My wife got it at Amazon. Great for small parts and such....

Picked up 500 pcs ea .380 brass, 90 gr Xtreme bullets, 100 90 gr Hornady XTP bullets and 1# Bullseye to teach my daughter how to reload for her G42. I already have primers and some 700X.

If time permits this weekend, she will deprime brass and into the vib cleaner. Later we will load up a dozen to see how they shoot.

Last night I picked up some Sierra Matchking .308Win BTHP and powder and started assembling some test rounds, and this morning I finished them up. I'd call it a productive couple of days.

shot 200 rounds of 9mm today thru my G19..

various brass,
various primers,
8grain AA#7,
115grain Precisions bullets

then I came home and loaded 200 more...

good times!

Primed 1300 federal cases (have a blister on my trigger finger now)

loaded 300 9mm

shot 50, was able to hit 7/7 at 50 yard 6 inch plate out of my P320F

resized and expanded 250 for loading in the morning.

Had an hour to blow so I loaded up a quick 300 rounds of 9mm.

Loaded a small batch of .308 with 150 grain cast GC bullets using my basic .30 loading of 12 grains of Unique...after I made another $.35 cent powder trickler out of a PVC end cap and a BIC pen body (my good old Lyman is on loan)...but this one works just as well ...



It's a super pleasant load to shoot and accurate enough in the RFI Enfield at 50 yards (only drawback is it will not feed from the magazine and must be loaded one at a time...but it's fun and cheap.

OK Bisley, I've got to have one of those! What a great idea. Did you just drill a hole in the middle of the pen body?

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Originally posted by thezoltar:
OK Bisley, I've got to have one of those! What a great idea. Did you just drill a hole in the middle of the pen body?

You could do that...I just cut a hole in half of the pen body with a pocket knife...the O-ring just keeps the tube from sliding out of the PVC end cap...




Then just drill a hole through the cap at a slight downward angle slightly larger than the tube...I mounted the whole shebang on a piece of composite decking with a scrap piece of aluminum strip I had laying around...



I drilled a hole through the PVC cap and used a bolt to attach the cap to the bent aluminum strip...



Hey...it works as well as any I have used and it literally cost almost nothing.

Loaded up another 700 rounds of 9mm and sorted some brass.

I stroked that handle on the 550 so many times this morning I think I owe it dinner.

1200 newly minted 124g 9mm rounds. That makes 2200 rounds in the last 5 days.

I think I'll be OK for a few more weeks now.

Broke out the MEC and loaded a couple hundred rounds of 12 gauge 7/8 oz cowboy loads with the new/old skivved ACTIV hulls a friend gave me awhile back...these are some of my favorite hulls and I will miss them when my current supply is gone ...

Boy, that brings back memories!

Well, this week I loaded up 1000 .45 acp loads for next years points season (Sept.-Aug). Using Summers Enterprises' 233gr RN lead bullet, 4.2gr of WST, CCI primers, at an OAL of 1.200. Now, I only need to load about another 2-3000 for matches and practice and then I should be set for the year.

Ran some mk118lr clones over the chrono. All came up between 2599 and 2607. Im very pleased. Back to where it all started for me...175smk and RE15. Im content though.

Loaded some test rounds for the new stick (.300 Norma Mag ). Going to try out the Flatline solids. These are the 198's, sure are pretty, will see if they shoot.

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Originally posted by jlemmy:
Loaded some test rounds for the new stick (.300 Norma Mag ). Going to try out the Flatline solids. These are the 198's, sure are pretty, will see if they shoot.

Those look nice! Awaiting range report.

RMD

Setup a Horandy Iron Press then sized and primed 270AR brass.

I sorted two and a half 5 gallon buckets of mixed range brass.

So I have two and a third buckets full of 9mm.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH-gBYyjdtG/

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Originally posted by rduckwor:

Those look nice! Awaiting range report.

RMD

Let me preface by saying the rifle has been throated for the 215/230 Berger. There was no way I was going to set the rifle up for an unknown bullet. That means I'm loading these solids to mag length and jumping them to the rifling.

I have not been able to get these to group well with two different powders. For what they cost I'm not sure I'm going to pursue using them any longer. I may try loading long and single loading just to see the results.