What do you have waiting for you in the reloading room?

I have a bunch of 357 mag. Brass cleaned and ready to load. Have to take the concealed carry class again because my license expired last year while I was recovering from cancer surgery. If the sheriff's office sent a renewal notice it got lost in the ordeal. I have a bunch of 158 xtp loaded with Bluedot, but the other people in the class would not want to be anywhere close when I was shooting. So, I am putting together some 150gr cast swc with Herco. Going to load them light, just enough to punch holes in paper. Starting with 7.0 gr then 7.5, 8.0 and maybe 8.5 just to see if any group better than the others. Max listed at 11.7.
 
Hope springs eternal! Hoping to make it a busy day in the store room reorganizing my supplies. I got new-to-me bullets from an estate and lots of primed brass to put in order.

Number one on the list is .45ACP for the indoor range. 200gr LSWC over 4.5gr WST.
 
110 lbs of 92-2-6 hardball waiting to get melted into ingots that I can drop into the 20# pot. Got into a 10mm groove (G20, G40, SW610, and a Ruger LC 10mm Carbine) and have been plowing through the 175gr TC hard cast rounds at a frightening clip - cast and loaded about 800 last week, shot 200 last weekend, and have about another 1200 to cast and load. One step at a time.

FWIW, I do have a Lone Wolf barrel for the G20 and a KKM for the G40, but they both also shoot hardcast fine through the Glock barrels. Softer lead is a no-no apparently, but hardball doesn’t cause any issues in my testing.
 
800 shells worth of 44 Magnum, and 150 shells of 44 Special are all sized and ready! I started priming some of them.
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All the blue plastic boxes are full of new, fresh Starline brass. The cardboard boxes have been reloaded around 5 times at this point.

I'm looking forward to giving my old S&W Model 29 a bit of exercise this summer, including some steel silouhette shooting.
 
Ok I'll play...
Some .45 Colt to reload with Lee 200gr and 255gr RNFP bullets and 3N37 for testing.
.41 Mag medium loads with MP 41 Hammer 210gr HP bullets and 3N37.
A couple hundred .32-20 to load with copper-plated 115gr RNFP bullets and 3N37.
A couple hundred .38-40 to load with MP 41 (resized to .401) 173gr HP bullets and Swiss #2 BP.
A handful of .357 and .38 cases to de-prime.
Casting more .41 and 357 bullets, need to find some tin...
Reload some .303 British, already primed the PPU cases, with Hornady RNSP 175gr .312 bullets and N540.

Did you guys guess that I bought a can of 3N37 recently? ;)

I also want to cast 36 (.380) and 44 (.454) round balls, but I don't have a mold. Anyone makes one casting both in one mold?

Gil.
 
I have 300 .40’s ready for assembly - cases are decapped, sized, and cleaned but need to be primed - and the same number of .45Auto mo’ ready - decapped, sized, cleaned and primed. These are all getting Power Pistol and Idaho Silver bullets.

I’ve decided those are a good deal. They run true and are easy to use. Pretty cheap for jacketed. The rumors about leaving fouling in barrels is 100% false. Side by side with copper jackets the barrels are identical. Power Pistol leaves some residue but that’s just its nature.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
I have 300 .40’s ready for assembly - cases are decapped, sized, and cleaned but need to be primed - and the same number of .45Auto mo’ ready - decapped, sized, cleaned and primed. These are all getting Power Pistol and Idaho Silver bullets.

I’ve decided those are a good deal. They run true and are easy to use. Pretty cheap for jacketed. The rumors about leaving fouling in barrels is 100% false. Side by side with copper jackets the barrels are identical. Power Pistol leaves some residue but that’s just its nature.
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I use those Silver Bullets too! I bought some the day that RMR released them. I wrote a review on their site but it showed my real name (first and last name). I like to keep my privacy, so I wrote to RMR to ask them to please fix it. Jacob Wilcox himself (the owner of RMR Bullets) wrote back and fixed the review. He set my username to “Best Customer Ever”; I guess he really liked what i had to say about him and his Idaho Silver Bullets. I was very humbled by that and i thanked him for it, if course. Below is the review that I wrote.

