What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Hatchdog]

Yesterday while killing time waiting for Mrs. Hatchdog to get ready to go to town I reset my 357 dies from my turret press to my single stage. Since I am working to develop an accurate load for my BBS I didn’t want to use my inexpensive Lee turret press. I’m ready to start loading once I drag my wimpy butt to the range to shoot the laddered loads I have ready. Wimpy butt because it’s been real rainy and foggy lately which is cold down on the river where the range is. Next Monday is 40 and sunny and Thursday is 45 and sunny so maybe I can drag myself away from the fire and get some shooting done. I’m also planning on running some .223 Mini 14 loads across my Chrono which takes some time to get set up.

Good news is on yesterdays run into town for component searches I found a new set of RCBS 300 Savage dies on close out at 25% off. Bingo!

[Grunt67]

Got back on the bench today for a while. Had 150 pcs 45/70 brass to fill up. 50 pcs once fired, lubed, sized & cleaned, ready for primers.
100 pcs new Starline brass, trimmed, lubed ( Hornady One Shot ), sized, ready for the tumbler to remove the lube.
Think I'll call it a day, have another go tomorrow, maybe.

[Hatchdog]

Bet ya cant wait to get that 41 to load for can ya

That’s a fact. Funny, I have all the internals but not the externals. I have powder, primers and bullets but no brass or dies. Not to worry tho, I won’t have my hands on the 41 for a while as it’s in layaway jail.

I really missed out on an opportunity a month ago or so. A local guy had three boxes of bullets, 2 Hornady and 1 Speer and a bag of 100 Starline new brass for the 41 for sale for $100. I thought about you guys on here with 41’s but figured it was too far to try to do a deal with him. Of course once I decided to jump back into 41 I reached out to him and he had sold all.

Hatch- I saw your post tonight and a buddy of mine got out of handloading and gave me his stuff. In the boxes of stuff that he gave me was a full set of Lee .41 Mag dies, shell holder, and powder scoop. You are welcome to have them if you want. I'll never use them and they were given to me and I'd be happy to pass them along to you. You can P.M. me with your address if you want them. Also, for anyone else there were some Lee 38-40 dies in there too that I would pass along.

I received the 41 mag dies Greyhawk so kindly sent to me. A great big thank you to him for his generosity even refusing to allow me to reimburse him for the shipping costs. Just another example of the great folks I have met this year on this forum. Thank you again Greyhawk.

[fortyshooter]

Will be punching out primers and tumbling 45 Colt brass today.

[Grunt67]

Put the last 100 pcs in the tumbler this am. Start putting in primers next week.

[NHshtr]

Still working up a load for my Long Ranger in .243 Win. with the Sierra 85 grain GK. My last laddered loads were using RL15, H4064 and H4350. So after shooting those, the RL15 at 38.0 grains at the top of the RL15 ladder and was the tightest group at a 3 shot average of 1.1" at 100 yards.
So, wanting to see if that improves with a tad more powder, today, I loaded some loads at 38.3 and 38.7 grains of RL15.
(If it doesn't improve, I'll be happy with the 1.1" since I'll be hunting and not competitive shooting.)
This rifle is really fun to shoot off-hand too.

[Grunt67]

I've got 50 pcs, 45/70 , brass ready to load. Also, out of the 50 pcs, I'm going to run a test on different powder charges. My standard load has been 41grs. IMR 4198. So, what I'm going to do is:
3 ea. with 41 grs.
3 ea. with 41.5 grs.
3 ea. with 42 grs
3 ea. with 40.5 grs.
3 ea. with 40 grs.
All will be fired @ 25 yes, thru the chronograph.

The standard 41 grs. works really well, but, always room for improvement. We'll see.
All I need now is some cooperative weather.

[Cofisher]

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A pic of new 125 gr bullet I am going to load. Compared to the Nosler 158 gr unit I have been using.

Just playing with loads and velocity.

Anybody done this? Ideas?

[BigAl52]

Is that a Berrys or Xtreme Fish. Yes Ive loaded some 125 grain Montana Gold Bullets before. They shot well but not as accurate as the 158. 6gr of Unique should get you somewhere close.

[Cofisher]

They are Everglades. I hadn’t heard of accuracy issues. I only have 110 on hand. Will set some up and let you know results.