Stainless tumbled my last 30 pounds of 40 Cal brass and banged out 62 of these bad boys.

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Originally posted by 45 Cal:
JMorris;looks like 45,000 primers,you running a little low ,time to get some stock

I saw that too. Giggled with delight and a twinge of jealously.

Same here hehe!

The other day I was reading through a reloading manual. And it said "paraphrasing" a reloading only needs 8,000 primers on hand, 1,000 of each type.

I laughed because I have more primers than that sitting in my kitchen.

Anyways I will sum up what I did for the week.

I sorted, and cleaned a 5 gallon bucket of brass. Loaded 500 rounds of my 9mm PCC Load. And picked up a gallon worth of brass.

I should have the ranged cleaned up before it starts getting hot again. And the back log of brass sorted and cleaned.

Yeah, I would be out if I only had 8000. I don't even order in quantities that small.

But yeah that's less than 45,000 primers on the bench. When cleaning up I sorted "open" jugs and boxes and put them where they would be used first. I use mostly Winchester primers except for "special" stuff so I left all the other brands with the unopened Winchester primers.

Resized all my 6.5x47 brass. Did a video review of the Thumbler's Model B (it's uploading now), plan to do a review of dies and how I load in a little bit (it's lunchtime here).

Plan is to reload all my 6.5x47 over the winter so when match season starts I'm not behind the curve.


Recently I also ordered a stripped 700 action, I may have mentioned that. Yesterday I ordered a 1-piece bolt from PTG, as well as a firing pin assembly, Sako extractor, and an ejector kit. Also ordered a 1:7 Krieger .224 standard palma blank.

Trying to decide if I want to use LC brass or buy Lapua for it (.223 Ackley Improved). The brass is on sale right now, so I need to decide soon. LOL But I have 2 5-gallon buckets of Lake City, so there's that..


I also have a 1-gallon ice cream pail overflowing with tumbled 9mm that needs decapped. And I need to chamfer and primer all my 6.5 brass.. Gonna be a busy afternoon!


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Link to original video: https://youtu.be/WaG6ltVE_-g

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Ordered 6.5x47 Lupua brass from Midway. 100 for $103. Now bad but they still get you on shipping.

Resized 50 of my existing 6.5 Lupua brass for some ladder loads for my 270AR with 8208 powder. Loading 130 and 110 gr Nosler Accubonds.

*Lapua

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*Lapua

Go easy on me..., I graduated from the Univ. of Tennessee.

Broke the carbide sizing ring in my Redding G-Rx die last night taking the bulges out of some 40 cal brass. Sum-bitch

I guess the 40 cal brass prep will go on hold as the die travels back to Redding for replacement.

Time to start the prep on the 90lbs of 9mm brass I have laying around I guess.

Between yesterday and today, I:

Tumbled lube off all 6.5 brass
Chamfered all of it
Primed all of it
Realized I have lost over 100 pieces in 2 seasons - Fuck!


Bought 500 pieces of lapua 223
Bought a bunch of 223 loading blocks
Bought a couple more tins of imperial for the stockpile
Bought 2 accurate 223 AI pattern mags
Sent the action off to have a defiance side bolt stop installed
Made another video about dies & tools, outlined my reloading process for precision rifle


I think that's enough fun for now. Tomorrow I'll probably start loading that 6.5 brass. Need to run off some more blackout, and then switch to 9mm and run off an ammo can full of that.

Sorted through a large flat rate box full of 45 to separate out the small primer brass. Whoever thought small primers in .45 ACP was a good idea needs to be throat punched.....then hit in the nuts for good measure.

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Sorted through a large flat rate box full of 45 to separate out the small primer brass. Whoever thought small primers in .45 ACP was a good idea needs to be throat punched.....then hit in the nuts for good measure.

And then hung by their toenails while being beaten with a switch.

I built a toolhead stand for my 650.



It is a bit quick and dirty so it isn't quite a plum as I would like. But the next one I am going to make I am going to make sure everything is perfectly level.

Fixed my old Frankford tumbler. It started running intermittent. Figured the motor windings finally shot. Turns out it was just a spade connector gone bad after all these years. Spliced it back and good for another 20 years!

Started working on an Android app that you're all going to want to buy. Got about 20 hours into it so far. Figure it needs another 40-ish.

Hope to have it finished in a month or so. Would be sooner, but the holidays will have me busy for a bit. That, and my day job...

Finally got serious and tuned the Lee Drum measure to toss consistently within about .1gr. It's sat since LAST Christmas waiting for me to get serious. All it took was a detailed wash in dish soap, a thourough dusting of graphite, and about a half hopper of powder to wear the wipes in. The disk is still on the Loadmaster (not going to disrupt a good thing) but the drum now sits on the turret press for "medium quantity" stuff.

re organize

Sorted my bucket-o-brass and tumbled some 45ACP. Avoided the range and all the gobbstompers with their new post-Christmas AR-15's. Didn't want to get shot.

RMD

Tumbling some brass. Got a several thousand dirty shells that have been neglected through the year.

Got a 250 pack of Blue bullets from a secret santa over on Arfcom, so I loaded a ladder before christmas and found that 3.8gr of Red Dot works well (still trying to kill this keg I got for free in 2015, 8000 rounds in still over half left).

Loaded up the remaining 200 or so, going to put them through my new P320RX this weekend.

Cleaned and prepped 1K .300aac.