horsemen61
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Alright folks like the title says let me know what you have done today me I worked on some 223 for my ar deprimed 100 pieces so what about anybody else?
Resources being the exact same 357 gets more play at my house because Silhouette goes 100 or 200 yards depending on the range. If your casting yourself boolits are about 7 cents. In a heavy pistol 3.4 grains of red dot seems powder puff.Loaded up 150 rounds of .38 Special with the 158 gr. bullets cast earlier this week. I keep it pretty mild with 3.5 gr. of HP-38.
...Been trying to replenish the stock. I got the father-in-law hooked on shooting and he's putting his beat up Victory revolver to work, along with my press... Going through .38 Special twice as fast now -- and I was already burning it up quick by myself once I learned how to casually summon up more...
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Sadly no .357 here -- though I've been seriously eyeing leverguns to fix this problem. I started casting for cap and ball revolvers and quickly realized it wasn't much more of a jump to cartridges.Resources being the exact same 357 gets more play at my house because Silhouette goes 100 or 200 yards depending on the range. If your casting yourself boolits are about 7 cents. In a heavy pistol 3.4 grains of red dot seems powder puff.
Yeah mind the gap.... it bitesSadly no .357 here -- though I've been seriously eyeing leverguns to fix this problem. I started casting for cap and ball revolvers and quickly realized it wasn't much more of a jump to cartridges.
Still new and learning the ropes, I haven't been bold enough to push max charge yet. On the flipside, the tame loading has been great for the father-in-law to learn the basics. ...It was extremely amusing taking him to the range for the first time and discovering it literally was the first time. Complete mental change of gears "Ok, I guess we're starting at the beginning with range etiquette and whatnot..." quickly followed up with "NO, don't wrap your hand around the cylinder or whatever that grip is!?!"![]()
In the immortal words of the late, great Dean Martin, ain't that a kick in the head.Results from my post above;
Built 6 rounds of .357 with weighed charges, and 6 rounds thrown charges.
Tomorrow, they get chronographed for consistency, just for fun.
At the range today.
Weighed charges.
1 1600.9
2 1546.6
3 1524
4 1494.3
5 1533.8
6 1549.8
AVERAGE 1541.6
STD DEV 32.2
SPREAD 106.
Thrown charges.
1 1526.2
2 1527
3 1505.5
4 1478.9
5 1544.3
6 1489.2
AVERAGE 1511.8
STD DEV 22.8
SPREAD 65.4
Trimmed and de-burred 150 rounds of 308 tonight on my new Wilson trimmer. I really like this trimmer.
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Powder coated some Roundnose .45acp boolits and cast up several hundred SWC boolits of the same caliber.Alright folks like the title says let me know what you have done today me I worked on some 223 for my ar deprimed 100 pieces so what about anybody else?
You got me Varget for Christmas?!!? Dude! You’re awesome!View attachment 1183657
I’m using my reloading bench to wrap Christmas presents and to work on a woodworking project. (My pellet stove is currently on the blink in the shop) I did swing through Scheels this morning in the process of some Christmas shopping, and guess what they had in the cabinet? I made use of a couple gift cards I had, and it cost me three dollars out of my pocketafter the gift cards that is. It’s nice to see a couple more pounds on the shelf.