What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Grunt67]

At the bench...ah,
I loaded my gut.
Yes I had supper on the bench.


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RP

Folks! We have a winner. Good idea. Randy.

[CT_Shooter]

It's been awhile since I've worked at my reloading bench, simply because I haven't been to a shooting range in way too long and my ammo cabinet doesn't have room for any more. That's a problem I want to address soon.

I get my first vaccine shot in two weeks and, among other things, I am so looking forward to shooting again! Please get vaccinated. Normal can't happen fast enough for me.

In the meantime, I visited my reloading bench this week with an abacus to count money... I mean, to do an inventory of my .38/.357 reloading components. I only had a guesstimate of what I had on hand until now. Looks like I'm good.

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[runnin n gunnin]

Nice Spread Sheet CT- Looks like you are a bit crowded with all those primers. Being a giver, let me know if you want me to help you clear some room and take those primers off your hands !

[Hatchdog]

Experimented with my RCBS Chargemaster yesterday and I’m very impressed with it so far. Scary accurate and consistent with the trial dispenses I did. I load a lot of .223 at around 24 grains of Varget and it seemed pretty quick at that charge level. I bumped it up to 45 grains and there was a pretty significant difference in the time to dispense.

[Rifletom]

Do they still make that little beep when it's done dispensing powder? They are a very good bench item.

[Hatchdog]

Do they still make that little beep when it's done dispensing powder? They are a very good bench item.

Yes it does. I saw in the instructions that the beep can be shut off but I liked it. When I was dispensing powder today I was able to do some other tasks while the charge completed. The beep let me know to pour the charge and get the next one started.

I loaded 100 .223 cartridges today using brass I had sized and primed previously. Out of 100 charges dispensed I had 98 exactly at 24.5, one at 24.6 and one at 24.7. I am very impressed with this unit. I have 100 more to complete but using a 25.5 charge (different rifle). I sure hope I get that same level of consistency.

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[Hatchdog]

Today I loaded up another 100 .223 cartridges giving my powder dispenser another run. Today’s load was 1.0 grain heavier than yesterdays, 25.5 of Varget.

I had 92 at 25.5, seven at 25.6 and one at 25.7. Yesterday was 97% perfect and today was 92%. However, if I factor RCBS’s claim the dispenser is accurate within one tenth of a grain them my accuracy is 99%. I can sure live with that. I did use the one tenth over drops but redid the two that were two tenths over. Pretty much I’m thrilled with the performance of the RCBS measure. A couple of years ago I bought the Lyman version of this measure at half the price and after using it for 10 minutes I boxed it up and took it back to Sportsman’s Warehouse. Way too much variance.

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[Grunt67]

Hatch, after you get it set up & going, how long does it take to do each drop. Just curious. ( like the cat ).

[Grunt67]

I've finally got back on my bench & actually getting some loads made again. Working on the 45/70 with the new load I came up with
on my ladder loads experiment. Now loading IMR4198, 40.5 grs ( previously 41.0 ), Hornady 300 gr. JHP, Starline brass, CCI primer.
Work a while, & have to quit a while, my back & shoulder starts complaining. Getting old ain't for the squeamish.

[Vaquero]

I haven't done anything @ the bench since I stuff the gut.
But I did order some 9mm bullets tonight because of a nice heads up...but that was from the recliner.
thank ya, Grunt.

RP

[Grunt67]

I haven't done anything @ the bench since I stuff the gut.
But I did order some 9mm bullets tonight because of a nice heads up...but that was from the recliner.
thank ya, Grunt.

RP

My pleasure. Glad it helped.

[Vaquero]

I haven't done anything @ the bench since I stuff the gut.
But I did order some 9mm bullets tonight because of a nice heads up...but that was from the recliner.
thank ya, Grunt.

RP

My pleasure. Glad it helped.666666666666

I really don't shoot that much 9, and I have a fair amount of factory stuff.
But with the current uncertain times, and I didn't really have that many bullets for loading.
That's what it's about though jus because you don't need it, a heads up to others.


RP

[Hatchdog]

Hatch, after you get it set up & going, how long does it take to do each drop. Just curious. ( like the cat ).

It varies a bit. From 10 seconds up to 30 but mostly on the short time end of the spread. I think that when it takes longer to dispense it’s because the scale has to re-zero itself before it starts the next load. I’ll pay more attention next time I use it to see if that’s the case. I found that while dispensing I was able to multi-task by doing other simple tasks while the powder dispensed. With the beep tone I knew when it was time to pour the charge. I felt a little weird doing this while charging cases as usually this process is so manual that it gets 100% attention. I did confirm every charge weight when returning to the scale prior to filling the case.

Also, I was loading .223 with 25 ish grains so the dispense was quicker than say a load for a 45/70 would be. I played with it at 45 grains and the difference was noticeable.

[Grunt67]

Hatch, after you get it set up & going, how long does it take to do each drop. Just curious. ( like the cat ).

It varies a bit. From 10 seconds up to 30 but mostly on the short time end of the spread. I think that when it takes longer to dispense it’s because the scale has to re-zero itself before it starts the next load. I’ll pay more attention next time I use it to see if that’s the case. I found that while dispensing I was able to multi-task by doing other simple tasks while the powder dispensed. With the beep tone I knew when it was time to pour the charge. I felt a little weird doing this while charging cases as usually this process is so manual that it gets 100% attention. I did confirm every charge weight when returning to the scale prior to filling the case.

Also, I was loading .223 with 25 ish grains so the dispense was quicker than say a load for a 45/70 would be. I played with it at 45 grains and the difference was noticeable.

Thanks, Hatch. Appreciate the report.

[Vaquero]

This morning I saw an old friend and he says I have something you might can use. He knows I reload, said he bought these thinking he was getting some 209's for his muzzle loader. Wanted to know if I could use 'em? I said heck yeah, he just gave them to me didn't want any money.
They're magnums but heck free is free.

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RP

[Grunt67]

Hey, now you've got an excuse to go buy you a magnum.
Luck like that just rolls right off my back.

[Vaquero]

Hey, now you've got an excuse to go buy you a magnum.
Luck like that just rolls right off my back.

Naw, naw, just gives ya an excuse to play.
They can be used in reg. rifle, just need to back off on the powder a hair.
There for comes the playing/load testing.
Might play with the 308 MX , or
the 444.

RP

[Vaquero]

Sometime back one of y'all posted the pic of the whiskey bottle with empty brass.
Well about loaded 45's in a 46.

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RP

[Oldbrass]

First time loading cast in 45acp Going to use unique and see how they work in the 1911

[Rifletom]

First time loading cast in 45acp Going to use unique and see how they work in the 1911

Will work just fine. About 6.0gr ought to work. 230gr RN?