I thought about doing some reloading.
Spotted a nice large ripe tomato cooked up some bacon = BLT and couch bound……
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What did you do in the reloading room recently?
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Spotted a nice large ripe tomato cooked up some bacon = BLT and couch bound……
Spicy. I like it
Technically right in the middle for h110. Lyman says 23.5 to 24.5 lol. Not much room to play around when loading h110.
My shipment of zero 44 mag 240 grain jsp arrived today. These are awesome projos for 17.5 cents each.
Yup. No one is close to them on price and quality for a JSP
gerrycaruso
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Loaded some 308 with a 168 grain bthp and Tac. It's for a very fussy M1A. I realize that the M1A is not a precision rifle and is meant to send a bunch of bullets down range in a hurry. If this load doesn't shoot as well as I'd like, I may sell it and buy a bolt gun. I just want to put a few bullets into a small group. When I want to shoot a bunch of bullets in a hurry, I shoot one of the full autos. Can't hit shit but it's fun.
Loaded 100 7.62X39 for the Mini-30. Sixty rounds with Hornady 125 gr FMJ / 20 rounds with Sierra 125 gr Spitzer / 20 rounds with Xtreme 125 gr Semi-Spitzer. Hopefully, I'll get to the range Monday !!!!! 
EddieZoom
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A batch of 223 for no particular reason. Used up all my H335....prices on 8lb jugs suck balls....
NH Phantom
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Finally located all the necessary components to load some 475 Wildey.
Bullets were tough to find. Starline still has brass. Using 308/30-06 shell plate. Dies are tough to find but located some. Even blue dot is out of stock at most places. I found 100 loaded rounds. Will load another 100. That will be plenty. Won’t be shooting this every day for sure.
Bullets were tough to find. Starline still has brass. Using 308/30-06 shell plate. Dies are tough to find but located some. Even blue dot is out of stock at most places. I found 100 loaded rounds. Will load another 100. That will be plenty. Won’t be shooting this every day for sure.
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On Wednesday I loaded up ~300# of spent brass in my car and sold it to a salvage yard in MA. I have another 120ish # of brass to sort thru to pull out the steel and aluminum and then I'll turn that in also. I'm long done with reloading and will be selling off the rest of my stuff (mostly shotgun reloading stuff) shortly.
Didja post it here Len. Ida prolly give ya more per pound than the scrapper. If it was goodly mix of 9 & 223.
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You get to the point that you just want stuff gone and don't want to sell by the 100 or 1000 of sorted brass. During my Wife's illness and after her passing, I've come to realize that is more than time to sell off or otherwise dispose of lots of things.
Picked up a couple 500 round boxes of cast 200 grain swc for 45acp and 2 more cans of titegroup. Between what I've ordered online in the last 2 months and what I've picked up here and there.....I've got enough components to last 2 years of my average shooting.
This is the first time I've been "comfortable" with my back stock.
This is the first time I've been "comfortable" with my back stock.
BarnBuilder
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YupTwo is one .... One is None
I found out why I kept using my Lee hand press to neck expand with the Lyman M Die: the fukking thing keeps getting cases stuck and rips them right out of the shellholder on my bench presses!
IDK what the deal is, maybe I'm not pushing the cases fully against the stop on the bench, but with the hand press I tilt it 90 degrees so gravity forces the case against the back of the shellholder, I run it up to where it touches the die, then I stand it up and run it to where it stops and I pull it out and no problems.
Maybe I'm a doofus, but I don't recall anywhere in the M die instructions saying I need to lube the mouth of the cases. In the hand press I ran it without issues.
Reloading .32 S&W Long btw. Gonna load some Speer wadcutters after I figure out what powder I want to use, probably gonna be TItegroup cuz I don't have much Bullseye left.
IDK what the deal is, maybe I'm not pushing the cases fully against the stop on the bench, but with the hand press I tilt it 90 degrees so gravity forces the case against the back of the shellholder, I run it up to where it touches the die, then I stand it up and run it to where it stops and I pull it out and no problems.
Maybe I'm a doofus, but I don't recall anywhere in the M die instructions saying I need to lube the mouth of the cases. In the hand press I ran it without issues.
Reloading .32 S&W Long btw. Gonna load some Speer wadcutters after I figure out what powder I want to use, probably gonna be TItegroup cuz I don't have much Bullseye left.
Leezway
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Was able to sneak down to the Reloading Room this afternoon, I was trying to escape the heat… I punched out a few “ExtraSpecial” 130 grain 9mm rounds in Spangler Bronze…. aren’t they pretty? 
Almost too nice to shoot.. NOT!!!!!
I can assure you they won’t make it back from the next range trip!!
Almost too nice to shoot.. NOT!!!!!I can assure you they won’t make it back from the next range trip!!
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nstassel
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What's that give for velocity?
Chronoed these myself at 790fps. Not a fighting load.....its a plate banging load. Very mild recoil but cycles the 1911 reliably.
Loaded another 100 plate bangers just now
38ExtraSpecial
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Damn sexy little soldiers!!Was able to sneak down to the Reloading Room this afternoon, I was trying to escape the heat… I punched out a few “ExtraSpecial” 130 grain 9mm rounds in Spangler Bronze…. aren’t they pretty?
I can assure you they won’t make it back from the next range trip!!
nstassel
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I need 825 fps for uspsa and idpa. I use 5.0 wst for around 850 fps.
I was using 5.0 titegroups with 200 grain swc and getting almost 900fps
Leezway
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Aren’t they?
I've become a fan of titegroup in the last 6 months. Meters like a dream and it's reportedly not position sensitive for a low volume powder. I've also been using it in 44 mag with 240 grain cast projos at 9 grain charge (which is not even close to max) and getting 1150fps from my 4 inch 629 and acceptable accuracy.
Economical and I use it in 38 special 45acp and 44 mag. It's been a win
nstassel
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I have quite a bit in reserve in case I can't get n320 or wst.
DW357 posted about this position sensitivity a few years ago:
Powder position sensitivity?
So I've been doing a lot of testing with various powders to get my Coonan 357 mag 1911 to cycle with the 10lb spring (intended for 38 special +p). This has forced me to finally bust out the new chronograph I got back in November to see how these loads are running. I'm using Xtreme plated 158...
www.northeastshooters.com
I use it for a lot too....it's a great powder.
My most accurate 38 special load in a J frame uses Titegroup. I was surprised how loud it is for a given velocity though. I use double earpro when shooting it indoors.
