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What have you done in the reloading room today

Cleaned up more - still trying to pick up after a 20 year hiatus.

Decapped 150 each 7-08 cases for my Tikka (light rifle) and Rem 700 (heavy rifle) metallic silhouette rifles. Tumbled 150 of the Tikka brass for 4 hours in walnut, the necks and interiors look cruddy and make me contemplate getting a pin tumbler for stuff like this. Have the pile to do for the 700.

Found I still have 1.5K each of Sierra 130 and 150gr HPBT match 7mm to load with. The 150 are for rams at 600M.

Found 200 new R-P 7-08 cases in boxes. Need to size and trim these.

Found my "missing" Springfield 03A3 rifle in the back of the safe - no idea of the pedigree but it it has a bunch of NM parts on it and a ordinance 3-51 (not air-gauged barrel) on it. WIP

Noticed I had a load tab in my book for a 6.5x55 Swede - sure enough, have a perfect Carl Gustafs to go with my 2- 7.5x55 Swede K28's.

Found my 22-250 dies in an old box, so I can do 220 Swift, 22-250, and 5.56 - wondered what I'd do with all the 50gr bullets I have - now I know.

Been away from the sport too long.
 
Shovel said:
Brave at 16F this morning. Did you get out?
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I did. I traipsed around the woods for about an hour looking for squirrels. They had more sense than I did this morning, because they were nowhere to be seen.
After that, I set up a target and shot a little.
I made a mistake. The .58 Hawken I have is my father's and it has been in his closet for the last 15-20 years without being touched. I should have given it a good cleaning but just loaded and shot. Bad idea. It was VERY hard to load. I only fired a few shots. I'll give it a good scrubbing before trying again.
I didn't get to shoot the .54 cal at all. Apparently someone dry fired it before I got it because the nipple was flared out and wouldn't accept a cap.

We'll try again soon.
 
Fought the good fight to load cast 6.5x55 sweed. Primed 100 prepped ppu cases and made myself a 2 step expander mandrel from a grade 8 bolt... results over excuses around here...
a little much for my first experience with this cartridge, i think not 🤣 loaded a ladder of 160 cast from 17.5 to 19.0 4227 at 3.050. 20240121_163922.jpg 20240121_185501.jpg
 
Big-bore-bob said:
I also work in stages, brass prep first, then priming, today was just loading the prepped cases. I took some breaks during the session so I didn't get too fatigued and make a mistake. I like the plastic ammo cans they're cheap (like 8 bucks). I always scoop rounds out of the bigger cans into smaller ones for range trips.
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I particularly like those small plastic cans. They are very handy!
 
My kerosene space heater in my reloading room (garage) bit the dust last night. Just got home with a new one and put it together. The Lizard Litter in my Thumler's UV-10 is about 4 years old now. Although it's still working good (used it last night) I got a guilty conscience and put new in.
 
frogfurr said:
My kerosene space heater in my reloading room (garage) bit the dust last night. Just got home with a new one and put it together. The Lizard Litter in my Thumler's UV-10 is about 4 years old now. Although it's still working good (used it last night) I got a guilty conscience and put new in.
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I use the same stuff (ZooMed, I think...) and I throw that stuff out at the drop of a hat.

Interesting thing with the lizzard bedding... it's dusty like gangbusters. My Lyman has a perforated lid, so if I forget to drape a towel over it... the entire garage will be covered with superfine dust/dirt in just a few hours. Crazy...
 
I shot the next two tests of the 110gr Winchester Kinetic .38’s. AutoComp is definitely in the running but HS-6 is out. My 64-3 looks like it’s blued. 😳
I will say both met the specs and were plenty accurate at 25yds. So far W244 is still looking best.
Now I get to tumble some really dirty brass. And clean some really dirty guns.
😁🥳
 
Using the tumbler to try to get most of the really built up junk off this 5.56 Federal Lake City ammo from like 2013 according to the headstamp. I don't remember the circumstances of how these got this bad but I took random cartridges out and shook them and they sound like powder was moving around in them so we'll see how they clean up.
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Got my progressive press going after a long break & cranked out 2-3 hundred 9mm using mixed range brass & was checking them all along the way for powder weight & OAL-all good. When I was looking at them as I transferred them from the press to storage container I noticed a short one that the bullet had pushed in on & started going through all of them trying to push the bullets in & found almost a 100 that had almost no neck tension & every single one of them was Blazer brass. Never had issues with Blazer but something changed with the brass wall thickness & they weigh a bit less too. Pulled all of the collapsed rounds & salvaged powder & bullets.
Spent yesterday culling all of the Blazer 9mm from my stock that was probably about 20% of my range pick up brass, not fun but I feel comfortable moving forward now & will look at what it will take to reload the Blazer with correct neck tension down the road if I need to.
For now no 9mm Blazer brass reloads for me.
 
Nasty Canasta said:
Got my progressive press going after a long break & cranked out 2-3 hundred 9mm using mixed range brass & was checking them all along the way for powder weight & OAL-all good. When I was looking at them as I transferred them from the press to storage container I noticed a short one that the bullet had pushed in on & started going through all of them trying to push the bullets in & found almost a 100 that had almost no neck tension & every single one of them was Blazer brass. Never had issues with Blazer but something changed with the brass wall thickness & they weigh a bit less too. Pulled all of the collapsed rounds & salvaged powder & bullets.
Spent yesterday culling all of the Blazer 9mm from my stock that was probably about 20% of my range pick up brass, not fun but I feel comfortable moving forward now & will look at what it will take to reload the Blazer with correct neck tension down the road if I need to.
For now no 9mm Blazer brass reloads for me.
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I use a Lee factory crimp die on all my 9MM. It occupies slot 4 on my Dillon 550 toolhead. Works great so far.
 
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