What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Hoser]

Hoser do you have a 150gn fmjbt with accurate 1680 that you like?

Super or sub?

[stodg73]

Vacuumed the floor. Haven't loaded a round in months. Need to get to that soon.

[kwando]

Got some 208gr AMAX loaded tonight with some 1680. Slowly building up my 300blk as well


Taking one of Kelly's classes in Nov so I'm going to reload some 223 rather than shoot all my factory "good" ammo

[brutal]

Got some 208gr AMAX loaded tonight with some 1680. Slowly building up my 300blk as well


Taking one of Kelly's classes in Nov so I'm going to reload some 223 rather than shoot all my factory "good" ammo

I need to get after this, have 500 208gr AMAX boolits and 100 220gr boolits and enough brass now to get started.

[DocMedic]

Tore down the 1050 stripped, clean and lubed. well oiled machine.

[Slapps74]

Just supers and I'm all ears if your willing to share. Found some data that I think I like. AA1680 19.5-21.7 grains, OAL of 2.140 with 150 grain Sierra fmjbt. I have Hornady bullets but it should be close enough. I pressed one in a case last night that I didn't run the expanding ball thru. Case mouth measured .295 and the bullet went in fine and didn't split the case but not sure if .013 is too much neck tension or not.

[Hoser]

Just supers and I'm all ears if your willing to share. Found some data that I think I like. AA1680 19.5-21.7 grains, OAL of 2.140 with 150 grain Sierra fmjbt. I have Hornady bullets but it should be close enough. I pressed one in a case last night that I didn't run the expanding ball thru. Case mouth measured .295 and the bullet went in fine and didn't split the case but not sure if .013 is too much neck tension or not.

21.0 gns worked for me. With a short barrel they were running just under 2,000. That was with 147 surplus pulldowns.

.013 neck tension is a lot. But if it works, it works. You are just working the neck more than you need to. You might split a neck or two after a few reloads.

[Slapps74]

21.0 gns worked for me. With a short barrel they were running just under 2,000. That was with 147 surplus pulldowns.

.013 neck tension is a lot. But if it works, it works. You are just working the neck more than you need to. You might split a neck or two after a few reloads.

Thanks Hoser

[kwando]

Not much but reloading 100-200 rounds of .223 nightly.

[DenverGP]

Loading up some more 45acp. After sizing/priming a case, I ran the case into the charging die, and as I've gotten in the habit of, before seating the bullet I look into each case. I glanced into the case and noticed light shining thru the case. Sure enough the brass had a crack running down the side. I dumped the power back into the measure and deprimed the case. Sure enough about 10 rounds later I caught another cracked case, this time before priming it. Didn't hit any others for the rest of the night, but decided I should be extra careful and inspect all my reloaded rounds.

Found this in a box I loaded last week:


(the cracked case doesn't look this cracked to the naked eye. The camera flash enhanced it, and I over-sharpened the pic some.)

Went thru the other 500 or so reloaded 45acp rounds, and didn't find any others. Looks like I need to start doing a better inspection after getting brass out of the tumbler.

Any guesses on what the results would have been had I fired this round? I did a plunk test with it, and it did indeed chamber.

All 3 cases with cracks were different brands. One S&B, one "R P", and one speer.