The "What Have You Reloaded Today" thread

Happy that I finally finished a batch of 3,878 Speer .40 S&W cases that I now need to sell on behalf of my Club. (Speer is piimo quality brsss)
All were wet tumbled, oven dried, resized, dry tumble polished, counted and bagged in lots of 101. I still have about 4,000 more cases to deal with, a mix of FCNT and Winchester .40 S&W but these have already been wet tumbled and just need to be counted & bagged.

On the down side, I've been told that a 30-litre pail of mixed .40 and .223 is arriving soon...
 
Well I got into clean up today and dealt with all the buckets of different brass at different stages of prep on my bench today. Ended up with 300 WSM, 338 WM, 22-284 and some 7 RUM in my vibrating tumbler. Once that was done I sat down and outside neck turned 150 X 22-284 cases. Just prior to that I went through and sorted and put away all my loaded and test load boxes of ammo that were sitting around on my bench waiting to get fired........I suppose I can still find them when I'm ready to do some load checking. However it's been snowing on and off for the past week or so and there is about 2 feet of snow in my pasture and on my shooting bench, making it a tad difficult to get to right now..........
It's amazing how much room I have on my bench now with all the brass dealt with and the buckets stacked back in one pile...........not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow, all the ugly jobs are done............maybe time to bed some rifles and do a little 'smithing.......
 
39 338WM w/RL19 and some original Barnes X bullets, 37 375 H&H RL15, for range practice. Tomorrow, start on '06 for the 400 rnds or so to shoot before spring bear. Want to bring my standing groups @100M down to reliably in the 4" range.
 
Loaded a bunch of ammo for my 303 Ross today.

1. 20 rounds of Sako 180 grain Semi-Spitzer boattails, chased by 44.5 of IMR 4320, in an IVI case and a CCI 200 for the spark.
2. 20 rounds of "Mystery" 150 grain FB Spitzer SP, chased by 41.5 grains of Vihtavuori N133, in a Winchester case, and R-P 9½ primer.
3. 20 rounds of Sierra 180 grain Pro-Hunters [FB Spitzer SP] chased by 43.0 grains of Norma 202 in an IVI case and a CCI 200 Primer.

Also loaded a box of ammo for my 325 WSM: 200 Partition in a Nosler case [Reformed 300 WSM cases], CCI 250, 72 grains of Norma MRP.
[This shoots about 5/8 moa in my M70 Winchester at just over 2900 fps....it thumps them good!!] Eagleye.
 
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After several years of trials and tribulations including having to prove to the local police and CFO verifiers that my 1871 Rolling Block pistol in .50 Army is not actually a Uberti .22, I'm ready to give it a good test.

Loading .50 Army is a bit off the map as original ammo is rare and hasn't been made since the 1920s. 50-70 has sidewalls that are too thick when trimmed down to 0.930" so I ordered some Magtech 32ga cases and trimmed off 2/3 which kinda sucks at $2 each. Trying to size them in the 50-90 dies I have broke the shell holder so they were annealed while waiting for a new one to come in the mail.

As a test I shot 6 rounds using .50 mini bullets meant for a muzzle loader with promising results. When an NEI mold for 515-450 came for sale cheap I jumped on that but will keep an eye out for a Lee 515 mold to cut down for something closer to 300gr.
Today finally made up 25 rounds: Federal large pistol primers, 22gr of FFFg and hand seated 20-1 470gr NEI bullets and I'm ready to hit the range!
 
A couple of ladder test runs trying V540 ( I got some at a good deal.) for 7mm-08. F210 primers, Lapua cases, BT 140's and Sierra PH 140's.

Ronr
 
RonR said:
A couple of ladder test runs trying V540 ( I got some at a good deal.) for 7mm-08. F210 primers, Lapua cases, BT 140's and Sierra PH 140's.

Ronr
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I think I may just start using my Lapua cases as my recipe last year with generic cases were not bad..a challenge for the new year
 
I have spend the last few days in the shop with my one month old in a carrier loading up 9mm to give my wife a change to sleep. I have to chuckle to myself thinking how much fun I am going to have introducing my daughter to all my hobbies as she grows up.
 
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