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The ones helping had to be convinced, i doubt your kindness would have gone unanswered. Both parties said process, load , shoot. Myself being kind of Anal went against the grain. Besides i was informed the 223 was mostly if not all LC. Sadly it's not, shit load of FC.Originally Posted by asmo
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I cast about 150 45 boolits and about 75 30 boolits, then lubed them. Pretty good for me as I was breaking in the molds. I need to get me some more lead!
Cleaned some 45 brass and decided its time to get a media separator. Cleaned my pistols. All in all, it was fun!
I'm happy to report that I've finally started to use the Dillon 650 I bought back in June. Never being a big fan of doing anything in moderation, I've deprimed and resized 2100 pieces of .223 brass in the last 2 days.
Depending on how the Christmas festivities go later today, I'm hoping to fire up the case trimmer and bring 'em all down to size. I spent about 45 minutes fiddling with the adjustment screw on my Giraud trimmer this evening chasing down the last .005" accuracy. Should have looked at the acceptable tolerance before I wasted all that time. Woops. In a test batch of 20, I'm seeing between 1.748 and 1.752. Searching around, it seems like the allowable tolerance is between 1.74 and 1.76. My worst ones weren't that far off.
This reloading stuff is addictive. Those of you who've met me in person know the I'm a "clean your plate" kinda guy. It's tough to walk away from it and go to bed when I could always do just one more batch...
Once the .223 brass is prepped, I'm planning to put it away until I first gain a little experience doing some 9mm. I just picked up a new XDm 5.25 in 9mm today and I can't wait to go try it out. Santa was good to me this year!
Rod
No longer accepting new Trust clients. Pretty much out of the law business completely.
get to it cowboy. I have a dedicated 650 for 9mm if you're in the neighborhood.
For adjusting the Giraud, pick up one of the hornady lock rings. If you don't have a spare dillon lock ring / nut.
http://www.hornady.com/store/Sure-Loc-Lock-Ring-1-Each/
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"when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".
Unfortunately I loaded about 3,500 rounds of 9x19 with Extreme 147 gn plated bullets tonight. I only have 1,500 left to load tomorrow night.
I ordered 5,000 of the .357 version of this bullet for my 4 inch Smith 686 back in Sept. And then they sent me the .355 bullet.
Rather than go through the ass-pain of returning them, I figure they will make decent machine gun blasting ammo.
If they screw up the re-order, they will have to eat the return shipping.
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and I'm crazy about my tea at night
I worked up my first .45ACP loads over the last few days.
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Haven't been to the Reloading Room today, but Santa did bring a set of Lee 9mm Dies!
Processed 1300 .223 on Jim's 1050.
Sizin' boolits on the Star.
Prepped and primed 3500 223 for the coming season, started on 2000 308 case prep. Will be done with the 308 by the new year and then the loading starts.
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