What did you do in the reloading room today?

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After de-capping, wet tumbling, F.L. sizing, neck flaring, and priming……..ready for powder. Whew!

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200 cases of .44mag

Processing…

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And, it’s always a good idea to inspect those cases every time you load. Below are three examples I found while loading today. The one on the right separated in the F.L. die. (No, the piece didn’t get stuck in the die. )

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And, 200 rounds later….

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Finally got my honed die back from Forster so loaded up some rounds for the 6BRA. I fireformed 300 Lapua cases with hornady 105s and imr4064 but now on to the good stuff.

105 hybrids, Varget, CCI 450

Loaded 3 rounds each in .2 grain increments from 30.4-32gr just to see what this barrel will produce.
 
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SDBguy95 said:
Where did you get 8208?
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I purchased it from Powder Valley. I have never had any luck getting powder with Discord notifications. It is always gone by the time I log in to the dealer. Every once in a while I check powder valley and I get lucky. When I saw the XBR 8208 was in stock I purchased what I needed immediately. Then I realized I forget to buy bullets. I called Powder Valley and asked if they could add bullets to my order, but they said no. They suggested I place another order combining the powder with bullets and then cancel the first order. When I tried to reorder it was already gone.

BTW, I always post here when I find hard to get powder that is still in stock.
 
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Fire4EffectCA said:
I purchased it from Powder Valley. I have never had any luck getting powder with Discord notifications. It is always gone by the time I log in to the dealer. Every once in a while I check powder valley and I get lucky. When I saw the XBR 8208 was in stock I purchased what I needed immediately. Then I realized I forget to buy bullets. I called Powder Valley and asked if they could add bullets to my order, but they said no. They suggested I place another order combining the powder with bullets and then cancel the first order. When I tried to reorder it was already gone.

BTW, I always post here when I find hard to get powder that is still in stock.
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Thumbs up for posting back to the Hide 👍 8208 is really the only stuff I'm after right now, and sifting through the powder in stock notifications got old after a while. I guess I'll just have to keep checking PV
 
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I exercised my new Henderson Powered Case Trimmer for the first time on about 150 cases of 300 Win Mag ... took me less than 1/10th of the time it used to take mounting, adjusting, spinning and measuring in the manual case trimmer I used to use ... "minutes" instead of "hours". Also way easier and more accurate than the Frankford Prep Center that I desperately tried to love (but just couldn't). No doubt the Henderson is an expensive little gadget, but now that I've used it for volume trimming, I believe it's WORTH EVERY CENT !!! Randomly checked about 20-ish of the cases when done, and consistency of length was literally spot on (to the half-thousandth) my target length ... really impressive precision and repeatability.

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loaded a couple hundred 69g smk 223 this weekend. cheated a little and used new brass, man i hate all the steps with used brass. i still chamfered the necks inside and out - waste of time with new brass or still a good idea? it did alert me to a couple of dented/damaged necks so perhaps worth it.
 
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davsco said:
loaded a couple hundred 69g smk 223 this weekend. cheated a little and used new brass, man i hate all the steps with used brass. i still chamfered the necks inside and out - waste of time with new brass or still a good idea? it did alert me to a couple of dented/damaged necks so perhaps worth it.
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Not a waste of time in my mind.

You check the brass (find stuff like you said) and ease bullet seating. On new brass it's a good idea as it's not chamfered. Obviously on trimmed brass it's need. Even after a tumbling it can help to clean out the dings and re uniform everything.
 
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Today I found out a Hornady .37 comparator is too short for a 402gn Cutting edge mtac so I ordered some aluminum stock to make an extended comparator body as there does not seem to be a commercially available option.
 
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I have had new brass needing sized, trimmed, deburred, uniformed and run through a mandrell to one degree or another.

I quit caring and just treat it like clean range brass since you can't depend on anything done right these days.
 
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Making dummy rounds for 243, 260, and 308 to check feeding in 1903 Turkish Mauser builds.
The 2.990" 243 round is long for use as a go gauge for 243 chamber throating.
 

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Loaded 200rd of .40S&W during the kids’ morning naptime.
180gr RNFP over 5.0gr of Bullseye in mixed brass/WSP @ 1.115” OAL.

Decided there’s no point keeping handgun components in storage when I have ridiculous stockpiles of pistol brass. May as well load what I have available to me. Gonna try to load a bunch more .40 and 9mm over the next few weeks whenever I have time available.
 
