What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Great-Kazoo]

200 rounds of .223 zmax.

10 rounds of .38spl as well.

Why only ten? Because I have no clue how to reload handgun ammo!!!!

Sent from my teepee using smoke signals.

Same way you do rifle, only increase crimp. Also double check powder throw, IT'S Real EASY to double charge hand gun, real easy.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

I weighed each charge. I should be good.

Sent from my teepee using smoke signals.

[Great-Kazoo]

I weighed each charge. I should be good.

Sent from my teepee using smoke signals.

Drop in and load some on the 550.

[asmo]

Swaged 3lbs of 5.56 on a Dillon 600. Uggh.. Why didn't I get a 1050..

[Zombie Steve]

Had a great day at the range yesterday with the M14... tumbling now, will be rolling some more M80ish .308 this afternoon.

[Great-Kazoo]

spent time with 2 other board members sorting 223 by head stamp. ALL 60+ lbs of it.

[asmo]

spent time with 2 other board members sorting 223 by head stamp. ALL 60+ lbs of it.

If I would have known there was a party I would have gladly sent you a couple of buckets full.

[Great-Kazoo]

If I would have known there was a party I would have gladly sent you a couple of buckets full.

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.

[Caithford]

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!

[NFATrustGuy]

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