What did you do in the reloading room recently?

[peterk123]

Midway has free hazmat over $99 today

Thx for the heads up on that one. I try to buy primers when there are no hazmat fees. No large rifle primers, but I picked 3000 small rifle, 3000 large pistol and 2000 small pistol. All CCI. Also picked up a couple pounds of Longshot for the 10mm.

 

[Demoman]

Thx for the heads up on that one. I try to buy primers when there are no hazmat fees. No large rifle primers, but I picked 3000 small rifle, 3000 large pistol and 2000 small pistol. All CCI. Also picked up a couple pounds of Longshot for the 10mm.

I just grabbed 5k Small rifle from mid south mag tech 6cents each 350 to the door

 

[Demoman]

Thx for the heads up on that one. I try to buy primers when there are no hazmat fees. No large rifle primers, but I picked 3000 small rifle, 3000 large pistol and 2000 small pistol. All CCI. Also picked up a couple pounds of Longshot for the 10mm.

I do the same you know the saying 20 bucks is 20 bucks

 

[peterk123]

I do the same you know the saying 20 bucks is 20 bucks

I am finding that I'm not reloading 223 for much less than I could buy it for lately. 68 grain match hornady ammo is 65 cents. I'm probably around 55 cents. The components have gotten very costly.

308 is a different story. I'm doing it for almost half the cost, I think. I haven't run the numbers lately.

I have loads of 9mm from when it cost me 11 cents to do it. I ran some quick numbers and I would be hard pressed to load it for less than what I can buy it for today. Powder and primer prices seem out of whack to me. Just doesn't make sense.

 

[Demoman]

I am finding that I'm not reloading 223 for much less than I could buy it for lately. 68 grain match hornady ammo is 65 cents. I'm probably around 55 cents. The components have gotten very costly.

308 is a different story. I'm doing it for almost half the cost, I think. I haven't run the numbers lately.

I have loads of 9mm from when it cost me 11 cents to do it. I ran some quick numbers and I would be hard pressed to load it for less than what I can buy it for today. Powder and primer prices seem out of whack to me. Just doesn't make sense.

Match stuff costs for the projectiles. I'm stocked with that puts me at 35 cents with 69 grain Sierra. Plinking I'm at 21cents but when I have to buy powder again those numbers will be blown I buy 55 grain seconds 6 or 7 cents. I grab stuff when I see a deal and when have few extra bucks. 9mm my numbers are ridiculous low running Montana gold or Everglades at 6 cents spp primers at pre panic prices $ 15k powder at $10lb. 45acp for time casting and primers have stock of old powder from if I had to buy now would be 4cents powder 6 primer 20 projectile 30cents isn't bad again only loading for cost of primer unless I'm lazy.

 

[rewster]

same here, i got now 4 rifles that i need to re-zero after shuffling optics around, 5 boxes of sample ammo to test, just waiting for a good weather day to take it off work to get to the range and be there long enough to play with all that in no rush.

Sheit !! I'm just hoping for a reasonable weather day !! It's too friggen cold to leave the house !!

 

[devnull]

Best place to buy corn cob media locally in western MA? I normally use wet/pins or dry/walnut, but I wanna give cob a try.

 

[Demoman]

Best place to buy corn cob media locally in western MA? I normally use wet/pins or dry/walnut, but I wanna give cob a try.

Petco?

 

[peterk123]

Deprimed, cleaned, trimmed and chambered 50 pieces of 308 brass. This small lot has been fired four times and it is the first time I've had to trim to length. More than half were still fine. I also did a redneck anneal. Into the drill and did a six second count in front of the torch. My plan is to try to use this small batch over and over to see when I get failure. I plan to redneck anneal again after another three or four firings. I'd be thrilled if I got ten firings out of them.

 

[ddeck]

Deprimed, cleaned, trimmed and chambered 50 pieces of 308 brass. This small lot has been fired four times and it is the first time I've had to trim to length. More than half were still fine. I also did a redneck anneal. Into the drill and did a six second count in front of the torch. My plan is to try to use this small batch over and over to see when I get failure. I plan to redneck anneal again after another three or four firings. I'd be thrilled if I got ten firings out of them.

Range brass pickup or did you buy new?

 

[peterk123]

Range brass pickup or did you buy new?

New. I truly have no idea how long rifle cartridges will last. Only in the past year that I have really started to load a lot of it.

