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Old 11-25-2020, 02:55 PM
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Seen previous posts asking "What did you reload TODAY?", so I thought I'd ask what your reloading plans for the near future might be...? Not trying to stir up the pot during this time of shortages (artificial?), but there's no harm in asking (I hope!).

Having just taken an informal inventory of both supplies and my factory & reloaded stock, I'm thinking more along the HD/SD lines than increasing my typical range loads, i.e., using FMJ & HP's vs. plated or cast/coated.

Just finished some 185gr 45acp ZOMBIE!, have plenty of the Federal 130gr JHPWC to play with (Thanks, Nevada Ed!) in 38/357, a box of Xtreme's 9mm FMJ, and some Speer Deep Curl for 45 Colt. Now, if I can figure out what to do in 40 S&W it would seem I have way enough to keep me occupied for the immediate future.

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After an inventory of my reloading supplies, a decision is pretty easy. I have a good supply of large pistol primers, .45 cast bullets for .45 Colt, .45 flat point and round point full metal jacket bullets for .45 auto, and .41 JHP bullets for the .41 Mag. The variety and quantity of powder isn't an issue. My next loads will be .45 Auto.
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Yesterday I loaded .45 colt and 6.5 Creedmoor. Later in the week I may load up some .223s
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finish 9mm that I left off with last winter.
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I’m loading .45ACP 180 grain cowboy loads right now. Next (probably right after turkey tomorrow) will be .357Mag. I’ve been quarantining the last two weeks and have loaded .357Sig, .40, 10mm, and .41Mag, as well as playing around with a powder coating setup to see if I can make it work for me.
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Three calibers to get worked on this weekend;.357 Magnum, .41 Magnum, and 6.5 Grendel. I have enough small and large magnum pistol primers for a couple hundred rounds each. I have a ton of small rifle primers, about 500 new brass and 350-400 or so bullets for the Grendel. Makes those sleepless nights more bearable.
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.223 / 5.56
I decapped and resized over a thousand cases and trimmed a couple of hundred of them. Over the next couple of days I'll finish the trimming, deburring and pocket reaming. I've got a thousand 55gr FMJBT and a thousand 75gr FMJBT. I'll probably load up a few hundred of each.

FWIW I tried swaging the primer pockets with an RCBS tool, and I wasn't impressed with the results. It leaves a ridge around the rim of the primer pocket, whereas my Lyman reamer actually bevels the edge of the pocket rim.

Boy am I ever glad that all the brass prep only has to be done once.
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Prob some .308 Norma Mag. Haven’t reloaded it in years but worked thru some of my stash at the range this AM.
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Old 11-25-2020, 04:50 PM
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I have some 454 casull's and 460 magnums ready for powder and bullets, if I can make it to the range Friday I will have some empty 50 Beowulf's and something else in a pistol caliber.
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Old 11-25-2020, 04:57 PM
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I recently loaded a lot of 9mm and 45 acp. I loaded some 300 BO a while back but haver a bunch of brass ready to go so I will probably load another batch of those. I have a pretty good stock and shoot more 9mm and 45 acp than rifle so I keep a good stock of both. I am fortunate that I keep a good stock of components as well and can hold out for a good while but hope it gets back to normal in the next year or so.
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Old 11-25-2020, 05:16 PM
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I have had a 1000 357 Sig on the bench since March. I have had 500 380 on the back burner since 1987. If we get locked down again, I will have a place to escape to. My wife has a sewing room for same escape. It is a coping mechanism that has allowed to stay happily married for 42.5 years now!

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Old 11-25-2020, 05:16 PM
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My first ever try at 9 mm. Just got a batch of PennBullets coated 120 gr TCs. Will start with a small batch of mild and work up from there.
I never had the urge or need to reload 9 until recent events, happened. I've still got 800 or so factory rounds I'll keep in the rainy day stash.
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Old 11-25-2020, 05:21 PM
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I bought components to load 45 colt...but I need to get some brass.

My next round is going to be 7.62x54r. In all honesty, I could get everything I need now...but with the holidays coming, I didn't want to drop $100+ on materials.

I have my eye on 350 Legend, but the lack of projectiles that exist is still a turnoff. If more options become available, I'll probably convert an AR to it and start loading for that as well.

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Old 11-25-2020, 05:53 PM
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The Dillon is set up for 9mm and I have been loading a few at a time to test. I haven't load 9 for over 10 years as I have been shooting the former cheap factory stuff.

My factory stuff is so valuable now, I am reloading 9 again. I have a box of 1,000 Precision Delta FMJ and I am going to be working on that in the foreseeable future. As it is getting more Winter like here, my Summer of shooting is coming to an end.

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My next session will be to form cases and load another box of 256 Gibbs Magnum.
That's for a Geo.Gibbs Sporter built on a Greek 1903Mannlicher Schoenauer.

