What did you do in the reloading room today?

Having a Giraud trimmer with extra cutting heads and shell holders, I wonder how other people are storing the extras when not used. I was thinking a single flat tackle box as I use for other bits.

What do you use to store the extra cutting, and shell holders?
 
My lil guy loaded some 60 vmaxs and 69smks. I had some 60 vmaxs I needed to load also. Kinda crappy weather today. May dress warm and head up to the range. It's normaly empty if it's not warm and sunny. Go knock some steel critters over.
 

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Gotta brag for a minute. Took my little guy with his .223 load he developed for his new AR he built. Farthest thing at our range is 640yd there is a 10in gong. He hit everything on the Large bore silhouette and back. He had a few shots left I said try the gong. He had to make some windage adjustments. He rung it on his last shot. He just pulled all his brass back out of the tumbler and ready to start over tomorrow.
 

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The testing went well. Nosler ABLR 168 and RL 16. Seating depth .010 group .085, .020 group .6, .030 group .065, .040 group 1.1 and .050 group .051. load was 56.4 grains of RL 16 at 2857 with SD of 10.1. so I think I found my load at .050 off the lands.
You may want to test +/- around .050 off the lands to see how wide that sweet spot goes.
 
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Sized and primed 148 6-BR cases.
Loaded some 5.56 and 9mm magazines and a couple of 25rd 22LR mags for my GSG-5.
Cleaned and lubed my stumpy 5.56.
Put some stuff away from Wednesday's outing.
 
Running low on .40 bullets so I checked my usual supplier, Rocky Mountain Reloading. They had 135gr Sinterfire frangible bullets for only slightly more than most FMJ or plated. Decided to give it a shot. Just sent an email into Sinterfire for load data. Looks like it’s a discontinued bullet? Heaviest .40 they have in their catalog is a 125gr frangible.
 
I pulled a rifle completely apart to install a trigger. The trigger was a different shape than the factory one so I had to cut a bunch out of the stock inlet and the PTG, par excellence, aluminum DMB. I also had to cut the magazine catch .015" to get my magazines to secure themselves more relaibly without having to force it...

While I was in there I cut back the receiver's feed-rails to handle center-feed Magnum case heads/webs since it was originally a double-stack .223 receiver.

I set the trigger pull and over travel and banged it around with and without the safety to see if I could get it to go off accidentally. Seems fine. It's ready to go to the range now.
 
If you don't want to know how the induction sausage is made, and just want something that works, then there's a parts list and diagram for one on accurate shooter:


Tsloper made a thread here too:

 
My RPR .243's barrel is about half gone, 800 rounds fired. Thought I'd take it out with a varmint load. Using 4451, because there's a lot of it on the shelf. Found a node at 44.6, 44.8, 46 grains. Loaded 10 rounds of each for a chrono test.
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Seating a 78 gr. bullet on top. Will shoot them, best S.D. wins. Lapua brass, CCI Br 2 primers. Final load should hover in that 3450-3500 range.
Pasture rats, beware.
 
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Painfully annealing with just a torch and a drill. Anyone still do this?

Use the guide @TSloper posted up. I did with mine. Trust me, if I can do it, you can do it. There are 6 electrical connections and you have to make some copper coil. It's no biggie dude. I put mine in a 50 cal can.

I used to use a torch/drill, and it sucked balls. Now I anneal every firing and its easy peasy

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