lightman
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Well, your floor looks nice! You'll get back to your loading room soon enough!
What do have waiting for you in the reloading room?
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conan32120
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Loaded up 20 .308 with the last of my varget. 165gr sst over a .2 gr ladder starting at 42.0
Yamifrk
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I have the other 1400 s&w cases waiting to be loaded up. More ladder loads for the sig 226. I have some power pistol and true blue to run some ladder loads with.
.45Coltguy
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Calling it an evening and putting things away. Finish the .38spl's tomorrow. Time for a cold beer or two!
tominboise
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I happen to have 130gr .270 cal bullets from Nosler, Sierra, Speer and Hornady on my bench, so I am going to load up 5 each with identical powder charges and seating depths and see what difference there is, if any. The test load will be 59.0gr of H4831sc over WLR primers. I may rerun the test using Rem 9-1/2M primers if I get the chance.
I am doing this just to kill some time in the reloading room and on the range.....
I am doing this just to kill some time in the reloading room and on the range.....
conan32120
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Sounds interesting, please post range report
Well, the .308 pistol bullets from Prvi (71gr) and Hornady (90 gr) arrived yesterday. One big step towards home-rolled 7.63 Mannlicher. Got the primers, powder (unique), shell holder and 2 die set (CH4D). Just wait ing on buff Arms to turn some 32-20 brass into rimless 7.63 mannlicher.
I was recently given 10 boxes of 303 British, 1 box of 30-06 and one box of 308 all are live ammo. All were improperly stored and have green growing on the cases. Who knows what they look like inside. Not sure the age, but the 303B has price tags of $8.75 on them. I'll be pulling the bullets, dumping the powder, possibly using the primers (will test a few) and tossing the cases into the scrap bucket. This will be my second project. My first project is to load up about 500 rounds of 357 mag with my cast bullets and BE86 powder.
sparkyv
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Next up: light 9mm loads to encourage SWMBO to get out to the range more often.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, don't want to do it again.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, don't want to do it again.
Savage30L
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.38 special practice loads, 148-gr HBWC. I'm feeling very sluggish and sleepy this morning, I hope I can get to it....
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I have a bunch of .40S&W to load in the near future. I’m picking up a new-to-me NOS display unit Taurus PT100 this weekend and I will need to find a load it likes that the Sub 2K also likes. I’ll be back on development road for a little while then I’ll make some for the shelf.
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I did an ammo check and found three partial boxes of loaded .303 from 2001 that were neck sized for a rifle I don’t have anymore so I now have 45 rounds to pull apart and F/L size.
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.380ACP. I’m on call so I really can’t concentrate on anything other than the computer right now but my inventory earlier this month brought out some odds and ends. Mostly for the .380 so I have a lot of small batches - 50 and under - to put together.
I still haven’t used my new dram works hopper and pistol rotor yet… I dip and trickle rifle stuff, usually to at least the closest 10th of gr. I also have a 9 mm sizing guy that is scoring my brass something awful! I think I’m going to have to send it back to the big H I think it was my fault. Actually, some brass I was working on I don’t believe has been cleaned up yet.
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Try a good long soak in solvent followed by patches and a nylon bore brush. It might just be something grunge stuck to the surface.
I soaked it in a couple of different solvents for probably a week total. I even took a nylon brush in a drill and tried to clean it up. I am thinking about possibly trying some find steel wool. At this point, it’s not like it’s going to hurt anything
maybe I should just order a die from Reading or something… I’ve been really happy with it so far. I reloaded a few of the ones I resized, and they split… They were loaded on the hot side, but nothing ridiculous. And they had only been fired one other time before. So, I’m doing no more 9 mm until I get this figured out.
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Wow that’s really badly gouged then. Well, the Big-H has a good reputation for service so definitely give them a chance but in the meantime get just a new sizer from someone else to tide you over. Maybe? Then again, there’s nothing wrong with having multiple sets of diesI soaked it in a couple of different solvents for probably a week total. I even took a nylon brush in a drill and tried to clean it up. I am thinking about possibly trying some find steel wool. At this point, it’s not like it’s going to hurt anything
conan32120
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Loaded my last 88 185gr berry's hbrn over 6gr 231, 45acp of course
Gumby0961
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I have a 1000 450 BM cases, bullets, & primers along with 4lbs of Lil gun. Oh boy, sad thing is it cost the same for the components as it would to buy the loaded ammo in almost any state but CA.
BushMaster-15
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Far too many empty cases to contemplate !.
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