What did you do at your reloading bench today?

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  • Moorvogi

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    Dec 28, 2014
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    Vitamins for deer, using 458 socom as dispensing tool.

     

    ToolAA

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    Jun 17, 2016
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    God's Country
    Loaded 700 rounds of 9mm.

    Got a nice surprise too. The box of 1000 bullets came with 1264 actual bullets. I’m guessing their counting scale is off.

    Going to bring my cost down to 0.093 per round.

    Hopefully I’ll finish up these 464 and Plus another 250 HD rounds and some 147gr hard cast tomorrow.
     

    TrappedinMD

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    Dec 15, 2011
    856
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    More .454! There is almost 1/4 lb of powder per 50 round box lol
     

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    inkd

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    Aug 4, 2009
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    Ridge
    Not really my loading bench but I've been making my way through a bunch of scrap lead.
     

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    Melnic

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    Dec 27, 2012
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    That’s the scrap you got or after you cleaned it up and put it into your molds?

    Seems like you are ready to charma some lead ;)


    I started to pull down some Iranian 8mm I recently purchased. Just for grins I ran about 20 of the only primed cases through my Persian Mauser. Many had a strong pop but a few had a weak fizz.

    I plan to save the bullets and powder and load into saved PPU cases and new rifle primers. The bad thing about the pulled bullets is that they had a really heavy crimp on them.


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    inkd

    Ultimate Member
    Aug 4, 2009
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    Ridge
    That’s the scrap you got or after you cleaned it up and put it into your molds?

    Seems like you are ready to charma some lead ;)

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    That's after cleaning, melting and pouring it into molds.

    Some of it is wheel weights and some is re-claimed range lead.
     

    GuitarmanNick

    Ultimate Member
    Jan 9, 2017
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    Laurel
    Loaded up 600 9mm Luger and the last of my 9 x 18mm Makarov cases. Used my new impact puller to take apart and recycle the bullets from some problem rounds. It worked surprisingly well and since I only had a few, it was all I needed. If you have a large lot to do, I recommend getting a setup for your press.
     

    TreadNot

    Active Member
    May 11, 2012
    273
    Bel Air
    100 rounds of 556 on this rainy, gloomy day
    75gn Hornady BTHP
    24.1 gn Shooters World Tactical Rifle
    Wolf magnum primers
    WCC Cases
     

    K-43

    West of Morning Side
    Oct 20, 2010
    1,881
    PG
    100 rounds of 556 on this rainy, gloomy day
    75gn Hornady BTHP
    24.1 gn Shooters World Tactical Rifle
    Wolf magnum primers
    WCC Cases

    I take it you worked that load up since it isn't in the SW or Lovex manuals. How do you like the Tactical Rifle powder?
     

    Rockzilla

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    Feb 6, 2010
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    decapped / cleaned / sorted / sized almost
    2k 45-ACP...I'm done for a day..looking at
    more and more...it just keeps adding up..
    just get tired of doing one caliber, so switch
    to another...

    -Rock
     

    54rndball

    take to the hills
    Mar 16, 2013
    1,486
    Catonsville
    loaded 50 rds of .357 Mag rifle with 14 grains of Win 296. The cases were a little off, probably needed to be trimmed, but that's no biggie.
     

    TreadNot

    Active Member
    May 11, 2012
    273
    Bel Air
    I take it you worked that load up since it isn't in the SW or Lovex manuals. How do you like the Tactical Rifle powder?

    100 rounds of 556 on this rainy, gloomy day
    75gn Hornady BTHP
    24.1 gn Shooters World Tactical Rifle
    Wolf magnum primers
    WCC Cases


    Started at 22.0 and worked up to 24.5. 24.1 seemed to be the sweet spot for me.

    Original 4-shot velocity average was 2642 fps. After I loaded up some more at 24.1, I shot a string of 20 and came up with 2615 fps average with a standard deviation of 38.

    I'm sold on the Tactical Rifle powder. Measures like a champ even in my Lee Perfect Powder Measure that came with the basic anniversary kit. Almost every weight test measure I did was right on 24.1, and just a few times plus or minus 0.1gn, never off more than that. Price is great, too. :D I paid $20.95 last spring when I was down south.
     

    mstraus

    Active Member
    Jul 23, 2009
    379
    Frederick MD
    Finished 200 Rounds .45acp then decapped 200 of 9mm and loaded 50 before bedtime for this old man. Glad to be back at my bench. Really enjoy reloading.
     

    Melnic

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    Dec 27, 2012
    15,282
    HoCo
    Loaded up 40 rounds of 223 using 69SMK and IMR8208 XBR
    Then primed about 200 cases of LC 223 that I had cleaned,trimmed and sized about a year ago.
    Noticed I had zero prepped cases of 9mm so I tossed 200 spent cases of 9mm and put into the vibratory cleaner.

    I did not shoot or reload much last year despite the new bench/man loft. Trying to change that for 2019
     

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