What did you do in the reloading room today?
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let me know if you want to get rid of the 38 super.
Lately I've been busy in my "Blue Room" sorting, cleaning and getting 223 and 9mm ready to load. I'm getting a little low so I figured I'd get r done... What ya think ??
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Each gallon ZipLoc bag stuffed so full I could barely get them to seal. Layed each bag flat on the bench and cracked open a corner a bit to let the air out. Now stack pretty well.
Each gallon ZipLoc bag stuffed so full I could barely get them to seal. Layed each bag flat on the bench and cracked open a corner a bit to let the air out. Now stack pretty well.
Decided to do a 9mm run on the Dillon 550C. Cruising along at a rate of 350-400 rounds per hour, paying attention and all of a sudden a case cocked in the shellplate as I was seating a primer.??? Pulled the offender out to find a 9mm Br.C. headstamp. S&B 380 ACP. I don't do much with 380 and had never seen that. Trashed it so it don't get me again someday. This brass was from my best friends range. A friends wife had been out there earlier. Is all S&B 380 marked that way?
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Checked powder and primer supplies. Loaded some .223, but had to stop to fix an issue with my car. Still have plenty of powder and primers at the moment.
Some .223 bullets at 62 gr. will likely get ordered soon.
Some .223 bullets at 62 gr. will likely get ordered soon.
Other names for .380 ACP include .380 Auto, 9×17mm, 9mm Browning, 9mm Corto, 9mm Kurz, 9mm Short, and 9mm Browning Court (which is the C.I.P. designation). It should not be confused with .38 ACP. The .380 ACP does not strictly conform to cartridge naming conventions, named after the diameter of the bullet, as the actual bullet diameter of the .380 ACP is .355 inches.
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Got my initial job done and also some straightening up and organizing. Was going to relabel a container of flared brass (sticky note that had been changed a few times) as the other day I had flared 100 cases and dumped them into the container. Well, I read the old label and it said primed and flared. So now I’m going through the container and separating the primed from the unprimed. Then I’ll prime the 100 that were not. Luckily this one was only half full and there are only 500 cases to go through.
Sunday, after work, I managed to be the FIRST (and only) person out to the shooting areas. Managed to chrono everything with only about 3 loads not registering (goddamned SUN) and only about 3 or 4 FTF. (that's an improvement). Even managed to fire my first "squirrel loads" in the 06, (the loads were running about 1250fps and it felt wunnerful! ;-). Tumbled all the fired brass I recovered - double the usual, as I picked a better site ;-) I got to see all the other sites load-up with shooters as I whistled my way home ;-P
Yesterday, I tore apart the Tisas and checked for damage as cleaning, and found nothing amiss. Once again I can't find a reason for the FTF, and I've prepared it for the 10-8 exractor test-cycle. I reloaded the 400cb rounds, and added 20rd more squirrel loads for 06: 10rd with LPP, 10 with LRP, and everyone with w231 and 120gr cast GC RN.
Running behind today: lil'bro called and was talking a mile-a-minute for over an hour as he was heading to his MI shooting-club with F.I.L for much the same joys ;-) Today I'll run a patch down the 06, just to see what sorta' crud the GC and Titegroup left behind.
Yesterday, I tore apart the Tisas and checked for damage as cleaning, and found nothing amiss. Once again I can't find a reason for the FTF, and I've prepared it for the 10-8 exractor test-cycle. I reloaded the 400cb rounds, and added 20rd more squirrel loads for 06: 10rd with LPP, 10 with LRP, and everyone with w231 and 120gr cast GC RN.
Running behind today: lil'bro called and was talking a mile-a-minute for over an hour as he was heading to his MI shooting-club with F.I.L for much the same joys ;-) Today I'll run a patch down the 06, just to see what sorta' crud the GC and Titegroup left behind.
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Thanks for the info, shortly after you posted the link I ordered a set of stabilizers and the magnetic primer station tab. It came last Friday, but I was too busy going back and forth to the hospital where my oldest brother had a surgery. I brought him home yesterday, so sometime this week I should be able to get a chance to check it out.
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I got the Super 1050 shell plate locator pin stabilizers the other day (the same one Kent Dorfman showed in pictures in post # 6,915) and yesterday late afternoon I got a chance to see how they worked. I will say they are worth every penny, although they didn't cost much. The cases were somewhat prone to spilling powder in stations 5 and 6 until the bullet was placed, but after the installation of the stabilizer tabs it was much smoother operation and no powder spillage from the advancing station-to-station. For a low-cost enhancement, I was very impressed. Thanks Kent.
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Finished reloading the Hornady crimped primer .223 cases I had and then switched over to .357. Picked up 400 cases and loaded some Berry's 158gr plated bullets. Haven't reloaded or shot .357 in years. Time to break out the S&W model 28 again.
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I ordered them too. Thanks Kent. I've been using the zip tie method and saw these, figured for $12.00 why not. So I ordered them and now waiting for the delivery as I type....
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