What did you do in the reloading room today?

[acudaowner]

all i could do was sit and cry ... and buy my ammo online . felt like the indian in that commercial one lone tear running down his face looking out over a land scape covered with trash , thinking about all the ammo I could be making per day if only the land lord cared ... crates floor to ceiling stacked pretty like trees in a forest of ammo to shoot lol i fell into that one .

 

[Middle Man]

Stole an hour late this afternoon to set up new 223 dies in toolhead for one of the Dillon 650’s...plan to load some better quality 223 plinking ammo for the next family range trip. More accurate always equals more fun.

 

[Mooseknuckles]

Loaded up 35 6mm creedmoor. Still have 47 to fire form brass. I will get out do it next weekend.

 

[Fret]

Are those chargemaster pretty accurate?

I hope they are. They say + or - 0.1 grain accuracy.

Got 200 pieces of 5.56 LC brass sized and trimmed this PM. So now I have 700 pieces ready to go. Just waiting for a shipment of powder and primers to come in.

 

[pmclaine]

Unboxed my new to me Dandy Automatic trickler.

Need to find out for myself why everyone sells theirs after a while.

Im assuming altruism - they want others to know how awesome they are.

 

[Kisssofdeath]

For those who use the Chargemaster, what powder type do you guys use? I'm talking ball, flake or extruded?

I use my Redding Model 3BR powder measure for all my 5.56 and 300 Blackout loads. When I get 5 good throws in a row, then I'll start throwing 10 and check one and repeat until done. I do pistol calibers like this too if I'm loading up a small amount, like 20 rounds for testing, that is unless the Dillon is already set up.

 

[Cascade Hemi]

Loaded 1K 40SW. Should get me through the end of the month.

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

Polished about 500 pieces of 6.5 Creedmoor Brass and resized 300 of them.

 

[Jcarpenter223]

Chamfer and deburr some 223 cases

 

[pmclaine]

Chamfer and deburr some 223 casesView attachment 7112569

Chamfering and deburring is the worst......

 

[Kisssofdeath]

Chamfering and deburring is the worst......

It's not too bad with this.

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

Damn it, sharpie residue? Will it mess it up noticeably over the course of 100 rounds?
Ive never bothered with marking cases before so this is my first sharpie experience because I didnt necessarily mind losing a piece here and there before. Now that Im onto a dasher I get the jokes and want to horde all of my precious.

I've found a paint pen around the extractor groove works well.

 

[Jcarpenter223]

Chamfering and deburring is the worst......

Man who you tellin. I just got finished with about 1k and finally ready to load them up. Hopefully wont have to do that for a while. Lol. Got about another 2-3k 223 brass sitting in the attic ready to prepped.

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

Man who you tellin. I just got finished with about 1k and finally ready to load them up. Hopefully wont have to do that for a while. Lol. Got about another 2-3k 223 brass sitting in the attic ready to prepped.

It's not too bad with this.

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I have that lyman case prep center and the forster trimmer. Just picked up the 3in1 head for the forster and it eliminates the D&C as an additional step.

 

[clcustom1911]

Sized, tumbled, chamfer'd, deburr'd 100 6.5CR casings for final load up. Also, Prepping for a mess of 5.56 62gr loading ???

 

[clcustom1911]

Chamfer and deburr some 223 casesView attachment 7112569

Chamfer and deburr 223??

Not me! I couldn't imagine doing that for all the 223 I go through in my AR! LOL

Deprime, tumble, size, trim, prime, load, crimp.

Only my precision brass (6.5CR, 7mm RemMag) get the extra love.

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

Chamfer and deburr 223??

Not me! I couldn't imagine doing that for all the 223 I go through in my AR! LOL

Deprime, tumble, size, trim, prime, load, crimp.

Only my precision brass (6.5CR, 7mm RemMag) get the extra love.

Lol, for the AR I don't even bother trimming. It goes straight to the progressive for production.

 

[McHaggis]

I unboxed my new FX300i.

 

[pmclaine]

Chamfer and deburr 223??

Not me! I couldn't imagine doing that for all the 223 I go through in my AR! LOL

Deprime, tumble, size, trim, prime, load, crimp.

Only my precision brass (6.5CR, 7mm RemMag) get the extra love.

I was doing chamfer/debur on .223 but I'm thinking this next go round, with the addition of a 21st Century neck size die, I'm just going to let the stainless steel dong do its work.

Still thinking the bolt guns in .308 and 30-06 need that love though.

 

[pmclaine]

I have that lyman case prep center and the forster trimmer. Just picked up the 3in1 head for the forster and it eliminates the D&C as an additional step.

I C&D with the three head Hornady Case Prep tool. It's a horizontal operation rather than vertical has a primer pocket scraper for the third operation.

Works but tedious.

 

[Steel head]

Fondled my new brass

 

[Kisssofdeath]

Nothing wrong with fondling some.......brass.

 

[Steel head]

Nothing wrong with fondling some.......brass.

Well,,,,,, I’m gonna have to tumble the brass clean now.
Things got a bit outta control.

 

[Kisssofdeath]

Well,,,,,, I’m gonna have to tumble the brass clean now.
Things got a bit outta control.

Sometimes that happens when fondling things. But remember, after fondling the outcomes is usually pretty good.

 

[XgobudX]

Did a little clean up today.

 

[JW74]

I pulled some bullets for my 338 NM as I have to lower my loads a little.

 

[Jcarpenter223]

Loaded up some 223 test rounds last night...waiting for the magnetospeed to come in...hopefully by this weekend i can get some data.

Figure out how to set it up and then get to work on some 6.5cm

 

[clcustom1911]

Fondled my new brass
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I have ADG 7mm RemMag brass. Very very good stuff. Weights are within 3-4 grains of the average.

 

[Snuby642]

Spent hours formatting a table and converting scrap handwritten notes to ms word.
It still needs work but is legible now and in one place.

 

[jetsurgeon]

CATM15 ... Looking good!

 

[supercorndogs]

I was doing chamfer/debur on .223 but I'm thinking this next go round, with the addition of a 21st Century neck size die, I'm just going to let the stainless steel dong do its work.

Still thinking the bolt guns in .308 and 30-06 need that love though.

Its not really about love. Its about getting the bullet seated without tearing up the bearing surface. Trimming leaves a burr, seating past that burr shaves copper off the bullet. In my experience not chamfering deep enough causes copper to get shaved off bullets too. If you dont want to deburr and chamfer, you should probably use an M die to bell the case mouth, then crimp it back. This is common practice making handgun ammo. I only chamfer and debur after trimming. I only trim when the brass gets too long.

 

[Howland]

I took the brass out of the tumbler that I forgot overnight. Ten hours makes for super shiney brass.

It still doesn't clean the primer pockets.

 

[Feesh]

I added a 4 foot LED light above my new bench and ordered a 12 outlet power strip for all of my toys. Apparently I had been working in the dark for the past few years.

 

[Snuby642]

A cutoff timer for the tumbler power is a good investment to get a longer life out of it.

 

[Rootshot]

Lol, for the AR I don't even bother trimming. It goes straight to the progressive for production.

Same here. Just primed 500 Lake City .556 cases. The only case prep I did was to iron out banged up case mouths. I simply run the case over the expander ball on the stem I removed from my die on those I thought needed it. The expander ball assembly is in a vise. Takes about 1 second or two per dinged up case.

 

[Mooseknuckles]

Add a new top to one section of the reloading bench. I like this much better.

 

[Wheres-Waldo]

Lost my comparator set and Mitutoyo caliper kit... I suspect the wife.

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

Lost my comparator set and Mitutoyo caliper kit... I suspect the wife.

My wife wouldn't even know what to do with a caliper, let alone a comparator.

 

[pmclaine]

My wife wouldn't even know what to do with a caliper, let alone a comparator.

Probably looking for an accurate measurement of length and girth because her friends think she can't be telling the truth.

Funny she left the 6 inch caliper and only took the 3 inch.

 

[clcustom1911]

Mouted up my new-to-me Dillon RL450 I got off FleaBay. More shell plates, locator buttons, and Dillon auto powder measure on the way from Dillon in AZ as we speak.

 

[Tree]

Loaded up some 308 185gr juggernauts. Went to the range to Chrono and group test the load.

 

[spife7980]

Loaded 10 of my old 6xc brass to see how they fit in my new barrel when I put it on tomorrow to see if I will need new brass or not.

 

[Sheldon N]

Loaded 10 of my old 6xc brass to see how they fit in my new barrel when I put it on tomorrow to see if I will need new brass or not.

Smash em down in a small die until they fit! Ride that brass into the ground until the primer pockets are gasping for air.

 

[Steel head]

Smash em down in a small die until they fit! Ride that brass into the ground until the primer pockets are gasping for air.

Amen!

 

[spife7980]

Smash em down in a small die until they fit! Ride that brass into the ground until the primer pockets are gasping for air.

I’m just worried about the base diameter, first barrel was a new reamer, new barrels old old reamer etc. might buy that pva base sizing die. I was really hoping that Peterson would have the new select cases or whatever where they weight sort them in batches but they say 6xc is in the docket for October. And October’s the start of hunting which is later than ideal, hopefully old brass will tide me over.

 

[Sheldon N]

I’m just worried about the base diameter, first barrel was a new reamer, new barrels old old reamer etc. might buy that pva base sizing die. I was really hoping that Peterson would have the new select cases or whatever where they weight sort them in batches but they say 6xc is in the docket for October. And October’s the start of hunting which is later than ideal, hopefully old brass will tide me over.

I've been messing with Dasher brass between two barrels, one big and one small chamber for base dia. I found that a standard Hornady 308 die did a pretty darn good job of sizing the base down, took it to around .4695 where a Harrels D4 (supposedly tighter base) would only hit around .4702. Had a to bump the shoulder back since everything got pushed forward. But overall was able to have brass fit into the smaller chamber once it was done. Primer pockets are still good so didn't want to toss the brass.

Shot a club match with the brass in the small base Dasher chamber, took 2nd. Then processed it all and shot the CO NRL match with the same brass in the larger chamber and took 3rd there. 15 firings and still going strong!

 

[PatMiles]

I've been messing with Dasher brass between two barrels, one big and one small chamber for base dia. I found that a standard Hornady 308 die did a pretty darn good job of sizing the base down, took it to around .4695 where a Harrels D4 (supposedly tighter base) would only hit around .4702. Had a to bump the shoulder back since everything got pushed forward. But overall was able to have brass fit into the smaller chamber once it was done. Primer pockets are still good so didn't want to toss the brass.

Shot a club match with the brass in the small base Dasher chamber, took 2nd. Then processed it all and shot the CO NRL match with the same brass in the larger chamber and took 3rd there. 15 firings and still going strong!

Thanks for the info regarding the Hornady 308 die. My 6 Dasher Lapua ,twice fired, measures .4695" just above the extractor groove so it looks as though the Hornady die will do just fine resizing the base.

 

[Middle Man]

Dogs & cats living together ?

 

[Ryridesmotox]

Broke in my new die a bit. Going to see if it does any better than my normal lee dies.

 

[clcustom1911]

Dogs & cats living together ?

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LOLLLL yeah I got Lee dies on my Dillon. Ghetto fabulous