I did it!!!

[LiveLife]

Sounds like you got the cooking process down! Your family is lucky to have you. My cooking has been evaluated by different people and coworkers. One of my coworker's family owns a "Southern" food restaurant and she said my Gumbo and ribs were better than her aunt's who runs the restaurant and would gladly serve my version instead (she took my recipes to her aunt ). My coworkers unanimously voted my tri-tip better than all the tri-tips they had (they are cooked to medium rare and sliced thin on food slicer and simmered in a broth for melt in your mouth experience).

And no, I won't compete with your cooking.

The "Tumble coated" method instead of "electrostatic gun" method uses static electricity generated from contact/friction from plastic container, plastic BBs and if necessary, rubbing the plastic container on carpet to increase the electrical charge.

Why tumble when you can spray?

Because spraying leaves the bullet base exposed with lead unless you spray the bullet base up (hard to do with RN bullets). By tumble coating, you coat the entire bullet so there is no exposed lead base with less chance of gas cutting which increases leading.

 

[Officers'Wife]

Powder coating is a process where the powder is applied electrostaticly. So yes your familiar with the process. Since most don't have the equipment to apply the charge they tumble coat them.

Some powders require a Mag primer while most do not. Normally if you use a Mag primer in place of a std you may/will back off the load by 0.1gr. Mag primers normally have a heavier/harder cap to handle more pressure, and the burn duration is longer/hotter to ignite harder to ignite powders. A lot of reloaders started substituting used them when primers where hard to come by.

btw. Welcome to our madness..

Equipment? All you need is a waterproof steel box to act as the cathode, a perforated steel tray to act as the anode, a DC welder/voltage multiplier to supply the current and a conducting medium to create a slurry out of the "paint." The trick would be finding the right slurry medium, current density and a way to shake the anode to insure uniform coverage. (If they lay still the areas resting on tray would not get coated.

I'll get the primers I've been using then, you don't mess with what works. That reminds me, I'd better get started, I'll have to make an extra blueberry pie.

 

[LiveLife]

Blueberry pie, mmmmmmm.

We have blackberry bushes growing on our property. Can't wait to make pies out them.

 

[blarby]

mmmmmmmmmmmm Lumpia.........

 

[Dudedog]

CONGRATs
glad it's working for you.
Yea!
Sometimes when sorting mixed range brass I sort of do a binary sort.
.38 Special .357 into one spot, 38 Super and 38 S+W into another, then sort again to seperate the two might work for you.

I sometimes end up with .223/pistols mixed and I sort the rifle out of the pistol first then go thru the rifle to pick out and 7.62*39, 6.8 SPC, steel etc stuff, then sort the pistol.
You handle it more but sometimes I think it might be faster.
(once you do enough of it it easy to tell .38 special and .357 apart, 9mm Mak and 9 Luger is tougher until you get used to it. .38 supers are easy to spot in the 9s., by the time you sort those buckets of brass your evil, no-good brother cruelly dumped on you, you will be an expert sorter. )

Most of my dies are Lee (less expensive) and they work well for me.
They come with a powder thru die. You could also get a Lee pro disk measure and charge on you single stage press thru the die. Might save some time, the powder charge and case mouth flair in one step.
I think the measure and disk are only about $40 or so.
At the prices I see for .38 super ammo you would probably only have to load 4 or 5 boxes to pay for the Lee dies.
Not counting brass I can load 9mm with lead bullets for about $6 box a bit more with plated bullets. (round number off the top of my head) I would guess .38 super would be close to the same cost, just a tiny bit more powder.


Also 10k primers sounds like a lot, but sometimes I shoot 500+ rounds a weekend for fun so they go quick. If you order enough you can sometimes save enough to cover the hasmat fee, easier if you order powder at the same time. I wouldn't go overboard but we all know there can be shortages of reloading supplies that take years to end. (been awhile on pistol powder/.22 lr)


And yes

An old feller I worked for many years ago once told me when I was facing a long, boring project; "There's only one way to eat an elephant, that's one bite at a time".

My question is why I am the one that has to start eating from the back end......

 

[rfwobbly]

We had pancit palabok last week, I don't fix it often because in this area it's very hard to get rice flour for the noodles and I hate to substitute.

Rice flour is much, much easier to find in local grocery stores ever since "gluten free" became all the rage. If it's not on the baking aisle, then look in the "ethnic foods section" of your local national chain food store. If all else fails, King Arthur Flour sells it online.... without a HazMat fee !!

