We were chatting a bit and barnbuilder mentioned that nes should have a reloading "yardsale" some time. Like a swap meet.
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What did you do in the reloading room recently?
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walter62
NES Member
Do it in the Mill parking lot on Sunday mornings. Let's everyone (maybe even vendors) meet/connect/socialize/coffee
Any particular brand of brass causing this? Or all headstamps?
Ran another 100 rounds of 45acp plate bangers. Building up a nice Back stock of ammo at this point.
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Took a half day, cut the grass, did some errands - then made up another 400 rounds of my favorite .44 mag "gong ammo" ( 7.2 gn of Alliant SP behind 240 LSWC).
All with spanking new Starline brass (....now my arm's killing me.......)
Things were just working, everything gauged nice, and got close to 1.600 +.005/-.000 COAL on everything. Enough for today !![[cheers]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/018.gif "Cheers [cheers]")
All with spanking new Starline brass (....now my arm's killing me.......)
Things were just working, everything gauged nice, and got close to 1.600 +.005/-.000 COAL on everything. Enough for today !
gerrycaruso
NES Member
Thanks to the Goose's generosity, I was able to size some 43 Spanish bullets down to .427 and .429. I was sizing to .430 but it was a very tight fit and the case would sometimes rip the paper patch. I hope the .427s will shoot well because they load with just the right amount of tension. We'll see in the morning. I got to see his new .50/70 Shiloh Sharps this morning and it's a beauty.
38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
I’m jealous!
What press did you get?
I have a goal.....to fill every ammo case I own woth reloads before I go to the club Tuesday night for practice plates lol. I've never done it.....because I shoot often enough I always have partial cases and empty ones waiting to get filled with fresh reloads. I need to make 200 rounds of 357 or 38 and 100 rounds of 45 to accomplish this. When complete I'll have 2200 rounds made up never had that much back stock. Thank you covid 19 down time. 
Just a lee single stage kit
BarnBuilder
NES Member
What caliber(s) are you planning to reload?
That's what I started with. Not super fast but it makes excellent ammo.
What will you be reloading first?
Haven’t made it that far haha prob start with rifle either 308 or 30-30. I have more 30-30 brass
BarnBuilder
NES Member
Just finished 500 rds. 223 mixed HS, 55 gr FMJBT, 25 gr H335 at 2.20 Col. on my Dillon 650
walter62
NES Member
Gonna be a good day at the range! 
Going to start on rifle 30-30 and 308
Nice. I started reloading 30-30 earlier this year. Great caliber. I’ve loaded as light as 110 gr bullets up to 170 gr.
Anyone need a 38/357 Lee 3 die set? I found one I bought years ago and forgot a about. Don't need it myself.
falcon123
NES Member
I walked by my bench and waved. Haven't touched it in months. Too busy with work and my other hobbies, riding my new bike and golfing. Maybe this winter when i can't do the other 2.
How much?
Free. Do you need them?
I would love them
Finally figured out my .38 special problem with smoky rounds and unburned powder, I increased the crimp (right is before, left is after I increased the crimp);
So I ran up a batch of 500
I kept humming "silver and gold" from the old Rudolph the red nosed reindeer cartoon.......
So I ran up a batch of 500
I kept humming "silver and gold" from the old Rudolph the red nosed reindeer cartoon.......
Better done away feom vendors.
The BS state and local authorities can pull can be a problem for “the mill”
Permits, non licensed sellers, explosives
Omg gun stuff!!!
Wasn't it Cerakote who came up with special colors due to this shithead trying to ban 'colored and toy looking' guns?
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Gun paint company taunts Mayor Bloomberg with paints named after him
A Wisconsin company that disguises deadly firearms with bright paints and camouflage has a new target: Mayor Bloomberg. Lauer Custom Weaponry, whose products were banned in the city in 2006 because…
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Gun paint company taunts Mayor Bloomberg with paints named after him
By KIRSTEN DANISDAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF |
MAR 21, 2008 AT 1:03 AM
A Wisconsin company that disguises deadly firearms with bright paints and camouflage has a new target: Mayor Bloomberg.
Lauer Custom Weaponry, whose products were banned in the city in 2006 because they make dangerous guns look like innocent toys, is taunting the anti-gun mayor with a line of paints named "The Bloomberg Collection."
The company - which named its purple hue after Barney, the dinosaur beloved by toddlers - is peddling a rainbow of candy-colored paints for each of the five boroughs.
There's red for Manhattan, rose for the Bronx, blue for Brooklyn, green for Queens and orange for Staten Island.
And as an extra slap - a stencil of the mayor's face for the barrel of the gun.
Gun owners also can plunk down $129 for a "Bloomberg Collection EZ Camo Kit" to pimp out their semiautomatics and rifles with a brick wall and graffiti decoration.
Last year, a Virginia gun shop held a "Bloomberg raffle" - with the prize a brand-new gun - to protest the mayor's crackdown on stores he says are illegally peddling firearms that end up on New York streets.
Not to be left out, the National Rifle Association soon plastered a picture of Bloomberg as an octopus on the cover of its magazine.
This time, Bloomberg angered Steve Lauer, owner of Lauer Custom Weaponry, when he pushed through a law that punishes anyone who uses, buys or sells a gun-coloration kit in New York with a year in jail or a $1,000 fine.
"The mayor picked us out as being the pink-gun guys," said Toby Johnson, who described himself as Lauer's "right-hand man" at the Chippewa Falls company.
The bright paints were meant to help rescue workers and range masters locate guns more easily - not fool cops, Johnson said. They regularly sell the colors named after the boroughs and have even sold "five or six" Bloomberg camo kits, Johnson said.
Women also are big fans of the colors, he added.
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pastera
NES Member
Sized case should drop in
Are you belling the case mouth?
Are you seating and crimping in one step?
COAL?
You should see some wasp waist on 9mm - is it even around the entire circumference?
Got to the range early - shot some of the .44 mag FMJ's (Campro) I made up - average loads, probably 900-1000 fps.
I like em'. This was the first 12 shots (30' w/629 PC, strong hand). It only got better as the morning progressed.
After I'm guessing probably 1000 LSWC's - it also scrubbed out the barrel shiny-shiny like you wouldn't believe.......
I like em'. This was the first 12 shots (30' w/629 PC, strong hand). It only got better as the morning progressed.
After I'm guessing probably 1000 LSWC's - it also scrubbed out the barrel shiny-shiny like you wouldn't believe.......
