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With all the money you saved on casting your own you didn’t hire a lawn guy?Coated 3kg of Lee 356-120TC with the lube groove removed.
Still have 5+ kgs to go but was also doing fall yard work.
Save money? More like shoot more and buy more toys/toolsWith all the money you saved on casting your own you didn’t hire a lawn guy?
nice looking bullets too. Good job on the mould.
You said it.Save money? More like shoot more and buy more toys/tools
Loaded my first ever rifle cartridge today; 308. ..
...I mostly shoot pistol but really starting to see why people like shooting rifle. Pete
andrew1220: some creative artwork there!
Those will be nice and flashy if you shoot em later in the day. Power Pistol is great. I bet you’ll find those loads VERY accurate.Just got up from loading two hundred 9mm, 115gr fmj over 5.7gr Power Pistol.
Those will be nice and flashy if you shoot em later in the day. Power Pistol is great. I bet you’ll find those loads VERY accurate.
save them up and you can sell them as precious metal works of art
It all depends on the case really. I've timed myself faster than that but I had no issues on the way, all we'll sorted brass and plant of brass and bullets to feed the machine. Meanwhile I've had batches of 9mm brass that fought me the whole way and I think I got about 100 rounds an hour out of that batch. 44 mag and 45 colt are much harder to size and it slows you down a bunch. Those speeds are attainable and more but only under ideal conditions with experience. Forget about a new batch of brass you've never worked with before and all the little hiccups or crimped primer pockets.You know how the Dillon catalog says things like, "loading rate: 400-600 rds./hour"?
I thought those numbers were .... optimistic.
Sure, if you have six primer tubes pre-filled and a big enough hopper of bullets and cases so you don't have to re-fill them, and the output goes directly into a big jug so it doesn't fill up, and everything works perfectly, and you've already set up the machine so you don't have to do any adjustments, and maybe if you buy a case feeder you can get 600 rds/hour out of a 550B.
But in the real world those numbers are not what anyone actually gets.
Well... I think maybe they're not.
The other day I loaded 1,035 rounds of .38 spl in just a smidge over two hours.
I don't have a case feeder, I only have two primer pickup tubes, and I had a few problems that slowed me down. But I did it.
It was .... exhausting. Both physically and mentally. It takes a lot of brain work to go that fast and pay attention to everything. Whew!
I bet with a bullet feeder and a case feeder it would go a lot faster!
Happy birthday to your wife. I hope you bought her a new gun100 rounds of 9mm - Wife's birthday so only had a short period that I could 'disappear'
Haha same here! Both reloading and wife’s bday today.100 rounds of 9mm - Wife's birthday so only had a short period that I could 'disappear'
It all depends on the case really. I've timed myself faster than that but I had no issues on the way, all we'll sorted brass and plant of brass and bullets to feed the machine. Meanwhile I've had batches of 9mm brass that fought me the whole way and I think I got about 100 rounds an hour out of that batch. 44 mag and 45 colt are much harder to size and it slows you down a bunch. Those speeds are attainable and more but only under ideal conditions with experience. Forget about a new batch of brass you've never worked with before and all the little hiccups or crimped primer pockets.
I would say thats damn good speed.
I was pretty happy with it.
And I know exactly what you mean.
.38 Spl is particularly easy because it's easy to align the cases by feel and they don't stretch much upon firing, so sizing is easy.
Anything that requires lube: Ha! let's aim for 120/hour, maybe. Or just 60.
New 500 Magnum? Nope nope nope.
Even 9mm is slower because manipulating the cases is harder.
you’re right about the 9mm and also depending on your dies. I use Dillon and they size the case down a ton. More resistance. Slower times.
More reason to shoot 38 special
Funny thing, I had to get a replacement 9mm sizing die from Dillion because the first one was too big (by 0.001” maybe) so they didn’t grab the bullets tight enough. But only R•P brass!
I like .38 Spl. because you get more respect shooting a lever gun fast than a 9mm AR, and likewise a Security-Six over a Glock.
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