Yup. Three of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthPark
I am back from the fires.
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Yup. Three of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthPark
I am back from the fires.
Pick up my first Dillon today. Time will tell if it's all that and a bag of chips
Which press did you get
Dillon Square Deal B.
Since I just moved here, I started unpacking.
Dug up the plans to build a new(exact same) bench I gave to my neighbor when I left TN.
Grant
Wrapping up processing (FL Resize, Trim, de-burr/chamfer, wet table, indiction anneal) 4,000 pcs of 308 brass for a Denver shooter. That took some time...
I have a brand spanking new JP I just received. I really want to get loading for it. My 550 was set up for .260, though, and I'd just completed a complete re-development of the load for that rifle. Instead of tearing it down and doing development on the JP, I loaded 300 rounds of .260 ammo in one sitting. Barf.
That was yesterday. Today, I switched over to .223 and got out the fist set of test ammo (77SMKs and TAC) for the JP. I'm hoping to find a combination I can load on the 550 with my super-duper charge weighing process (poor man's Prometheus) for big matches, and also crank out on the 650 for practice and local matches.
A whole lot of organizing....and a little cleaning.
Grant
Well, after a LONG hiatus, I've started reloading 12ga again. When I go through my two remaining bags of shot, there'll be another hiatus. Plenty of hulls, primers, wads...but that shot is crazy expensive.
I turned about 4,000 pcs of 223 brass into 300 Whisper/BLK brass. 3,000 of it for a friend and 1,000 for me.
Ran about 500 pcs of 308 brass through my Giraud trimmer.
Thought about cleaning up the whole room, then got smart and walked away.
Loaded 800rnds of 9mm on the Dillon square deal B. Very happy with the press,also Loaded 250rnds 223 55gr V-max on the old Lee classic turret press.
350 rounds of precision.223 on my Dillon 650. I spent the rest of the day chasing OAL issues loading for the Dasher on my 550. Never did figure it out.
38 SPL 148 grain LWC. My cast bullets PC'd with Harbor Freight red. 3 grains of Red Dot that been laying around.
Decided that I need some organization if I'm going to be adding another 3 calibers to reload.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gg...=w1632-h918-no
I need something like those.
$19.99 at Harbor Freight. They have larger and smaller sizes as well.
They aren't as rigid as I'm sure nicer ones are, but I think it'll do the job.
Good plan. Keeping organized will keep mistakes down to a dull roar.
I've shifted to only a couple calibers to reload:
.223, 6mm, and 6.5mm.
I've also found that I can get a couple of the calibers down to using a similar powder, so I can keep a greater quantity on hand of the few that I use the most.
I'm going to try reloading for rifle, and it seems like it's easier to have multiple stages of brass prep in rifle. For pistol it's "Not clean" bucket and "Clean" bucket.
My rifle is not cleaned, cleaned ready to prep and prepped (sized, deprimed, swaged and chamfered) 1x, 2x 3x fired.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
I also picked up the Harbor Freight 2in Mini chop saw for converting .223 to 300 blk. Last up is a trimmer. I have an RCBS trimmer, just need to take the time to set it up and see if I like it enough to not buy something else.
Irving,
If you can get just the backing plate and they're a copy of the akro bins, or just want more bins, I have a giant box of them here, the real deal akro bins. They're used and some are kinda crusty, but you're welcome to come get as many as you need. They're all the "blue size."
Thanks, I'll have to look for backing plate.
I have begun the brass prep for a bunch of fire formed brass. Decapped, cleaned, weighed and bagged by weights. Ready to begin loading my first ladder test.
Perhaps try Harbor Freight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
I been slackin', I need to do some yankin' and crankin' and bullet casting. Also have a metric shitload of range pick-up brass to clean up. Four 5 gallon buckets of .223 brass, another four of 9mm, plus a ton of .40, .45acp, .38sp, .357mag, .44sp, .44mag, .45Colt, .308, .300BO, .30-06, .380, and God knows what else. Never ceases to amaze me how much I find out at BLGC. I really need to clean it up and put a bunch up for sale, need to start a new rifle fund!
Oh, and clean up the gun corner in the basement? Yeah, that too.....
Hey, at least I got all the buckets of wheel weights melted down and poured into ingots. Got about 13-14 .30 cal ammo cans full of 1lb ingots, 65 per can. Heavy bastards.
Speaking of pick up brass, what do you guys do with casings that have extractor claw marks in them?
What do you consider acceptable?
I've been setting aside those that are visibly deformed. Pretty sure they're not out of my guns (suppressed) but will start separating my brass from any pickups to be certain. Some folks would appear to be running excessive gas pressures in their guns.
Mark your brass with a Sharpie for easy ID/separation.
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This is especially easy if you store them, upside down, in cases as you reload them. Just take a ruler and a sharpie and run a line across the whole row. More tedious to do before loading, and if you do it before cleaning, the tumbler will take off a lot, but not all, of the sharpie.Quote:
Originally Posted by crays
I loaded a ladder test for my 6.5x47L.
For that reason and others I no longer pick up brass other than my own. If brass is on the ground it's due to the prior shooter not a reloader, a reloader who knows that brass is past use or someone too lazy to police the area.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
I don't care to figure out which is which and leave it there. We shoot at private ranges where they do a brass sweep 1-3x a month for scrap, putting that $$ back in to the general range fund.
Read back through the past two years of this sub-forum to find info on one of my loads that I failed to write down.
That's sage advice and probably my go forward strategy since I'm doing such low volumes anyway. I've seen some really abused casings, particularly as I handle them several times in my tedious processing. The split cases are the scariest ones. Those are like a huge WTF?.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
Working through the H-335 i have sitting here. 24.4 with a Hornady (2265) 55gr jsp out of the S-I-L's MVP has been an excellent combo.
I was going to load him up a few hundred rounds UNTIL............................................. ..............
I started pulling the handle. All the while knowing in 15 days CA enacts Ammo buying restrictions After the 2nd hundred i was Fuk CA .and another Feel Good BS restriction on 2nd amendment rights. So.....................I'm pulling the handle till i run out of powder which should give them 1K + for Christmas.
If i stay pissed i'll probably burn through the keg of 2230 i have in reserve, there's enough jsp to keep me going all weekend ;)
Loaded up just under 100 rounds of 243 ammo with H-1000 and 115gn DTACs.
Going to burn through most of it tomorrow.
You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to have your kid reload for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
I set up my new Dillon 1050 (.223) and converted my 650 from .223 to .45ACP. Pretty good fun.
I loaded some test 380 auto. First time I've loaded that caliber. Then converted the 550 over to load a ladder test on subsonic 300 BLK. Hoping to start that tonight.
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Dealt with my first ever stuck case. My 550 doesn't mind my .40 Lee dies, but it sure hates the 9mms Lee dies.
What lube you using ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving