What did you reload today?

[Kyrsen]

What powder you use for that? I just finished powder coating a peanut butter jar full of 405 gr to begin my first attempts at 45/70.

IMR 3031. I was thinking of trying black powder, sometime. Doing some research first.

 

[elsie]

It would be nice if someone invented a small washing machine where a person could dump a five gallon bucket of nasty muddy brass into it and after about an hour, the brass would come out clean and shinny!

Jerry has a solution.

elsie

 

[v8engin]

Today, I loaded 50ct 9mm 147gr "blue bullets" over 3.2-3.4gr of IMR Target I bought from a member here. They look pretty cool and I'm looking forward to shooting and chrono'ing them. First time I've loaded blue bullets. I ordered them because they were reasonably priced and kinda neat for plinking.

Just 50 until I try them. And give me a break. I can only break away from wife/kids for long enough to do 50 rounds at a time. Even on my Lee Loadmaster progressive 5 station (which is pretty quick).

Question: Do any of you reload blue bullets? What load data do you use? Their website just points you to Hodgdon (well, they misspell it Hodgon). I just copied Hodgdon's data for the 147gr Hornady XTP (which is a jacketed hollow point). The XTP data (with IMR Target) is 3.2 (840fps) to 3.5 (927fps) max. That's a pretty narrow range. All my drops are 3.2-3.3gr, so I'm 95% sure I'm safe and happy--but I thought I would ask if any of you have any experience with those blue bullets or such coatings. I'm just curious. No big deal.

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[CLT65]

A buddy of mine gets a kick out of blue powder-coated bullets; he calls them "inert projectiles". I'm sure many of you all understand.

 

[Kyrsen]

Finished yesterday's 45-70 cartridges.

405 lead flat nose on 47 grains IMR3031 at ~1700 fps for around ~2600 ft/lbs. energy.

 

[Holepuncher]

Today, I loaded 50ct 9mm 147gr "blue bullets" over 3.2-3.4gr of IMR Target I bought from a member here. They look pretty cool and I'm looking forward to shooting and chrono'ing them. First time I've loaded blue bullets. I ordered them because they were reasonably priced and kinda neat for plinking.

Just 50 until I try them. And give me a break. I can only break away from wife/kids for long enough to do 50 rounds at a time. Even on my Lee Loadmaster progressive 5 station (which is pretty quick).

Question: Do any of you reload blue bullets? What load data do you use? Their website just points you to Hodgdon (well, they misspell it Hodgon). I just copied Hodgdon's data for the 147gr Hornady XTP (which is a jacketed hollow point). The XTP data (with IMR Target) is 3.2 (840fps) to 3.5 (927fps) max. That's a pretty narrow range. All my drops are 3.2-3.3gr, so I'm 95% sure I'm safe and happy--but I thought I would ask if any of you have any experience with those blue bullets or such coatings. I'm just curious. No big deal.

The Blue Bullets

The Blue Bullets makes cost-effective blue bullets for anyone who wants to enjoy shooting sports. Our bullets are specially purposed for competitive shooters who need an accurate bullet with no barrel leading and no smoke. Get blue-coated lead bullets at the best price. Contact us!

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Thanks, I've never heard of them. I would like to try some too.

 

[gtivan]

Today, I loaded 50ct 9mm 147gr "blue bullets" over 3.2-3.4gr of IMR Target I bought from a member here. They look pretty cool and I'm looking forward to shooting and chrono'ing them. First time I've loaded blue bullets. I ordered them because they were reasonably priced and kinda neat for plinking.

Just 50 until I try them. And give me a break. I can only break away from wife/kids for long enough to do 50 rounds at a time. Even on my Lee Loadmaster progressive 5 station (which is pretty quick).

Question: Do any of you reload blue bullets? What load data do you use? Their website just points you to Hodgdon (well, they misspell it Hodgon). I just copied Hodgdon's data for the 147gr Hornady XTP (which is a jacketed hollow point). The XTP data (with IMR Target) is 3.2 (840fps) to 3.5 (927fps) max. That's a pretty narrow range. All my drops are 3.2-3.3gr, so I'm 95% sure I'm safe and happy--but I thought I would ask if any of you have any experience with those blue bullets or such coatings. I'm just curious. No big deal.

The Blue Bullets

The Blue Bullets makes cost-effective blue bullets for anyone who wants to enjoy shooting sports. Our bullets are specially purposed for competitive shooters who need an accurate bullet with no barrel leading and no smoke. Get blue-coated lead bullets at the best price. Contact us!

thebluebullets.com

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Never shot polymer bullets. But I have shot lead and powder coated. They take less powder than jacketed and I have heard you are to treat polymer the same as lead.

