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What did you do in the reloading room today?
- Thread starter Kisssofdeath
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Loaded 50rds .300BLK 125gr Lehighs, and 50rds .300BLK 110gr VMax. Whether I see deer or coyotes this fall, I guarantee I’m shooting something.
I sectioned one of those Hybrid 6.8 x 51 Fury cases to see how they locked the steel base on.
The steel section is hard as shit. Cuts like sintered metal. The lock starts to reveal itself as I cut.
Then formed up 100 to 308 & 75 to 6.5 Creedmoor.
The steel section is hard as shit. Cuts like sintered metal. The lock starts to reveal itself as I cut.
Then formed up 100 to 308 & 75 to 6.5 Creedmoor.
designed for 80,000 pressure.
What I like is full std 60K pressure bolt gun loads in an AR, but brass lives to fire over and over.
As said above, can load to much higher pressure. Also, no stretched primer pockets. Load to normal pressure and the primer pockets will outlast the rifle.
Really wish we could get these where I live
Love the big tray!
In a moment of weakness I picked up the big 300 tray from Area 419. It huge and very nice but, if I did it again, I'd get two of these for less total cost as the 200 size would suffice for most of what I load. Easier to store, etc...
Finished off 75 rounds of 6 ARC I was loading. Hornady brass, 7-1/2 primer, 27.9gr of 2520 and a 108ELD. They don’t set any land speed records, but shoot damn good out of my APF AR. Now onto Dasher loads next for the bolt gun. 32.5gr of RL15 with a Berger 108BTT.
cleaned 4k processed 223
cleaned 15k 9mm
rollsized 10k 9mm
processed a ton more 9mm and 223
sorted more 9/40/45
torn down and found a DESTROYED main shaft in a CP2000, and got that ordered with new bearings
all in all, productive last day or two
cleaned 15k 9mm
rollsized 10k 9mm
processed a ton more 9mm and 223
sorted more 9/40/45
torn down and found a DESTROYED main shaft in a CP2000, and got that ordered with new bearings
all in all, productive last day or two
new parts in!!! today is going to be a long day, putting this cp2000 back together, and completely setting up a new ammobot rev 3 with bosch router for making 300bo
between yesterday and today..
washed/dried 9 buckets of brass
sorted the rest of the brass I have. 7 more buckets ready to wash/dry
10 buckets of 9mm ready to get final sorted (380 out)
processed 10k pieces of 223
played with my headstamp sorting machine some more, and getting closer to getting it running
picking up a Dillon 550 and a bunch of stuff tomorrow morning
all in all a productive weekend so far .. haha
washed/dried 9 buckets of brass
sorted the rest of the brass I have. 7 more buckets ready to wash/dry
10 buckets of 9mm ready to get final sorted (380 out)
processed 10k pieces of 223
played with my headstamp sorting machine some more, and getting closer to getting it running
picking up a Dillon 550 and a bunch of stuff tomorrow morning
all in all a productive weekend so far .. haha
Brass prep for 300 win mag yesterday. Where my organized reloaders at??
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total of 25 gallons (5 buckets) of non-223 brass.. all has to be hand sorted.. no machine i know of to help sort this stuff
And my son wonders why I get uptight when he dumps the 308, 7-08, and 22-250 together in a bucket
Loaded some 185 rdf for my 280. Throating isn't very good for them. Gonna see what the ocw looks like. I need to make modified case. I keep getting diffrent results with the split neck method.
Today.. i’m picking up ANOTHER ammobot rev 3… time to start loading some ammo for myself, instead of just processing brass for others.
off to PA to sell some powder, bullets brass, buy a s1050 ammobot, and pick up a free boat on the way back. going to be a good weekend!
off to PA to sell some powder, bullets brass, buy a s1050 ammobot, and pick up a free boat on the way back. going to be a good weekend!
Last night I loaded some 73 grain ELDM's in Lake City brass for my AR for hunting instead of watching the Tyson fight. Today I'm in the blind.
HS sorted more 223, and im currently trying to clean up a ROUGH s1050 press. Soaking parts in Vapo-Rust, and coating everything in WD-40 silicone... see what happens
Loaded up 525 rounds of dasher ammo for my prs gun. Should last a few months. Have another 1500 rounds to load for other guns soon
Yesterday I spent the afternoon drilling out a 6-48 scope base screw that broke off in the receiver of one of my rifles. 
It snapped off flush.
I said I wasn't going to mess with it and just leave it with a gunsmith to handle... But, as usual, I couldn't leave well enough alone.
Started with a minor hiccup but I recovered and got it drilled out with damaging the threads in the receiver.
Actually pretty proud of myself. But not enough to ever want to do it again.
Mike
It snapped off flush.
I said I wasn't going to mess with it and just leave it with a gunsmith to handle... But, as usual, I couldn't leave well enough alone.
Started with a minor hiccup but I recovered and got it drilled out with damaging the threads in the receiver.
Actually pretty proud of myself. But not enough to ever want to do it again.
Mike
Nice congratulations on your personal victory.Yesterday I spent the afternoon drilling out a 6-48 scope base screw that broke off in the receiver of one of my rifles.
It snapped off flush.
I said I wasn't going to mess with it and just leave it with a gunsmith to handle... But, as usual, I couldn't leave well enough alone.
Started with a minor hiccup but I recovered and got it drilled out with damaging the threads in the receiver.
Actually pretty proud of myself. But not enough to ever want to do it again.
Mike
Did same and brought the ring half to a shop that does micro welding.
They welded a dick to the flush piece of screw and than backed it out.
$10 and no pride of self reliance that you earned.
I really should have taken it to someone. But I'm off work for the weekend and I figured there wasn't a gunsmith shop open. So I dove in.
I puddled some penetrating oil on it and let that soak in for 30 minutes or so... Not sure it helped but I didn't figure it would hurt.
I pilfered around in all my tools and found a drill bit set I had bought a few years ago... Little tiny carbide drills that are used on printed circuit boards.
Used those to get a hole roughly in the center. Then a carbide burr bit to make that a bit bigger. Then just progressively bigger drills till it grabbed hold and spun out the bottom.
I was as nervous as a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs the whole time.
But it's done.
Mike
Big bro started teaching little sis how to prep brass. 3 hats means it was serious business.
Put together a nice 30-40 Krag load. Hornady 180gr Round Nose, with H4350, Hornady brass, Fed 210M primer. Groups tightened up nicely at 2100fps. This old rifle is fun to take to the range. Nowadays many people don't even know what it is. 
Turned around some brass from the AR I had set up a few years ago for MR-ART. I haven't used the 550 as an actual 'progressive' ie using the powder thrower, etc. in... forever. This wasn't quite that - still using the two-toolhead approach, but with a powder measure rather than the AT4. Dusted off the APM, set it up for ~25.5 gn H335, dug out an old box of ~52gn BTHPs, and got everything dialed in and knocked out a box (95) for the next range trip.
I've got a dedicated tool head with a simple Redding 2 die set that I've been meaning to get set up for 'bulk' .223 Rem - I've got a metric a$$-load of components that I bought back when Obama got elected the first time that I've been meaning to load up for a rainy day...
I've got a dedicated tool head with a simple Redding 2 die set that I've been meaning to get set up for 'bulk' .223 Rem - I've got a metric a$$-load of components that I bought back when Obama got elected the first time that I've been meaning to load up for a rainy day...