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Anb618 said:
Loaded 200rd of .40S&W during the kids’ morning naptime.
180gr RNFP over 5.0gr of Bullseye in mixed brass/WSP @ 1.115” OAL.

Decided there’s no point keeping handgun components in storage when I have ridiculous stockpiles of pistol brass. May as well load what I have available to me. Gonna try to load a bunch more .40 and 9mm over the next few weeks whenever I have time available.
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I had the same epiphany last night. Was sitting there with nothing really pressing on the rifle side and saw thousands of 9mm projos sitting on the shelf so swapped the 550 over and started running. I forgot how fast it was to run the pistol it was a kind of nice reprieve from the rifle stuff.
 
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Loaded 44 Special today. Cast lead 240gr RNFP with Unique - scales on blink so went old school with scoops… this is all for an iron sight competition tomorrow with a lever action
 
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unloaded 50 shots at the range came home started de priming them finished got another 300 pieces of brass ready to be loaded all primed now , tripped over a box with 2k pieces of brass in it thank god the brass is all ok and put back in the now taped box turned on some old blue grass music and sat down for another night of cleaning more brass in the moon light . . changed my over all plan I had been thinking about upgrading my single stage press for a turret style press now I am leaning more for a 550 or a 750 dillon progressive so yea . I had to start another project can putting money in to save up for that project .
 
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Sadly I looked at the bench and said, with Gas this high looks like I am pulling out the air rifle again! and How much H1000 do I have left.... Sucks having that feeling and thoughts!
 
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StrayDog said:
@Mooseknuckles
How many grains of Varget in that Peterson brass? And OAL? Let us know your velocity if you chrono?
I have some new Peterson brass in .308 and have been wondering where to start.
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I’m running 42 grain of Varget with an oal of 2.845 or 2.272 base to ogive. My velocity was 2604 average over 5 shots. I was basically trying to match velocity of 175 FGMM. Accuracy was good too.
Last shot was my fault. Twitchy trigger finger.
5 shot group at 100.
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Did the poor mans anodizing on an aluminum reloading block that arrived today. The shiny machined finish along with all the holes made me dizzy when looking at it 😵

Wish I bought one a long time ago. For years have been using the cheap $6 Frankford arsenal blocks. They didn't hold the shells very well so every loading session one would eventually cling to the funnel as I lifted, dumping powder on the table. Or I get clumsy and brush my arm past causing a few to kick around powder. This thing is heavy, tight fit around the cases. Has 200 holes so I can stagger 100 if desired.

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Well, started experimenting with progressive presses and .44 SPC...

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My ongoing pistol reloading journey

Well my friends, It’s Friday and I have been popping out to the garage to play about with reloading gizmo’s and such on my journey into reloading pistol cartridges for the first time. I have for a long time had a Lee turret press but I have only used the turrets to change between calibres...
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I sized some 243AI brass I fire formed about 6 years ago back to 243 to prepare a load work up, to make sure my fire forming loads left over from then are safe in my new 243 chamber. Then I remembered I had already sized some a couple months ago. I found it and have it sitting ready now. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Technically not in the reloading portion of my shop but right next to it in my shop

Our son is getting into Black Powder Rifles. Unlike the rest of his firearm collection, he wanted show these off and asked me to build him a rack to put on his mantle. Well between my jig saw getting sick (the durn thing was just purchased in 1989, you’d think they would build things to last wouldn’t you?) and my catching the meta-virus which ruined my December and half of January, this was not finished by Christmas as promised.

But I put the finishing touches on it today. As Brenda Lea says, at 73, I am not quite as good a carpenter as I was even ten years ago, but at least the finish came out nice.

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Wiillk said:
Technically not in the reloading portion of my shop but right next to it in my shop

Our son is getting into Black Powder Rifles. Unlike the rest of his firearm collection, he wanted show these off and asked me to build him a rack to put on his mantle. Well between my jig saw getting sick (the durn thing was just purchased in 1989, you’d think they would build things to last wouldn’t you?) and my catching the meta-virus which ruined my December and half of January, this was not finished by Christmas as promised.

But I put the finishing touches on it today. As Brenda Lea says, at 73, I am not quite as good a carpenter as I was even ten years ago, but at least the finish came out nice.

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Nice work! When I was a pup growing up (1960's & 70's), most every house I'd visit had one of these or a full gun cabinet with the house's collection of rifles and shotguns proudly on display. Miss those days.
 
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