What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Vaquero]

After ultrasonic cleaning using a high dollar dryer. Then loaded up some 350gr HCGC with 38 gr of LT-32.

I like the dryer.

RP

[Bill.68]

Loaded 3.5 boxes of 44mag with a 280gr cast bullet with 18gr of LilGun for my Redhawk.
2 boxes of 44Russian with a 175gr Himmelwright wadcutter and 3.5gr of titegroup.

Now I need to resupply myself of 44spl but Im out of my favorite bullet for it, the 429421 from Stateline. Actually, they use a H&G design but its a really nice one.

[CT_Shooter]

We had about 5 inches of rain Tuesday night and my sump pump decided it would be the perfect time to fail and it did. Wednesday I had four inches of water in my basement on the down-sloped corner where the sump pump is located. The rest of the basement was also covered in about 2 inches of water. Most of what's stored down there is elevated because I live on land with a high water table (my household water comes from a dug well that's only eighteen feet deep).

Yesterday, my brother who was coming for lunch with his wife, spent a couple of hours helping me out. I couldn't bend down far enough to work on it myself. He removed the pump before they went to a local dealership to get their cars serviced and while I went shopping for a new pump. The installation went without a hitch and the basement quickly began to empty. We went to lunch and by the time we got back, the basement had been drained and the floor was just wet.

I checked on it first thing this morning. Call it a lucky day.

I keep my reloading supplies (bullets and primers) in a cabinet at floor level, but elevated to prevent water damage. This morning the plastic hardware holding the shelf in the cabinet broke. Not so lucky. The shelf collapsed and fell forward, dropping it's contents onto the (now dry) floor. Holy Smoke. Everything in there, thousands of bullets and four thousand primers bought at 4 cents each) were now on the floor and still bone dry. A few hours earlier and everything would have been under water and the primers likely ruined.

Phew. All's well at the loading bench. Lucky day. Another two inches of rain is expected tonight.

[Vaquero]

Glad it waited till the water was gone before collapsing, CT.

I've been deprimming an assortment of brass today, some from the son-in-laws, 308W, 30-30, 30-06, 35R and 223.
Put the 30-30 and 35R in with some 357 and tossed those in the SS pins, and into the tumbler. They should be clean here in another 30 mins.

RP

[BigAl52]

Loaded 200 rounds of 20ga shells for shooting clays. That was Wednesday. Then yesterday shot 75 of those rounds up. Need to go load more.

[Vaquero]

Loaded 200 rounds of 20ga shells for shooting clays. That was Wednesday. Then yesterday shot 75 of those rounds up. Need to go load more.

Envy ya, on the sporting clays, Al. Not that all great at it, but it sure is fun.
Been a few years now.

RP

[.45Steel]

I primed 65 .44 mag. starline cases. Tomorrow I'm going to load them up with 240gr. cast swc and 240g xtps. Some mild to wild. BE-86 and 2400

[Rifletom]

After ultrasonic cleaning using a high dollar dryer. Then loaded up some 350gr HCGC with 38 gr of LT-32.

I've seen that pic elsewhere. Hmm. THR?

[Vaquero]

A little something different and suspect something most have seen.
For scale, a loaded 22 mag and an empty 357 mag brass on the left and a 25-20 on the right. 32 colt

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RP

[.45Steel]

I loaded up 90 223s to add to the stash and 2 different batches of 12 44mags to try in my new Taurus 8 3/8" M44