What do have waiting for you in the reloading room?

- 180 pieces of ready to load (resized, primed, expanded) blazer 9mm brass. Just need powder and bullets -- hopefully tonight.

- Inline Fab bullet tray arm that needs to be mounted on the back of my ultramount.

Update: done!

I've hardly done any reloading in the past two years and the reloading room has become a catch all. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what is waiting for me.

Waiting on pre-order of Lee Six Pack/Pro 6000 press due out any day ...

Brass, Brass & more Brass.

I need to finish my load development for my Big Horn Armory lever gun in 460 S&W Mag. I found a 400 grain bullet that I can produce equivalent 45-70 ballistics. Other than that, there is always brass to process.

Waiting on primer prices to go down…..lol

Lennyjoe said:

Waiting on primer prices to go down…..lol

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Aren't we all!

Fun thread. I recently did a bunch of organizing and sorting, plus loaded 500 rounds of 9MM, but i still have a lot to do when time permits…

1. Clean and sort about 500 misc. rounds from last range visit

2. Clean the bench and press…some lube would be good.

3. Rounds I want to load include…

- .357 * 140 to finish loading all the preprimed brass I got from a friend

- .38 * 100 to get a decent supply ready for a range visit in the next few weeks

4. My equipment wish/buy list continues to grow…need three 550 tool heads, three powder dies, one caliber conversion kit, and a swager tool…about $400 bucks worth of stuff and it will have to wait for a few months…

5. My component wish/buy list is also on standby…need .223, 9MM, and .40 caliber bullets. Could use some more VV N320. Still looking for VV N140 for .223. Another several hundred bucks that isn’t convenient at this time.

But I’ve got my “roun tuit” on order and it’s in the mail headed my way soon…

Take care,

I need to start letting common brass pile up. I have a habbit of loading what i shot and what brass i find at the range. So i have a lot of ammo waiting to be shot.

GeoDudeFlorida said:

No me. Primers I got. Gas prices are something else.

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Yep gas is a problem.
I'm on the fence whether to fill up my hunting truck now or wait until fall, could it be lower in the fall or will it keep going up??

Basically hand loading is a winter occupation for metallic center fire smokeless rounds.
This time a year its a couple hundred 45C with black powder every few weeks. About time to run some off.

Check out old Texan die set to see if they are worn out or if my first attempts at reloading 38 yrs ago that resulted in cracked head separation was me or the dies. Been using RCBS since.

Attempt annealing with ele. screwdriver and socket method.

Go thru brass to see where in the prep process they are.

Check head clearance with new vs fired brass.

Reorganize, always an ongoing process.

At 9 PM in Phoenix, garage temp is still 95° to 100°. Days are 100° to 110° and it ain't August yet (115° to 117° or more). So for now woodworking honey-dos come first.

For me it's starting to load 45lc. Been looking for brass for six months and finally found some about two weeks ago.

Just got a set of dies a few weeks ago too. Then found the set I got a few months ago and forgot I'd bought, lol!

chris

Walkalong said:

250 fully prepped and primed .308 cases that have been ready to load for 10+ years, and yes, I’ve had the bullets all this time.

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I received a bunch of primed .38 Spl and .357 cases in a trade several months back. My friend’s uncle who passed from this world in 2008 left a big box of reloading stuff. I traded some factory ammo for the lot. The cases were primed sometime earlier than 2004. They were in glass pickle jars.



I loaded up a bunch and none have failed to fire. Still have another 130 or so to load.

500+ pieces of .223 brass to reload. Working through it, but u r right, should’ve NOT gotten that far behind.

Great idea for a thread by the way

The only component that I’m out of is large rifle primers, so yes prepped brass is stacking up for a few calibers

I've got 35 pieces of 38 special brass waiting (I'm new at this it's all I've got), it's been cleaned, decapped and sized just waiting for my bullets to get here from Rocky Mt.

Bobaloo22 said:

I've got 35 pieces of 38 special brass waiting (I'm new at this it's all I've got), it's been cleaned, decapped and sized just waiting for my bullets to get here from Rocky Mt.

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I can spare some .38 Spl and .357 mag brass if you need it. No charge unless you want to help with shipping…I use USPS flat rate boxes.

PM if interested.

Four batches of brass from a recent prairie dog shoot. All are cleaned, one batch sized, need to anneal 2 batches and check all for trim.
Not sure if I will load them back before a fall hunt. I have plenty of components from way before the covid.

Need to clean this mess up one day…lol

Lennyjoe said:

mess

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What mess??