What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[BigAl52]

Al, you said all primers, were there large rifle?
As those seem the hardest to come by, I haven't seen "any" around here.
I don't need any myself, was just curious.

RP

Yup Scheels had all the primers including large rifle. They had Federal and CCI. There prices were 85.00 and 90.00 depending on brand. Scheels is a huge store 2 floors. They have an enormous selection of products. Im sure there overhead is dictating the 85.00 price as I got Large Rifle at Sportsman’s for 5.99. I use mostly small pistol anymore and would have bought a brick at Sportsmans but they were out.

[Hatchdog]

Both shops in Deer Park that sell reloading components had CCI primers this week. Lot’s of powder too. I asked the guy at one shop if he had a “way back” machine.

[Vaquero]

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RP

[Mr. Neutron]

Today I loaded up 7 rounds of .32-40 Winchester ammo, for my Uncle to send through his John Wayne Commerative Model 94 Winchester rifle.

I never could find a single round of factory loaded ammo, so all I have for specs are what I could find online and in my Hodgdon’s manual.

Would have been nice to find some factory stuff to measure and such, and see if they feed okay. I made several dummy rounds of various lengths, including shorter and much longer lengths. None of them would feed & chamber correctly. It’s as if the rifle’s elevator drops down just a tiny bit as you pull the lever back a ways, and the round gets hung up at the “feed ramp” portion of the chamber, right at the bullet’s tip. Moving the lever forward/bolt backwards a tiny bit at that point allows the rear of the case (case flange) to pop up through the widened portion on of the feed rails, and up onto the rail. Then, moving the lever back will allow the bolt to go forward and chamber the round. I’m perplexed. My Uncle said not to worry about it. For now, he can just send a couple of rounds through it “single shot style”, and then take it to a gunsmith to figure it out…..

One weird thing about all this is with 2 of the brass cases that I got from Graf’s, made by Quality Cartridge Co.. To me, they measure and look identical the other 18 cases of 20. But these 2 cases are marked “32 WIN SPL”.

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Here’s the .32 SPL case on the left, a .32-40 case in the middle, and a loaded .32-40 on the right for comparison.

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[CT_Shooter]

I've got nine hundred primed .357 brass cases waiting their turn on the bench, but first I need to work my way through the primed nickel plated brass so I can discard it. I won't be using nickel anymore. It's way too fragile. Once these have been fired (hopefully soon), they're not coming home again.

I've got a hundred of them left and I reloaded 50 today with ZERO 158 gr JHPs and 13.9 gr H110. Fifty more to go, then no more nickel.

[Rifletom]

I don't have any nickel .357, but seem to have LOTS of .38 spl nickel cases. those seem to work ok. Not a big fan of nickel cases either tho.

[Headhog]

I've got nine hundred primed .357 brass cases waiting their turn on the bench, but first I need to work my way through the primed nickel plated brass so I can discard it. I won't be using nickel anymore. It's way too fragile. Once these have been fired (hopefully soon), they're not coming home again.

I've got a hundred of them left and I reloaded 50 today with ZERO 158 gr JHPs and 13.9 gr H110. Fifty more to go, then no more nickel.

You're spot on with that observation. I have 38 Spl. in both nickel and brass and the only ones I've had split on me were the nickel.

Paul

[Hatchdog]

Finally decided on both my 300 Blackout and 32 H&R loads so now I can get busy and get a bunch loaded up. Gotta find some more Speer .308 125 TNT’s, heading to Coeur D’alene Id today or tomorrow and will be stopping into a shop there that has a great inventory of components.

[Vaquero]

Loaded a dozen 170gr Sierra's over 29.2 grs. of 3031.
Then some test loads for the 25-20, 60 gr sp and some 2400. Three different weights to try.

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RP

[Luv the lever]

200 230g Xtreme RNFMJ .45 acp, 6.4g True Blue and Remington 2 1/2. New Xtreme brass.