What are ya loadin' today?

badguybuster

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I am off work for a couple days with bronchitis so I did some reloading.
44 special 200 grain power point hard cast with 7.5 grains of unique behind it
357 mag 180 grain LRN with 13 grains of H110

357 mag 155 grain LFN with 15 grains of H110

All were gas checked bullets

I'm not sure how well the power point are gonna work, for one, the gas check was super duper tight fitting into the casing and there isn't a lot of lead in the front to engage the riflings until the bullet completely exits the case
 
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38 spec. , 158 lswc and 148 dewc , not in a hurry . I'm trying to stretch my components out until things get back to normal. Around here, St Louis, primers are the problem.
 
cold with snow showers so to the reloading bench, reloading some .223 for a friend, but having problems with the primers.
 
Got a 1000 .38 DE wadcutters lined up for the weekend. Going to pull the handle on the Dillon for a while.
 
Did 500 9mm Luger rounds yesterday - 3.4 grains of Clays behind a Berry's 124 gr FP. This has become my favorite load for target practice. It has low recoil and is fairly accurate.
 
I'm too tired today.

I might load some .38's or .357's later this week. I just got a shipment of .357's, .45 Colt and .44's from MBC.

I've already loaded all the 45 acp, 41 mag, and 44 mag brass that I have. I need to go do some un-loading I guess.
 
I NEED to load some 44 mag and .243 up. But... I've been procrastinating badly. I also need to load some more .223 up with the 65 grain Sierra Game King, but I can't find anyone that has that bullet in stock so I'm trying to make my 20 loaded rounds last. Won't last long if I get into a herd of piggies again.
 
Same as yesterday, 38 and 357 brass is about all I have left, well that's not true but I do have about 1000 cases to clean and prep. I like to have my brass clean, sized and belled, then load as I shoot. What I really need to start doing is rotate my inventory. A lockable ammo cabinet would be a good idea, I mean one that would allow you to see everything you have when open. How do you guys store ammo ?
 
Processing through 1K of once fired LC brass and this stuff is a mess. Some of these cases look downright scary.
 
Same as yesterday, 38 and 357 brass is about all I have left, well that's not true but I do have about 1000 cases to clean and prep. I like to have my brass clean, sized and belled, then load as I shoot. What I really need to start doing is rotate my inventory. A lockable ammo cabinet would be a good idea, I mean one that would allow you to see everything you have when open. How do you guys store ammo ?

I do about the same as you, I prep my brass by cleaning, sizing/depriming, chamferring and deburring. Then store them in bins on my bench since, I added a RCBS Case Activated linkage with caliber specific powder through expanders--I just take out the amount of brass I need for loading the batch I need, prime them on my RCBS Automatic Bench Primer then finish powdering and seating on my Redding Turret. I just keep my brass in bins I got from a Dollar Store. The yellow ones have the prepped brass by caliber, there are also blue ones beside that have bullets for the corresponding caliber.

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Twice the fun

I NEED to load some 44 mag and .243 up. But... I've been procrastinating badly. I also need to load some more .223 up with the 65 grain Sierra Game King, but I can't find anyone that has that bullet in stock so I'm trying to make my 20 loaded rounds last. Won't last long if I get into a herd of piggies again.

Around here a feller could use the pigs as coyote bait and have twice the fun
 
I do about the same as you, I prep my brass by cleaning, sizing/depriming, chamferring and deburring. Then store them in bins on my bench since, I added a RCBS Case Activated linkage with caliber specific powder through expanders--I just take out the amount of brass I need for loading the batch I need, prime them on my RCBS Automatic Bench Primer then finish powdering and seating on my Redding Turret. I just keep my brass in bins I got from a Dollar Store. The yellow ones have the prepped brass by caliber, there are also blue ones beside that have bullets for the corresponding caliber.

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Yep !

Can see you too spend a lot of time on the cleaning, sorting, trimming and prep work for your brass. Unlike yourself though I load enough of that brass that the powder on my bench isnt starting to become a collectors item,,, :D ( just kiddin ya )
 
Loaded some 223 rem, 55 gr Ballistic tip, 60 gr V-max and some 52 gr HPBT. Some 38 snake shot, those are a pain. Some 38 sp 158 gr WC with 700X. Now I'm playing with shot gun slugs. Ordered some Cheddite primed hulls and they seem to work great. Sabot slug in rifeled barrel does a real good job with 700x powder.
 
First, went to the range and shot about 75 rounds. I love going to range when the youngsters are there with their plastic fantastic 9sillymeters, practicing their spray'n pray technique and I unload six sonic boom 44mag loads. Throws them off a bit. Anyway, came home and tumbled the shot brass. Sorted them by headstamp and later on started reloading them and 125 others. 44mag, 220gr Berry's FP, 9.0gr Accurate #2. 44mag, 240gr lead rnfp(Missouri Bullet "Smasher"s), 7.2gr Unique.
 
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