Ivan the Butcher
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While I was at the NRA Convention, I stocked up on Berry's Bullets. When I inquired about delivery, the guy stammered and said they should ship last Friday and arrive on Monday or Tuesday (today). I checked our mailbox Sunday and they had arrived on Friday or Saturday. Good Job!!!
One of the packages was a 6" cube that weighed about 17 pounds. 1000 M-1 Carbine 110 grain FMJ bullets for my 1943 IBM and my 1942 IBM T-3 (nightscope) Carbines.
I haven't loaded for M-1 since the late 70's. I had a really good load I got off a commercial loader (who has since passed away; Thanks Dan for sharing info with a dumb kid!)
14 grains of WW296/H-110, 110 grain FMJRN, and the tricky part, specifically CCI Sm. Rifle Primers! When I loaded about 4500 back then that primer was The go to primer for just about any small primed Military cartridges. The flash impulse matched ball powder perfectly. About one and a half years ago I found 500 used brass at a LGS (Dan Aumiller's in fact!) and I started to slowly get ready to load. With the arrival of the bullets, All I needed was primers. First I checked my records, then I went to "The Stash," Tucked away in a 50 Cal ammo can were almost 2 bricks of 1970's vintage CCI Sm. Rifle Primers (1900 to be exact.) These are left over from that other batch. I also found some CCI Sn Rifle Mag (2000) from 1985 that I loaded a 20,000 round batch of 223.
As I piled the components on the loading bench, I found my baggie of spent Carbine brass, so I'll be doing a batch of about 700 M-1 Carbine with a load that has proven itself for almost 45 years! The RCBS carbide sizing die is dated 78, and cost $70.00. The RCBS standard die set is dated 77 and cost $15.99. (that was a huge amount for the carbide sizer in those days!)
Out of that original batch of 4500, I only have 200 left. My regular IBM has 3 fifteen round mags of Winchester 110 grain HP factory with it and the reloads are what my wife and kids practiced with (before everybody got Mini-14s and now ARs & M-4s). Back to the Classics!
Ivan
One of the packages was a 6" cube that weighed about 17 pounds. 1000 M-1 Carbine 110 grain FMJ bullets for my 1943 IBM and my 1942 IBM T-3 (nightscope) Carbines.
I haven't loaded for M-1 since the late 70's. I had a really good load I got off a commercial loader (who has since passed away; Thanks Dan for sharing info with a dumb kid!)
14 grains of WW296/H-110, 110 grain FMJRN, and the tricky part, specifically CCI Sm. Rifle Primers! When I loaded about 4500 back then that primer was The go to primer for just about any small primed Military cartridges. The flash impulse matched ball powder perfectly. About one and a half years ago I found 500 used brass at a LGS (Dan Aumiller's in fact!) and I started to slowly get ready to load. With the arrival of the bullets, All I needed was primers. First I checked my records, then I went to "The Stash," Tucked away in a 50 Cal ammo can were almost 2 bricks of 1970's vintage CCI Sm. Rifle Primers (1900 to be exact.) These are left over from that other batch. I also found some CCI Sn Rifle Mag (2000) from 1985 that I loaded a 20,000 round batch of 223.
As I piled the components on the loading bench, I found my baggie of spent Carbine brass, so I'll be doing a batch of about 700 M-1 Carbine with a load that has proven itself for almost 45 years! The RCBS carbide sizing die is dated 78, and cost $70.00. The RCBS standard die set is dated 77 and cost $15.99. (that was a huge amount for the carbide sizer in those days!)
Out of that original batch of 4500, I only have 200 left. My regular IBM has 3 fifteen round mags of Winchester 110 grain HP factory with it and the reloads are what my wife and kids practiced with (before everybody got Mini-14s and now ARs & M-4s). Back to the Classics!
Ivan
