Happy Handloading New Year!

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I am about to start the year off right.

I'll go downstairs and load up the last of the round nose coated fourty fives from Sns casting, using a new to me powder, Hp-thirty eight.

Then little bear will be awake. He and I are headed out to burn some rimfire up with our Savages.

It will be too cold for Papa bear to come out of hibernation to go shooting with Dadi and little bear, but I'll ask anyway. Sweety bear will want to make cookies with Gramma bear, so it will be just me and my mini-me.

I hope y'alls start to a fresh new year will be as nice as mine hopes to be. I wish for you to have prosperity and health. And most importantly, time to spend with the next generation of riflemen and women.

Happy New Year, HighRoad handloaders! And many, many more!
 
Have fun and Happy New Year.

I woke up to single digit temps, much too cold for some of us folks below the Mason Dixon line.

Once the horses are tended to and the thirty minutes required to dress and undress for the cold :), I'll settle into a bit of work in the reloading room.

Warmer weather to return by the weekend.
 
Happy new year to you, yours and all who read this.

I’m a bit jealous and we’re in single digits here too. I recently moved and was going to go to Lowe’s today to get the material to build a bench, but with the extreme cold, I’m going to stay in.

So enjoy for all of us who aren’t willing to go out in the cold.
 
May you find that perfect load first try every time this year! Colder than it's been in a long time around here for sure so I will do a bit of catching up on my reloading. Should try a bit of cold weather testing of some of my ammo but I will not be using any in -12* weather so I think that I will skip that big idea.:p
 
Temps here in the dairyland are in the double-digits below zero today (-12 according to the local news). I'm going to wait for another hour or two until the temp gets up closer to zero, then off to the range to break in the new year. I don't think there will be any bench work today. Just blasting, smelling the burnt powder and then back into the warmth.
 
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Here in sunny southern Illinois it’s -1F/wind chill -17F ... Happy New Year!
I haven’t been able to elect a stay-in morning for the last 10 years, but these girls give me back everything I need.

I wish you all a very happy new year, and good health to make the best of it.

As for reloading, I’m going to take up, once again, the project of making my box of 9mm 115g HP X-Treme bullets group better than my 20 gauge ;)
 
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Temps here in the dairyland are in the double-digits below zero today (-12 according to the local news). I'm going to wait for another hour or two until the temp gets up closer to zero, then off to the range to break in the new year. I don't think there will be any bench work today. Just blasting, smelling the burnt powder and then back into the warmth.
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Are you nuckin futs? That's CRAZY to me. It's 10 degrees here in KY right now and that's at least 20 degrees too cold for me to make a trip to the range. You guys that are going to the range today are more man than me and must have been born with the bark still on.
Happy New Years to all you handloaders, especially you that are crazy enough to brave these super cold temps.
 
Happy New Year everybody.

Here in CA it's 50 so no freezing weather, however come summer it will be payback time when it's 115.

(I'm a city boy so haven't seen a milking machine for 45 years, but they still look about the same)
 
Happy New Year from Southern Illinois. Zero degrees earlier this morning. Think I’ll go downstairs and bust out some .380 for my son. I gave him an LCP II for Christmas and he could use some range ammo.
 
Hi...
Really cold this morningrning in South Central PA.
-8°...my son went squirrel hunting for a few hours.
He said there was no squirrel activity...guess the little nutbusters have better sense than to venture out in those kind of temperatures.

I stayed home...had a nice breakfast of fried eggs, bacon and shredded hash browns with several cups of Earl Grey tea.
Ran the Labs for a while in the snow...they are curled up in front of the TV helping me watch football. Wife is napping on the couch while a pork roast awaits in the slow cooker.
No reloading for me today...probably start my off-season reloading tasks this coming weekend. Many thousands of rounds to reload so I will be quite busy this winter.

I really need to retire so I have time to reload, shoot and reload and shoot, etc.
 
Happy New Year everyone. Only thing happening for me on the bench today is sorting the .380 out of the 5 gallons of it and 9mm mixed together. I'm down to the last gallon or so but it's 45 or so in the shop and single digits outside so I'm only doing a little at a time here and there today.
 
I have brass in the tumbler, but my bench is in the garage. Its not bad out there when it’s just cold, but when there’s a breeze the door wiggles and steals some of my heat. I will wait til conditions aren’t as bad to get on the bench, but the tumbler will run and I will periodically change out the load and sort what comes out in the comfort of the house while the wife watches some sappy lifetime movie.
 
Happy New Year back!

Well it's warmed up to 5 here with windchill -5. Started out this AM at -4 windchill down to -12 or so. Was going out back to do some squirrel hunting, but even they're not stupid enough to be moving around much in this cold.