I form them from 30-06 surplus brass using a shortened 6.5Swede FL sizer & a 303 Brit FL sizer to reduce body taper (something I didn't do the first time around). There's trimming and neck reaming of course as well.
Seating and light crimping with the 6,5Swede crimp die.
Starter load using the Swede cartridge loading data is accurate and comfortable to shoot.
I use 160gr FMJ pulled military bullets of unkn origin that I happen to have a lot of.

The rifle had been sitting idle too long and I just shot up the last handful of rounds I had a couple weeks ago.

Also on the list is a box of 9.3x74R for a German DR.
I load 9mm Makarov jacketed HP bullets (95gr?) and 12gr of Red Dot.
They shoot beautifully to the POA at 50m with the 200m rear sight leaf.
..Or with the orig 'scope in claw mounts on top.
Saves the shoulder from abuse. The bigboy ammo for another time.

Probably some plain old 45Colt for a Ruger OM Blackhawk conversion project I'm finishing up. No real need at the moment as there's more work to do before range time and front sight filing.
But if I don't get at it, I never will. Loads will be light.

Pretty soon the weather will dictate more reloading sessions than Range sessions .
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I'll have to empty some casings and hulls first.
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Probably some reduced load 44 Magnums. Loaded 9 with my home cast .430" 240 grain SWC's and 7 grains of Unique last weekend for my Rossi lever gun. Chronographed out at about 1050 fps. Figure I will load up enough now to go for a spell.
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Me and Cindy made a batch of 325 flat base H&G 68'S while watching Street Outlaws.
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I'm loading 38 Special and 9MM. I shoot those calibers in handguns and carbines.
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Old 11-25-2020, 06:56 PM
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I’m pretty pedestrian with my needs... I’ve got a big box of 22s of reasonable quality and a couple of hundred 32 S&W Longs loaded up, so I need to unlimber the Dillon and load up some MRWCs in 38 Spl so I can take out the trio of K frame Masterpieces for a romp.

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Old 11-25-2020, 07:09 PM
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Nothing. The first 6 weeks of stay at home, I cleaned/sorted my brass. Then loaded 9mm, 38 Spec and 40 S&W. Ranges were shut down, even after they re-opened, Too much chance for me to get out. The surge here in Indiana is twice as bad as it was to start. So for now, my presses will stay idle. Spending my time loving my wife and our 2 beagles :-)
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I'm taking a break from casting 124 grain Lee Truncated Cone, Tumble Lube bullets from a two cavity mold. I shoot those unsized and tumble lubed in my Rossi 357 lever action. They'll get loaded in 38 cases over various charges of Unique. Some will get shot this weekend for sure if not tomorrow/Thanksgiving.

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9mm. Except I warped my mold and I can't find a replacement! I may have to bite the bullet and order a $100 mold. But I really want that particular mold anyway ...

And 5.56. I have a thousand CCI 41's on hand and a batch of brass inbound one of our fine forum members made me a great deal on.
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I'm working on about 500 .38 Specials. & y/o grand daughter is resizing them for me. After everything is done I let her seat the bullets. She loves doing it.
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Glad that I could help you figure out what to load with the 130 gr 38 special HST bullets............

I am now on "Hold" until I can pick up some SPP from around town or the net.

Looks like rifle and trap shooting for the next 6 months or more,
which I do have a lot of loads to check for best accuracy or "Meat loads".
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After a couple recent thread I'm going back to my 38 S&W experiments.
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Learning bottleneck case reloading, so a little a a time what with studying and ordering more tools. So 6.5 creedmoor on and off. Waiting for a package of Hornady Lock n Load bushings. Also will tune up the Dillon 550 for .38 spec +P. Got carried away with .41 mag, 10mm and .44 spec and forgot the .38.
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Tomorrow I'll be reloading 12 gage shotshells and Saturday it will be 410 and 28 gage shotshells.
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380 ACP followed by 9MM Parabellum.

I need some practice ammo.
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I try to keep stocked with everything in case of shortages, and I did well for everything except small pistol primers. Somehow I fell asleep and let myself drop under 2000 SPP. Just loaded some 44Sp, 44Mag, 45ACP yesterday. My SPP I'm saving up for a son who wants to learn how to re-load. All he has to shoot are two 9mm pistols and a shotgun. Tomorrow is his birthday, so I'm giving him everything he needs to re-load. RCBS starter kit, powder, bullets, dies, manuals... everything. I even threw in some of my precious SPPs because God knows he'll never find any in this environment.

He's fed up with the current environment in our town which has become a hotbed for child abductions. One of the bars in town just got busted for dropping runaway kids through a trap door in the floor down to the basement. The kids were then taken through a tunnel out to an alley where a panel van is waiting. They disappear and are never heard from again.

It's little children they're after too. His friends in law enforcement have told him how they target women who go out with their small children, mark their cars in the parking lot, and then follow them home. Once home they case their family's movement until they know exactly when dad won't be home. It's bad enough that they've decided she won't go out in public with the children unless he's with her. He also just picked up a second gun for her. Of course they have no ammo. We're going to change that soon.