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/


38 Super is one of my favorites too. The "9mm on steroids." The shell holder for 38 Super also fits 9mm Luger and 40S&W cases, so it might be the key that unlocks Pandora's box with this hobby. Watch out !

 

[kitsapshooter]

10K is not a lot. I just did a run of 1100 40 cal and i am down to around 10K and i need to buy more.

 

[Conservidave]

recipes from Cebu

Cebu... Did someone mention Cebu?

Dont ask me how i know

 

[Officers'Wife]

Back through the looking glass...

The guy at the gunshop gave me a pretty good discount on 125 grain semi-jacketed hollow point ball for $13 a hundred. Hubby is shaking his head at me and threatening to take my checkbook.

 

[Officers'Wife]

Rice flour is much, much easier to find in local grocery stores ever since "gluten free" became all the rage. If it's not on the baking aisle, then look in the "ethnic foods section" of your local national chain food store. If all else fails, King Arthur Flour sells it online.... without a HazMat fee !!

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/


38 Super is one of my favorites too. The "9mm on steroids." The shell holder for 38 Super also fits 9mm Luger and 40S&W cases, so it might be the key that unlocks Pandora's box with this hobby. Watch out !

For the moment my brother has a load for 38 Super that works very well in my little Commander. I don't want to step on his toes too much.

The sorting turned out to be no real problem. I put 5 Tupperware trays on the desk, pulled up a handful of brass and each flavor had it's only little home with one left over for strays. Unfortunately the 357 Magnum brass seems to be calling out to me.

 

[roval]

Good you did it on a desk.I always got back pain from sorting brass stooped over on the floor until a few weeks ago when I bought a folding workbench from costco. My wife would kill me if I sorted dirty brass on the kitchen table

 

[Officers'Wife]

Good you did it on a desk.I always got back pain from sorting brass stooped over on the floor until a few weeks ago when I bought a folding workbench from costco. My wife would kill me if I sorted dirty brass on the kitchen table

With that we have it easy, West Lafayette is just down the road and the Purdue surplus outlet has desks, office chairs and all kinds of things like that. The full size desk I have in the shop cost all of $25. Last time we bought four of them, one each for the kid's rooms, one for the machine shop and one for my little workshop downstairs. They show a little wear off course but it's not like any of those places are going to be featured in Better Homes.

(yes, I'm cheap too. )

Thing is that 357 magnum brass is calling to me. I hear it whispering, we fire in the Marlin and you can load us... Considering yesterday I spent more than a $100 more at the gunshop than I intended to maybe I'd better give hubby my checkbook!

 

[Officers'Wife]

OK,

Early this morning my brother very rudely appeared two minutes after my lights came on (he lives a 1/4 mile up the lane.)

As per his thingie my loads are zipping along at an average 867 ft/sec which he tells me is well within the pressure limits of the weapon even with what I'm told is an unacceptable standard deviation. (42) I'm told (with great emotion) I need to pay attention to primer depth since that aspect is (in his words) all over the shop. Of course for him to tell the diff he needed to use a gauge.

He also took five of my reloads home with him. I have doubt none they will get the same kind of destructive testing as the pressure struts for the space shuttle. Needless to say my mentioning the grouping was within minute of venison did not impress him. It was also "suggested" I use a powder he called #5.

Just before he left I was told I might fool around and make ammunition that won't blow up a good rifle. I'm in shock at such high praise!

I thought it best not to mention the .357 magnum empties are calling to me to be reloaded.

 

[caz223]

It's usually not worth it for me to buy primers from places like powder valley unless I buy 20k at once.
I only shoot 5k a year, but I need SP, SPM, LP, LPM, and SR, so I wind up having varying quantities on hand, as I need them.
Running out of primers really sucks the most of any components.
I use a series of screens to pre-sort my brass-it speed up sorting buckets at a time.

I like to cook just because I like to eat, I won't be competing with anybody, as that just means I have to share.
I don't really like sorting stuff that's close in size like .30 carbine,.38 spl, .357 and the like. 9mm and .380 is a pain, too.
I really don't like it when there's random stuff all thrown in there so there's a 9mm inside a .40 inside a .45 acp. The screens will get that unless they're stuck together.
As long as the primers are seated so they don't stick out, no blood-no foul.
So- you can't recruit some kid-power to help sort the brass?