What have you done in the reloading room today

[shoebox1.1]

Built a ladder of .44 special test loads using Bear Creek's hollow based wadcutters & Red Dot; when I spoke to the proprietor of the company, he stated that some folks like to load these backwards and they will bloom if pushed fast enough, that skirt is pretty thick

I am VERY interested in this project. I almost bought those but went back to Matt’s 200 wc. I’m watching

 

[Charlie98]

Hornady has sent me whatever I have asked for on my LnL AP Progressive press.

I’m fixing to find out… I need a few replacement parts…

 

[IALoder]

Sized and trimmed some 44 mag, 300 blk, and 6mm ARC brass. Looks like the uniflow is set up for 20.0gr of 300mp, so the next chance I get I'll be loading up some 110SP's in 300 blk!

 

[EMC45]

Hornady has sent me whatever I have asked for on my LnL AP Progressive press.

Hornady has dug through dusty shelves of old Pacific parts and mailed the ones I needed to me no charge. Solid company. Good folks

 

[Charlie98]

Hornady has dug through dusty shelves of old Pacific parts and mailed the ones I needed to me no charge. Solid company. Good folks

Hornady has fallen flat on that one, at least for me. I have an old Hornady/Pacific trimmer... and they didn't have any parts for it when I asked, nor are they a lot of help on the ProJector presses, which they seemed to have abandoned.

 

[Captain*kirk]

Y'ever feel like the sucker who got scammed at the circus by the guy in the checkered coat and bow tie?
I took Natchez Shooting Supply up on the Free Hazmat deal for primers and a couple pounds of powder (also "on sale") today. Yep, was sure nice to see "Discount Applied" appear in my 'cart', but by the time tax and shipping got plugged in to the total, somehow there was an extra 40 bucks in there added to the total. I'm beginning to think I could buy and shoot a helluva lot of loaded ammo for what I spend on reloading 'components'. It's a shame I enjoy the reloading process. I'd probably save a lot if I disliked it like a lot of people I know. Sigh.

I'm not too worried about where the schmutz from wet tumbling goes. Our city water is "recycled" through a sewage treatment plant and super-shocked with mega-doses of chlorine before going through reverse osmosis filters. You can smell the chlorine as it comes out of the tap. Probably a lot worse things than brass-scrubbing schmutz in that water where it comes from...*eek!*

 

[Charlie98]

I understand, it's a good Vibratory tumbler, Charlie, as you know. What's oppositely coincidental, I had a Lyman vibe tumbler that I ran to death. The rubber bowl mounting pads finally wore out and broke free after years of heavy use. I fabbed my own rubber pads and replaced them, and it worked well. But then, about two years later, the motor finally died and I replaced it with the 1292. My 1292 was produced after the recall, so I am not worried about it overheating. It's been flawless for me. I have it on a timer, so it shuts off automatically just in case I somehow forget about it.

My 1292 was an early one, and I sent it back to get it refitted. They sent it with another bowl... so I had an extra one when the holes appeared in the first one. Oh, yea... the rubber pads all fell off years ago, I put 3M sticky felt pads on in their place. The second bowl finally wore through, so I had to goop silicone adhesive in there to try to stop the leaks. Think of the little Dutch boy at the dike... sticking his finger in one leak after another, etc, etc... I had to rebuild the motor twice, but that was the final straw when the motor finally wore out. I did kitbash it... I put the Lyman bowl on the 1292 for a while, even.

A 'timer'? What fun is that? Then you can't turn it on, then leave the house for 3 weeks for work...

 

[EMC45]

Prepped some .32 Mag brass and cleaned up an olllllllddd Lee c frame press I'm gonna start using again.

 

[EMC45]

Hornady has dug through dusty shelves of old Pacific parts and mailed the ones I needed to me no charge. Solid company. Good folks

2 things in Particular was a pan for an old Pacific scale that was given me minus the pan. The other was a powder measure tube I used to replace mine that had melted (I didn't leave powder in it either - weird). Both free and just sent to the house.

 

[3sport]

Just some brass sorting at the bench today, followed by some decapping and vibe cleaning. During a recent inventory, I found more spent brass from 20 years ago that needs decapping and cleaning. So that is the extent of my bench work today.


I am enjoying streaming music from CKUA Edmonton, Alberta on my bench stereo while sorting. This station plays a very "Eclectic" mix of music. They will play ANYTHING from Jazz to Bluegrass to Country to Classic Rock to World Music and everything inbetween. Anything BUT current Pop hits and Rap music. They save those for the Pop and Rap FM stations. A Canadian friend of mine from Edmonton turned me on to streaming this station about 12 years ago and it's been one of my favorite FM stations to stream since then.

