What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[deerassassin22]

Pointed 500bullets

 

[erwos]

Loaded up about 500 9mm and 45 Auto last night. Due to load another 200 tomorrow, but my stocks are mostly replenished now.

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[guzma393]

Recovering from Covid over the weekends. Finally gained back my strength these past couple of days and got back on the press.

Sized, decapped, and primed 500 9mm with ginex srp using the lee albp, running lightly lubed 9mm cases through a decapper sizer, and priming on the upstroke with the lee safety prime.

Ginex srps are a bit oversized. Needed to give the upstroke a good shove to properly seat the primers in.

 

[85MikeTPI]

Recovering from Covid over the weekends. Finally gained back my strength these past couple of days and got back on the press.

Sized, decapped, and primed 500 9mm with ginex srp using the lee albp, running lightly lubed 9mm cases through a decapper sizer, and priming on the upstroke with the lee safety prime.

Ginex srps are a bit oversized. Needed to give the upstroke a good shove to properly seat the primers in.

Why SRP in 9mm ?

 

[guzma393]

Why SRP in 9mm ?

SPPs ran dry a while ago. Been tapping my srp stock ever since and they go bang in all my guns except for a Taurus model 80 that only likes federal spp.

 

[Sticky]

Went to the range today to run a couple of 9's. Deprimed and tumbled the brass, also tumbled the 500 124gr HSTs that I got recently as they were pretty tarnished... look like new now! I did get some PP, so I can get my loads worked up for them now.

 

[erwos]

SPPs ran dry a while ago. Been tapping my srp stock ever since and they go bang in all my guns except for a Taurus model 80 that only likes federal spp.

I also switched back over to CCI SRP / SPMP for my latest run of my 9mm yesterday. I'm not out of SPP, but I have a ton of SRP / SPMP, and it all works fine in anything that's not a revolver. (Well, I did have a 1911 that was balky, but a stronger hammer spring and a reduced power FP spring solved that quite neatly).

I've also recently spent a bunch of time trying to organize my powder, brass, primers, and bullets using some of those plastic bins from Costco. I should have done this a long time ago, because it's definitely much easier to find things now.

I apparently have what is a lifetime supply of 223 brass, so that's cool... wish there was a cheap way to sort it by headstamp for conversion to 300 BLK or 22 TCM, doing by hand is kind of a nightmare.

 

[Harrys]

Completed some test loads with 9MM 124 grain Berrys plated FN and 115 grain plated E-Treme RN. 9MM new to my loading process as I have been loading 40 S&W for years.

 

[ToolAA]

Completed some test loads with 9MM 124 grain Berrys plated FN and 115 grain plated E-Treme RN. 9MM new to my loading process as I have been loading 40 S&W for years.

I’ve been really happy with Berrys projectiles overall. I haven’t tried the E-Treme series. I’ve probably loaded probably a few thousand 9mm’s over the past few years.


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[guzma393]

I also switched back over to CCI SRP / SPMP for my latest run of my 9mm yesterday. I'm not out of SPP, but I have a ton of SRP / SPMP, and it all works fine in anything that's not a revolver. (Well, I did have a 1911 that was balky, but a stronger hammer spring and a reduced power FP spring solved that quite neatly).

I've also recently spent a bunch of time trying to organize my powder, brass, primers, and bullets using some of those plastic bins from Costco. I should have done this a long time ago, because it's definitely much easier to find things now.

I apparently have what is a lifetime supply of 223 brass, so that's cool... wish there was a cheap way to sort it by headstamp for conversion to 300 BLK or 22 TCM, doing by hand is kind of a nightmare.

On the same boat as you with 223 and I also have a virtually unlimited supply of 300 blk cases with the mark 7 trimmer set up. I haven't had the need to convert to 300 blk as it seems like I keep winding up with more 300 blk cases than i know what to do with as I usually come across 300 blk from my usual range gobbles. Havent had the incentive to load either since I pretty much stocked up on both for a while.

Just waiting on my can to get out of NFA jail at this point to explore loading for subs. Been trying to catch up on reloading 9mm as of late though as that always likes to run in short supply if you dont pay attention to it.

 

[erwos]

On the same boat as you with 223 and I also have a virtually unlimited supply of 300 blk cases with the mark 7 trimmer set up. I haven't had the need to convert to 300 blk as it seems like I keep winding up with more 300 blk cases than i know what to do with as I usually come across 300 blk from my usual range gobbles. Havent had the incentive to load either since I pretty much stocked up on both for a while.

