What did you reload today?

[Caveman Jim]

Nope, never had one go bang on me like that.

It looked just like Sir John's fubared primer here, cept bigger.

 

[aasbra]

Loaded up some 158 grain plated Berry's in 38 Special cases over Trail Boss for my Ruger bolt action rifle for use with suppressor.

 

[misterarman]

More .357sig

 

[misterarman]

.357sig

 

[64MercurysRule]

.357sig

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Did you find any funky primer seats in this batch .... ?

 

[misterarman]

Did you find any funky primer seats in this batch .... ?

I actually did.
Caught them in quality control. I'm using my 750 for .357sig. I prefer the 650 wheel for priming.

 

[Texmex247]

I haven't loaded them up yet but just got in my second shipment of white river energetics LR primers. With the scarcity of stuff out there I decided to give them a shot. Read mostly good reviews on them mostly on Australian forums. From what I gather they boast low SDs comparable to BR primers so I do have high hopes for them. I'll start a thread after I pop them into some brass and have some data. Probably after hunting season down here.

 

[oremike]

I finished the 200gr SWC 45acp and 230gr HP's now moving on to the 230gr RN's. 38 Special and 357 Mag bullets arrived Saturday but I most likely won't get to making that ammo until after Rickreall. I think I need a gun day fun day. I'm thinking handguns in the morning on Tuesday and a round of Trap in the afternoon. We'll see how I feel and what the weather does.

 

[aasbra]

Continued from what I started on last night with a couple hundred more 38 special.

 

[misterarman]

Deja vu

 

[Richo877]

Spent some time today sorting out and playing with the nightmare lot of 5.56 primed brass. I have separated into groups of:

-Wrecked primers - reprocess from scratch.
-Questionable primers- length checked (trimmed if needed) gauge plunked, go.
-Questionable primers- plunked, no-go, trimmed and still no-go - resize w/o decap and check again.
-Decent primers- length checked (trimmed if needed) gauge plunked, go.
-Decent primers- plunked, no-go, trimmed and still no-go - resize w/o decap and check again.
-Decent primers still needing inspection.

It's gonna take a while to get through the whole lot. It's definitely becoming a learning experience and making me appreciate the quality of my own process. I opened up a can of brass I previously processed and primed to compare and it instantly made me feel better about my own work. There's no price I can put on that, so I'll take this with a grain of salt and put in the time and effort to rework it all.

 

[oremike]

I'll be done with the 45 acp tomorrow. After that's all boxed up I think I'll try to make some 12ga on the new to me Ponsness- Warren size-o-matic press.

 

[CLT65]

Reworking a bunch of screwed up reloads will definitely give you an appreciation for doing it right.

Several years ago a friend asked me to look at his rifle and some 5.56 ammo he had bought. It was during a time when any ammo was hard to find and silly expensive. He had overpaid for 500 rounds of supposedly commercial reloads at a Salem gun show. I think they had actually been loaded by some joker who had no idea what they were doing.

He had already shot some of them and there were no signs of overpressure, but many wouldn't chamber. He brought them over and we pulled them all down with a collet puller, went pretty quick. I dumped the powder into a container, looked fine, trimmed the ones that were long (lengths were all over the place), and full-length sized them without a decapping pin. We loaded them all back up and they shot fine. What a hassle. He'll never buy unknown reloads at a gun show again.

 

[Greg S]

50 3" brass and 25 2.5" brass 410 with 8s.

 

[Richo877]

Still reprocessing primed 5.56 brass. After hours of case gauge plunking, resizing, gauge plunking, trimming, gauge plunking, and some light filing of ejector marks, and replunking.... I've successfully gotten 8.9lbs out of 26.4lbs to pass the plunk test and I'd be comfortable calling it ready to load. I know my rifles' tolerances are a bit more forgiving than the case gauge I'm setting them to, but I want them to chamber regardless of what rifle they go in. I think the previous loader may have neck sized only or just lightly bumped them? Or they weren't resized at all... Either way, I've figured out it would've been over and done with if I just resized and trimmed the whole batch indiscriminately. The trouble-shooting, sorting, and separating, and checking, and processing, and re-checking multiple times has taken so much more time than processing range brass from scratch. I'm learning. I do have to say, that rcbs 3-way cutter has already earned its keep. I put the hand chamfer tool down about 100 cases in, and I don't think I'm ever going back to it (for .223 at least).

 

[oremike]

No loading for me today. I did work on the shotgun press clearing out the old powder and shot as well as getting it unfrozen. It came with a bunch of shot and powder bushings but of course not the ones I want to use so I ordered what I wanted. It's a fun tinkering project but I put it back on the shelf for now. After the gun show I'll need to get back into production mode.

 

[arrowshooter]

I may not have to load anything again.

Let us know if that thought continues and I bet we could come up with a room full of members here that would be willing to be involved in an intervention to get you back on the right path.

 

[arrowshooter]

Rain this morning, so I spied a few empty ammo boxes that needed filled and I filled them. A little 9, 10 and 45.

 

[Mikej]

Rain this morning, so I spied a few empty ammo boxes that needed filled and I filled them. A little 9, 10 and 45.

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I loves me some Rubber Maid/Betty Crocker containers from the Buck-.25 Store too!

 

[Caveman Jim]

I loves me some Rubber Maid/Betty Crocker containers from the Buck-.25 Store too!

Them's chyneesium knockoffs, cost to produce was probably close to a nickel but the markup once they hit America is 1,000%….

These are the real meal deal, $2 at an American garage sale…