What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[NHshtr]

Thanks Tom, worst part is haven't had a Jameson in three weeks. Soon though brother, very soon

r n g, hope you're feeling well enough to have tasted some Jameson by now. It's a disinfectant, you know!

I loaded 12 .308 Win today. I thought I'd try some IMR 4350 (usually use BLC2). So, I made up 4 different loads of 3 each with 165 gr. SPs.
I'll load up more of whichever one looks best. Waiting for delivery of more .308 bullets, so taking it slow until then.

Have been loading .44 mags with H110, XTPs and mag primers. But I'm out of XTPs and have 400 Hdy 240 LSWC that I want to load for. I have both H110 and IMR 4227 on hand. But manuals (Lyman, Sierra, Hdy, Nosler) show mag primers for H110 and IMR 4227 with jacketed, but not with lead. Would have thought they'd be the same. I hate to assume that I could use magnum primers for both lead and copper, and get the same pressures, but any comments on that? (I have a lot more mag primers than standard)

[runnin n gunnin]

r n g, hope you're feeling well enough to have tasted some Jameson by now. It's a disinfectant, you know!

You know your right, its also a de-wormer. Haven't had a single worm since I've been drinking ! ! !

I am targeting tomorrow night (Saturday) to venture into a nice tumbler of Jameson, god willing and the river don/t rise. (which is funny cause its monsoon season in Az right now, and we have finally been getting wet. Flash flood warnings just went off and its coming down good).

[Vaquero]

Never used any mag primers.
Even though I have 1200 LR mag primers.
Picked up 1k by accident once a couple years back, then last year a buddy just gave me 200.

RP

[NHshtr]

Need a bit of advice!
I am having trouble feeding .44 mag lead 240 grain SWC with a COAL greater than 1.600 in my (newly acquired ) Henry carbine. Lyman manual and Hodgdon show 1.645" and 1.620" respectively in their tables. All the copper loads are 1.600 and I had no trouble with those.
First time I've loaded lead SWCs in a rifle, so I was wondering if anyone has had the same experience.

[Vaquero]

I have an older BBB 44 and it cycles swc's no problem.
I have even loaded some heavy cast, and never a problem.
I don't recall the OAL.

RP

[Headhog]

Some lever guns will handle SWC bullets and some won't. My Marling 1894 in 45 Colt will feed my 200 gr SWC lead bullets all day long. On the other hand my Winchester 94 does not like those loads. It will feed a few rounds then one will hang up while chambering. Now if I give that Winchester the Missouri 250 gr RNFP bullet, it will crank those through as fast as you can operate the lever.

My 357 Mag Henry BBS and Rossi R92, feed whatever I put on the magazine. I've even tried 357 Mag brass with full wadcutters and both rifles would feed them, but the Rossi would hesitate once in awhile.

Sometimes it just the nature of the beast.

Paul

[Travlin]

Easy explanation, The Winchester 94 was designed by John Browning for rifle rounds , 38-55, 32-40, 30-30  etc. The marlin 94 was made to take the shorter pistol rounds .

[NHshtr]

Thanks for the responses.
I should have started a new topic on this subject and not take this one-off topic. I'll do that now.

[Rifletom]

Have 80 cases of 30-30 sized, trimmed and primed. Went out to the shop to drop powder about 10 am. Forget that! Back to the house, wait on baseball[early game!]. They'll wait.

[Vaquero]

Have 80 cases of 30-30 sized, trimmed and primed. Went out to the shop to drop powder about 10 am. Forget that! Back to the house, wait on baseball[early game!]. They'll wait.

And the reason I'm glad I do mine back in the man cave.
Heat and/or AC

RP