Rated 5 out of 5
Best Customer Ever (verified owner) – December 18, 2024

These bullets loaded well. I was careful with the crimp per RMR suggestion but it was not an issue. At the range, they all chambered well in my Beretta PX4 Storm Compact as well as my Taurus G2C, both in 40S&W of course. They fired perfectly as well, not leaving behind any of the jacketing in the barrel. Nice and clean. Accuracy was right on, as expected, of course.
In addition to the fact that these bullets are well made and perform well, I absolutely love the creativity that Mr. Wilcox and his company RMR had in creating something NEW in the reloading world, and especially that it was made to help keep our wallets happy. Living in the 2020’s where prices of everything having skyrocketed, Mr. Wilcox created a product that he did not have to make. He already has endless loyal customers who keep coming to his company for their reloading needs. He made his loyal customers even more loyal (if that’s possible!) because his invention, the zinc alloy jacket, benefits us a lot more than it benefits him and his company, selling a lower priced product.
My hat goes off to Mr. Jacob Wilcox and RMR for such a terrific and genuinely helpful product! Thank you for caring about your customers, and helping us to take advantage of our God given Second Amendment rights!
 
I’ve got 3 range trips in the go-round machine right now 3-4 hrs a night till sat nite. I’ve got several hundred Berrys DEWC wadcutters I want to load with the plethora of W244 I have. Use them up along with some of the 244. These will be general use/ pals want to shoot wheelers etc.. here throw these in the match champion… guaranteed smiles
 

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Radom Guy said:
I use those Silver Bullets too! I bought some the day that RMR released them. I wrote a review on their site but it showed my real name (first and last name). I like to keep my privacy, so I wrote to RMR to ask them to please fix it. Jacob Wilcox himself (the owner of RMR Bullets) wrote back and fixed the review. He set my username to “Best Customer Ever”; I guess he really liked what i had to say about him and his Idaho Silver Bullets. I was very humbled by that and i thanked him for it, if course. Below is the review that I wrote.

Rated 5 out of 5
Best Customer Ever (verified owner) – December 18, 2024

These bullets loaded well. I was careful with the crimp per RMR suggestion but it was not an issue. At the range, they all chambered well in my Beretta PX4 Storm Compact as well as my Taurus G2C, both in 40S&W of course. They fired perfectly as well, not leaving behind any of the jacketing in the barrel. Nice and clean. Accuracy was right on, as expected, of course.
In addition to the fact that these bullets are well made and perform well, I absolutely love the creativity that Mr. Wilcox and his company RMR had in creating something NEW in the reloading world, and especially that it was made to help keep our wallets happy. Living in the 2020’s where prices of everything having skyrocketed, Mr. Wilcox created a product that he did not have to make. He already has endless loyal customers who keep coming to his company for their reloading needs. He made his loyal customers even more loyal (if that’s possible!) because his invention, the zinc alloy jacket, benefits us a lot more than it benefits him and his company, selling a lower priced product.
My hat goes off to Mr. Jacob Wilcox and RMR for such a terrific and genuinely helpful product! Thank you for caring about your customers, and helping us to take advantage of our God given Second Amendment rights!
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So far I have gone through at least 350 .45, 600 9mm and I am starting on the .40’s. I have really pushed these in terms of velocity. No problem at all.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
So far I have gone through at least 350 .45, 600 9mm and I am starting on the .40’s. I have really pushed these in terms of velocity. No problem at all.
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Call your buddy Jake and let him know you know a fella that would like to test some .400"'s in the 220gr range.........................


...............................you know.....................................................for a friend........................................:cool:
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
So far I have gone through at least 350 .45, 600 9mm and I am starting on the .40’s. I have really pushed these in terms of velocity. No problem at all.
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Awesome!! I only have used the 40’s so far as my 9mm bullet supply is in pretty good shape. I do have 45’a on a short list for projectiles that I need, and I am psyched that they have a Silver Bullet version, but 38 Special is at the top of my needs, with only 200 Accura HP bullets left right now!
 
Radom Guy said:
Awesome!! I only have used the 40’s so far as my 9mm bullet supply is in pretty good shape. I do have 45’a on a short list for projectiles that I need, and I am psyched that they have a Silver Bullet version, but 38 Special is at the top of my needs, with only 200 Accura HP bullets left right now!
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Where are the silver bullets purchased? Asking for a friend….,☺️
 
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