Shooting your very first reloads is very rewarding when they fly down range. It's a cool moment to know you loaded it yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by MilehighGS
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Shooting your very first reloads is very rewarding when they fly down range. It's a cool moment to know you loaded it yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by MilehighGS
Rolled up around 650 rounds of .45 ball last night. Since I started casting, they've been just taking up space on the shelf.
Mayhap I'll run them through my Glock. There. I said it. I own a Glock. [hammer]
The first step is admitting you have a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombie Steve
I built a couple of cheap target stands out of 2x4x96's and 1x2x96's. Yay!
Looked for a few boxes for finished rounds. Never located, i did find a complete lower, had no clue was out there. Wonder if i need to do a 4473 before i bring it in the house.
Feel better now? [Coffee] If you need help getting rid of them, give me a holler!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombie Steve
Cried that I don't have a 1050.. So many buckets of brass - and just one little 600 to swage it all.
Started reloading 9mm 147's to replace those that I shot at the Colorado Freedom Shoot over the weekend. "Started" being the operative word.
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Are you transferring it to your house?Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
I did write up a report on my dismal trip a few pages back...Quote:
Originally Posted by JackRyan
Basically, my best results at 200 yds were with 23.0 gr of IMR 4064 which gave me a 4.16" group. Just a little over 2 MOA. A little disappointing, but I think I had quite a few other issues that day.
It was out of my possession for more than 72 hrs [Sarcasm2]Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
packaging up some inert 38 rds for mazin.
That's like too much money or too much sex. A good problem to have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim K
stop acting like a spoiled dick [Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamnanc
Loaded up 1k .40 S&W with 5.6gr HP-38, 155gr FP, CCI primers.
Loaded up 250 rounds of 300 Win Mag with Berger 300gn Hybrids and H-1000.
Gonna burn up a bunch of them tomorrow.
pulled some misc calibers i loaded sometime ago. Unknown / unmarked specs. easier to reuse components than risk an accident.
A 300 gr 30 cal, interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
Inquiring minds (me) want to know, what kind of velocity/bc does one obtain from such a creature?
Test load of 220 gr 300 BLK with h110, few thousand .223 and prepped 300 BLK case mouths.
200 more 9mm loaded with 4.2 gr titegroup and xtreme 115gr bullets. And 500 more cases thru the tumbler.
If you're still looking, those big white boxes that Xtreme Bullets come in are perfect for storage of reloads. The big box will hold 400x 9mm, or 250x .40S&W. Print out a little tag indicating the load data, quantity and whatnot, then tape it shut and stack em wherever. I'm getting rid of my 50rd factory ammo boxes in favor of this since I can store more bullets in less space since they aren't stacked neatly. And lets be honest here, reloading the mags from a pile of rounds or from a neatly organized tray isn't faster one way or another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
Decided to break out my reloading stuff yesterday, spent all morning tumbling, decapping, cleaning, sizing about 1000x 223 (trimming/deburring these), 750x 9mm, 500x .40S&W. Then finished with priming that 223 only since I'm apparently out of small pistol primers. My wife gave me crap for not packing, until I showed her that I was really consolidating containers and was able to trash about 5-10 smaller containers that were holding brass in various processing stages. I sure showed her! [LOL]
Good catch. Meant 230. Had 338 Lapua on the brain. Thats where I use 300 gn Hybrids.Quote:
Originally Posted by bkincaid
Outstanding tip, not sure why I didn't think of using those. My first order from xtreme came in the large 1000 count box. My second order came in two smaller 500 count boxes. The smaller boxes work great for me for loaded ammo. It just barely holds 250 rounds of 9mm.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuffCyclist
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Nice. I have always gotten my bullets in the boxes that are twice that size (long rectangular), so I guess those are the 1000rd boxes. But my last order, I got the 500rd boxes which might actually make it easier to store.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenverGP
Big day,
4k .223 69gr smk with H335
500 300 BLK 125gr balistic tip with H110
finshed case mouth prep of about 2k BLK brass.
case necked turned a couple hundred .308
then I cleaned the shop a little. I'm going to switch tool heads to 9mm and then going to have a big spring cleaning. The shop is getting pretty messy.
Sort brass
Clean and trim 30-06 brass for the Garand
Sorted some hand gun brass. Need to load test some .38spl 125 MG JHP's and 200gr xtreme plated 45 acp.
Installed my replacement primer feeder. I was having a issue where primers were occasionally getting stuck in the tube coming from the primer tray on my Lee Safety Prime. Emailed them, and they shipped out a replacement part free of charge, no questions asked. Now feeding perfectly.
Casting for Stevie?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombie Steve
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Originally Posted by Zombie Steve
Very nice. Wish i had the time, and room to cast.
Little Stevie don't shoot he-man calibers.
ya!
3 words: seventy-five mike mike.
yep...
Well I tried to load up .45 but I quit. Changed the 550 from .40 to .45, loaded some primers, set the powder measure to run a few test cases. Had a problem with primers not feeding, turns out I put the small primer bar back in so I got that fixed. Dumped bullets into the tray a spilled a few dozen on the floor and as I was getting up my arm hit the casing bin a dumped all 200 on the floor. After cleaning that up I am taking a break so I can get my focus back. Some times you need to take a break.
I here ya. That is what I'm doing right now. I can't tell you how many times I have forgot to switch the primer bar. Because of that reason I'm looking for another 550.
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Originally Posted by bobbyfairbanks
To solve the primer issue i have one auto prime set for lg and 1 for small. Change from 357 - 45 off comes small, on goes large. No more remembering to swap small/large primer tube etc.
Finished loading my 147gr plated. I actually ran out of bullets and WSF at the same time! That almost never happens.
Cleaned... Organized..... Not much fun.
Come on over , see if i can catch the Mr. Clean motivation vibe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamnanc
Tossed a crappy paint job lower in the tumbler. Looks like it did a nice clean up job.