What did you reload today?

[Stomper]

I've been looking at all the offerings out there and this seems to be the best value available. Did it work as advertised? Ever think about renting out the unit on a daily basis?

It worked awesomely and couldn't be happier with it, and as for renting it out.....



NO!

 

[DLS]

Thanks for the review and hey, I was just trying to amortize your purchase so you could buy more components! LOL

I have a strong suspicion that one of those will be in my future.

 

[Papercidal]

I didn't load anything but I wet tumbled,sized,and flared most of a five gallon bucket of 9mm.
Now to finish sorting by headstamp.

 

[11Charlie]

It worked awesomely and couldn't be happier with it, and as for renting it out.....



NO!

.05 a round It wouldn't take long to pay for itself

 

[Stomper]

.05 a round It wouldn't take long to pay for itself

 

[Flatfish]

Stomp-I have little need to anneal brass in quantity large enough to justify purchasing one. But after seeing that vid (Sang along too. KR is great!), I want to buy one anyways!

Did 35 rounds of .275 last nite. This will be the 6th firing of this lot of brass in a sloppy chamber (Neck in chamber is huge).

Original lot of powder ran out.

Have another couple pounds of 760 and some new brass. Might have to make a run to the benchrest and see where we need to be for the new components. Get dialed in and go from there.

My goal is to burn barrel out in 3-4 years.

 

[Xaevian]

I loaded up 125 .458 SOCOM rounds on Saturday.

 

[Used To Hunt]

I annealed 1,500pcs of 223/556 brass Sunday afternoon using my newly acquired Annealeez machine.

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Out of curiosity how did you measure the temp of the brass?

 

[gmerkt]

I annealed 1,500pcs of 223/556 brass Sunday afternoon using my newly acquired Annealeez machine.

Nice demonstration, wild music.

 

[BrandonQuixote]

595 rounds of 5.56 with two pounds of BLC-2 I found in the back of the cabinet and 240 using a pound of W748- Ran out of prepped brass.

 

[Stomper]

Out of curiosity how did you measure the temp of the brass?

I didn't measure the temp, I watched a ton of YouTube videos on the subject. Some they "eyeballed" it, others used Tempilaq & just about 3 seconds (on 223/556 brass anyway) in the flame was the common conclusion.

The critical thing is to NOT over-fire the brass or you'll burn off different components comprising the brass alloy, which of course changes its compositional properties and will weaken it.

 

[gmerkt]

Re. temp of annealed brass. If it even starts to glow orange on an edge at the mouth of the case, it's getting too hot. I want the color to creep back behind the shoulder without any glow. Some makes of brass don't show much color, makes it more difficult. The trick is exposure time to the flame and distance from the flame. I've done it by hand for years and initially it takes some practice to get it right. I use a propane torch, hold the case in my hand and keep it turning for an even exposure to the flame. These days, I wear nitrile gloves. There is argument as to whether quenching in water is necessary. Metallurgists say no, brass isn't like steel. But there could be other reasons for quenching, like you can handle it right away after. Mostly, I've done mine without quenching. I've done a few batches with quenching to see if it made any difference. It made none that I could discern.

 

[erslll]

I didn't technically reload anything today but I did..

Size (280) 204 Ruger brass
Primed (280) 204 Ruger brass, (200) 6.5 brass, (100) 6.8 brass

Need to start pouring some powder I guess.

 

[Burninpowder]

Loaded 25 rounds of 26 nosler, 25 rounds of 257 weatherby, 45 rounds of 308 and 15 rounds of 280 rem and also did some brass prep. Going to go out tomorrow and see what hand loads shoot the best for hunting.

 

[erslll]

Got my 6.5 brass loaded up today and started on the .204 so.....

(199) 6.5 CM
(12) 204 Ruger

 

[snarlingdog]

Reloaded 100 357mag and 50 38spcl and 7 357mag with the 140gn lever revaluation to experiment with.

 

[Member 5605]

220gr .300 BLK Subsonics.



.44 Magnum 240gr's.

 

[CptPh0t0n]

1K .308, Starline cases, CCI primers, Varget powder, 168 Gr. Nosler BTHP Match. Next will the .45s, which I am really behind on. Need a few K of plinking rounds and I really need to make up another 4K of defense rounds, to put in storage. I thought that I would gain a bit of time by going to a Dillon XL650 press, from the Rockchucker but no, for some reason I'm always behind. Go figure.

 

[JadeFox]

Just trimming .223/5.56 brass. We chuck rocks.... RCBS. Will finish prepping brass for transport to the other reloading room. We need 10mm brass! Any deals out there?

 

[Burninpowder]

Just reloaded 100 rounds of 10mm. Found some 10mm brass at the range yesterday also