you done in the reloading room today

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Hot off the press!!!
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I think these safe queens may enjoy a trip to the range soon!!! View attachment 1196035

From safe Queen to Bad Boys in less than 30 rounds.

 

[AJC1]

View attachment 1195952Put my “EZ” tabs for my go to cartridge on the new manual and put it on the shelf(after drying it in front of the fan. My daughter had a spill literally 30 seconds after I pulled it out of the plastic. Water wrinkles are in the 357 mag pages if you’re wondering) View attachment 1195951also tumbled what should be tonight’s project. I’ve personal never had trouble with 45 auto and 357 mag in the same batch in the wet tumbler with pins; Dry/walnut? Oh ya! These will be true blue and 230 gr Berrys. And 158 gr xtp second and… probably cfe pistol. Maybe H110… depending on how exuberant I’m wanting Dads model 13 (I think I’m remembering right) to be. I personally don’t like pushing the old girl to hard.

An 8.8 grain starting load of true blue was very accurate and plenty warm if you want to save the mag primers.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I replaced the beautiful original Magna grips on the 686 no- with a set of Roger’s Combat grips I bought off GoneBroker for WAY more than I should have paid. But I really like them and the Magna’s are just so nice!

 

[JmacD]

An 8.8 grain starting load of true blue was very accurate and plenty warm if you want to save the mag primers.

My new Lyman 51 (hardcover; I think it’s worth the extra $5-7) has a 4.5 start in 38 special for true blue: max of9.1 in 357 mag. I’m wondering about a 6-7 gr load(in a Mag case obviously)

 

[AJC1]

My new Lyman 51 (hardcover; I think it’s worth the extra $5-7) has a 4.5 start in 38 special for true blue: max of9.1 in 357 mag. I’m wondering about a 6-7 gr load(in a Mag case obviously)

I was using western load data. I think it goes up to 9.8 but I never felt the need. It was accurate and I recall about 1200fps.

 

[NR53]

Loaded up another 50 rounds of 6.8spc:

Federal brass
Speer Hot-Cor 130 grain SPFB
AA2200 powder
CCI 450 primers

Then I loaded up 50 more 6.8spc with 115 gr gold dots:

Federal brass
Speer 115 grain gold dots
AA2200 powder
CCI 450 primers

 

[JmacD]

I like that, I'm gonna copy you!

They’re a life saver at times.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Sized and trimmed to length 20, yes, just twenty 460 S & W brass from *-* for 20 bullets I got from a friend of a friend.
Hope to finish them tomorrow, but something else may come up with the unseasonably warm weather.

 

[Show Me]

View attachment 1196072They’re a life saver at times.

Copy cat. It's fun to share with like minded people

 

[Show Me]

Made carefully blown out, carefully measured and sized and measured again brass for a mini thirty. Just like I do with my Garands. Walked my new knee out to the barn and shot four 3 shot under 2 inch groups at 50yds. Scope of course. Finished the day happy. Waiting for insomnia to let off with you all. No bullseye, just shoot a hole and try to match it

 

[COLTSFANATIC1]

Loaded up 100 rounds of 45 ACP with 200 gn HP X-Treme projectiles, CCI LPP, and 7.3 gn’s of CFE Pistol.
Sorted a bunch of 308 & 30-06 brass, and threw about 200 pieces of 45 ACP brass in the tumbler for the next loading session.

 

[AJC1]

Loaded up 100 rounds of 45 ACP with 200 gn HP X-Treme projectiles, CCI LPP, and 7.3 gn’s of CFE Pistol.
Sorted a bunch of 308 & 30-06 brass, and threw about 200 pieces of 45 ACP brass in the tumbler for the next loading session. View attachment 1196156View attachment 1196157

Do you know what size Allen wrench fits those . They look awesome but sometimes the adhd gets the better of me.

 

[JmacD]

Do you know what size Allen wrench fits those . They look awesome but sometimes the adhd gets the better of me.

Haha. The reloaders tool box… need a Lehigh defense “Philips” to match.

 

[lightman]

Took a break from tumbling and did a little housekeeping and maintenance this morning. Pumped a shot of grease into the bearings (pillar blocks) on my tumbler and wiped a coating of oil on my press ram and linkage. Put the media in the drum and ran it for 2 hours with just the media and a little Dawn.

 

[thump_rrr]

Installed the new proximity sensor on my automated Master Caster.
I did some fine tuning and cast 1.000 230gr RN .452".
I will make some lunch while everything cools down and if all goes well I'll run 2,000 115gr RN 9mm

 

[Bartojc]

Loaded some 45 Colt this morning. First time in about a year.

Jeff

 

[badkarmamib]

Looked at ordering Ordered a magnifying lamp for the bench, so that I can see headstamps. I swear, getting old really sucks...

 

[bigpower491]

Well finally poured some powder into the Dram Worx glass hopper today. A little True Blue, which I have been doing alot of messing around with lately. 44 special, took it up to the maximum of 6.7 today for the GP100. The last batch at 6.5gr shot well, I'll go the extra .2 and lay off the coffee tomorrow.
Like this new hopper.....think I'm gonna get another for my other measure.

 

[Ray P]

Putting a few things away in the reloading room, including some 85 grain .308 caliber semi jacketed bullets for my 1905 Mannlicher. They're now properly filed away to wait until Buffalo Arms gets off TDC and turns down some 32-20 cases for my Mannlicher brass. It's been on backorder since July. Sadly, the only other source of 7.63 Mann brass, Huntington's, went belly up about the same time as I placed the Buff order.

 

[drband]

Spent some time polishing the thumb safety interference points on my. BHP. it’s as good as I can make it now— serviceable and locks positively in safe and off positions. I wish it was a little easier to move, but I think that would require a new safety. This one seems slightly undersized (the pin that goes through the hammer— so it tightens up when the hammer is at full cock). It’s fine while fitting it.

Makes me wonder if a new safety would cure it, or if it would require a new hammer as well. Hmmm…

I think I’ll just load some more 9mm and go shoot it this week!

 

[JmacD]

I put a new set of 9mm dies on the shelf…

 

[AJC1]

I scrubbed the 308 and the boy scrubbed the 7.7 from today's range trip. Almost no brass collected someone cleaned house before I got there . Pondering if I should wet tumble the 7.7 brass or just stuff them again. Pretty brass and war horses don't look right together....

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Got upset.

Loading those 20 free 200 grain Barnes bullets.
Things were going fine until...


Had to walk away twice.

Don't comment here

I'm not sure what is going on but I will start a thread if I don't figure it out by tomorrow.

 

[Buzznrose]

I changed over my 550C from .223 to 9MM and loaded 350'ish rounds...RMR 124 matchwiners over 3.9 N320.

Got another 650 to knock out this week...I load for 15 minutes to an hour at a shot...depending on what the day is like. when the bin is full I run them all through a case gauge and drop them in a plastic container for storage.

Funny note...I thought I was out of the 124 RMR's so I ordered a thousand...when I went to put them away, I saw I already had almost 1500! Guess that's a good thing! LOL!

 

[lightman]

Back to tumbling! Did one load yesterday and just put the 2nd one in for today.