What did you reload today?

Pahonix · Sep 6, 2021

Sized and primed 600 9mm rounds.
Charged and seated about 200.

Made about 40 test rounds with new bullets and powder, gonna fire them tomorrow. I'm excited.

oremike · Sep 8, 2021

I took the weekend off from the presses and de-primed 9mm, 40, 38spcial, 357, and 44 mag brass. Now making 44-40 on the Lock N Load and 380acp on the Mark 7. Next up will be 30 carbine. I'm waiting for Brass and bullets for 10mm, 44 Mag, 32 S&W Long and 45 Colt. Like everything else these days, it'll get here when it gets here.

TM-Salem · Sep 8, 2021

Made 6800 aluminum gas checks for my 45-70 cast and powder coated bullets. Started putting them on today, I got around 3600 already done and dang do I hurt.

orygun · Sep 10, 2021

I charged and set bullets in 24 cases for a 30-06 AI this afternoon. I'd been working on these cases since Sunday. It's been 3 years since I did any reloading and I didn't feel the need to rush...

CLT65 · Sep 10, 2021

Nice! I need to break out my 30-06 AI and shoot it some; it hasn't been out in years.

I bought it maybe 20 years ago when I was really into Rem 700s. I bought it from an old-timer just for the action. It was a nice 700 BLD, custom barrel, 6-18 Burris scope.

The problem was that the scope was fogged and blurry, and in my experience unless a known reputable gunsmith did the work, a custom barrel is a pig in a poke. I expected to remove the barrel and have a good one in another caliber installed. I think I paid $300.

This time it worked out well. I asked Burris about the scope. They said "Send it in", and fixed it good as new, no charge. Then I started loading 30-06 AI rounds, and that rifle shoots like a laser. No point in replacing that barrel!

ARFrog · Sep 10, 2021

Helped a friend load some 9mm moly "Billy's Bullet" rounds for his pistol.

I normally treat and burnish my feed ramps with Tungsten Dioxide as an aid to loading. However, I am not sure I would want a lubricity agent like moly in my barrel.

Anybody have any experience with this one way or another?

Pahonix · Sep 10, 2021

Finished a 500rd batch of 9mm today.

P7M13 · Sep 12, 2021

Clean and sort day.
Cleaned and sorted 2 loads of 9mm, resulting in a finished count of 4330 clean cases. In the process, culled 4, pulled out 19 380 ACP, 1 9mm Mak, 2 40 S&W and 6 45ACP.
Cleaned and dried ~3k of 380 ACP.

oremike · Sep 14, 2021

I started looking at loads for my 300 Win Mag. I have soft point bullets ranging from 150gr to 220 gr and have W-760, IMR 4831, H-4831SC, and Retumbo powders. Any load combinations that stand out that are "must try"? I'm thinking a jack of all trades load is the 180 Nosler Partition Loaded with Retumbo.

Edited to add: rifle is a Browning X-bolt Hunter with a 26" barrel with a 1 in 10 twist rate

Bobbygun · Sep 14, 2021

oremike said:
I started looking at loads for my 300 Win Mag. I have soft point bullets ranging from 150gr to 220 gr and have W-760, IMR 4831, H-4831SC, and Retumbo powders. Any load combinations that stand out that are "must try"? I'm thinking a jack of all trades load is the 180 Nosler Partition Loaded with Retumbo.

Edited to add: rifle is a Browning X-bolt Hunter with a 26" barrel with a 1 in 10 twist rate

I sold my .300 Win Mag along with the dies before I even hand loaded a single round, so I may not be of much help here. However, I have had good results with H-4831SC and 180 grain Nosler Partitions in my Weatherby Vanguard .300 Wby Magnum. It also has a 26" barrel and 1 in 10 twist rate.

P7M13 · Sep 14, 2021

oremike said:
I started looking at loads for my 300 Win Mag. I have soft point bullets ranging from 150gr to 220 gr and have W-760, IMR 4831, H-4831SC, and Retumbo powders. Any load combinations that stand out that are "must try"? I'm thinking a jack of all trades load is the 180 Nosler Partition Loaded with Retumbo.

Edited to add: rifle is a Browning X-bolt Hunter with a 26" barrel with a 1 in 10 twist rate

If you haven't shot Retumbo, I think it would result in lower MVs but at least consistent. I'd look to a slightly faster powder (if you have) like H1K, 7277, 7828SC, RL23, RL25 or Power Pro 4000.
Take that with a grain of salt since I've never loaded for 300WM. But when I loaded for 7RM with 162's, more overbore but a lighter bullet, I'd use RL22. There's also powders like Magpro or VV165 or 565 if you have them.

ARFrog · Sep 14, 2021

Got "carded" today...first time in a very loooooong time. What for?

I went to WalMart to buy some "chisel-tip" Sharpies to mark my reloads with. The self-checkout machine would not let me proceed with the purchase without a clerk verifying my age. Apparently, they wanted to make sure I was not a prime suspect for tagging. I did not have the heart to tell the lady that I was purchasing the Sharpies to aid in my preparation of ammunition and ventilation/ destruction of paper targets.

Caveman Jim · Sep 20, 2021

Primed over 500 .223 cases the last few days with CCI 450 primers, going to load up some test rounds because I've run out of CCI 400 primers…

ron · Sep 20, 2021

Loaded up 100 rounds M1 Garand ammo, 500 more to go. Found a great load for my 'as issued' iron sight M1.
5 shots in .8" group at 100 yards! Using the less exspensive Speer 125 grain TNT and IMR 4064. Less recoil.
Should be good for the short line (200 yards).

oremike · Sep 20, 2021

Let' see, de-primed and tumbled 380, 357 and 45 acp. So 380 and 38 special on the Mark 7 Then 357 and 45acp on the L N L.

Local Loader · Sep 21, 2021

Deprimed and cleaned 100 300 Win Mag and going to load them with 220gr RN and planning to use H4350. Haven't used this powder yet, anyone got any good load numbers they've used with it?

TM-Salem · Sep 21, 2021

Deprimed \ sized 440 30-06 cases, made up a couple dummy rounds with cast powder coated bullets.

Started counting my 9mm and 45acp cast powder coated bullets to trade if possible as I am selling both 9 and 45 and going with 40 and 10 mm