What have you done in the reloading room today

Sized the remainder of my 38 Special brass to use with half my remaining Berrys DEWC projectiles. The other half are going in 357 Mag loads. I lubed the 357 and 38 cases but only sized the 38s. The 357s are tomorrow night. There are also some 357 cases in there for more MBC cast 158 grain SWC and 2400. I’m down to one box so need to replenish while I have some 2400. I don’t use it for anything else so it might last a while longer.
 
This took me a few days to complete. What I did learned from this project of de-capping, cleaning and sizing this 10mm brass is that I should have looked at the primer strikes before I de-capped the case to separated the Glock fired brass from the non-fired Glock brass before I de-capped all of the brass.

I have 3K of once fired 10mm brass that I purchased from several sellers over the past few months. After de-capping, cleaning and resizing the brass I put each case through a Wilson Case Gauge to find all of the 10mm cases with the Glock Bulge.

If I had looked at the primer strikes before I de-capped the cases I would have found all of the Glock fired cases, but I didn't, so, I had to put all of the brass through the case gauge to separate the brass.

I do have a de-bulger kit from Lee that I used on some Glock fired 45 acp cases several years ago. I did return my Lee Crimp die to Lee for polishing the Carbide Ring. The die is in the mail from Lee and is scheduled to be delivered to me this Saturday. When I get it back, I will be removing the bulge from all of the cases in the large plastic container.
 

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Laphroaig said:
How's that baby work? Let us know after you get a chance to put it through its paces. That looks like something I'd buy if it works.
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I'll post how it works. I liked it because of the "t" insert on the ram.

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Dry tumbled 82 Starline 45 Win Mag cases I cut down to 45acp. Had already loaded 20 of them before I recalled I needed to lube via tumbling. As we know, the new brass can be a little too squeaky clean when sizing and expanding.

Actually, have only trimmed down to final length 50 cases. Other 52 have just had first mini tubing cut down to about .955" before I then final trim with Lee deluxe quick trimmer.

Some of you are doing the math from above--Powder Valley sent me 102 Win Mag cases for the price of 100 ($29). I'll take all the extras they want to give.

PV has the best price around for some things. Except for Grafs, everybody else gives just 50 Starline cases for about that price. And Starline themselves only sells 500 or 1000.

Since I dragged out the tumbler, am now tumbling 100+ already clean cases to spiff them up a bit.
 
Ok so another update for my Pi Project for y'all. A friend sent me a link to a Reddit post about someone else who had a similar issue with low voltage warnings and had to edit the configuration text file to say to use the whole 5 amps avaliable to it and it does not throw Low Voltage warnings anymore! Still says its not getting the full 5 amps but that just limits the usb port power which im not that concerned with.
Anyway to get somewhat on topic, I was going through and editing my inventory a smidge and adding a note about IMR 7828 vs 7828 SSC.

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Soonerpesek said:
I might have missed it, but what did you decide on the finished length....?
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Going to start something with this, but here goes...

I've got two each at .900" & .899" and 16 at SAAMI .898"

I've plunked all the cases and completed cartridges and they should work.

All of the remaining non-loaded are at .900" in anticipation of it working. If they do, I'll load em. If they don't I'll trim them a little more.

KaaaBoom!
 
45/30-06OKIE said:
Ok so another update for my Pi Project for y'all. A friend sent me a link to a Reddit post about someone else who had a similar issue with low voltage warnings and had to edit the configuration text file to say to use the whole 5 amps avaliable to it and it does not throw Low Voltage warnings anymore! Still says its not getting the full 5 amps but that just limits the usb port power which im not that concerned with.
Anyway to get somewhat on topic, I was going through and editing my inventory a smidge and adding a note about IMR 7828 vs 7828 SSC.

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I'm brighter in person too!
 
My tall bench… served as a ledge I could use a leg and my one arm to fold laundry… then I decapped a few more 9mm… and used a “come and take it” pin and a big blanket to make a “princess dress” to put on my kiddo and sit her next to me. She took over running the handle. I just stuck em in the shell holder.
 
allisd17 said:
I got some 60g Hornady VMax and loaded up a ladder over Benchmark. Now I have a dozen different ladders of various calibers in the queue. Trouble is I want to shoot ALL of them on the first nice day; I guess I'll have to put numbers in a hat and draw 2-3...🤔

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Now you can easily see how I spend all day at the range. Setup, shoot a test, walk the pistol range for brass. Shoot another test, pick up trash on the pistol range. Shoot a test walk the rifle range for brass, and on and on. The rso's will let me shoot plastic water bottles for fun because I clean up. I don't mind doing the work for the extra privileges.
 
I loaded 55 rounds of 6.5 Creedmoor in 5 charges of Staball 6.5 for ladder testing some Hornady ELD- Match 147 grain bullets. 40,41,43,43.1, 43.3(max). I had decent results last time out with some of these charges, so this is mostly to verify good to go, or not.
 

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JmacD said:
I’ll be interested to see what happens. I’ve been curious and staring at the old 15lb keg of red dot…
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I have used Red Dot before in 45 auto it works great , the max is different in some manuals based on a Target load or a standard load . You will usually see lower charge data for Softer Swaged LSWC’s and heavier powder charges for cast LSWC’s otherwise Red Dot is a good and versatile powder. I am going to go back to it again because I can’t get Hodgdon 700X anymore Red Dot performs very similar to it. Dig out that keg I wish I had it.
 
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