What did you do in the reloading room today?

I worked up my first .45ACP loads over the last few days.

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Haven't been to the Reloading Room today, but Santa did bring a set of Lee 9mm Dies!

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Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy

I'm happy to report that I've finally started to use the Dillon 650 I bought back in June. Never being a big fan of doing anything in moderation, I've deprimed and resized 2100 pieces of .223 brass in the last 2 days.

Depending on how the Christmas festivities go later today, I'm hoping to fire up the case trimmer and bring 'em all down to size. I spent about 45 minutes fiddling with the adjustment screw on my Giraud trimmer this evening chasing down the last .005" accuracy. Should have looked at the acceptable tolerance before I wasted all that time. Woops. In a test batch of 20, I'm seeing between 1.748 and 1.752. Searching around, it seems like the allowable tolerance is between 1.74 and 1.76. My worst ones weren't that far off.

This reloading stuff is addictive. Those of you who've met me in person know the I'm a "clean your plate" kinda guy. It's tough to walk away from it and go to bed when I could always do just one more batch...

Once the .223 brass is prepped, I'm planning to put it away until I first gain a little experience doing some 9mm. I just picked up a new XDm 5.25 in 9mm today and I can't wait to go try it out. Santa was good to me this year!

Rod

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get to it cowboy. I have a dedicated 650 for 9mm if you're in the neighborhood.

For adjusting the Giraud, pick up one of the hornady lock rings. If you don't have a spare dillon lock ring / nut.
http://www.hornady.com/store/Sure-Loc-Lock-Ring-1-Each/

Unfortunately I loaded about 3,500 rounds of 9x19 with Extreme 147 gn plated bullets tonight. I only have 1,500 left to load tomorrow night.

I ordered 5,000 of the .357 version of this bullet for my 4 inch Smith 686 back in Sept. And then they sent me the .355 bullet.

Rather than go through the ass-pain of returning them, I figure they will make decent machine gun blasting ammo.

If they screw up the re-order, they will have to eat the return shipping.

Processed 1300 .223 on Jim's 1050.

Sizin' boolits on the Star.

Prepped and primed 3500 223 for the coming season, started on 2000 308 case prep. Will be done with the 308 by the new year and then the loading starts.

Bought 6,000 pcs of once fired 45 GAP for a song from a buddy in Florida. Its in good shape, but tarnished from getting wet.

So now to make it pretty again I am going to end up tumbling it all in stainless media. 700 pcs done today. 5,300 to go. Joy.

Finally found my reloading room & loaded up some .45acp with Nosler 185gr JHP competition bullets with 231 powder.


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Made about a thousand 300 Whisper/Blackout and kept plugging along with cleaning up my 45 GAP brass.