Bullseye Baldee;n60620 said:
It was all I could do to hold myself back.
But I was probably coming down with the flu when I pulled those canon shells apart for you. Hope you don't get it.
What did you do in the reloading room today?
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It was all I could do to hold myself back.
But I was probably coming down with the flu when I pulled those canon shells apart for you. Hope you don't get it.
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Starkherz199;n2543 said:
Funny, I think I do the same thing often.
BUT, tonight I reloaded 100 rounds of 9mm practice ammo.
Tailhunter;n60625 said:
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Made 100 9mm zombies for test and also broke down 50 dud Syrian 7.5 MAS rounds and reloaded them in fresh boxer brass....now I have to pop the primers and remove the berdan primers to prep them for loading as well.
Made my own case lube and resized about 500 223's. Man I wish I had done that a long time ago, I had no idea.... I started trimming and I have got to find a better way to trim. Maybe I can find something at the gunshow this weekend. If not, I'll order one.
Set the LnL up for 40. Loaded some, will load some more after work. Gotta get ready for Saturday. First limited match with likely untested ammo, should be grand.
Plunk tested every round, first time ever, mostly curiousity, actually had two rejects...
Plunk tested every round, first time ever, mostly curiousity, actually had two rejects...
Well, not today, but this week. Loaded up 100 rounds of 45acp with RMR hardcore bullets, and 250 rounds with Xtreme 230 RN bullets, both over Red Dot powder. Then I loaded up 250 rounds of 9mm with 124gn Bayou bullets over Titegroup.
Toprudder;n63453 said:
230 gr RMR bullets? I had to seat mine deeper due to the contour of the bullet.
I have since moved to Xtreme"s but haven't loading any yet.
Wet tumbled some .40 brass for a change in my new FART(Frankford Arsenal Rotary Tumbler). They come out just as shiny as the 9mm I had been running. Gotta love cleaning 17 lbs of brass, making it look like brand new (at least on the outside) with a total of maybe 5 minutes time of actually touching it.
I have elected to not use the SS pins that many use to get the inside of the case and primer pockets clean, just not that important to me. Also dont feel like decapping dirty brass and then having to separate the pins out later.
I have elected to not use the SS pins that many use to get the inside of the case and primer pockets clean, just not that important to me. Also dont feel like decapping dirty brass and then having to separate the pins out later.
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Deprimed a bunch of 308 brass, getting it ready for the wet tumbler tomorrow.
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Got my ultra mount put together and mounted the loadmaster on it.
Put my loadmaster priming system back together.
Ran about 50 rounds through it and had 5 stoppages. All primer related.
So did what any millennial would do. I quit.
And then I broke out the bench prime.
Even using the loadmaster like a single stage to decap/size then priming on the bench prime then going back and running through the rest of the stages it seems incredibly faster than my manual index press, so for now I'm happy.
Likely will be a t-mag II in classified soon.
Lucky13bullets;n64561 said:
They come out looking as good as if not better than new factory rounds, except for the insides of the cases which I could care less about. But many of those look real good too. The pic below from left to right is of 2 pieces of once fired Win white box brass before being cleaned, two cleaned in crushed walnut, two wet tumbled with no pins, and one factory round of winchester white box.
The pics dont really do the wet tumbled brass justice, they are definitely brighter than they seem. The crushed walnut tumbled brass is clean but not shiny.
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Another 100 after feeding the baby. Really starting to dig this loadmaster.
I loaded 100 9mm Luger rounds, listened to the inauguration with a big smile on my face, went out in the boat and caught several sea trout, ate a pan of Topsail oysters, and loaded another 200 rounds of 9mm Luger to celebrate this eventful day.
Sp00ks;n63494 said:
Yes, the RMR "Hardcore Match" 230gn bullets have a very short, blunt ogive. I have to seat them to 1.200" to pass the plunk test +0.015" in all my guns. I just picked up a nice S&W 1911 that will plunk at 1.265" with those bullets, though. I loaded up some at 1.245" and shot them in the S&W and they ran flawlessly and accurately, and I have a 45acp revolver that I can seat them to anything I want. I will probably use them up and not get any more. I believe the standard RMR plated bullets (not the hardcore match) have the longer ogive similar to the Xtreme. I picked up some 200gn RMR plated but have not loaded them yet.
dave33;n63781 said:
Decapping them does allow the water to drain out easier so that they dry quicker.
For rifle brass, I often wet tumble for 15 minutes without the pins, just to get the outside clean. Then I dry just enough so I can lube and resize/decap, then back into the tumbler WITH the pins for the final cleaning. This gets all the lube off as well.
I have wet tumbled pistol brass a couple of times without decapping. After the brass was all dried, I had several "ringers" where the primers came apart, some of them still stuck in the primer pocket. I don't know if if was because of the wet tumbling, but that was the only time I ever had it happen.
Stopped by Lucky13. Picked up 500 223fmj and a couple lbs. of powder. I have several hundred lbs of lead to melt and flux but not today. Wheres Darren?
