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What did you do at your reloading bench today?

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by Hatchdog » Fri Apr 04, 2025 10:45 am

JVogler wrote:
Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:14 pm
It's Thursday night and I'm still working on last weeks shell acquisition. Deprimed and flared 100 38special and 100 3577magnum more shells today. At least I'm well set with brass for all the calibers I load for . I load 3 calibers to shoot in my brothers weapons.
You got that backwards. You need to shoot your brother’s ammo in your firearms. :lol:

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by Vaquero » Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:14 am

Hatchdog wrote:
Fri Apr 04, 2025 10:45 am
JVogler wrote:
Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:14 pm
It's Thursday night and I'm still working on last weeks shell acquisition. Deprimed and flared 100 38special and 100 3577magnum more shells today. At least I'm well set with brass for all the calibers I load for . I load 3 calibers to shoot in my brothers weapons.
You got that backwards. You need to shoot your brother’s ammo in your firearms. :lol:
Good one Hatch... :lol:

Well, yesterday before the son and grandson came by I had deprimed some 35 Rem., 38-55, and some 357 brass and had those in the tumbler.
After the son left I pulled the brass and rinsed it off and played it out to dry.
Loaded the 66 pieces of Win. nickel brass 357's with the 180gr PN over the usual 11.5 grs. of 2400.
I then got some other 38-55 brass out and ran them through the sizing and expanding dies.
Inspected for splits, found 3, then primed the other 72 pieces.
I then loaded 12 with a different 243 gr bullets to try out on the gong.
Then the power went out, was going to start on some more 255's.
So, I'll load some here shortly.

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by Vaquero » Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:08 pm

Well, I got 32 of the 255's loaded, then the powder ran dry. :o
No worries though, there's at least 4 to 4.5 more lbs. sitting on the floor by the bench. ;) :)

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by GunnyGene » Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:12 pm

Vaquero wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:14 am
Hatchdog wrote:
Fri Apr 04, 2025 10:45 am
JVogler wrote:
Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:14 pm
It's Thursday night and I'm still working on last weeks shell acquisition. Deprimed and flared 100 38special and 100 3577magnum more shells today. At least I'm well set with brass for all the calibers I load for . I load 3 calibers to shoot in my brothers weapons.
You got that backwards. You need to shoot your brother’s ammo in your firearms. :lol:
Good one Hatch... :lol:

Well, yesterday before the son and grandson came by I had deprimed some 35 Rem., 38-55, and some 357 brass and had those in the tumbler.
After the son left I pulled the brass and rinsed it off and played it out to dry.
Loaded the 66 pieces of Win. nickel brass 357's with the 180gr PN over the usual 11.5 grs. of 2400.
I then got some other 38-55 brass out and ran them through the sizing and expanding dies.
Inspected for splits, found 3, then primed the other 72 pieces.
I then loaded 12 with a different 243 gr bullets to try out on the gong.
Then the power went out, was going to start on some more 255's.
So, I'll load some here shortly.

RP
Speaking of re-loading, have you seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NCugPIVjiA
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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by Vaquero » Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:37 pm

Yep, I'd seen it before. some high quality ammo for sure... :roll:

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by CT_Shooter » Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:46 pm

GunnyGene wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:12 pm
Speaking of re-loading, have you seen this?
Yikes!
H006M Big Boy Brass .357 - H001 Classic .22LR - Uberti / Taylors & Co. SmokeWagon .357 5.5" - Uberti / Taylors & Co. RanchHand .22LR 5.5"

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by 5shot » Sun Apr 06, 2025 10:10 pm

The powder measure was really high-tech stuff :roll: :lol:

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by GunnyGene » Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:15 pm

5shot wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 10:10 pm
The powder measure was really high-tech stuff :roll: :lol:
I wonder who supplies their consumables - powder, primers, bullets. ?
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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by Mags » Mon Apr 07, 2025 11:18 am

5shot wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 10:10 pm
The powder measure was really high-tech stuff :roll: :lol:
We could probably load some powder that way. Some max reloads specify a case full of compressed powder.
UPDATES: OR passes 114, "one of strictest gun control measures in U.S." https://henryrifleforums.com/viewtopic. ... 34#p213234

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by Bill.68 » Mon Apr 07, 2025 11:57 am

I bought 500 62gr Federal Fusion bullets which are a GoldDot by another name (confirmed by my own testing and others), Ive prepped 400 1x LC cases so far and Ill begin loading tonight. 26.1gr of PP Varmint and a cci41 makes a dandy load. Its what Id call a universal load, its a great performer in all of my 5.56 guns.

I do think I am addicted to reloading.
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