So for the immediate future, my plan is to load lots of 9mm with my son. I'm proud of him for wanting to do this. For now I'm perfectly content to shoot the large caliber pistols for awhile.
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You aren't going to loose anything. I would try putting clamps on the mold and get it hot as needed and re tighten an let cool. I have taken aluminum lee molds that had an out of round base on the boolit that were bevel base and carefully file them down about .015-.020 and make a flat base that is round. You may have to use a vice. Lee is good to deal with and it may be in warranty or they may give you a discount on another.
I hadn't thought of heating it back up and clamping it. Thanks for that idea. In normal times, it's a $20 mold, replace it and move on. In the age of lunacy, however ...
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I plan on starting to work up some loads of 44 spl and 45 colt for hollow base wad cutters loaded backwards
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I tested a few .223 last week. I’ve upped that particular charge and will retest. I’ve got 600 more 55 grain fmj and the brass is ready..Finally.
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I didn't expect 34 responses so quickly: a big LIKE & a THANKS! to all who responded... Looks like quite a few of us will be busy as the proverbial beavers?

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.38 Super. I have some Berry's 130 RN to load up using my stand-by target loads and some very interesting 130 gr. HPs that I want to experiment with.

Also some 7.65X53 Mauser for use in the spring.

Then I may deprime some of the thousands of rounds of 9mm empties that were never worth the time before.

If this situation persists I may have to start melting down some of my accumulated wheel weights.
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My 6mmBr. But its been on the to do list for over a year.
Takes about an hour to do 10 rounds.
Spring coming and need to plink squirrels at up to 400 yds.
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I'll be looking at about 500 .44MAGNUMs to load up then 9mm then .40 then .357
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With carpal tunnel surgery on the horizon (in 2 weeks), I plan on loading some 38 Specials (158gr RN), 9mm (124gr FN), some 224 Valkyrie test loads, and prep and run some 223/M193 on the Dillon. If I have time, I'll prep and load some 223 80gr match loads for my upcoming season.
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Old 11-26-2020, 11:21 PM
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I'm loading 100 .357 Magnum right now. I had prepped and primed the cases a couple years ago, and they were just sitting there on the shelf, waiting to be loaded. IMR 4227 with Hornady 158 XTP's, primarily for my 28-2. I've had good success with that combo in other guns, and I haven't tried a load yet that didn't work well in that particular revolver.

What I load next depends entirely on what I find in my stash of brass!
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This is a no brainer for me. I finally broke down and purchase some Riley Tubes in 410 and 28 gage for my 12 gage Beretta 686. BTW, also have a 20 gage 686. So, now I have all 4 calibers covered for Skeet matches and practice. One plus of the 410 is that it's the cheapest shot shell caliber to reload at just 3.80 per box of 25. Yeah, lead shot is not cheap like it once was. Good news is 410 only uses 1/2 ounce and just 14 grains of H110. The slight downside is the 410 does require more accurate shooting so my scores will drop off for a while. But less recoil and lower cost means I can shoot 4 to 6 rounds more than I can with a 12 gage and Practice means a LOT in Skeet. So long term I'll become a much better shot.

So, the next thing I'll be reloading will be 410 and 28 gage shot shells. Just have to spend some time shooting purchased 410 and 28 gage to build up a bank of hulls. BTW, that isn't cheap, either caliber runs 10-11 bucks a box.
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9mm.

I haven't reloaded 9mm for quite a long time. I haven't even shot much 9mm for a while. When I did, I used generic factory ammo. My pistols weren't all that accurate and I felt I wasn't missing much with bulk ammo. It made no sense for me to reload 9mm. I saved the brass though!

Things have sure changed. Factory 9mm ain't so cheap any more. And I just bought one of the newer Sig P210 pistols. Yes a P210 in name only; not an original. But the thing is so accurate with generic ammo, I >have< to test some handloads. I'm thinking of using it for my centerfire gun in Bullseye matches. I've been using a 1911 in 38 Super, but it looks like the Sig 9mm will outperform it.

So.... It's time to dust off the 9mm dies. Got plenty of components, so it's down to pulling the handle and conducting a few tests.
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Just started 45acp, then 38 Special and finally 9mm. It will keep me busy for several weeks. It's to hot in the garage in the Summer in Florida, so, I do all my reloading in the cooler months.
I load enough to last for a years worth of shooting.
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Nothing. I bought 7000 rounds of .22 in June to scratch my shooting itch when I saw what was happening to reloading supplies. I think I’ll chew on the 22’s until I see primers again. I have plenty of them but I’m afraid to to wittle down my stock with no resupply in sight. We will see how long I can hold out. Reloading is more than 50% of my shooting interest.
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Next is more 9mm then more 45acp and finally some 380.
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My reloading has been on hold for several months due to a move (still in progress, it's complicated). But this weekend I'm moving my benches and all my loading stuff into my new shop, so I'm excited to be making progress toward getting back in business. Meanwhile I have plenty of previously loaded ammo on hand. Next reloading project will probably be further work on loads for my recently acquired Winchester 71 .348.
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