What did you do in the reloading room today?

[fitz19d]

What's 9mm looking like these days economically? Pretty advantageous or negligible savings and more for loading custom rounds (low recoil competition, etc)

Got out of .45 and went 9mm only. Just got a carbine so might expect to go through my 9 much faster than I did with a Shield and work Glock.

[Great-Kazoo]

With the coupon, it was less than $180 out the door.

Do not use undercoating if you try this. It doesn't get hard enough.

Remove the blades, then put the brass in to one of those 5 gal plastic buckets with cover.

[Zombie Steve]

What's 9mm looking like these days economically? Pretty advantageous or negligible savings and more for loading custom rounds (low recoil competition, etc)

Got out of .45 and went 9mm only. Just got a carbine so might expect to go through my 9 much faster than I did with a Shield and work Glock.

It will always be cheaper to reload. The sooner you get started and the more you shoot, the sooner the tooling up costs will be in the rear view mirror. As you mentioned, you get to fine-tune loads, and if you're smart "ammo shortages" don't happen.

9mm will take longer to hit the break even point with reloading, but you'll hit it and everything from there on is gravy. Thick, cholesterol-riddled sausage gravy.

[Jamnanc]

Never installed the blades. It works great with no bucket. Just cover with plastic and bungee cords. I have 1/4 welded wire mesh over the hole. It's sweet.

[encorehunter]

I screwed a 5 gallon bucket into the concrete mixer, so now I just slide my 5 gallon bucket into the one screwed in. I also used 1x2s screwed in with gasketed screws in the bucket that holds the brass. The lid on the brass bucket is a gamma lid, screws on with O rings. It's still loud, but it's in the garage.

I loaded 20 rounds of ladder tests in 5 round groups for the .308. 42.0-44.0 grains of IMR4064 in .5 increments in LC11 brass topped with 168 grain Nosler CCs. The first group out of the new barrel was 5 shot at 100 yards .93". Im hoping to shrink it a little more.

[zimagold]

Down sorted 2k of 556 brass for long range vs plinking loads. Need to start load development with the 1000 77gr TMKs I just got.

[gnihcraes]

reloaded some arrows. (fix fletching, points etc) Got a Jamboree in a couple of days to attend.

[Tim K]

Down sorted 2k of 556 brass for long range vs plinking loads. Need to start load development with the 1000 77gr TMKs I just got.

Were you shooting regular 77's before? If so, please start a thread with your comparitave results.

[zimagold]

I have used 69 and 77 smks in th past. I started a thread back in the data loss of march, the 69 TMKs didn't seem to work well at mag length so I dropped them. I will start another thread when I get my general load worked up, needs to run in 5 barrels.

[sniper7]

Ran 300 win mag in the tumbler for several hours yesterday along with a few .243 I found lying around, got them all sized trimmed and cleaned up and now primed just waiting to be loaded. Have to figure out a good 200ish grain load for the 300 win mag.