What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[DsGrouse]

Nothing yesterday. I was on the road. The night before, I sighted in my 6mm ARC, 6.5 Grendel, and the 308 M24 clone. All shot well. It's been a long while since I've shot anying with out a muzzle break or with a can. My shoulder was certainly letting me know my age yesterday.

[Hatchdog]

Very interesting! I have to chuckle at the pricing stickers though. Can't help but wonder who was President when that tray was priced?

Yeah, couldn’t sell it at a buck so had to give a 12% discount, I picked it up at a gunshow many years ago but I’m sure I paid several dollars for it.

[DsGrouse]

I fiddled with the m expander and flare attachment for my RCBS Pro 2000. I don't like the attachment for the 9mm. It's essentially a 38 cal m expander. You have to run it all the way down to the bottom of a 9mm case to reach the flare portion of the m- expander.

That makes some funky looking cartriges. I honestly think it would be best to buy a second 38 cal expander and trim off half the m-expander, shortening the whole thing.

Anywho, I went back to my Harrells schutzen powder dropper and whipped out another 200. 125grn 9mm.

[DsGrouse]

I broke down on 308 day and ordered a bunch of bullets from Raven Rock. Ostensibly, they are for the 700 PSS shooting 165-168grain 308 loads. I also snagged a burst fire brass annealer. I've now loaded much of my 6mm ARC, 300 Blackout, 6.5x55 enough that an anneal makes a good deal of sense.

I'm still fussing with the RCBS case-activated powder dropper and flaring 9mm cases. Honestly, as much as I've dicked with this silly thing, I think I am simply going to size, decap, and prime off press. It's faster, cleaner, and much simpler than trying to run a 5-station progressive doing those steps.

[DsGrouse]

Helped work on a family members m1a. We got an adjustable gas block on. Mounted the muzzle device and can.

It shoots pretty good.

My 34mm rings came for my remington 700, i got the scope mounted and dialed in at 70yds


I'm waing on new pick rail metal for the stock. It should be here this week. With that i can mount the atlas bipod.

No reloading persay, i did wrap up my 9mm 125 grain loads for now. I have another 500 bullets i could load, but that will have to wait.

I primed 250 cases of nosler 6mm arc. That puts me around 325 to 350 empties for 6mm arc and about the same for 6.5 grendel. Those will be the next two i load. I've got some great loads for both.

That being said the next few weeks will be prepping the new 200 yd range and the new 300 yds range. I will need to hang targets, and work out firing positions.

[DsGrouse]

Trying out my new annealer and processing 300 or so cases of 308

[JVogler]

Prepping shells fired at range on Wednesday, 50 38special and 50 357magnum. Have them dry tumbled, Deprimed and flared ready for next loading session.

[DsGrouse]

Ended up using the new burst fire two on 300+ 308/7.62×51, 250ish 6.5x55, 500 ish 300 blk out.

It's a good bit of kit. It isnt for under 50 pieces of brass though. It can be finicky if there is wind, like yesterday, and the wind kept blowing the torch out.


I've got a crap ton of 223, 30-30, 375 win and 38-55 to do next.

[DsGrouse]

Loaded a whole passel of 6mm arc ammo using 8208 xbr. Found out that i've no more 6mm bullets.

Time to deburr and champher 6.5 grendel brass. I've got quite a bit of brass for it.

[DsGrouse]

Wrapped up 300 rounds of 6.5 Grendel. 27grns 8208 xbr We'll see how they all shoot.

[Hatchdog]

You’ve been busy Grouse

[DsGrouse]

sized my annealed 6.5x55 brass, it's going in for a trim in a few moments. I plan to load some 140 grn target loads, and 160grn subsonic loads.

[DsGrouse]

Loaded 6.5x55 Swede yesterday.
150ish rounds of 160 grn subs
150ish rounds of 140grn subs
150-ish rounds of 140-grain supers
100-ish rounds of 150 grn supers.

For the subs i used TiteGroup. 9.2 and 9.0 grains respectively. The supers I used were 4064 in a couple of different weights.

All the brass for the subs was bought used. I had to toss about 10 pieces. I annealed, sized, and trimmed them yesterday. The supers were all new brass.

Shooting subs out of the cases stretches the necks something fierce, so a full length resize is necessary. The annealing made a noticeable difference in sizing and trimming.

[Vaquero]

Nothing here, but...

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RP

[The Happy Kaboomer]

Nothing............But I unloaded 4 boxes of 12 ga at the sporting clays range........

[DsGrouse]

Oh that sounds fun

[Hatchdog]

Nothing............But I unloaded 4 boxes of 12 ga at the sporting clays range........

[DsGrouse]

Loaded a couple hundred rounds of Sierra 165-grain 308, and about the same in Swiss P 167-grain ammo. Both shot exceptionally well.

[5shot]

Loaded up some steel plate clanging .357 loads. I usually use Power Pistol but have a few pounds of Bullseye in the back of the cabinet. I rarely load anything with Bullseye lately and this batch is probably 40+ years old. POI and accuracy is on par with my PP load and since I cast my bullets and case life is nearly forever the only real cost is primers. 5.7 gr. of Bull under a Lee 158 cast is good for close to 1200 fps out of a .357 carbine.

[DsGrouse]

Loaded about 1100 200gen lsc 45 acp. Using 6.4grns lovex/shootersworld ultimate pistol @930 fps.

Loaded 800 or so berrys/xtreme 230 plated RB @ 7.0 grains of the same.