The "What Have You Reloaded Today" thread

[Decker9]

Wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of that. Just a question, is it my imagination or do some of your primers have indentations in them? What would cause that?

It pretty much mimics my 375 h&h, same load in the h&h gets me 2625 fps iirc.

The loads in the green box are from many years ago, I’m not sure what caused the dimples in the loaded primers. There are some spent primers in the box there too.

I notice the same as Plinker mentioned, my hand priming tool will sometimes leave a very slight dimple.

 

[todbartell]

when you can't sleep, you make ammo at 2am

for my Howa carbon barrel 6.5 Creedmoor
130gr Sierra TMK
42.3grs W760
Alpha brass
CCI 200 primer

 

[hawk-i]

Loaded 50 rounds of 6.5 Creedmoor for my Ruger RPR with 26" IBI barrel, 143eldx with 43.4grs Staball 6.5 in Hornady Brass 2805 fps average.

 

[jimbo14]

Today was 400 rounds of 9mm. That was as much as my mangled elbow could handle. I’ll shoot all of that tomorrow.

Also loaded a ladder/OCW set of 3x 10 powder charges for my .223. Trying D4064 from 24.5 to 25.4 grains with 69gr SMK.

I saw some great 5-round groups under 1/2” at varying lower charge levels. Thought I’d look at higher velocities. My test is maxing out at just shy of a compressed load. Curious if pressure signs will show up first.

 

[dan belisle]

when you can't sleep, you make ammo at 2am

for my Howa carbon barrel 6.5 Creedmoor
130gr Sierra TMK
42.3grs W760
Alpha brass
CCI 200 primer

Did that the other night. Loaded up a bunch of 7mm-08 loads for my hunting 7mm-08 (rather than my range 7mm-08). - dan

 

[skwerl]

Removing the 100 yr old Black Powder and Replacing it with 4227 .

25-20ss & 25-21

 

[jimbo14]

Made another 400 rounds of 9mm because I shot it all on Friday. I’ll be shooting 500-ish a week for the next month, then ramping it up to 800+ a week.

Having .223 fun too. My previous 3-shot group OCW test found promise at 25.0 grains.

Combine that with a previous nice baby group at 23.6, and splitting the difference to an unseen 24.3 grain charge, I’m hoping there is such a thing as barrel timing and ‘nodes’.

To make it more fun, I loaded some at the anti-node of 24.7 grains. That looked like poop.

I’ll be shooting many 5-shot groups at three different good loads, and one expected crappy load to see if this is really a thing.

 

[dan belisle]

Resized about 100 222 Rem Mag cases that been converted to 204 Ruger back to 222 RM. Only lost two. So that's a plus. Loaded up some test loads for the 204 (in actual 204 brass). Now to do some 6mm Rem. - dan

 

[dan belisle]

Started reforming some fresh 25-06 brass into 240 Gibbs. - dan

 

[todbartell]

6.5 PRC (Tikka T3x CTR)
153gr Sierra Tipped MatchKing
56.00grs Retumbo
Virgin Peterson brass / F210M

this load does 2830 fps and shoots pretty good

 

[Decker9]

Broke open a new batch of alpha 6gt brass today, loaded with 109gr bergers, 34gr of Varget and BR4’s. Average velocity has been 2980fps with the 26” ibi barrel.

 

[Jimothy]

Trying N555 in 7mm Rem Mag with 150 ELDx. Charged 59.0 to 68.0 in 0.5 increments at book max OAL 3.29. Going looking for pressure first. Rem 9-1/2 mag primers.

 

[todbartell]

Trying N555 in 7mm Rem Mag with 150 ELDx. Charged 59.0 to 68.0 in 0.5 increments at book max OAL 3.29. Going looking for pressure first. Rem 9-1/2 mag primers.

That's a wide spread of powder charge

 

[Jimothy]

That's a wide spread of powder charge

Yes with no published data I’m being carefulish

 

[Jimothy]

Trying N555 in 7mm Rem Mag with 150 ELDx. Charged 59.0 to 68.0 in 0.5 increments at book max OAL 3.29. Going looking for pressure first. Rem 9-1/2 mag primers.

No ejector stamps or hard lifts but very flat primer at 68 prob won’t go higher. Next I’ll load some for groups.

 

[todbartell]

Yes with no published data I’m being carefulish

N555 is very similar to burn rate of StaBALL 6.5, IMR 4831, Ramshot Hunter, RL19

Max loads for 7mm Rem Mag 150gr lead core jacketed bullets :

Hodgdon data (150gr Nosler Partition)
StaBALL 6.5 - not listed
IMR 4831 - 62.5grs
Hunter - not listed

Hodgdon data (162gr Hornady)
Hunter - 63.5grs

Nosler data (150gr)
IMR 4831 - 65.0grs

Hodgdon (166gr ATIP)
StaBALL 6.5 - 60.7grs

Alliant (160gr Speer SP)
RL19 - 64.0grs

Sierra (150gr BTSP)
RL19 - 68.3grs

 

[todbartell]

Now working on my little 50pc batch of Hornady 22 ARC that must be on firing 7 or 8. I annealed them, resized and they're in the tumbler. Next will be mandrel the necks and chamfer case mouth, prime with CCI450 and fill up with N550 & 88gr ELDm that always shoots wonderful

 

[jimbo14]

Reloaded 9mm: 500 match and almost 300 practice, until the primer shuttle spring in my press decided to break. Stupid thing.

 

[scotteboy]

Am loading 7.62x39 with Hornady Sst's today.
Have a buddy that took a deer last year with one I made him and loves them. "Dropped right where he was standing". 50yrds approx 2300ft/sec.
These will be around 2450ft/sec.
Just ordered a Burstfire induction annealer too.
Have never annealed so looking forward to it and hopefully seeing benefits.

 

[boxhitch]

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