What are you reloading today.

View · by **Dakotared** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 1:04 pm

I am just taking a brake after loading 700 9mm and going to start to work on some .45 then later some 10mm.

So what are you working on today?

View · by **rugersol** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 1:16 pm

Jest got done loadin 200rd pp .40 ... maybe do nother 200rd 9mm later!

View · by **Sigfan220** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 1:34 pm

Finishing some 7x30 then 9mm. I finished about 35 338lm and 100+ 7x30 last night. This week I need to load a bunch of 30-06 and 223. I have been shooting too much lately.

View · by **Evad** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 2:20 pm

Oh yea? Well I just made 480ml of 17mg/ml unflavored nic base. So there!

View · by **george** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 2:32 pm

Ran out of 9mm brass so did some 40 and switched to 45GAP, forgot HAD brats on the grill, burnt up to the point
of not even smoking. I don't know if the dogs will even eat them, put more on again. Range after lunch maybe if
I calm down.

View · by **Rodentman** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 3:14 pm

Just finished 50 460 mag.

Tomorrow I'll work on 5.7x28.

View · by **user293** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 3:14 pm

Trying hard to get a load for Wyoming antelope in October. .300 win mag. Tricky business so far.

View · by **FJ540** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 3:50 pm

Last night I was playing with some ABS turned 9mm bullets over mag primers, and today I'll be loading out more regular 115gr 9mm.

View · by **shooter115** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 4:19 pm

Working on loss development for a buddys Sako 22-250. Not going exceedingly well so far.

View · by **Eric Marleau** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 4:25 pm

Just finished up while watching the Twins lose, [again], a bunch of .38 specials. 2.7gr Bullseye with 148gr Speer HBWC for my 1956 K38 Target Masterpiece.
Next on the list is some .45acp.

Eric

View · by **MXGreg** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 5:52 pm

Haven't loaded anything yet today, but loaded 500 rounds of 9mm yesterday. Weather was too nice so we had to put some miles on the old convertible.

View · by **smurfman** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 7:39 pm

Did 100 rounds of 25 Rem for a Rem Model 8 I have on order, it will be probably a couple weeks before it arrives. Tomorrow I am looking at loading up a like number of 45/60 blackpowder rounds for the Win 1876. I would like to take a bear with it this year but it may have to wait.

View · by **shooter115** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 8:40 pm

smurfman wrote:Did 100 rounds of 25 Rem for a Rem Model 8 I have on order, it will be probably a couple weeks before it arrives. Tomorrow I am looking at loading up a like number of 45/60 blackpowder rounds for the Win 1876. I would like to take a bear with it this year but it may have to wait.

Loaded 100 rounds for a rifle you don't even have??

View · by **smurfman** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 9:38 pm

shooter115 wrote:
smurfman wrote:Did 100 rounds of 25 Rem for a Rem Model 8 I have on order, it will be probably a couple weeks before it arrives. Tomorrow I am looking at loading up a like number of 45/60 blackpowder rounds for the Win 1876. I would like to take a bear with it this year but it may have to wait.

Loaded 100 rounds for a rifle you don't even have??

Factory loads were last produced in 1956 so it is reload or no shooting. Besides, I have other guns in 25 Rem, just not that particular one, and wouldn't mind having a few more rounds at hand.

View · by **minnhawk** on Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:41 pm

Mentored my nephew (26) today with his first steps to reloading. Started from scratch, had him set up the progressive with two stations, powder and bullet seating. It took him about 20 minutes on the balance scale to get 5.0 gr of 700x to drop, but he hung in there. I had to show him that breathing heavily affected the scale, and I think that convinced him that precision weighing is not easy but critically important. 5 gr. isn't much powder, and overloading or underloading can have some pretty nasty outcomes. He knows accurate powder loads are a BIG deal.

We then worked on OAL and how to accurately set the depth of the 230gr RN projectile. As I had separately sized, primed and belled the brass earlier, he was able to start reloading slowly on the progressive. He got the hang of checking the level of powder dropped into the brass, CHECKING EVERY ROUND. He also got the hang of the rhythm of running a progressive through the two stations. He checked the powder drop on the scale every 10 rounds, and he randomly would drop a finished round into the "go no-go" gauge to check if all was good.

Well, I got him hooked. He reloaded 200 rounds in short order, did the math, and realized this reloading business could save him a lot of money as well as calm his nerves and give him something productive to do on those long winter nights.

My plan was to let him go with a guided "hands-on" approach to have him touch, see, and feel the process. He is a hands-on, visual learner. I sent him off with 50 rounds and the Hornady manual to read through before he returns next weekend. Now that he has experienced part of the process, he will be eager to experience the sizing, priming, and belling, and what he reads in the manual will make sense and be less abstract.

We also ran 60 rounds through the Thompson, just to keep the neighbors on their toes; I love to pick up Thompson-fired brass...