What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Bill.68]

Ahh, true blue is one of my favorite powders. I use it in many calibers and never gail to see excellent numbers.

At my bench I loaded up some 165gr cast SWCGC bullets from Mattsbullets over 14.5gr of LilGun and tried a different primer with these, Fiocchi small pistol to see how they compare to cci. This is a load that my rossi92 loves.
Also loaded some of the same with 15gr to try.

[The Happy Kaboomer]

Nothing. I shot doves.........Created more 20 ga hulls to reload.

[Vaquero]

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”.

Jimmie, that's an odd one, because as far as I know the two are of no relation as the 32 spl is a necked down 38-55.
The 32-40 is the original case, it came out a few after the 38-55.

RP

[BigAl52]

I put a bunch of 9mm brass in the tumbler to clean and ordered some RMR 115 grain bullets. I also ordered a set of Lee carbide 9mm dies as. I gave my Dillon dies and one of my Dillon presses to my Step daughter

[Mr. Neutron]

Jimmie, that's an odd one, because as far as I know the two are of no relation as the 32 spl is a necked down 38-55.
The 32-40 is the original case, it came out a few after the 38-55.

RP

Yeah, that was a bit weird. You're absolutely right; the .32 SPL is a bottle necked case, and not a "tapered/straight wall" case like the .32-40.

I never called or emailed the company that made the cases (Quality Cartridge, I think? ), and just kinda assumed that somehow someone made a mistake. Well, I guess they obviously did......

I threw my calipers and mic all over those 2 chunks 'o' brass, and they seem to be 32-40 cases. Just ain't marked that way. I've gotta be VERY careful to not reload those 2 cases......

As a side note: In the process of trying to figure out why none of the dummy rounds or the few rounds I loaded wouldn't feed and chamber, I called the guy in Paisley, Oregon that does the "Cinnabar" youtube videos about gunsmithing and shooting old Winchester rifles (and quite a bit of other interesting stuff). He got back to me with some suggestions (as much as you can do over the phone), and it just seems that my Uncle's particular rifle might need a spring and a little work on it. Since it's his rifle, I'll let him worry about getting it fixed, but wouldn't hesitate to recommend Mark at Cinnabar Gunworks for that Winchester Rifle. Meanwhile, since it does eject the rounds, my Uncle plans on trying to shoot it by feeding rounds in from the top as a "single shot", of sorts......

[BigAl52]

Picked up 1500 primers today for 90.00 plus tax of course. Local Sporstmans warehouse had some Fiocchi small pistol in stock so I grabbed some to load some 9mm with.

[Rifletom]

Tomorrow will be loading up some .45 acp. Not that I really need to, but, what the heck. A little yardwork today, straightening up the shop and now cracking open a beer and watching the Dodgers getting whooped. Again!

[BigAl52]

Windy and cold here so in the loading room today I primed up about 500 rounds of 9mm. Bullets came today from RMR and I have more 9 mm brass coming tomorrow to size and prime.

[Vaquero]

Been a busy day in the lab,aka the loading bench.
Loaded a box of 30-30, 170 gr Sierra's over 29.2 grs of 3031.
Then 14 rounds of 270, 150gr Sierra's over 50.6 grs IMR 4350.
Then 10 rounds for the 6.5 Creed, 142 gr Hornady ELD-X over 42.0grs of the same 4350.
And 5 rounds to play with for the Marlin 308mx, some Midway blems 165gr BT ballastic tips, over 41.1 grs. of LVR.
These will be shot single-shot style.

Then I mounted 2 scopes for a couple friends, got to try and sight those in later.
If it don't stop raining, I will have to use the barn, but can only do 80 yds there.

RP

[Vaquero]

Not sure those 308s can improve on this group, but we'll see.
May extend the range a tad though.
I shot this group week before last, 110yds.

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