 

[Riomouse911]

I am winding my way through the last 1,000 .45 ACP cases I ordered. The first box of 2,000 I ordered were tumbled but needed decapping-sizing-flaring. This batch was decapped and then tumbled, which cleaned the primer pockets a bit. (I paid a couple extra for these over the other ones.)



But when I got them I noticed they weren’t resized along with being decapped, which I thought they may have been. (My oops for the assumption!)

So, I still have to do the same process I did for the first batch, minus the quick twist of the tool for primer pocket cleaning (I do this only when it’s dirty inside).

I’m glad I’m running the decapper! So far I have one split case mouth and I have knocked at least 10-12 big media kernels out of flash holes so far. But one case had a bit of resistance as it went home in the die. Turned out dark mud had collected in the bottom of the case and solidified, not only taking up about 3/16” of the case bottom but sealing the charge hole as well. Had this one somehow been primed, charged and fired, the resulting case capacity decrease might have been bad news!



(I had scraped out the mud the decapping pin broke through, the line showing the depth of the mud is the color stripe on the case wall.)

Stay vigilant!

 

[3sport]

Winding up my day at the bench. Sorted a bunch of 44 cal bullets and 44 Spl and 44 mag brass. I sold my only 44 (lever action Marlin) 15 years ago. Not sure if I am going to get another, but the possiblity remains. So I'll keep the components I have, including the reloading dies. Just in case. I guarantee, the moment I get rid of them, I'll have a 44 back in my gun collection faster than you can say "ready, aim, fire". In fact, just looking at all the 44 components makes me want to start looking for a 44 to shoot them with.

Have a great day/evening, gents.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Stayed home today for a long teleconference call and brought the stool into the office with me. Loaded 50 rounds of RMR 225gr. Silver .45Auto w/ 7.5gr. of Power Pistol @ 1.25" COAL.

 

[JmacD]

I’ve been in the process of getting the progressive set up for a 9 mm run. But… I have another funeral tomorrow… Way too many in such a short time… (3 in 6 weeks)

So, I may have some time tomorrow evening…

 

[thump_rrr]

Decapped and sized 200 .308 Win.
Washed and dried the first 100 and just put the second 100 in the pool.
The first 100 will be getting annealed shortly.

 

[Horskinator]

Cleaning a newly acquired Sako L461 in 223 Rem and mounting a scope in the man cave as I type this.

 

[NR53]

Loaded 100- 9mm:

Mixed brass
RMR 115 grain MMW
True Blue powder
Fiocchi primers

 

[Dan Wesson]

Very little. Looked at my SW Model 1854 and the ejector.
I decided to remove the ejector spring so I could re-stake it “with authority” since who knows how long SW will take to send me a replacement. It really did not take very long to take the spring out, stake the end of the spring more firmly and then tap it home in the ejector. This one is not going anywhere unless it breaks off!

 

[IALoder]

Primed and loaded up all the .300 blk I had prepped with 300MP and 110 SP's. Then set up the uniflow for my 44 mag load of Enforcer and 225 XPB's. Ran outta time to load any, so it'll wait until tomorrow!

 

[DMW1116]

Propped and primed about 20 PMC 308 Winchester cases. These will be used to test some VV N140 loads. The 168 grain Amax and 150 grain FMJ are on the table.

 

[shoebox1.1]

After these 11 hr days I’m forcing myself to get in there and do a little something every night. The brass pile is getting a little smaller.. sized all my ammo inc’s the other night. Tonight was starline 38 and xtreme 44 spc. There was a handful of 44 magnum as well

 

[MarshallDodge]

80 ELD-M seated at 2.500 COAL*
24.9 N540
CCI 450
LC brass

*Powder charge is based on COAL. Use caution if seating deeper.

 

[R Reed]

Got through a little over 500pcs of 223 today, sized and swaged. Trimming starts tomorrow.

 

[CQB45ACP]

Loaded some 9mm Winchester cases for the 42nd time. 4.6gr Sport Pistol, 115gr RN Berry's or Extreme plated.

No splits or other failures revealed themselves. Only seven failures after 41 firings and 42 undersizings, expandings, and Makarovings.

You might see some brass debris on blue paper towel. That's from uniforming of primer pockets of remainder of Winchester test cases. Began yesterday, ran out of time, but can't finish yet due to noise. It's the second time I've done this to these cases: 1) to ensure continued good primer seating, 2) to see how much the primer pockets are shrinking over time as determined by amount of brass debris/shavings and 3) to freak you out.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

No splits or other failures revealed themselves. Only seven failures after 41 firings and 42 undersizings, expandings, and Makarovings

We’re going to have to start calling you, “The Verbinator.”


After loading .45’s yesterday I just put stuff away this morning. Too much work for another WFH session.