 

[v8engin]

@Holepuncher , you should. The quality seems solid. Coating seems very stable. Prices are good.
@gtivan as far as I know, they aren't polymer. I think they're just coated lead (a special "proprietary" coating, no doubt).
But I read somewhere it is NOT powdercoating.

 

[gtivan]

@Holepuncher , you should. The quality seems solid. Coating seems very stable. Prices are good.
@gtivan as far as I know, they aren't polymer. I think they're just coated lead (a special "proprietary" coating, no doubt).
But I read somewhere it is NOT powdercoating.

A polymer base.

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"Our coating is a proprietary polymer based liquid coating that we mix in house (not a powder coating.) The bullets are sized after the coating has cured to ensure a consistent and round bullet."

I think they will work more like a plated bullet. so somewhere between lead and jacketed. again, just based on research.

 

[v8engin]

See, this is what I get. I'm thinking he means an entirely polymer bullet. Yes, a "polymer based liquid coating" sounds right.

 

[don_domenico]

Got the press repaired, and finished out my 250 .38 special rounds. Nice not paying 1.80 per round

 

[Caveman Jim]

Finally got around to depriming 500 .38SPL cases today, thanks @Bill W

 

[gmerkt]

In my old line of work, we had a "rework" section. That was for stuff that wasn't done right the first time around.

Now I have my own rework operation. For the first time in over 40 years, I'm doing a full inventory of everything I've got. I've done this with reloading supplies for some time but quit doing it on finished ammo a long time ago. About the time I no longer had to worry about, "do I have enough?"

I've gone through all the .30-06, .308 Win/7.62mm NATO, and lately the .223 Rem./5.56mm. I've found a few instances where I don't now like my original loading. so I've taken them apart and reworked them. I've had a couple of equipment failures in the process. My Hornady collet bullet puller had the handle break. I sent an email to Hornady, they sent me a replacement on the house very quickly. Then today, I was using a Lee collet neck sizing die and the internal threads stripped out of that so I need to send that one in for replacement. I've never had to ask Hornady to fix something so I just tried email first, not knowing if they first had to have the broken widget back. Lee, I've plenty of experience of asking for replacements and I know the want the broken "thing" sent back before they will warranty replace it. RCBS, with small stuff it's a phone call or email. Bigger stuff, they want the part back so they can look at it.

In .30-06, I didn't find anything that I wanted to do over. in .308, I found about 130 to re-do. In .223, 141.

 

[gmerkt]

Along with the rework, I found time to knock out some .223 loaded with Inceptor SRR 35 gr. frangible bullets. Inceptor is the company that made the ARX ammo for Ruger a few years back. SRR = Short Range Rifle. Link to company information on this product:

Sport Utility Ammo | Flatter. Faster. Frangible.

Our Sport Utility Ammo line features Inceptor®’s patented Round Nose Precision (RNP™) and Short-Range Rifle (SRR™) bullet technology, with a solid- core, injection-molded, polymer-copper projectile that rivals any competition-level target shooting bullet.

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[Caveman Jim]

Well if one can include reloading a bunch of receipts into their respected envelope that I've had in a big envelope in a disorganized mess for years then Yes I reloaded today...



I also organize my cleaned my ready to load brass so I know where it all is when I get time to load them up.



I think I've got enough to do for a little while, what do you think? And yes I do have the other components that go with them.

 

[RVTECH]

Prepped & tumbled 40 pieces of .30-30 brass today.

Now currently drying on my 'Hi Tec' brass dryer!

 

[LSWC]

Heading out to reload a few .45 rounds. Just waiting for the coffee to finish up.

 

[Bill Siegle]

Weather sucks this weekend and the power is out. Decided to fire up the human powered machinery and yesterday I put up 100 327 Federals with 85 grain XTPs. Today I set up for 44 Magnum with 240grain XTPs. Got 100 of those done Found out work is closed tomorrow so I'll put up another 100 44 Mags. My press is a Lyman All American 8. Not getting Dillon speed but when it's planned out correctly, I am much faster than the old Rock Chucker.

 

[Red98422]

So because I've already posted my weird situation on this section, i figures an update was dueI have now replaced the bridge to my reloading station!!!!!

I also received a major upgrade in that department....granted I was responsible for installing it, but a small price for a much better gangway

 

[Lennie]