What did you do in the reloading room today?

[MarkCO]

Yesterday, 1K of .45 ACP, 1K of .308, 200 of .243Win, 500 of .223.

[Tim K]

Finally got done with load development on the Dasher and went to loading in earnest on my snazzy new Dillon 550. It sucks for load development, but is pretty fast for production. I'm weighing and trickling up every charge, so it's not super fast. Still, one pull of the handle per loaded round is nice.

I'm fighting OAL tolerances a bit bigger than I'd like. I'll find the issue, but it ain't easy.

[enfield]

Set up 38spl dies on the Dillon 550

[Hoser]

Took my Spolar shotshell reloader apart and gave it a good cleaning. Then changed it over to 28 gauge from 12. Dove season is coming up soon and I realized I didn't have much ammo on hand.

[Blowby]

Neck turned some Norma form fired brass for the 6.5 Creedmoor. Looked at some dope comparing the Prime 130 to my loads using H4350 and 147's and the difference at 1000 yards is +.2 in elevation for the heavier bullet 100 fps slower. I guess the BC is making up for it through transonic since it's only a 7" difference at 1760 yards.

[8Ring]

Reloaded 60 Hornady 60gr flat base soft point, PMC twice fired brass that was run twice through a RCBS small base die, Win Small Rifle Primers, Benchmark powder. I will see how they shoot in the Mini-14 with an aftermarket 18" barrel.

[Squeeze]

Loaded up some 147 grain 9mm subsonic loads with Berry's Hybrid Hollow Points. Playing with the COAL at the moment, as they are being a little finicky about feeding in my 9mm AR pistol.

[Hoser]

Spent some time processing 223 and 308 brass for some friends.

My new carbide trim dies make processing brass a lot easier, not that 223 was that hard to begin with. But 308 is/was a huge pain. Lots of Hornady One Shot and then traditional case lube on top of that. And it still takes oomph to get that 1050 handle to run smooth. Now with the carbide die, the oomph and case lube required is cut in about half.

Then I started on my stash of LC 308 brass. Remove primer crimp, FL resize, trim to length, tumble in stainless media, run through Giraud trimmer to debar and chamfer and lastly run through AMP annealer. All that to shoot it through an AR-10 at steel targets...

[XC700116]

Started the day out biting the bullet and ordering an AMP annealer. Then decided to get off my butt and deprimed and wet tumbled approximately 400 pieces of 6.5X47 Brass, then about 700 pieces of 6BRX Brass.

Made a trip to Sportsmans and grabbed all 3K of the Federal AR Match primers they had, some 75 gr ELD's and some 8208 XBR to test in my 223 bolt gun and my 20" AR (with 73gr ELD's), then loaded up the test loads. I'll take them out tomorrow to test them.

[SouthPark]

Hi Hoser, are you still running several 1050s? I may need a tech consult with one of mine which is being a pain with primer issues with S&B primers. You around this mionth?
Jim