Those aren’t spent cases in the picture. Yes, sorting has shown smaller groups for me, and more importantly, fewer flyers
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They’re not. No dented rims is a dead giveaway
Yeah, that stupid piece of junk. All it's good for is lifting my tuck up and down.
Yeah, that stupid piece of junk. All it's good for is lifting my tuck up and down.
My bad, are you saying your are loading rimfire?
Yes
Your words, not mine!Yeah, that stupid piece of junk. All it's good for is lifting my tuck up and down.
Well, this conversation just got a whole lot more interesting.
Tell us more about this process.
Why you choose to load rimfire vs purchasing, how does the cost compare vs performance?
Where do you buy virgin rimfire brass?
How do you deal with the primer challenge?
What projectile and powder are you running?
Cutting Edge is putting out primed .22lr cases and dies for seating bullets now, or should be soon.
Last I heard they hadn’t secured a source for primed cases.
I chose to load my own in an effort to squeeze the most capability out of the tiny little rimfire case. Cost of primed cases was under .06 each delivered. I’m not sure what primer challenge you are referring to?? Projectile is still a prototype so I’m not at liberty to discuss it just yet. Powder is yet to be determined but I’ll start with clays or universal.
Good luck with the effort. The primer question was assuming that you were priming cases but I guess the cases are primed when you buy them.
Yes these are primed already
Corbin has a press setup for turning spent .22 brass into jacketed .224 bullets. You gotta supply the lead cores, but thats a thing too. If you’re into high volume .223 plinking or p-dogging.
My reloading adventure was no more exciting than a trip to Sportsman's to view the nearly empty shelves in the reloading and ammunition sections. I did pick up a box of Barnes 6mm 95grn LRX bullets and a tee-shirt that says 'These Colors Don't Run....They Reload.'
Finished my *first* complete cartridges today - 100 9mm rounds with 115gr Xtremes and CFE pistol (50 at 5.0gr and 50 at 5.2gr with two different case lengths).
Went to the range and shot 'em all. All of them fed just fine in a CZ 75 and G34. Think I like the larger charge a bit better, waiting on the pistol rail adapter for my Magnetospeed to come in to get real data.
Prepped 100 cases of .45 tonight for the finishing touches tomorrow.
Hooked.
Went to the range and shot 'em all. All of them fed just fine in a CZ 75 and G34. Think I like the larger charge a bit better, waiting on the pistol rail adapter for my Magnetospeed to come in to get real data.
Prepped 100 cases of .45 tonight for the finishing touches tomorrow.
Hooked.
Finished 100 dasher for the match this weekend at Pigg River.
CE Products was good to a few of us this past week. Got my V3 set up and actually loaded up 100 dasher rounds I had primed just to play with it. 
I loaded 150 rounds of 10mm with 180gr RNFP hardcast over 9.8gr of Blue Dot for a Speed Steel match in 2 weeks.
Installed UniqueTec primer feed stop switch and case feed stop switch on my 650. Now the press will do exactly what I tell it to and I won’t have to spend 20 minutes on the floor looking for that single goddamn small pistol primer that got away from me. 
Added some powder bar adjustment knobs to all four of my powder drops. Nice finger adjustability means no more trying to find the wrench to adjust my powder drops.
Still waiting on my index bearing block and spent primer drop chute conversion from EntirelyCrimson.
Added some powder bar adjustment knobs to all four of my powder drops. Nice finger adjustability means no more trying to find the wrench to adjust my powder drops.
Still waiting on my index bearing block and spent primer drop chute conversion from EntirelyCrimson.
60 rounds of 6GT for load development
Been looking for some brass (neck-turned specific to one particular barrel) that I haven't been able to find for a while - like since I moved 18 months ago. Finally decided to clear out a few boxes of stuff that I had shoved out of the way under a bench and in a cabinet when I moved into this 24'x32` detached shop. Figured they were mostly 'junk' as I had everything I'd "needed" already organized in other base cabinets.
The first box was indeed, mostly odds-n-ends, much of which was over-due for recycle. The rest, though...
Is it bad when you 'find' over 10,000 bullets you forgot you had?
The first box was indeed, mostly odds-n-ends, much of which was over-due for recycle. The rest, though...
Is it bad when you 'find' over 10,000 bullets you forgot you had?
I just added a Mr Bullet Feeder to the 650 for loading .223 ammo. A little pricy but speeds up production tremendously.
Haven't shot 223 in a while. All 77gr SMK's
20rds 24gr varget, 20rds 24gr RL15, 20rds AA2520 mag length
10rds 24.5 varget, 24.5 RL15, AA2520 single feed length
20rds 24gr varget, 20rds 24gr RL15, 20rds AA2520 mag length
10rds 24.5 varget, 24.5 RL15, AA2520 single feed length
Working on preping 850 6.5 CM cases. So far deprimed and 1/2 way through cleaning them up.
Just finished throwing 5 pounds of powder to fill 175 cases for these 820 grain Spotter/Tracers
Did you build that yourself?
Yes. There's a lot of info on the homemade induction annealer thread.
Nice, and thanks
Sized and primed about 100 6.5 cases. Waiting on my .223 dies to get here.
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I loaded up my 6.5 CM ammo for my first PRS club match on Sunday.
Lapua SRP brass
Berger 140 hybrids
H4350 powder
FGM SR primers
Velocities right at 2800
Lapua SRP brass
Berger 140 hybrids
H4350 powder
FGM SR primers
Velocities right at 2800
@Punkur67 Are you tipping the 140'S or are you using them straight out of the box?
Sized and cleaned all the 45LC, 38spl and 357Mag I had waiting to be processed. Over 9 pounds of 38 brass. Broke a Lee decamping pin when an errant primer made its way is a case.
Half way through deprime, tumble and resize 400 6.5 Creedmoor cases.
With any luck I will get them trimmed and chamfered by the end of the day.
With any luck I will get them trimmed and chamfered by the end of the day.
