What Did You Reload Most Recently?

I put together some .38 wadcutters and semi-wadcutters last night: 148gr Remington HBWC over 3.1gr W231 in Winchester cases and Winchester WSP primers at 1.186" OAL (the nose on the bullet adds a bit of length over my other wadcutters) for the wadcutters; 158gr Valiant LSWC over 5.8gr AA#5 in Federal Cases and Winchester WSP at 1.443" OAL for the semi-wadcutters. The wadcutters will be a practice load for my centerfire bullseye gun (S&W 686-5+), and the semi-wadcutters will be standard-pressure practice loads for short distance defense/plinking.
 
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Loaded 150 rounds of 45 Schofield with home cast J/P 45-200 Big Lube bullets and 28 grains of Schuetzen FFg powder. Federal Large Pistol primers. Tonight I will load up a bunch of 44-40 with home cast Mav-Dutchman 200 grain Big Lube bullets, 33 grains of Schuetzen FFg powder and Federal Large Pistol primers.

Last Cowboy match of the season on Sunday, hoping for good weather.

Loaded up a bunch of 45AR with 200 grain RNFP bullets, Federal Large Pistol primers, and 5.5 grains of Unique last week for my Brazilian 1917s, will probably load up some more soon.
 
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reloaded most recently?

226 rounds of 9mm, 115gr proj, 5.4gr w-231

25 rounds of 500 magnum, 325gr proj, 1.7cc titegroup

100 rounds of .380, 95gr proj, 3/10cc w-231

minimal amounts of 357mag and 44spl
 
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yeah this probably oughtta be a sticky...

I helped my uncle put together his first reloads today: 50 rounds of .380ACP, 95gr FMJ RN Remington bullets of 3.0gr Bullseye in mixed casings at 0.975" OAL. It's my first time loading for an autoloader and using a taper crimp, so hopefully everything goes OK.
 
50 rounds of 357 magnum, 110 grain semi jacketed hollow point, 16 grains Blue Dot powder, CCI primer, heavy crimp. I usually get about six shots off before someone complains and I'm asked to stop due to the blast. Works really great as a payback when I'm shooting my precision 22LR's and some youngster gets in the next lane and starts blasting away with a 40.
 
375 JD Jones for a friend of mine. He used one yesterday to kill a bull elk. Also 280 GRN which I used to kill my elk about a week ago. Both calibers were used in single shot Encore handcanons.
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One, single .38 wadcutter (3.2ish grains of W231 behind an unknown 148gr double-ended wadcutter) to show a friend how reloading works.
 
100 rounds of .45 AutoRim -- 4.5gr W231 behind a 185gr Missouri LSWC, Remington 2-1/2 primers, 1.239" OAL

Should be fun!

I also used tonight as an excuse to play with my latest purchase: the RCBS Uniflow Powder Measure Micrometer. This thing is so nice compared with the stock measuring thingy! The numbers on the side give me good ball-park settings for known powder throws, and makes it easy to go back to them when switching powders (it'll need fine-tuning, of course, but every powder measure does). Almost makes me think that the UPM with the micrometer could be my only powder measure, and my Little Dandy and Lyman #55 will be largely unused (though maybe I can think of something to do with them...)
 
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Just finished 150 rounds of 45ACP, 200 LSWC over 3.8 grains Hodgdon Clays, Wolf LP primer.

I would have done more but I ran out of polished brass. Time to crank up the tumbler.
 
100 rounds of .38 wadcutters: 3.1gr W231, 148gr Remington HBWC, Winchester cases, Winchester WSP primers, 1.186" OAL

100 rounds of .38 Specials: 5.8gr AA#5, 158gr Remington LSWC, Federal cases, Winchester WSP primers, 1.440" OAL

50 rounds of .357 Magnum: 11.5gr 2400, 158gr Valiant LSWC, R-P cases, Federal 200 magnum primers, 1.575" OAL
 
50 rounds of .357 Magnum: 12.0gr 2400, 158gr Valiant LSWC, R-P brass, Federal 200 magnum primers, 1.575" OAL. Still trying to work up a load that feels like a magnum load; my last ones felt and sounded like heavy .38SPL+Ps. I'll probably have to resort to using jacketted bullets to get the full effect, though...

100 rounds of .38 Special: 5.8gr AA#5, 158gr Valiant LSWC, Federal brass, Winchester WSP primers, 1.443" OAL. While these aren't all that accurate at 25 or 50 yards, they do just fine at 5 yards for defensive practice.
 
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I have a bucket and I mean a "bucket" of military 223 that I'm working on. I have two Askari' and we are doing it all to every piece, including trimming. I will load probably with Benchmark and 55 gr. bullets.
 
50 rounds .44 Special: 6.3gr AA#5, 240gr Competition Proven LSWC, PMC brass, Remington 2-1/2 primer, 1.485" OAL. It was nice and accurate out of my 6" 629-5; I'll have to load up some more!
 
50 more rounds of the same .44 special load: 6.3gr AA#5, 240gr Competition Proven LSWC, PMC brass, Remington 2-1/2 primer, slightly shorter 1.483" OAL.

100 rounds of .38 Special semi-wadcutters: 5.8gr AA#5, 158gr Remington LSWC, Winchester brass, 1.440" OAL. I used Federal 200 Magnum primers with this one, just to see if there is a difference. Definitely going to try this one in my 686 or Model 19 before trying it in my Model 14...just in case...
 
.380 ACP

I"ve just finished reloading 500 rounds .380ACP 356 diameter Remington 95grn FMJ 3.1 grns Red Dot CCI Blazer Brass CCIsmall pistol primers.Hope that PPK/S comes back soon from S&W,third time out to fix the recall problem.Hope three times is the charm.
 
.460 46gr H110, 240gr XTP, WLRM

.357 8.4gr Unique, 125gr JHP, WSPM
Book says 1300 fps
Very accurate in 8 3/8" 27-2

.38 2.7gr Bullseye, Hornady 148gr HBWC
 
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