Ok was just curious because there are lots of guys that think Buffalo Bore heavy 357 mag loads are not "safe" in snubs. That is false.
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What did you do in the reloading room recently?
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The bottom of my trigger finger is scared of the trigger guard just thinking about it. I mean technically it may be safe, but what an awful idea.
Oh, when I think snub, I think airweight S&Ws.I've shot plenty of bb 180 hard cast lead through an sp101. I found it invigorating.
NHCraigT
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PV has = Hornady .224 / 22 55 gr Full Metal Jacket-Boat Tail Bullets With Cannelure (if you can get there before its OOS)
2000 for $192.00
2000 for $192.00
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NHCraigT
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If you are poor and thinking of upgrading to a progressive (I do consider myself one) = these Lee progressive presses are currently available (9mm progressive + 45 ACP progressive + 357 progressive + 38sp Progressive + 223 progressive):
www.midwayusa.com
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Lee Pro 1000 Progressive Press Kit 9mm Luger
The Lee Pro 1000 Progressive Press is a great press for beginning reloaders or seasoned veterans. Just add a bullet and load a cartridge with each pull...
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Lee Load-Master Progressive Press Kit 45 ACP
The Lee Loadmaster Progressive Press reloads both rifle and handgun cartridges with ease and enough clearance for even the largest magnum rifle cases....
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Lee Pro 4000 Progressive Press Kit 223 Remington
The Lee Pro 4000 Progressing Press Kit is a true, 4-die progressive press for less than the cost of a premium single stage press. Includes Lee 3 die set...
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Not quite. They way they do their pricing is very confusing, but when you order 2,000, it is actually 4 bags of 500, discounted for the quantity you are buying.
In other words, it is $192 for the 2,000 bullets.
Still good prices. I miss surplus pulled projos and powder for training ammo. Those were the days.
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Yep. I looked at it real fast and that's what the pricing came-up at when I clicked on the 2000 count drop down menu window.
$192 makes more sense (price-wise).
Bullet puller hammer came today. Smacked some cases apart and salvaged the components. The dogs hate it as much as the whack a mole lee loader I have.
Finally got some time to sit at the bench and load some ammo on the 650. Too broke for a auto case feeder but I picked up the DAA mini feeder for cheap. For what it is it works well and you can do like 150 9mm before loading the sleeves again with cases.
Setup the press for .45 ACP and loaded 50 rounds with the new Lee Factory crimping die and DAA powder expander. MUCH better results.
I will find out this weekend if these old Winchester primers still work.
I will find out this weekend if these old Winchester primers still work.
How did 700 meter for you?
Last time I tried it, it metered like oatmeal on a sq deal.
Yeah it doesn’t meter as well as TAC that’s for sure. Still, +/-0.1 grains is perfectly fine for .45 out of a pistol. 700x definitely compacts on settling so as long as the conditions are consistent when measuring, it is good enough for pistol.
That being said, I would probably have been better to use HP38/Win231 for .45 since I already use it for 9mm but I will wait to make that call until I see how clean it is.
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I got the rcbs smacker puller a few weeks ago. It works great. I learned quick that the best way to use it is multiple light taps to ease the bullet out rather than hard hits. Not as noisy and it was actually faster. I pulled a few hundred 357 loads with it very quickly.
Oh boy 700x powder. That stuff meters like doritos. I have half a can left it was the first powder I bought to reload with.....metered so bad I had to weigh each load on the scale individually. I switched to bullseye for 38 and 45acp and never looked back. Bullseye meters perfectly in my powder drop and imo is the perfect powder for 45acp. It's all I've ever used for that caliber.
Meters more like doritos for me
You got 700x to meter Plus or minus .01? What powder delivery are you using? I couldn't get mine to meter better than plus or minus .05 through a Lee perfect powder drop.....or even using Lee dippers......which are usually very accurate.
Dillon on a 650. Like I wrote, keep the conditions consistent and its fine.
Get a slab of lead to smash it on or even a good chunk of hardwood
My cement basement floor is perfect. I set my task stool low.....just low enough that I can reach the floor with the head if the hammer. 5 to 6 quick light taps and it's out.
You guys must drive yourself nuts going Two digits to the right of the decimal on powder charges.
LOL I was thinking the same.
No kidding!
I see no sense in it. It's reloading gunpowder not neurological micro surgery.
You'll ruin the puller on concrete.
The end grain of a piece of yellow pine 2x4 or or a piece of hardwood firewood is much better to preserve the hammer end.
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12"x12"x 1-1/2" steel block on my workbench has never failed to dislodge the bullet, in 2 hits or less, from the shell in my whack-a-mole hammer bullet puller.
I've already broken down 350 rounds of 357 with it. When I say light taps I mean tink tink tink not smack smack smack lol
I meant .5 lol. Math.....not my strong suit
I meant .5No kidding!
I see no sense in it. It's reloading gunpowder not neurological micro surgery.
For pistols ammo I go for plus minus .1 so if my goal is 4.6 I'm happy with 4.5 or 4.7.
The heavy bullets are easy due to their mass. Wait until you try to remove a fractured frangible in .223 or even 9mm.
