What did you do in the reloading room today?

[chazroh]

I shoot a bunch of that same bullet in 38 spl and 357 mag. I bought a 6-cav lee moild, and they pile up in a hurry!

Tumble lube works very well; easy, quick and cheap.

I’ve done some with alox, going to try powder coating. Going to be shooting from a lever gun

 

[Buck98]

Loaded some 45LC

 

[retrieverman]

I’ve still been working on perfecting roll crimping. I haven’t tried Remington hulls, but these Activ’s work a lot better that AA’s.

 

[mr ed]

Today was nice to work in my shed.
Loaded 50 -223- 77gr Sierra's tmk
And 50 - 308 - 168 gr Hornady bthp's
Deprimed, trimmed, tumbled, loaded.
Weighed powder each one.

 

[Dumpstick]

Cleaned a couple 44 Mag revolvers.

Taurus M44 on top, 5.5" Ruger Redhawk on bottom.

Both are big, heavy, capable revolvers.

I've owned the Taurus for over 25 years, it's eaten everything I've thrown at it.
Still getting used to the Ruger, I've only owned it maybe 6 or 7 years.

 

[mr ed]

Loaded another batch of the same loads as last week and installed another powder measure as I'm tired of constantly adjusting it between the 2 loads.

 

[Shriner2.0]

12 ga 7/8 , 1 oz slugs for my 590a1

 

[retrieverman]

12 ga 7/8 , 1 oz slugs for my 590a1

Roll or fold crimp on those?

 

[swampratt]

30-30

I loaded some 30-30 yesterday and shot them. 110 V Max.
I neck turned a bunch of R-P cases because some were .004" thicker than others and I found the 30-30 of mine is very picky.
Model 94. I had to single load them as they would not come out of the gate into the chamber.

I loaded with BL-C (2) and H4895.
The best load was H4895 at 37 gr. I got a 3 shot of .990" and then #4 was a flier 2.5" away.

Neck turning those cases some would only take some off one side of the neck and others would take a LOT off the neck and when seating the bullets you could feel the differences in seating forces.

I will pin tumble all those neck turned and fired cases and then anneal and brush them before sizing.
That should give me more consistent seating forces.

That load showed promise and I will play with it more and play with seating depths only now.


243 winchester.

I do not shoot my 243 rifles as much as I should.
I don't know why because they are lasers.

I built and tested some loads yesterday and the best one was loaded in November last year.

70 Nosler @2.714" OAL with 44gr. H4350 I used 2 R-P cases and 3 Winchester cases. CCI200 primers.
That group had 1 flier in it to open the group to .997" and discount the flier I got .419"

1" high of aim point for the group and perfect left and right
Yesterday was a little windy but I hunt in the wind like everyone does.
I am not saying the wind opened the group. Most likely the range picked up unsorted cases

 

[Shriner2.0]

Roll or fold crimp on those?

Fold not setup for rolling yet and these doesn't call for rolls