What did you do in the reloading room today?

Loaded some 308 with 155 gr Amax, 45.5 gr Varget. Had to trim some cases which sucked.
 
Un boxed a package that arrived today.....I ordered 500 9mm 115 gainers and 100 45 230 grain hp to try them out......order was placed 30 days ago.....good thing it was extras mostly......well guess they felt sorry for me and shipped me 500 of each!
 
My first reloading act...
I sized/deprimed 100 rounds of .223. Then I tumbled (cob media) them and spent FOR FREAKING EVER getting the media out of the primer pocket.
Is there a trick here? Got to figure that out.
Then I trimmed them to length. Headed over to
Lucky13bullets but didn't realize they closed at 1:30. Doh! Heading over tomorrow instead!
 
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Put together 250 9mm for Saturdays match. Trying some 115gr for the PCC see if they extract better then the 147's.
 
Started the tumbler when I got home from work. Loaded up another hundred rounds of wonder 9's. I'm really liking the Pro 1000 so far. We are getting along well, haha.
 
DarrenC;n31706 said:
My first reloading act...
I sized/deprimed 100 rounds of .223. Then I tumbled (con media) them and spent FOR FREAKING EVER getting the media out of the primer pocket.
Is there a trick here? Got to figure that out.
Then I trimmed them to length. Headed over to
Lucky13bullets but didn't realize they closed at 1:30. Doh! Heading over tomorrow instead!
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The trick for keeping media out of the primer pocket is to wet tumble.

why did you size before tumbling? I've always thought that the grit from the dirty cases would be hard on the sizing die, so I deprime off press and then wet tumble. I think the more traditional approach is to dry tumble and then size and deprime on the press.

Take that FWIW as I have no experience with bottle-neck cartridges.
 
JimB said:
DarrenC;n31706 said:
My first reloading act...
I sized/deprimed 100 rounds of .223. Then I tumbled (con media) them and spent FOR FREAKING EVER getting the media out of the primer pocket.
Is there a trick here? Got to figure that out.
Then I trimmed them to length. Headed over to
Lucky13bullets but didn't realize they closed at 1:30. Doh! Heading over tomorrow instead!
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The trick for keeping media out of the primer pocket is to wet tumble.

why did you size before tumbling? I've always thought that the grit from the dirty cases would be hard on the sizing die, so I deprime off press and then wet tumble. I think the more traditional approach is to dry tumble and then size and deprime on the press.

Take that FWIW as I have no experience with bottle-neck cartridges.
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I may have been a tad anal my first time through. I ultrasonic cleaned first, lubed and sized, ultrasonic cleaned again then tumbled with the cases wet.

Noob here, what is wet tumbling?
 
JimB said:
DarrenC;n31706 said:
My first reloading act...
I sized/deprimed 100 rounds of .223. Then I tumbled (con media) them and spent FOR FREAKING EVER getting the media out of the primer pocket.
Is there a trick here? Got to figure that out.
Then I trimmed them to length. Headed over to
Lucky13bullets but didn't realize they closed at 1:30. Doh! Heading over tomorrow instead!
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The trick for keeping media out of the primer pocket is to wet tumble.

why did you size before tumbling? I've always thought that the grit from the dirty cases would be hard on the sizing die, so I deprime off press and then wet tumble. I think the more traditional approach is to dry tumble and then size and deprime on the press.

Take that FWIW as I have no experience with bottle-neck cartridges.
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Try skipping the second ultrasonic bath, the dry media will clean off the lube just fine.

Wet tumbling is using a cleaning solution and stainless steel pins in a rotating drum (rock tumbler) to scour the brass clean.
 
I unboxed my first package (2 packages) from Dillon yesterday. HOLY CRAP what a difference in quality. I've always drank red (cheap red) cool aid. But wow, when I opened that 650xl the first thing you realize is how stout everything is. I think out of the entire set up including case feeder I was most impressed with the bullet tray and primer flip tray. I expected cheap plastic, but that was far from what I found.

Now time to redo my bench before I mount it, this thing is tall!
 
49erRider;n32814 said:
I unboxed my first package (2 packages) from Dillon yesterday. HOLY CRAP what a difference in quality. I've always drank red (cheap red) cool aid. But wow, when I opened that 650xl the first thing you realize is how stout everything is. I think out of the entire set up including case feeder I was most impressed with the bullet tray and primer flip tray. I expected cheap plastic, but that was far from what I found.

Now time to redo my bench before I mount it, this thing is tall!
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Welcome to the right side!
 
trcubed;n28959 said:
65lb of ingots later. I'm not gonna count them, but this should be around 2,300 boolits. That pile is almost 3" deep.

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Discovered yesterday that 2 - 3 of the cavities of the 6 cavity mold throw an oversize and out-of-round bullet. They measure 0.452 parallel to the parting line, 0.459 perpendicular to the PL. They are so oversized that I'm damaging my press trying to force them thru the sizing die. Since I AIN'T gonna mike every bullet, looks like they'll all go back in the casting pot. Three hours wasted. Oh well.

I sent the mold back to Lee, along with an unsized bullet and a couple of sized bullets so they can see how bad they are. I'm hoping they'll send a new mold.
 
DarrenC said:
My first reloading act...
I sized/deprimed 100 rounds of .223. Then I tumbled (cob media) them and spent FOR FREAKING EVER getting the media out of the primer pocket.
Is there a trick here? Got to figure that out.
Then I trimmed them to length. Headed over to
Lucky13bullets but didn't realize they closed at 1:30. Doh! Heading over tomorrow instead!
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Don't deprime before tumbling. Clean primer pockets don't do anything better.
Other option, run through a decapping die after tumbling.

