What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Rifletom]

Those hot loads can do it!^^^ That's why I migrated to mild upland loads for empty cans and dirt clods out in the desert with occasional clays in there.
Those waterfowl loads are sporty!

[runnin n gunnin]

"SPORTY" is a great description RT, Back in the day I rented a house with two buddies, we didn't have a pot to pee in or a cupboard to keep it. We couldn't afford a lot of red meat and hunted upland game to stock up the freezer. Young in dumb, the bigger the bang the better. I am old and refined now !

[DsGrouse]

a few rounds of 357 sig.
500 rounds of 125 grain pellets of fun.

[Hatchdog]

Those Sig cartridges sure are cool looking.

[DsGrouse]

My lee powder drop decided to spring a leak yesterday. I know v3n37 is a pretty fine powder, but it seemed like it was leaking a spare cartridge every few throws. I spent most of the day working on it, and getting it cleaned up, polished and smoothed out. Are there any places that make better parts for it? As such, I was only able to get about 150 rounds of 357sig made up.

[Hatchdog]

Finished up some 9mm I started a couple of years ago. I used to have a PSA AR-9 that pretty much didn’t have a feed ramp. It wouldn’t chamber my Hornady XTP or my Berrys plated loads at all. It would chamber factory ball ammo just fine. So I bought a box of Speer 115 TMJ RN to try with it. I loaded 10 for a trial and they chambered just fine.

After a while I decided I really didn’t like the AR-9 so I sold it. I still had the remaining 90 Speer bullets sitting around so I finally decided to turn them into ammo. So I prepped, primed and charged 90 cases and when I was done seating bullets there was one extra of course. Since this was my only box of this bullet I took the time and trouble to prep and load one more case.

Loved the price tags on the bullets ($17.99) and the Power Pistol ($23.99). Obviously purchased prior to the 2020 panics…..

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[DsGrouse]

Sized and deprimed my small and large primer 45 acp. I broke open my 40sw dies and ran a crap ton of that through as well.

[JVogler]

Using a Lee turret press in single stage I Deprimed and flared about 300 she!is in 38 special. Use a small Craftsman screwdriver to clean out primer pockets as well.

[Cofisher]

Hey Big AL. I was loading some 357, using 296. You warned me about using low power loads. My ancestors being from Missouri, I had to see for myself. What do you know...
I had a very quick hang fire. Thanks for the heads up. Will not try that again. That 1/4 second between hammer drop and bang was an eye opener. Lol

[Rifletom]

Hey Big AL. I was loading some 357, using 296. You warned me about using low power loads. My ancestors being from Missouri, I had to see for myself. What do you know...
I had a very quick hang fire. Thanks for the heads up. Will not try that again. That 1/4 second between hammer drop and bang was an eye opener. Lol

Never cared much for 296. tried some in .357 and couldn't load it like I wanted. Gave it to a bud who used it for his .44 mag. Got better results with 2400. Much better load range.