What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Grunt67]

At the bench...ah,
I loaded my gut.
Yes I had supper on the bench.


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RP

Folks! We have a winner. Good idea. Randy.

[CT_Shooter]

It's been awhile since I've worked at my reloading bench, simply because I haven't been to a shooting range in way too long and my ammo cabinet doesn't have room for any more. That's a problem I want to address soon.

I get my first vaccine shot in two weeks and, among other things, I am so looking forward to shooting again! Please get vaccinated. Normal can't happen fast enough for me.

In the meantime, I visited my reloading bench this week with an abacus to count money... I mean, to do an inventory of my .38/.357 reloading components. I only had a guesstimate of what I had on hand until now. Looks like I'm good.

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[runnin n gunnin]

Nice Spread Sheet CT- Looks like you are a bit crowded with all those primers. Being a giver, let me know if you want me to help you clear some room and take those primers off your hands !

[Hatchdog]

Experimented with my RCBS Chargemaster yesterday and I’m very impressed with it so far. Scary accurate and consistent with the trial dispenses I did. I load a lot of .223 at around 24 grains of Varget and it seemed pretty quick at that charge level. I bumped it up to 45 grains and there was a pretty significant difference in the time to dispense.

[Rifletom]

Do they still make that little beep when it's done dispensing powder? They are a very good bench item.

[Hatchdog]

Do they still make that little beep when it's done dispensing powder? They are a very good bench item.

Yes it does. I saw in the instructions that the beep can be shut off but I liked it. When I was dispensing powder today I was able to do some other tasks while the charge completed. The beep let me know to pour the charge and get the next one started.

I loaded 100 .223 cartridges today using brass I had sized and primed previously. Out of 100 charges dispensed I had 98 exactly at 24.5, one at 24.6 and one at 24.7. I am very impressed with this unit. I have 100 more to complete but using a 25.5 charge (different rifle). I sure hope I get that same level of consistency.

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[Hatchdog]

Today I loaded up another 100 .223 cartridges giving my powder dispenser another run. Today’s load was 1.0 grain heavier than yesterdays, 25.5 of Varget.

I had 92 at 25.5, seven at 25.6 and one at 25.7. Yesterday was 97% perfect and today was 92%. However, if I factor RCBS’s claim the dispenser is accurate within one tenth of a grain them my accuracy is 99%. I can sure live with that. I did use the one tenth over drops but redid the two that were two tenths over. Pretty much I’m thrilled with the performance of the RCBS measure. A couple of years ago I bought the Lyman version of this measure at half the price and after using it for 10 minutes I boxed it up and took it back to Sportsman’s Warehouse. Way too much variance.

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[Grunt67]

Hatch, after you get it set up & going, how long does it take to do each drop. Just curious. ( like the cat ).

[Grunt67]

I've finally got back on my bench & actually getting some loads made again. Working on the 45/70 with the new load I came up with
on my ladder loads experiment. Now loading IMR4198, 40.5 grs ( previously 41.0 ), Hornady 300 gr. JHP, Starline brass, CCI primer.
Work a while, & have to quit a while, my back & shoulder starts complaining. Getting old ain't for the squeamish.

[Vaquero]

I haven't done anything @ the bench since I stuff the gut.
But I did order some 9mm bullets tonight because of a nice heads up...but that was from the recliner.
thank ya, Grunt.

RP