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556 all completed. I moved on to some 45acp that I had bough a while back from a fella. Deprimed about 2k tonight and started to wet wash them up. A few more hundred to go in the morning.and then I'm all caught up on brass prep and onto a generic load for the households 5.56 rifles. Try to find a 1 load for all with mismatched brass. Haha
 
I'll be running 9mm, 40 S&W and 380acp with customer supplied primers and then moving over to the Hornadys to process 30 Carbine on one and make 45acp and 10mm on the other. I'm waiting on 32 H&R brass that is stuck in a snow bank somewhere between Starline and here.
 
Finally shot up all 500 of my K-hornet loads. Seems like 15 years ago when I developed this load. My notes show I used 35g vmax over 12.7g h110 along with cc550 sm pistol mag primers. Although I don't have any of those primers I decided to load up ten with cci400 small rifle and another ten with cci450 small rifle magnum. Just to test out the differences. Hoping the 450s do the trick. As I keep alot of those on hand

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Load development for some 5.56 plunkers, lc brass, cci450 primers, cfe223 powder, hornady 62g fmj. Starting 25.0g up to 27.0g.

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Loaded 100 rounds of 45 ACP with 200 grain coated SWC on a recently acquired Dillon Square Deal B press. The press had been sitting unused for years, so after I took it apart, cleaned it up, replaced a few missing, worn, or damaged pieces, I wanted to try it out.

After getting the powder die/powder measure adjusted properly, it worked great.

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Cooked up some 147gr 9mm loads. This is a coated RNFP.
Win. brass, WSP primer, 3.6 of Unique. 1.155 OAL
Did the plunk test starting with my CZ bbl, "cause I heard it might have the shortest chamber.
After that I tried it in a few others & they all dropped right in. And out.
Nice soft shooting, with good ejection pattern, & it locked the slide back on all them.

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Cleaned up, resized, swage, and trimmed some 223 today. I tell ya what the Frankfort arsenal case trimmer and prep center is one nice unit. And the Dillon supper swagger is pretty sweet too.
 
I am waiting for a good range day to shoot the .223 ladder loads I've had for a few months and got restless to load so I pulled out the 300BLK turret and loaded a couple hundred supers. It feels so weird grabbing a 150g bullet instead of a 55-60g...:eek:
 
375 H&H with Sierra gameking 300g being pushed by 67g of 4064. Not a bad kicking load at all surprisingly. First attempt at reloading this cartridge.
 
I de-primed 30 Carbine, 45 Colt, 44 mag and special. Now have the tumbler running with the large cases and will do the Carbine next. No production assistant this week so it's just me running the Mark 7. Finishing a run of 9mm, then 380acp. I have a bunch of 40 S&W bullets on order so when those get here I'll be making that. Besides the calibers mentioned above I have 45acp, 32 H&R Mag, 38 Special and 357 on deck for the Hornadys.
 
Not so much reloading today, but I'd did sell one of my square deal presses and ordered a xl750. I have dedicated my xl650 to deprime, sizing and trimming now. So the 750 with be dedicated to priming, dropping powder, seating and crimping
 
Getting my 115gr 9mm range loads ready

4gr Hodgdon Powder
115 gr Blue Bullets
CCI SPP
Factory brass I have already shot and cleaned up.

Hopefully I can get out to the range on Monday or Tuesday .
 
What Hodgdon powder? I ask only to make sure that anyone reading this knows that there are many different powders from Hodgdon, and you can't just pick any ol' "Hodgdon Powder" and throw it in the case.

Happy New Year everyone!
Good point. Titegroup :)

But Id recommend anyone wanting to figure out a good load to use the hodgden loading data site.
Be safe. Its literally mixing an explosion that you are going to set off in close proximity.

 

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