What did you do in the reloading room today?

Wolffy said:
Oh, I know
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And how. It also transfers easily to other surfaces.

My wife, she's the cruise director at our house, had booked us a dinner with neighbors, and while she was "putting on her face", I decided to knock out a couple hundred 9mm while I waited. When she was ready I turned off the light and we headed out. At the restaurant our friends asked what I had on my face.

Yup she saw it, and let me wear it.

Gotta love a woman like that.
 
Cleaned up a bunch of brass from my range trip / ammo tests on Monday. I will analyze my data and choose a favorite load in a day or two and start loading some up.

Question: Have any of you heard of mixing crushed corn in a cowboy cartridge? Not that I intend on doing that but I was told some competition cowboy shooters do that to 1) fill the cartridge and 2) shoot a spreading load (easier to pop the balloons). Interesting.

TIA
Elmer
 
Elmer said:
Cleaned up a bunch of brass from my range trip / ammo tests on Monday. I will analyze my data and choose a favorite load in a day or two and start loading some up.

Question: Have any of you heard of mixing crushed corn in a cowboy cartridge? Not that I intend on doing that but I was told some competition cowboy shooters do that to 1) fill the cartridge and 2) shoot a spreading load (easier to pop the balloons). Interesting.

TIA
Elmer
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I have put grits in loads before, but only when I load blackpowder type powder. No reason to do it in smokeless unless using case sensitive powder. But before I would do that, I would change powders.
 
Yesterday was a first for me. Was decapping a bunch of 308 on a single stage press and had a good rhythm going until I fumbled a case with my left hand. My right hand failed to notice what my left was doing and closed the press anyway. Only caught a bit of the finger between the brass and the die, which is good because what it did catch it carved clean off.
 
Yesterday was a first for me. Was decapping a bunch of 308 on a single stage press and had a good rhythm going until I fumbled a case with my left hand. My right hand failed to notice what my left was doing and closed the press anyway. Only caught a bit of the finger between the brass and the die, which is good because what it did catch it carved clean off.
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I haven't done anything like that --- YET --- but I do tend to get a bit absent minded when I get into a rhythm. Gotta watch that. Sorry for your pain but thanks for the reminder.
 
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I have put grits in loads before, but only when I load blackpowder type powder. No reason to do it in smokeless unless using case sensitive powder. But before I would do that, I would change powders.
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Makes sense to me.
 
Charlie R said:
And how. It also transfers easily to other surfaces.

My wife, she's the cruise director at our house, had booked us a dinner with neighbors, and while she was "putting on her face", I decided to knock out a couple hundred 9mm while I waited. When she was ready I turned off the light and we headed out. At the restaurant our friends asked what I had on my face.

Yup she saw it, and let me wear it.

Gotta love a woman like that.
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so you were both "putting on your face"
 
Grabbed a big cup of coffee then started doing some reloading:
100 38 Spl. with 125 grn Extreme FP over 4.4 grns of Unique
50 38 Spl with 140 Hornady 140 grns XTP over 5.4 grns of Unique
50 9 MM with 124 grn Extreme RN over 5.7 of Shooters World Auto Pistol
70 rounds of 308s using a bunch of different loads using a Hornady 150 Interlock 150 gn SP

Then grabbed a stiff drink of Billet and some Boston butt while watching Gun Venture.

I would call that a good night.
 
Elmer said:
Cleaned up a bunch of brass from my range trip / ammo tests on Monday. I will analyze my data and choose a favorite load in a day or two and start loading some up.

Question: Have any of you heard of mixing crushed corn in a cowboy cartridge? Not that I intend on doing that but I was told some competition cowboy shooters do that to 1) fill the cartridge and 2) shoot a spreading load (easier to pop the balloons). Interesting.

TIA
Elmer
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I think that is for the horse people who ride around shooting balloons. I do not think that is allowed if you shoot at a balloon unless you are on a horse.
 
I just put a LFRB worth of decapped mil pickup .308 in the wet tumbler. When I get it out and dry I’ll swage the primer pockets. But I have a question. I’m cleaning this up just to have it for the future, I don’t currently shoot .308, so should I go ahead and anneal it, full length size it, small base size it, trim to min length since I have time, or should I anneal it but then not do anything else til I have the gun that I want to use it in? Seems that if I go with a bolt gun I might not need to take it all the way back to min specs.

With no input I’d probably treat it like new brass and do all of the prep now and deal with the fitting to the new gun after the first firing, but thought I’d ask.
 
Me personally? I would anneal, full length size it. Trim it only if it needs it or you want to get it to minimum length. Then stick it in a box.
 
Hi Folks,
I spent this rainy day in "The Hole" cleaning up the place and then loading up (you guessed it) some .45 Colt: 255 gr LSWC over Titegroup and 200 gr LRNFP over Trail Boss. The lead bullets I used today were polymer coated: some from ACME and some from Badman Bullets. I also loaded up some Hornady 250 gr XTP over IMR-4227. 'Twas a good day!
 
So I got my Hornady OAL guage today and started playing with it on a gas gun I built a while back but haven't loaded for yet. Barrel is a White Oak Armament SPR 18" 1:7". I loaded up some 77 smk's a while back from min to max in .02 increments at 2.250" so I had planned on testing them in this gun but it seems that this barrel has a stupid short throat. OAL guage gave me a 2.201" from base to tip. Comparator gave me 1.814" from base to ogive. So with loads that are .010" under mag length I'm going to be jammed .050" IN the rifling. Wtf...

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Deprimed 520 cases of 38 special. Took about 50 minutes on a single stage press. Done in time to watch Big Bang!
 
Loaded up some .454 Casull. I used polymer coated 255 gr LSWC over Accurate 2400 powder as per Lyman's load data. I ran a second batch using the same bullet but with Trail Boss powder as per MD Smith's Reloading Pages. Looking forward to a good day at the range tomorrow.
 
De-primed and wet tumbled a ba-zillion (ok...maybe 1K) 44 Magnum cases and then resized them. Killed my Nesco de-hydrator in the process, super disappointed and super pissed that the Nesco didn't last even 76 days!

EDIT: Of course, I did this over the last few days:p


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JimB said:
Yesterday was a first for me. Was decapping a bunch of 308 on a single stage press and had a good rhythm going until I fumbled a case with my left hand. My right hand failed to notice what my left was doing and closed the press anyway. Only caught a bit of the finger between the brass and the die, which is good because what it did catch it carved clean off.
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Ouchee!
 
More .38 Special. First batch using Hornady 125 gr XTP over Bullseye powder as per Hornady load data. Second batch using Eggleston coated 158 gr LSWC over Bullseye powder as per Lyman load data. Fun Saturday. I really should get out more but this is cool. Groovy, as it was said back in the day. The Cat's Pajamas and such. :cool:
 
ncav8tor said:
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Must of been a 22 case in my bag and I did not notice it. Never felt it on the press either. It is all (not 22) in the tumbler now so all is good. That will be a thousand pieces deprimed and cleaned this weekend. Will start loading them tomorrow. :)
 
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