What have you done in the reloading room today

CQB45ACP said:
Got mine ready to go too
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I've seen your collection posted before. It is absolutely beautiful. I personally would never put those works of art in the water, but I understand that's what they were designed for. My father was a serious Duck hunter. I migrated more toward land birds. Mostly Pheasant.
 
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Captain*kirk said:
I botched it big-time. Got a notification that Graf's had Sierra 200gr .358 RN (.35 Remington) back in stock, limit 2. Had been out bowhunting all day, it was late and dark when I got home. Figured I'd order in the morning. You know the rest of the story. When am I ever gonna learn?
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You gotta' be a fast-draw on reloading components these days, that's for sure.

Funny you should mention bow hunting. A few weekends ago, I spent about an hour at an outdoor supply store mulling around the bow hunting section. I have not bow hunted since I was in my teens. I was remotely thinking about getting back into it.
 
I'm setting up my old Pro 1000 to be my first pass machine for 9mm and .38-.357. Resize, neck size and prime. I rebuilt the clutch in it and put a new primer shoot on it. I bought a new 9mm shell plate for it so I can swap out the shell plates on it like I do on my LNL AP.
So far it's working good and the only time I had a problem, out of around 1000 rounds primed with it, was when I ran it out of primers and it fed one sideways. That was my fault.

The 4 tube case feeder leaves something to be desired, I'll put my 5 tube feeder on it today to see if I quit getting upside down cases. I has a lot bigger collator on it.
I ended up taking the ball handle off the ABLP and putting it back on the pro 1000. I hate how the roller handle pulls the linkage sideways when I put pressure on it. It make my OAL jump around.

I had to use one of my PAD powder measures on the Hornady because the Hornady measure hits the upright for the case feeder at station one and I want to use a powder check die and want to seat and crimp in two steps.
I am liking this set up already. One of our new members posted about how well these old Pro1000 prime when you keep powder away from them. So, I had to try it one more time. He was right. This thing has been sitting around for 30 years, now it's getting a new life.

Not a lot of plastic on this one.

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I do some shake down on it today with the 5 tube case feeder to see it helps with the upside down case problem. I'm getting about two per tube with the original 30year old case feeder.
I took the spring loaded gate off the 5 tube case feeder when I put it on the ABLP because there isn't enough room to use it. I might be able to put it back on with this application. We'll see.
So far it's working well.
 
Charlie98 said:
Fooled around with the Hornady Auto Charge some more... ran a few (10) charges of WSF through it. It is working better than last night, but the big deal killer issue is when it slows down to trickle the last .5g of powder.... the drop tube just doesn't turn. I'll have to email Hornady in the AM.
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That's not one of the new ones is it?
 
3sport said:
I've seen your collection posted before. It is absolutely beautiful. I personally would never put those works of art in the water, but I understand that's what they were designed for. My father was a serious Duck hunter. I migrated more toward land birds. Mostly Pheasant.
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Well thanks a lot. About half of our collection were working decoys from as long ago as mid 1800s. I "know" each of the carvers. Some were market gunners. The dark underbelly of waterfowl hunting.

The other almost half are by carvers who are now hunters/guides we met who intended or designed them to be used. Just twenty are only decorative. All east coast, mostly mid Atlantic, eastern shore, upper Bay & Susquehanna flats (Havre De Grace, Md).

Old ones are mostly cedar (from driftwood utility poles often) so they're not individually heavy, but a full rig was a heavy load to tote around.

I'm a duck, goose, and land bird eater. Not much into hunting, but boy oh boy, eastern shore Maryland what a place, you get em all.
 
tightgroup tiger said:
That's not one of the new ones is it?
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Well, it was bought in 2021… the big upright super duper one.


How well does that automatic case feeder work on the LNL? I’ve got one, NIB, that I’m trying to sell… with very little interest. I thought about throwing it up there and using it. For that matter, I’ve got the bullet feeder, too…
 
I tried the 5 tube case feeder, it fixed the problem. Those do-dads in the collator took care of it. I'll have to find my penny and screw for in the original case feeder and use it on something else. I know it's here somewhere, I just had it 30 years ago. :rofl:

Charlie98 said:
How well does that automatic case feeder work on the LNL? I’ve got one, NIB, that I’m trying to sell… with very little interest. I thought about throwing it up there and using it. For that matter, I’ve got the bullet feeder, too…
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It works really well, depending on what cartridge your trying to run through it. All short Pistol cartridges, (haven't tried 25 auto and never will) run well through it. Most, longer pistol/revolve cases run good to well through it.
.327FM won't run through it worth a crap, head on the case isn't heavy enough compared to the rest of the case, for it's length. Only one I have trouble with.

I've never tried rifle cases in it, and I don't have the collator plate for them anyways.

With 9mm, which is what I load the most in it, I can't outrun it, even with using a bullet feeder. I'm using Lees new bullet feeder right now and have to have my wife filling one up while I'm emptying one. I can go through them fast.

The last batch I ran was almost 1900 cases, and I couldn't get ahead of it. I was averaging 700-800 and hour. A little over three hours and I never felt rushed at all. The feeders give me more time to watch the operation instead of watching my hand while I'm setting down a case.

With 9mm, unless I go over 1200 cases/minute. (depriming), it keeps up to me.

With my 41 mags cases I put a steel washer under the collator plate to raise it up and it feeds those cases really well so 44 mag would be no problem either.

I won't run mine without a case feeder, I've gotten to use to it always working, and now, maybe too lazy to set them by hand.


As far as .327FMs I don't change my setup on my press. I just drop them through the funnel, here, at the top of the stroke. It's easy to get used to feeding it that way and with the case shuttle on the deck there's not a lot of room to set cases there by hand. This way is just brainless easy to do and I don't have to change any settings on the case feeder to do it.

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Just for fun, really, just for fun, while waiting for the dew to burn off the lawn, I set up my old Lee turret press and Lee dies and loaded eight 9mm cartridges start to finish (well, all but sizing).

I adjusted the seater for the first round only. It came in a little short (1.134") of my planned target of 1.135" but I let it go and just loaded the remaining seven.

All bullets were same brand and measured .556" in length. All cases were used FC.

The eight completed rounds measured 1.34 (first one), 1.1345, 1.1345, 1.135, 1.135, 1.1355, 1.1355, 1.136. (This isn't actual order of loading so don't read too much into it.)

I recall many things I like about the Lee setup and a number I don't.
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Charlie98 said:
Because of the rim?
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No, raising it up was an old trick someone, somewhere, figured out to give the cases a longer distance to fall into the holes in the collator plate, and to right themselves in the feeder and hold them there until they got to the funnel and dropped. It fed a lot faster after I put the washer in.

Edit to add: I believe the Dillon guys were doing it to.
 
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AJC1 said:
Trying to pick a bullet for my next hurricane casting marathon. Thinking my noe 358-154:rnfp needs a turn. Including Columbus day, looking at a 5 day off period...
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Nice. I ... on the other hand ... will probably out with my chainsaw clearing trees out of my driveway and street. There was a lot of chainsaw work back in 2004 after Charlie.
 
Cleaned some handguns. A couple S&W M-10, a couple Ruger MkII (5.5" & 7").
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Took a nephew and his friend out to shoot steel last week. Both early 20's, both with limited gun experience. I had an ammo can full of 38 Spl, and a virtually unlimited supply of 22lr. Try as they did, they could not shoot all of it.

They had a great time, as did I, and when I took them out to eat I was reminded of what a bottomless pit a young adult can be. I'm certainly glad I didn't have to feed them growing up!
 
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