I've been keeping track of all of it though so I can get a better understanding. I'm loading 308, 6.5 and. 223. All of them are just now getting to their third and fourth firings.

 

[pastera]

Got to tear down and clean my Lee 6 pack pro
Seems if you dump powder into the priming pin things bind up and go to shit rapidly.
Quick and easy to clean and my fault for letting the primers get to low.

 

[paul73]

New. I truly have no idea how long rifle cartridges will last. Only in the past year that I have really started to load a lot of it.

I've been keeping track of all of it though so I can get a better understanding. I'm loading 308, 6.5 and. 223. All of them are just now getting to their third and fourth firings.

brass will last plenty if you do not make it way too hot. monitor how it flattens (or not) primers after the shot, and use garmin or other tool to capture speed of your reloads.
with reasonable loads you will have good longevity.

 

[Mudflap621]

New. I truly have no idea how long rifle cartridges will last. Only in the past year that I have really started to load a lot of it.

I've been keeping track of all of it though so I can get a better understanding. I'm loading 308, 6.5 and. 223. All of them are just now getting to their third and fourth firings.

IME it really depends on what brand of brass and how you treat it. Higher quality brass will last exponentially longer than some of the cheaper stuff.

 

[Malibru]

I still have .45 brass that Dad and I bought early 90's. Love straight wall pistol cases, can shoot them forever. I've lost track of how many times they have been reloaded. Rarely cull one out except for nickel .357 brass which tends to develop neck splits as it ages.

 

[p..]

Been working on the air sealing and insulation around the house, including making the reloading room a little more cozy. Got a new toy to help.

Now I have predator vision, ho ho ho.

 

[steve8140]

Last week I had bare concrete walls. I anchored pressure treated 2x4’s every two feet, added 1/2” plywood on top allowing me to secure wall panels and whatever else anywhere I want. Mounted all wall panels except one which will happen once I decide which side to mount it.
Ran a new circuit for basement receptacles, four of which are on the bench.
Added two 4’ LED lights.

Bench to ceiling is 52” tall which is why there is a 4” gap at the top of the plywood. Made it easy to run wires but now I need to trip a piece to fill the gap.

 

[p..]

I had run out of one of the powders I used for 9mm, and had a bunch of others that I hadn't chrono'ed and function checked yet, and had a steel match the next day so just looked at some load manuals and plucked out a safe load to run, 4.1g of W231 with 124g FMJs at 1.145". Except... it was too weak to run the slide with a full magazine. Had a stovepipe, a failure to load, stuff like that on the first round of the mag. So had a few malfunctions to clear through the match.

Went today to run a load with BE-86. 5.7g of that and 124g FMJs set to 1.140" with CCI500s ran just about dead on at 1050fps out of a 4" barrel with good function. Ran a few to get the barrel dirty, then 10 for the test. High 1082, low 1028, SD 18, average 1049. Not screamers, but good and reliable with all my mags topped off, and was able to make 100 yard hits on a full size silhouette.

 

[steve8140]

Made 1000 rounds of 9mm last night.
124 grain FMJ from RMR
4.0 grains of Titegroup
1.13” COAL
Used federal primers for the first time ever.

 

[BarnBuilder]

Made 1000 rounds of 9mm last night.
124 grain FMJ from RMR
4.0 grains of Titegroup
Used federal primers for the first time ever.

C.O.L. ?

 

[steve8140]

C.O.L. ?

1.13

 

[Eric H]

My new Dillon XL750 with casefeeder showed up from the FedEx fairy... threw the boxes on my bench to mount and set up hopefully this weekend.

 

[p..]

Tried another 9mm load with BE-86, 6.0g and pulled Federal HST 124g loaded to 1.130" in Federal brass with CCI 500 primers.

In a 4" barrel: 1135 avg, 1154 high, 1124 low, 11 sd
In a 3.4" barrel: 1108 avg, 1119 high, 1094 low, 12sd

Accuracy good enough for me to keep dinging a 4" plate about 10 yards down from the chrono. A little bit of primer flow, so it seemed like that was as hot as I should go. Speer shows 6.0g with 124, but Alliant only shows 5.8.

I checked some factory loaded 124g Federal HST and the stuff I have on hand was loaded to 1.100"
I ran some last year and got:

3.4" barrel: 1121 avg, 1144 high, 1098 low, but I only put 2 rounds across the chrono so the SD number is kind of meaningless.