What did you do today in the world of reloading?

DiRTY DOG

DiRTY DOG

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What did you accomplish today at your reloading bench? It's always interesting to see how others do things, and see different equipment. Bonus points for pictures!
 
I installed a KMS UFO LED Light on my Hornady LnL AP press. I'm impressed, it's very bright and I can clearly see the powder level inside the cases now. No need for a powder check die. Instalation was easy.
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Today I also tried out some Mighty Armory 9mm dies. I returned the previous dies to Mighty Armory because they were not sizing the cases enough (bullets could be pushed into the case with thumb pressure, seems to be an issue with the 9mm dies), and the owner replaced them with "updated" dies. Here are the 9mm sizing die and taper crimp dies.

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Seems to work fine now. No "coke bottle" shape on most cases (range pickup brass). Does the coke bottle shape matter? I dunno. The taper crimp die seems pretty aggressive, almost like a crimp die plus a partial Lee factory crimp die.

These are 124gr Precision Delta HPs over 4.2gr W231 @ 1.080". I didn't test accuracy at 25 yards with the new Mighty Armory dies (accuracy with Hornady dies is excellent), but they functioned fine.
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I sent a batch of Lapua 222 Rem brass through the body die and then neck sized them. Sorted out my 222 Rem brass, I need to dedicate some to a new rifle headed here. Ordered 10ga wads for 2 7/8 light loads and 20ga fiber and card wads for a flintlock I'll be playing with this year. Looking forward to early teal and doves with it.
 
I am still in the process of organizing my new shop and benches. All of my reloading stuff is still in storage in Tennessee. Gotta get it to Texas in the next few weeks so I can get busy again at the gun club here. Actually a blessing in disguise I suppose because I am taking my time setting up things properly and getting storage set up and hopefully better organized than I was previously. Blessed to have a 3 foot x 16 foot bench available here to work with this time. So I will have plenty of room to load and also do any gunsmith work that is needed without having to work around presses and other equipment.
 
Today I loaded 1000 rds 9mm, bending two Mighty Armory "undestructable" decapping pins on off-center flash holes from range brass. When returning powder from the powder dispenser back to the 8 lb jug, the powder baffel fell into the jug. Oops, first time for everything. Had to fish it out with duct tape on a chop stick.
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You can buy large forceps, they are guite handy and much more manly than pink chop sticks. Just kidding but the forceps are really handy to pick small items from tight places. I just used mine yesterday to pick canning lids from boiling water while canning sweet pickled onions.
 
Has to be the first time in history that chopsticks and duck tape were put to good use on a loading bench.
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I'll have to make a mental note to add those two to my emergency tool kit. Hey, you never know when they could come in handy.
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Otherwise, all I did was decap some nickel 308 in preparation for wet pin tumbling.
 
Originally Posted By: AWSYou can buy large forceps, they are guite handy and much more manly than pink chop sticks. Just kidding but the forceps are really handy to pick small items from tight places. I just used mine yesterday to pick canning lids from boiling water while canning sweet pickled onions.

The wife is a Veterinarian and I have learned over the years that some of her "tools" are very adaptable to my loading bench, first aid kits, and toolbox.

They are a valuable asset to any First Aid kit you might have. Forceps, scalpels, etc should always be handy.
 
Loaded 60 rounds of 6 ARC up for the truck gun. 75 grain Speer hollow points over x-terminator. Always seems to be few prairie dogs needing shot while checking cows, now and then a coyote.
 
Yesterday I put a new trigger tech diamond trigger, in my AR15 and a new PRS lite buttstock. (223) Loaded up six 68 g hornadys, three with 25.3 grains of 2520 and three with 25 grains of varget. I know that my hold was inconsistent but at 100 yds the 2520 went into 3" and the varget into 13/16" I loaded six more last night and went out this morning using the 68g hornadys again and 25 grains of cfe 223 went into 2 3/8" and 25 grains of varget into 5/16".
Darn Varget why does it work so well? The 2520 has done good in the recent past but never so well as Varget.
 
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i went down to reloading room to reload some 6.5 grendel loads and looked around how bad my reloading room looked .what a mess so i just turned around turned light off and went back up stairs and watched a movie
 

For the past two days:

Added electric re-heat for dehumidification in the reloading room.

De-primed, wet tumbled, sized and trimmed .223 brass.


Drilled out a rifle stock in preparation of installing pillars.
 
The ugly anneal device looks pretty cool. Seems an Australian company? Is it made in Oz, or China?

I have been so busy with summer exterior home projects, that making it to the range is impossible.

What i have been doing is cleaning 5.56 brass that i picked up by the 1000's at the police practice range earlier this summer. I had a completely full 5 gallon bucket of 1X fired WW 5.56 brass.

Using a couple caps full of mineral spirits and 2-3 used dryer sheets every time really cuts down on the dust. Also there is no grime on the cases at all!
 
The used drier sheets do a pretty good job; may have to give mineral spirits a try as well. Does it leave any trace of MS inside case?

Regards,
hm
 
Originally Posted By: TXCOONDOG

Added electric re-heat for dehumidification in the reloading room.



WHHAAATTT ? Are you actually in Texas? It's 103 here in Weatherford this afternoon.

Seriously ....... What is this "re-heat" you are referring to? I have a mini-split unit in the shop to keep it at a tolerable temperature and the humidity down.


Originally Posted By: DiRTY DOGToday
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Man ... those cases look awesome. I may have to throw my vibratory cleaner away and start using SS.
 
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Re-heat is where you heat the air to remove the moisture before it hits the evaporator coil. Yes, I live 30 miles from the coast where the humidity is always high.
 


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