What did you do in the reloading room today?

[ray1970]

I took apart a kitchen trash compactor to salvage the motor and gears, as part of my plan to build a wet tumbler that can tumble a drum the size of a 5 gallon bucket. The idea is to build it with free/salvage materials.
Its dumb that I'm working on this now, when I can't get primers and I'm barely shooting. Something to do, I guess.

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Nice. Maybe post something up as the project comes together.

I love my wet tumbler other than it only does a few hundred pieces at a time.

[Irving]

Loaded a batch of subsonic 208gr .300blk, that ended up not subsonic.

[Hoser]

Loaded a batch of subsonic 208gr .300blk, that ended up not subsonic.

I hope it was a small batch...

[leightoncash]

Nice. Maybe post something up as the project comes together.

I love my wet tumbler other than it only does a few hundred pieces at a time.

I have the Harbor Freight dual drum tumbler and it works perfectly. The capacity is just barely acceptable for pistol brass, but it is really annoying with rifle brass. Whenever I get this done, I'll definitely make a thread explaining what I did..

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[Irving]

I hope it was a small batch...

Everything I had for .300blk is discontinued and under 50, so yes, small.

[Goodburbon]

I took apart a kitchen trash compactor to salvage the motor and gears, as part of my plan to build a wet tumbler that can tumble a drum the size of a 5 gallon bucket. The idea is to build it with free/salvage materials.
Its dumb that I'm working on this now, when I can't get primers and I'm barely shooting. Something to do, I guess.

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I?ve got an amethyst mine. I had an air compressor fail so I made a open ended 60 gallon rolling tumbler for rocks but it would be fantastic for brass. The Trouble is that In polishing the inside of the drum for coating to protect whatever I tumble I discovered that it will hold over 200# of sand. Tumbling Media is lighter, but It will still cost hundreds to load with media whether I?m polishing rocks or brass. I built it for rock but I think it could tumble every piece of brass of every caliber I own at once.


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[Duman]

Loaded a batch of subsonic 208gr .300blk, that ended up not subsonic.

What was your load?

[Irving]

What was your load?

It was 12gr of 1680 loaded to 2.24" COAL.

I was loading based on a bunch of targets I shot a few years ago and that was the load with the best group. I didn't even look in a book to see what speed that was supposed to be at.

I loaded some Eggleston (original) 200 gr projectiles at something similar and they were definitely subs, but had serious issues.

[Duman]

Hornady shows that load on the edge of sub/super-sonic. Maybe a half-grain less.... good info, thanks!

[Irving]

Out of a 10.5" barrel, by the way.

I didn't try too hard because that projectile is discontinued and I only had 49.