What did you reload today?

[Nwcid]

How much is it?

I have no idea what the current price is. I think I paid somewhere between $125 and $150 shipped, $140 is sticking in my mind.

 

[misterarman]

I think I still have your writing on a bag or two! Though I did pick up a couple of cases of 9mm from MG before they went TU, and sold of all but a K for myself. I didn't make but $5.00, or a hair more per K. But it saved me money getting the quantity. Before too long here though, I'll be looking at getting 9mm, probably from RMR?

I know i used to do a lot of writing.

Or get in on an order when I order. I get as many as I have to get the best price and strike when they go on sale.
Worked out to $99 per k on the last batch I did. Never know when they're going to do a sale so it takes advanced planning.

 

[misterarman]

I am now only loading FC and Win brass.

And less and less Win. Got an amazing contact for mainly FC.
Almost isn't worth reloading anything I've loaded. Scrap it and get more once fired.

 

[misterarman]

And less and less Win. Got an amazing contact for mainly FC.
Almost isn't worth reloading anything I've loaded. Scrap it and get more once fired.

99% once FC brass

 

[Mono1]

If you're still looking i have one a lot more affordable than retail.

Thanks! I actually got one from my good buddy @Papercidal

 

[Caveman Jim]

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I like mine to FLY. It makes swaging funner…

 

[ARFrog]

I like mine to FLY. It makes swaging funner…

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I too like mine to fly...

But even more, I like the "thud" it makes when it hits the catcher-box at speed.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I too like mine to fly...

But even more, I like the "thud" it makes when it hits the catcher-box at speed.

I have a dish towel across my vertical box so it kinda bounces and then falls into the catch box. Cool sound with visuals.

 

[CLT65]

Not really reloading per se, but I did make some ammo for a friend's new revolver, a Uberti 1851 Colt Navy in .36 caliber. I cast a few hundred round ball and conical bullets, and cut a couple hundred felt wads, packed it all up and mailed it off to him. He called with questions about bullets and such, and I told him not to spend his money on buying them since I have molds. I think he'll be happy with the care package he'll be receiving, plenty of lead for it for a long time.

 

[misterarman]

Not really reloading per se, but I did make some ammo for a friend's new revolver, a Uberti 1851 Colt Navy in .36 caliber. I cast a few hundred round ball and conical bullets, and cut a couple hundred felt wads, packed it all up and mailed it off to him. He called with questions about bullets and such, and I told him not to spend his money on buying them since I have molds. I think he'll be happy with the care package he'll be receiving, plenty of lead for it for a long time.

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You are a great friend.

 

[CLT65]

You are a great friend.

Thank you. As I get older, I'm really starting to realize just how valuable a good friend is. This particular friend has been a true friend for half a century. We rode bikes together when we were just old enough to ride bikes, rode motorcycles and tromped through the woods with BB guns and .22 rifles when we were a little older, hiked and camped with the church youth group as teenagers.

Though we live many hours apart and very rarely see each other anymore, friends like this are far more important than money or possessions.

 

[aasbra]

I loaded up some 327 Federal Magnum and 32 H&R Magnum with 100 grain coated T&B cast lead. Still working from an old pound of Unique for these.

 

[misterarman]

Thank you. As I get older, I'm really starting to realize just how valuable a good friend is. This particular friend has been a true friend for half a century. We rode bikes together when we were just old enough to ride bikes, rode motorcycles and tromped through the woods with BB guns and .22 rifles when we were a little older, hiked and camped with the church youth group as teenagers.

Though we live many hours apart and very rarely see each other anymore, friends like this are far more important than money or possessions.

Wow! I consider you a very lucky man.
I moved 3000 miles away from where I grew up at 19 so anyone I ride bikes with and shot BB guns with has been gone for close to 50 years.

 

[Nwcid]

Got some more of my .308 target loads done. I have been doing about 50 rounds a day. I have about 300 round packed away in the normal boxes that are easy to use now I am putting the rest into bulk storage.

Since I never know where my reloads will end up, such as a magazine or loose box of misc ammo, long ago I started marking my primers. The color of the primer is recorded in my load book for easy reference.

Here is 250 rounds of LC 87 brass loaded with WC846 and topped off with a 168gr Combine Technologies bullet. For bulk they get packed into cardboard boxes that originally held 100 round belts of 7.62 and 2 of those boxes fit in a .30 caliber can. Since the ammo is loose packed and staggered I get 150rd per box but for this packing I only put 125rds per box because I am expecting to have 500rds to store this way.

 

[misterarman]

Case prep today.

 

[aasbra]

Loaded some 240 grain 44 Magnum.

 

[tomcat]

Yesterday, I loaded up 100 rounds of 10mm, 200 gr Zero FMJ-FP, 8.1 gr Longshot, the ugliest new brass ever (JAG from Powder Valley, on sale for $15.99 per 100) and trying out the Magtech Large Pistol primers.

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I like longshot and the 10mm I run 8.7 with a 180xtp groups good

 

[ARFrog]

I am 1,081 rounds into a 1,600 9mm run.........and......the Dillon XL650 indexer ring broke this afternoon. I knew it was coming because: 1.) I had just talked to another reloader and had mentioned that I had about 10 months on the current ring - I knocked on what I thought was wood but unfortunately it was faux; and 2.) the press was starting to load primers sideways - 6 in the last 35 before it broke.

I stripped the press down this evening - cleaning as it came apart - and lubing as it went back together. And the best news - no little springs were lost or launched during the repair process!

 

[misterarman]

I am 1,081 rounds into a 1,600 9mm run.........and......the Dillon XL650 indexer ring broke this afternoon. I knew it was coming because: 1.) I had just talk to another reloader and had mentioned that I had about 10 months on the current ring - I knocked on what I thought was wood but unfortunately it was faux; and 2.) the press was starting to load primers sideways - 6 in the last 35 before it broke.

I stripped the press down this evening - cleaning as it came apart - and lubing as it went back together. And the best news - no little springs were lost or launched during the repair process!

Congratulations!
A monumental accomplishment.
I need radar to track all the springs I put into orbit every time I do this process.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I'm gonna be amazed at what I'm gonna find under my safe when I move it next month.