Just waiting on my can to get out of NFA jail at this point to explore loading for subs. Been trying to catch up on reloading 9mm as of late though as that always likes to run in short supply if you dont pay attention to it.

300 BLK is what I run in my night vision-oriented rifle... round count isn't tremendously high, but it does see some use. One twist is that it's a little easier to run two loading toolheads, one set for subs, one set for supers... gets expensive.

I also need to set up toolheads for 22 TCM, which is gonna be another big wallet hit.

 

[akalma]

I after I tested my .350 legend reloads found a problem. First try was with Hornady 170gr SP and Lil'gun, it was pretty successful.
Next try was with Barnes TSX FB 170gr and I did it without actual comparison of the bullet length. I sit the bulets to the same COAL of 2.260
The accuracy was so-so but got explicit signs of overpressure - primer pockets got too loose so I had to discard all the brass - luckily only 10 cases.

 

[trickg]

I'm going to bring this here because I think I may be screwing up, and I want to check the brain-trust for their input.

I started loading 5.56/223, and to get going with that, I am a shameless brass whore at the range - if it's brass 223, I grab it. I decap, size, trim, and for crimped primer pockets, I've been cutting them out using a inner chamfer/deburring tool.

I've noticed that I'm getting what I can only describe as gas etching around the primer pocket in a ring on my 223 bolt faces. It's not the end of the world, yet - everything is still functional and everything is still accurate, but I don't know how much of that erosion the bolt face can take before it does cause a problem and I have to start replacing them.

This one isn't mine, and mine aren't this bad, but after googling, I'm clearly not the only one who has had this issue.

I noticed the other day some blackening around the primer pocket of a particular style of primer pocket crimp - I suspect that these may be partly to blame.

I brought this up in another reloading group, and it was suggested that I'm loading too hot, but I'm not sure that's the case - I never load max, and I typically load to a pretty solid percentage below max, so I shouldn't be leaking gas due to over-pressure, but I may stop cutting out crimps, and really dial things in on my swaging setup.

Thoughts?

 

[John from MD]

When it reaches the firing pin hole or the ejector hole, it is time to replace the bolt. I would have replaced the bolt in your picture.

 

[atblis]

Which primers are you using?

ETA: Reread and see that you are removing the crimps. Do you use Winchester primers by chance?

 

[trickg]

Which primers are you using?

ETA: Reread and see that you are removing the crimps. Do you use Winchester primers by chance?

I don't - I had some old stock Remington Benchrest primers that I bought from a guy, and my current primers are CCI 450 - small rifle Magnum.

 

[85MikeTPI]

I've only swaged out crimped pockets, could you be cutting too much of the crimps out ?

 

[trickg]

I've only swaged out crimped pockets, could you be cutting too much of the crimps out?

It's certainly possible. I'm going to have to pay close attention to my fired brass in my next trips to the range to see what's going on, and if it's a problem with cutting out too much crimp, I'll simply recycle the brass and start amassing more 556 brass the same way I did before - there's no real shortage of once-fired 223.

I'll use my least favorite gun as the guinea pig gun to see if I can come to a conclusion about what's going on. I really don't think I'm loading too hot - at least not according to what I've read about what other people are loading for their rifles, both AR and bolt. Loading well within a safe margin is part of my standard practices of reloading - there's no sense in loading hot if all I'm doing is punching paper.

 

[John from MD]

It's certainly possible. I'm going to have to pay close attention to my fired brass in my next trips to the range to see what's going on, and if it's a problem with cutting out too much crimp, I'll simply recycle the brass and start amassing more 556 brass the same way I did before - there's no real shortage of once-fired 223.

I'll use my least favorite gun as the guinea pig gun to see if I can come to a conclusion about what's going on. I really don't think I'm loading too hot - at least not according to what I've read about what other people are loading for their rifles, both AR and bolt. Loading well within a safe margin is part of my standard practices of reloading - there's no sense in loading hot if all I'm doing is punching paper.

I stopped cutting out the crimps on my brass due to primers loosing up too soon. Since I switched to swaging, I have not had any primers come loose.

This only was a problem with my .223 and 300 blackout and they were the only cases that I had to cut the crimps out of.

 

[Sticky]

I prefer to swage, to minimize over chamfering the pocket. I also don't usually load 223 with magnum primers, std are fine, tho I do use some CCI mil primers on occasion, which are probably the same as mag primers. I also hand prime so I can feel how loose the primer pocket is. I'll trash a primed round, yes, even at today's prices if it's too loose.