Try some different grits of walnut blasting media or different brands of walnut terrarium litter. It will occur less.
 
Loaded my first 40S&W. On the single stage :(.
200gr cast over Titegroup, and 190 Zombies over American Select.
AS better be amazing cause it is the absolute worst metering powder I have ever thrown, and I like long extruded rifle powders.
 
Got the new bench built. Relocated items from boxes and totes to drawers and shelf. Just need to decide if the loadmaster will be going on a inline fabrication ultra mount or just straight to the bench. Will attempt before after photos but am still to lazy to use 3rd party image hosting so maybe won't show.
 
Beef15 said:
Loaded my first 40S&W. On the single stage :(.
200gr cast over Titegroup, and 190 Zombies over American Select.
AS better be amazing cause it is the absolute worst metering powder I have ever thrown, and I like long extruded rifle powders.
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Not amazing. Acceptable accuracy, horrible ES and SD until it started getting hotter. Loud like Power Pistol.
4.4gr @ 1.17 was significantly more than I needed, started there because most of what I found was higher loads, lighter bullets, and longer barrels, only making about the same velocity, strange.
 
Loaded up 150 230 grain HP 45s......recleaned 300ish 45 cases......never.....never never again will I dry tumble with wax in it......filled the cases with walnut "mud"......washed them out in water after but still nasty.....a quick wet tumble and all was well again....
 
Reloaded about a hundred 45acp and deprimed another two hundred or so.
 
Deprimed an ice cream bucket full of 223 brass while watching football. 1 ice cream bucket full down, 1.5 five gallon buckets to go.
 
Wife got me a shell sorter for Christmas so I've finally got around to clearing up a few big buckets of brass. Also deprimed/wet tumbled a bunch of 9mm and .45 rounds and reloaded ~300 9mm rounds for Spartanburg.
 
Mike79 said:
Loaded up 150 230 grain HP 45s......recleaned 300ish 45 cases......never.....never never again will I dry tumble with wax in it......filled the cases with walnut "mud"......washed them out in water after but still nasty.....a quick wet tumble and all was well again....
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I believe that every possible calamity associated with cleaning brass has befallen you. I believe that the guys that add wax to dry media add just a tiny amount. FWIW, I add a bit of car wash wax to the wet tumbler, don't know if it does any good, but some say it inhibits tarnish and makes resizing easier.
 
Loaded 50 rounds of 9mm after my initial load fire test yesterday. If these go well, I'll load 1k.

sorted some range pickup and working on initial tumble before deprime.

Good Lord my wife is a saint. I've taken over the kitchen. Baking brass after initial tumble, rinsing, table has brass waiting to be baked all over it. Using one of her cookie sheets covered in a couple layers of tinfoil and she hasn't said a word. I have to be pushing my luck.......
 
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Walked in, sighed, walked back out. I despise having so much going on
 
Sp00ks said:
Loaded 50 rounds of 9mm after my initial load fire test yesterday. If these go well, I'll load 1k.

sorted some range pickup and working on initial tumble before deprime.

Good Lord my wife is a saint. I've taken over the kitchen. Baking brass after initial tumble, rinsing, table has brass waiting to be baked all over it. Using one of her cookie sheets covered in a couple layers of tinfoil and she hasn't said a word. I have to be pushing my luck.......
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Baking? Is this to dry after a wet tumbling? I just throw it on towels in the garage with a fan on it overnight. On cold/dry days it might even make sense to just spread it on a towel on the kitchen table to give the house air a little humidity boost.
 
Sp00ks said:
Loaded 50 rounds of 9mm after my initial load fire test yesterday. If these go well, I'll load 1k.

sorted some range pickup and working on initial tumble before deprime.

Good Lord my wife is a saint. I've taken over the kitchen. Baking brass after initial tumble, rinsing, table has brass waiting to be baked all over it. Using one of her cookie sheets covered in a couple layers of tinfoil and she hasn't said a word. I have to be pushing my luck.......
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JimB Yes, to dry them faster. I typically do an initial tumble to get the mud and junk out of them and decap in a separate process and I don't want to run that crap through my press. I've just started playing with baking them, typically they are splayed out on the kitchen table. Like they are now after I decapped and tumbled again. :)
 
Sp00ks said:
Loaded 50 rounds of 9mm after my initial load fire test yesterday. If these go well, I'll load 1k.

sorted some range pickup and working on initial tumble before deprime.

Good Lord my wife is a saint. I've taken over the kitchen. Baking brass after initial tumble, rinsing, table has brass waiting to be baked all over it. Using one of her cookie sheets covered in a couple layers of tinfoil and she hasn't said a word. I have to be pushing my luck.......
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Gotcha, I deprime off the press for the same reason.
 
Sp00ks said:
Loaded 50 rounds of 9mm after my initial load fire test yesterday. If these go well, I'll load 1k.

sorted some range pickup and working on initial tumble before deprime.

Good Lord my wife is a saint. I've taken over the kitchen. Baking brass after initial tumble, rinsing, table has brass waiting to be baked all over it. Using one of her cookie sheets covered in a couple layers of tinfoil and she hasn't said a word. I have to be pushing my luck.......
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I have an old dehydrator that had a couple cracked shelves, works wonders. Takes about 15 minutes on high and all is dry.
 
I loaded 2k rounds of 124gr 9mm round noses for competition and practice in the STI guns we shoot. The Dillon 1050 with Mark 7 made it easy, just fed it materials, :)
 
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