Toprudder;n66117 said:
Ive heard of that happening on occasion but have not experienced it yet. I have just started wet tumbling but before that I had gotten into citric acid cleaning brass, which is a lot like wet tumbling, just without the tumbler. Put a bunch of brass in a pot, pour near boiling hot water over it with a couple tablespoons of citric acid, and stir it a few times while it soaks for about 15 mins. Brass comes out fairly clean and slightly more shiny than walnut shell cleaned brass. Ive been doing this for around a year now and several thousand cases, never a decapping problem (pause while I knock on some wood).
Maybe the ringers occur if the brass isnt completely dry before being put into storage containers. Im lucky enough to have a large room dedicated to reloading so all the brass I wet tumble gets spread way out and left to dry under a ceiling fan for a minimum of overnight, and sometimes a few days if I dont get back to it right away. Moving air is great for drying things out.
Loaded up 100rds of .41Mag. Half with a 215gr LSWC over 17.6gr of 2400 & half with the same LSWC over 8.4gr of Unique.
The 2400 load always shot well from my 5.5" Bisley BH, so I'm using it as a baseline for the 7.5" Bisley SBH Hunter. The Unique load is supposed to be fairly mild & should be even more so with the extra weight of Hunter.
I was pleasantly surprised at how well Unique metered from the Lee Pro Auto Disk.
Also ordered a Chrony Beta Master, so no more guesswork on velocity.
The 2400 load always shot well from my 5.5" Bisley BH, so I'm using it as a baseline for the 7.5" Bisley SBH Hunter. The Unique load is supposed to be fairly mild & should be even more so with the extra weight of Hunter.
I was pleasantly surprised at how well Unique metered from the Lee Pro Auto Disk.
Also ordered a Chrony Beta Master, so no more guesswork on velocity.
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Loaded 400 rds of 9mm and learned mini me how to case gauge them. He actually did a great job of finding a few 380 cases
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Wet tumbled a bunch of 45acp and 308 brass.
Also cast a handful of 45acp LSWC in the new mold Lee sent as a replacement for the incorrectly machined one. The boolits out of this mold barely even touch the sizing die, so all appears to be as it should be with the new mold. They mic from 0.4515 and 0.452...dern near perfect.
Also cast a handful of 45acp LSWC in the new mold Lee sent as a replacement for the incorrectly machined one. The boolits out of this mold barely even touch the sizing die, so all appears to be as it should be with the new mold. They mic from 0.4515 and 0.452...dern near perfect.
Loaded up the last of the 9mm 147gr Lucky13 bullets. Just picked the 500 count bag three days ago and already running low.
Set up the Dillon for .223, loaded up 5 test rounds. Same recipe as always but best to check before I load 1,000 rounds.
Sorted and organized all my brass out of coffee cans and into freezer bags. Easier to identify now with better labeling and stored in a plastic 3 drawers.
Found a coffee can full of .380 brass that's tumbling now.
Set up the Dillon for .223, loaded up 5 test rounds. Same recipe as always but best to check before I load 1,000 rounds.
Sorted and organized all my brass out of coffee cans and into freezer bags. Easier to identify now with better labeling and stored in a plastic 3 drawers.
Found a coffee can full of .380 brass that's tumbling now.
Rebuilding a weber grill, bullets will have to wait.
Broke in the new Arsenal 124 TC mold the wife got me.
When it went right it rained perfect bullets, but when it went wrong they wrinkled like crazy and base fill-out was terrible. Never had so much difficulty with a mold. I think the nozzle on my pot may have had something floating around in it cause the pour speed kept changing.
Five cavities sure drained the pot fast, seemed faster than my 4 cav 155 even though the volume is the same. Length of the 5 isn't as agreeable with the 4/20 as I'd like.
Then sized and lubed the 2/300 that didn't get kicked to the reject pile, and followed that up with 3/400 155s that have been hanging out for a few weeks.
When it went right it rained perfect bullets, but when it went wrong they wrinkled like crazy and base fill-out was terrible. Never had so much difficulty with a mold. I think the nozzle on my pot may have had something floating around in it cause the pour speed kept changing.
Five cavities sure drained the pot fast, seemed faster than my 4 cav 155 even though the volume is the same. Length of the 5 isn't as agreeable with the 4/20 as I'd like.
Then sized and lubed the 2/300 that didn't get kicked to the reject pile, and followed that up with 3/400 155s that have been hanging out for a few weeks.
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dave33;n68986 said:
Those look interesting, what kind of powder/oal you use with that?
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Ran a few case tubes of 9mm through the loadmaster before dinner. Still blown away at the difference in output running this guy for less than an hour compared to my t-mag....
Loaded 50 300 BO with 16.1 gn of H110 under a Hornady 150 FMJ. Guess is about 1800 ft/sec.
Do not trust any thing that people say on the internet. I bought 1000 processed cases for the 300 BO. While loading about 20 of the above cases I tried one in a case gauge and it would not fit all the way. Ended up pulling all the loaded cases and running them through a resizing die without the decapping pin. Had another 50 cases primed and ran them through the sizing die too.
Lesson learned, resize everything that someone else suppose to have sized.
Do not trust any thing that people say on the internet. I bought 1000 processed cases for the 300 BO. While loading about 20 of the above cases I tried one in a case gauge and it would not fit all the way. Ended up pulling all the loaded cases and running them through a resizing die without the decapping pin. Had another 50 cases primed and ran them through the sizing die too.
Lesson learned, resize everything that someone else suppose to have sized.