What did you do in the reloading room today?

[thedave1164]

You going to powder coat or lube?

Both, I need to get the rest of my equipment, only thing I have covered right now is Alox tumble lube, and I am not in a hurry to do it yet.

I will probably pan lube and HF powder coat.

Got the .44 cast and did some 9mm while I had the shiny stuff flowing

[Great-Kazoo]

Both, I need to get the rest of my equipment, only thing I have covered right now is Alox tumble lube, and I am not in a hurry to do it yet.

I will probably pan lube and HF powder coat.

Got the .44 cast and did some 9mm while I had the shiny stuff flowing

I have a PC oven in the shop, if needed

[thedave1164]

I have a PC oven in the shop, if needed

Why yes you do

[thedave1164]

One day I need to get Dave out here to school me on some casting. I have the equipment and lead, but I havent done any in many years. I wouldnt mind a refresher.

We can do that

[thedave1164]

Finished dialing in my new .223 dies for the 550, loaded up 50 rounds to test.

Setup the Hornady LNL bushings in the RCBS RC Supreme, then setup my .45-70 dies and loaded 40 rounds.

Setup and used my World's Cheapest Trimmer for .223 and it works as advertised.

Setup the GS Customs Swager for Dillon 550, works as advertised, hardest thing to remember is that it does not need to bottom out in the primer pocket, the crimp is only on the outside edge.

[Great-Kazoo]

975 on the 1050. Need to dial back on the lube a bit.

[thedave1164]

Deprimed a small bucket of 9mm, attempted my first run of PC cast bullets.

The first run was questionable, but should work, the second run was too long but should also work.

The third run was decent, so I expect I should get better with each run as I learn to coat better.

So far I am cleaning the bullets first with acetone, then dumping them in a recycle #5 container and doing the shake shake shake.

Going to see about some of the black air soft bb's.

I am using the HF red now and will explore others as I master the technique

[gnihcraes]

loaded ~ 300 .223's
loaded ~ 300 9mm's on the 550B

Loaded 50 .308's and found out the military brass won't chamber in the savage edge. grrrr
Pulled 50 .308's apart.
Loaded 50 .308's into other brass.

Squeeze put some new sights on my G19 while I pulled the .308's apart. Thanks Squeeze!!!

[Great-Kazoo]

loaded ~ 300 .223's
loaded ~ 300 9mm's on the 550B

Loaded 50 .308's and found out the military brass won't chamber in the savage edge. grrrr
Pulled 50 .308's apart.
Loaded 50 .308's into other brass.

Squeeze put some new sights on my G19 while I pulled the .308's apart. Thanks Squeeze!!!

Try camming over on the sizing die.


Speaking of pulling some bullets

FINALLY got on to the many containers of suspect ammo and other reasoning i didn't shoot it stuff to pull bullets, that were taking up space for who knows how long.
Ended up with 1/3 lb of misc powders in the tray and another broken kinetic puller.

[Hoser]

I found an old batch (500 pcs) of virgin match prepped 223 brass in an ammo can a few weeks ago. I had trimmed them all to the same length, uniformed the primer pockets, cleaned up the flash holes and barely turned the necks to remove the high spots.

Loaded them up with 3.9 gns of Titegroup and Federal small pistol primers. Topped that off with cream of wheat and a chunk of paper towel for fireforming into 223 Ackley. Well, I got the powder part and the cream of what done on all. Now to find some more spare time to finish them off and fireform all.