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Originally posted by exx1976:
You know, if you tumble your brass it wouldn't be so tarnished like that.

Tumblers?? We don't need no stinkin' tumblers!


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My arm is tired after loading around 7,000 rounds on that Rock Chucker in the last 10 months

You do know a Dillon 550 will drop s c powder exactly
but you are probably a body builder anyway.

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Originally posted by 45 Cal:

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My arm is tired after loading around 7,000 rounds on that Rock Chucker in the last 10 months

You do know a Dillon 550 will drop s c powder exactly
but you are probably a body builder anyway.

I hear ya, my man. There's a brand new 550B along with 2 tool heads and powder dispensing systems laying on the floor in the spare bedroom right now waiting to be installed when I get back from vacation.

I've got everything needed to load 9mm and 40 cal and all it will take is swapping out the tool head and locator pins. Life will become easier and I don't foresee spending an entire winter in the basement loading the next season's match ammo ever again .

Today, on the 115th case, I broke my first decapping pin... So now I have to order another one of those, no idea how to change into the new one but that's a later matter. I finished loading the 115 cases I had already decapped and went to the fun store and picked up a few more .308 Lapua subsonics.

I picked up 55 grain bullets and a box of 12000 small pistol primers.

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Originally posted by jsjac:
I picked up 55 grain bullets and a box of 12000 small pistol primers.

How many bricks is that?

That is eight boxes of 1500 primers each. Fiocchi primers.
Thinking about longer term storage. Thinking about vacuum bagging them. Any thoughts

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Originally posted by jsjac:
That is eight boxes of 1500 primers each. Fiocchi primers.
Thinking about longer term storage. Thinking about vacuum bagging them. Any thoughts

I would skip baggies.
I have been successful for over fifty years using G I ammo cans.I have some very old stock out there,and have been loading lots last winter.
Too damn hot out there these days.
My powder also.They live in house garage in metal filing cabinet.

Tried out a new recipe for 357sig. Montana Gold 125gr HP over VihtaVuori N350. Started at 7.6gr and worked my way up .2 at a time. Last load produced a power factor of 177 using 8.8gr with OAL of 1.138. Was fired through a Springfield XD 4".

Chronoed some 10-year-old Georgia Arms canned heat mainly for warming the barrel up. Power factor was 163 but spread was 93 fps compared to only 10 fps for the VihtaVuori.

Loaded 100 rnds of 175 smk's for my 308

and started developing a load for me
7mm-08.......tyring Varget since it
works so well in the 308's

Both great calibers...

Loaded 100 5.56 rounds for "plinking" or given the current climate, war shots.

Going to crimp them now as they are standard 55 Gr cannulure bullets.

RMD

Mounted my Lee Classic Turret to the new reloading bench, in my new to me home.

Stopped at Cabelas tonight to check powder availability. Found 3# H335 (wanted 4), took them and 2# Win748 for $22.95 ea. From look of shelf, powder may becoming more available, lots of choices.

Not today, but recently… swaged and hand-primed 900 223's. I'm glad I only have to swage brass once because I hate doing it!

This week Ive deprimed 500 .223 LC once fired I grabbed from a PD range. Ive tumbled 1500 9mm brass, 125 .308, and am working on .300BLK today.

Love my new Rebel 17.

I am taking the plunge into casting lead bullets. I ordered everything I needed to do the job. Even though I already had a lead furnace I about fainted when the price was totaled up. Well, at least now I can start using up the lead I have been saving. First I have to sort out the pure lead I use for black powder bullets but that won't take long.

Threads been slow. Maybe everyone is shootin' and not loadin'...

Took time from a very busy few days to finally print up some dope cards. Based them on the trued data from a few weeks back. Decided to just be lazy and print them off Ballistic AE. -4000 thru 10,000 DA...that should cover me!!




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Cleaned, decapped and annealed 135 308 cases.

Now comes the really fun part, lubing, resizing, cleaning and trimming. Oh joy!

Entropy, why would you do the cards any other way? From the horse's mouth to your turrets. That's how it was intended.

I need to print some as well.



RMD

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Originally posted by rduckwor:
Cleaned, decapped and annealed 135 308 cases.

Now comes the really fun part, lubing, resizing, cleaning and trimming. Oh joy!

Entropy, why would you do the cards any other way? From the horse's mouth to your turrets. That's how it was intended.

I need to print some as well.



RMD

Jelrod was kind enough to send me his excel spreadsheet. Saved it this time, but decided to,go simple off AE at least for the time being. I need to stop bynthe Chiefs Office and get some more ID holders. As you see...they work about perfect!!

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Originally posted by entropy:

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Originally posted by rduckwor:
Cleaned, decapped and annealed 135 308 cases.

Now comes the really fun part, lubing, resizing, cleaning and trimming. Oh joy!

Entropy, why would you do the cards any other way? From the horse's mouth to your turrets. That's how it was intended.

I need to print some as well.



RMD

Jelrod was kind enough to send me his excel spreadsheet. Saved it this time, but decided to,go simple off AE at least for the time being. I need to stop bynthe Chiefs Office and get some more ID holders. As you see...they work about perfect!!

Yeah, I was going to ask you where you got those. Perfect.

RMD