Luckily I've got plenty to do in the "bunker". Just finished trimming 400 .308s. Luckily I had plenty of projects to keep me going along with a new XL650 to learn, problem is I loaded 2K in 9mm and I'm now out of empty ammo boxes, good news is I've now got 4K in loaded 9mm.

Chuck
 
It's in the single digits here in the Pocono Mountains of NE PA. Ended the year 2017 right, got together with a couple of revolver shooters and shot the ICORE postal match last evening, I shot L6 and classic. So that was New Years Eve.

So I decided this morning Jan 1 to do something that I have been wanting to do for a while, a few weeks ago I installed an 8' long, two level book case in my garage to house my handloading and gunsmithing and general gun books. On the top shelf I keep 16 plastic shoeboxes full of brass. A lot of weight so I got some lag bolts and fender washers to supplement the deck screws that tie the shelf to the wall.

Braving the cold I put 8 lags screws into the shelf. While replacing the shoeboxes with brass one of the boxes broke and sent 2000 pcs of 9mm brass everywhere. Not fun to pick up. :cuss:

OK my new years resolutions, First I'm going to dry fire every day in the hope to classify A in Steel Challenge (both optic and iron sight revolver), Make B in USPSA revolver, Make Expert in IDPA revolver and shoot as many ICORE matches as possible. Then I want to try my hand at Rimfire Challenge and spend a little more time with my rifles this year.

I'm going to take the class to become an IDPA Range Safety Officer in about a week. I'm taking the NRA Pistol Instructor Class end of January and the NRA Metalic Handloader Instructor class in March.

I'm 7 credits short of an Associates Degree in Biology and getting this done is a priority also. I turn 60 years old this year. So I'm going to try but make no guarantees to be nicer to forum posters as I retain the right to be cranky. :D
 
Happy New Year, below zero here in IL. So I ended up loading up a bunch of 40's to replenish my depleted supply.... not a bad morning at all!

Healthy and Happy New all
 
Well today didn't go quite as planned.

Still loaded the cartridges. And unloaded twenty, twelve foot sheets of drywall down into a basement at a bunny ranch. (The long eared, fat, varmint pet kind. Not the long legged, svelte non-varmint pet kind.:()

I discovered that little bear can sit in a sled drug behind a golf cart, with snow in his face, much longer than he can sit still at a bench with a blanket, my handwarmer and a rifle. :)

Hp-thirty eight is an awesome powder to meter! I actually felt comfortable enough to just drop it into the case and weigh every third or fifth charge, and went to ten at the last row. I was apprehensive at first sight of the mix of flakes and discs. But it flows like Hodgdon H-one ten. I made fifty to start since I haven't shot any centerfire pistol for at least a month. (I was starting to get hives.) But will work it over more thoroughly soon. All fired smoothly with no feeding problems, but it was warm in my coat. And it burns pretty clean, too.

So after I lost sensation in my hands, from driving the golf cart, we went inside for cocoa. Even though I was assured by the two smaller ones that they were completely warm and no frost bit them. Little bear held up his sleeves as proof, "no bites or even scratches by the snow, Dadi."
Little bear told Gramma all about his "wed gun" and how it's "A wifle. Not a hands gun that you just have in your gwoves, cause you can't have mittens..." Yep, he shot it five times. Then waited in the truck for me to alieviate any symtoms of gun powder withdrawal. We were only there for twenty minutes at most, but there were no excitedly regaled stories of the hours sledding...:thumbup:

In all, a pretty great start to the new year.
 
Its pretty cold here too, maybe not as bad as some of you guys. I think it got up to about 15 this afternoon.

Well, I'm going to try and wean myself off of my FCD for 45 acp. I ordered a Redding competition seater based on some advice in Nature Boys "having problems loading 45" thread. It should get here later this week. Just to compare, I banged out 50 185 SWC's crimping with the FCD. 47 plunked. The 3 no-go's were all PMC brass. I'll have something to compare to when I get the new die. I plan to remove the stem from the RCBS seater I am using now and put in in station 4 of my 550 to crimp. We'll see how that goes. If nothing else, the micrometer stem will be nice when loading different bullets to get right at the OAL with out having to experiment.

I still have a doe tag to fill, so I got the crossbow and went out behind the house and sat in one of the ladder stands. I lasted for an hour and 45 minutes before I decided to quit. There was still about 15 minutes of daylight left, but I was too cold. Nothing was moving anyway. All in all, a good day.
 
Indoor range for me today. Then cleaning brass and reloading 40 S&W and 10mm. I always bring along a 22 as well! Supposed to get above zero today. We shall see.
 
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