Bought six pounds of powder and a few thousand primers.

Tackled building a few test loads of montana gold 357 mag 158 gr jsp using h110 the 686.

On Friday loaded up some test rounds with H4895 under 69grSMK's as I'm running low on my standard powders (H335 and AA2520) and found my sweet spot. Loaded 200 more rounds of this on Saturday morning, shot them all later that day. Spent today loading 500 rds of the same stuff.

Agony,that H4895 is my go to powder for years and years.I just hope my back order comes thru in a few months,I am down to one sealed jug and a bit in another.

Opened the door for the nice FedEx man to sign for a package with 8 pounds of 1680 in it.

CFE-223 is the only thing I'm a bit light on in terms of powder now at this point.

Could use some more bullets, too, but those seem to be a bit easier to locate.

making some 308 loads with 208 AMAX.

Took delivery of 1.5k pieces of mil-spec .223 55gr FMJ bullets from Widener's.

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Originally posted by 45 Cal:
Agony,that H4895 is my go to powder for years and years.I just hope my back order comes thru in a few months,I am down to one sealed jug and a bit in another.

Yeah I really like it. I was able to get a few pounds online last week but it sold out quickly.



Today I stopped by the too-expensive gun shop near the house and picked up a couple pounds of 748.

The nice UPS man just left 3,000 230gr 45 bullets on my porch. They are now coming up to temperature so they don't have any condensation, and I suppose I should probably load some. There's a bowling pin shoot on the 23rd, and I think I have about 70 rounds loaded. That won't be enough.

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Originally posted by exx1976:
The nice UPS man just left 3,000 230gr 45 bullets on my porch. They are now coming up to temperature so they don't have any condensation, and I suppose I should probably load some. There's a bowling pin shoot on the 23rd, and I think I have about 70 rounds loaded. That won't be enough.

Ha! You gonna freeze your ass off shooting those pins! But you WILL have fun

RMD

It's indoor.

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Originally posted by exx1976:
It's indoor.

Nevermind <Emily Lutella>

RMD

I built myself a new pedestal for my loading machines,it swivels like the old square one only its bigger one in ocotogon shape.
Took pic's but don't feel like fighting with P B at this late hour and especially with a couple belts.

Bought 1000 primers ($34 wish it were a little cheaper)

Hand primed 100 pieces of brass, I'm new still using a single stage press

Yesterday:

Final tumble on 50pcs of once fired Lapua .308.
Neck sized (via collet die) above.
Inspected and primed above.

Deprime and initial tumble on about 30 twice fired Lapua .308.
F/L sized and shoulder twerked half of above.
Measured above dimensions about 100 times each.

Tore apart entire reloading area for deep cleaning after I accidently blew barn dust out the back of my ShopVac cleaning up some tumbling media on shop floor. (forgot to reinstall filter bag after previous use sucking up water in laundry room)

Swore a lot and scared the dog.

Tumbled about 500 .45ACP for loading in my Lee 1000.

Loaded 500 rounds of 38 special with Sillouette 5.0 grains with round nose berry bullets. Dillon operated well.

Prepped, trimmed and chamfered 85 2X Lapua cases.
Damn I hate trimming!

Loaded about 30 of them for play time.

RMD

sorted through 2500 9mm cases for an upcoming week of fun to load when everyone is gone for spring break...it'll be peaceful!

Did you seriously just say "sorted" and "9mm" in the same sentence?

Good GOD, man, whatever for? Just throw that shit on the press and pull the handle. LOL

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Originally posted by exx1976:
Did you seriously just say "sorted" and "9mm" in the same sentence?

Good GOD, man, whatever for? Just throw that shit on the press and pull the handle. LOL

He might've been sorting out those with crimped primers as Mrs. Flash does that for me.

My large contribution to reloading was loading five (5) 124 grainers for an experiment I'm conducting next week.

....now I'm exhausted.