I looked at all the brass I shot up yesterday at the Draw and sighed.

Helped my cousin set up his press Saturday.
Then checked the charge at my range.








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Reloaded eight hundred rounds of 45ACP/230Gr-FMJ and eight hundred rounds of 9mmLuger/120Gr-FMJ.

I ordered some Barnes bullets and 4000 Hornady 75gr BTHP from Powder Valley to take advantage of their free shipping.

Reloaded 3 flats (750rds) of doubles shells for trap

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Originally posted by argolfer:
I ordered some Barnes bullets and 4000 Hornady 75gr BTHP from Powder Valley to take advantage of their free shipping.

Man, I missed that one. The free shipping. I was just thinking of ordering some more powder. Crap.

Got a chance to use my new Giraud trimmer - trimmed 500rds of 223 in under 90 minutes (daughter was watching a movie). This thing is awesome!

I bought over 3100 once fired brass, mainly Lake City and a Case of 3500 Montana Gold 224 bullets from a guy on a local forum. At a great price.
Now I will put the Dillon Swagger and Giraud trimmer to work. Can't wait! Oh yeah the Annealez annealer also. Got my work cut out for me. But, then again it is a hobby right?

Got my 300BLK dies in mail and just picked up a mini chop/miter saw.

I think I am going to carve out a jig from wood and see how that goes. If it doesn't work good I will buy a real jig.

I mounted my Dillon swedger and ran about 600 rounds thru it. They are in the tumbler now. I will load the up on Sunday afternoon. This will be my first real run with the new XL650.
I ran my box full of 223 brass thru the sizer and electric trimmer. Aprox 3500 rounds. I really like the case feeder. sure is a time saver.

Made my first 7 300blk cases from 556 brass. I will need to buy a jig to make cutting them easier and probably get a Giruad tri way cutter.

Also might anneal them.

My first attempt at a jig semi failed, back to the drawing board. It worked but for some reason I was not getting straight cuts, all of them where angled.

Loaded 50 rounds of 175gr SMK's in LC cases, BR-2 primers and 42.8 grains of RL-15. This is my long range round for my M14's.

Also loaded 165gr Accu-Bonds under 57 grains of IMR-4350 in 30-06 for deer season.

Tony.

Taught my 13 year old grandson how to setup my Dillion 550 for .44 Rem Mag and let him deprime about 100 cases. We put them in the tumbler and set them off. Next weekend we'll process the 100 cases and let him load them up. Then go to the range and shoot them up.

Good day for both of us.

Loaded up 100 of Missouri Bullet Co.'s http://www.missouribullet.com/index.php 200gr. SWC with some WST; to see how they chrono out of my Springfield Armory Range Officer.

200 45 acp: 200 gr BB LRN, 231, and SB LPP
200 9mm Luger: 124 Xtreme, 231, and Tula SPP

Enough of garage time in the Sept heat.

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Originally posted by .45 ACP Nut:
Loaded up 100 of Missouri Bullet Co.'s http://www.missouribullet.com/index.php 200gr. SWC with some WST; to see how they chrono out of my Springfield Armory Range Officer.

I shoot those typically for IDPA. 4.5-4.6 Gr WST and the MOBullet 200 GR LSWC. Nice shooting load. IIRC, about 870 fps out of my 5" SIG 1911.

RMD

Picked up a Coax press and opened a nice big box of Lapua brass and Berger bullets. Happy day !

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Originally posted by jlemmy:
Picked up a Coax press and opened a nice big box of Lapua brass and Berger bullets. Happy day !

LOVE me some coax!


What did I do today.. Lemme see... Oh yeah. Apologized to the UPS guy for the 4k Berger 140s I made him carry to my porch.

Then took those downstairs, and pulled the handle on the 650 a few hundred times making some 9mm subs.

I need to get loading for the bolt gun though. Class next weekend (150 rounds) and a match the weekend after that.

Unfortunately that means I have to process brass. I have NOTHING ready to go, it's all been shot up. So tumble, size, tumble, chamfer, debur, prime, charge, blah, blah, yackety, schmackety, etc, etc...

Crayola really needs to up their quality control...



All blues, really.

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