What have you done in the reloading room today

[JmacD]

Dagnabbit! Broke the decapping pin on my Lyman .38 sizing/decapping die. Dropped it and son of a gun if it didn’t land perfectly to break the pin and bend the stem.

I know a guy with a weird scar on his foot, coming from the combination of sandals & dropping the decap die… I personally would rather it break…

I sorted some brass. And put the tub of Winchester brass back on the shelf and got the federal one down…

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I know a guy with a weird scar on his foot, coming from the combination of sandals & dropping the decap die… I personally would rather it break…

I sorted some brass. And put the tub of Winchester brass back on the shelf and got the federal one down…

The heck of it is I typically pull the decapping pins from all of my dies and decap using a Lee universal. I put the pins back in because I got in a hurry and was feeling just a little lazy.

Never break your routine! Especially not to get in a rush.

 

[drband]

Never break your routine! Especially not to get in a rush.

Truer words have never been spoken!

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Had a casting session the other day and today after work, I'm getting them ready to load.
A little pan lubing this evening.

 

[Captain*kirk]

Dagnabbit! Broke the decapping pin on my Lyman .38 sizing/decapping die. Dropped it and son of a gun if it didn’t land perfectly to break the pin and bend the stem.

I feel your pain!

 

[Captain*kirk]

Moved things around on my bench. Just because. And realized all my .44RM brass has been turned into ammo. I need more cases, I reckon. Or maybe go shoot what I already loaded? Just sayin'.

 

[Captain*kirk]

Had a casting session the other day and today after work, I'm getting them ready to load.
A little pan lubing this evening.

One of your U-boats has submerged at 7 o'clock.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

One of your U-boats has submerged at 7 o'clock.

Yeah, I had to get the needle nose pliers out and fish him out of there. lol

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

Had a casting session the other day and today after work, I'm getting them ready to load.
A little pan lubing this evening.

And here we have a rare picture of spawning semi wad-cutters surfacing to breathe...

 

[Dane R. Marley]

I de-primed 660 fired 10mm cases this morning and I also counted the 601 New 10mm cases using reloading blocks. I bought these 10mm cases from a seller in Pa.

I will start cleaning the cases tonight and then resize the new and cleaned once fired cases over the next few days on my MEC Marksman.

I did checkout the firing pin strikes on the once fired primers, and they did indicate that there were several different pistols that fired this 10mm brass. I hope none of them were a Glock or Colt.

I am waiting for Lee to polish the carbide ring in my crimp die that I returned to them. When get it back I plan to reload some of these cases.

 

[drband]

Switched out brass in the tumbler.

 

[Captain*kirk]

Threw a batch of 7mm nickel brass in the wet tumbler earlier, now in the dryer (I love that new dryer!) Since I got 100 free bullets when I bought my turret press, gonna work up a ladder load using these Speer 145gr Grand Slam bullets over Re19 powder and see how they perform at the range.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

I managed to 150 of the 200 45 ACP loaded.
I'll finish the rest in the morning.




One can see in the above picture that the upper block has 1/4 - 20 nuts in it.
Had to do this to facilitate my loading process.
Cases with powder were too low to grasp safely so I staged them in there to place the 230 grain FMJ RN bullets on before seating.

Another reason (excuse) to make another loading block for those short, fat little guys.

 

[NR53]

Annealed more brass:


Top-- 6.8spc
Middle-- 7.62x39
Bottom-- 6ARC

 

[Soonerpesek]

short, fat little guys.

HEY...........................................I'm right here.............

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

HEY...........................................I'm right here.............

Sorry about that!

 

[King Medallion]

Started sizing and lubing big bore bullets!

 

[Captain*kirk]

Started sizing and lubing big bore bullets!

.458?

 

[lightman]

Not in the loading room but in the garage. I cleaned off my steel work bench so that I can do some casting before Summer gets here. I have a buddy, or sometimes two, that come over and we cast together. I may be looking at adding a couple of dedicated electrical outlets in the garage!

 

[King Medallion]

.458?

.459, for 45-70, 45-60, and 45-75. Mold is Accurate 46-350DL

 

[Captain*kirk]

.459, for 45-70, 45-60, and 45-75. Mold is Accurate 46-350DL

Nice!

 

[Lennyjoe]

Processing 2K of .223 brass. Deprime, primer pocket uniform, tumble, run thru sizing die, check/adjust case length, chamfer, prime. All before it gets powder and bullets.

 

[Captain*kirk]

Processing 2K of .223 brass. Deprime, primer pocket uniform, tumble, run thru sizing die, check/adjust case length, chamfer, prime. All before it gets powder and bullets.

That's a helluva task!

 

[CQB45ACP]

That's a helluva task!

Boy that's for sure!

 

[CQB45ACP]

Processing 2K of .223 brass. Deprime, primer pocket uniform, tumble, run thru sizing die, check/adjust case length, chamfer, prime. All before it gets powder and bullets.

Whadya going to do after dinner?