What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Zombie Steve]

You know why I dont have a 44 mag or a 30-06?

Because everyone else does.

I love my 41s. One Smith and a Freedom Arms.

Something to be said for commonality in guns... but I get it. I had Lizard rebarrel the hunting rifle to .338-06. Next time I want to neck down and do a 280 AI. So many micro-niches... so little time and money.

It really was fun smacking steel offhand at 200 this morning. Makes a steel plate sound like a gong.

[Hoser]

Finally got around to running some subsonic 308 ammo over my chrono. I cut back one of my AR-PSR 308 barrels down to about 18 inches and I put my Thunderbeast can on the end.

A spoonful of Trailboss under a Sierra 175 goes about 1070fps and is incredibly quiet. Low ES/SD and accurate. Very happy with the combo.

Now I have something to do with all those 175 pulls I bought.

[Tim K]

Finally got around to running some subsonic 308 ammo over my chrono. I cut back one of my AR-PSR 308 barrels down to about 18 inches and I put my Thunderbeast can on the end.

A spoonful of Trailboss under a Sierra 175 goes about 1070fps and is incredibly quiet. Low ES/SD and accurate. Very happy with the combo.

Now I have something to do with all those 175 pulls I bought.

I was intending the play with that same idea with .260 loads. With no cheap bullets on hand, I gave up.

Let's talk cast bullets for .300 BLK now that my SPR paperwork is back...

[TheBelly]

Finally got around to running some subsonic 308 ammo over my chrono. I cut back one of my AR-PSR 308 barrels down to about 18 inches and I put my Thunderbeast can on the end.

A spoonful of Trailboss under a Sierra 175 goes about 1070fps and is incredibly quiet. Low ES/SD and accurate. Very happy with the combo.

Now I have something to do with all those 175 pulls I bought.

I did this with a 208 AMAX. 11gr TrailBoss kept it nice and quiet. We hit a couple hogs at ~245-ish yards with it. Dialed up so much I thought we mortared them piggies.

[Zombie Steve]

Finally got around to running some subsonic 308 ammo over my chrono. I cut back one of my AR-PSR 308 barrels down to about 18 inches and I put my Thunderbeast can on the end.

A spoonful of Trailboss under a Sierra 175 goes about 1070fps and is incredibly quiet. Low ES/SD and accurate. Very happy with the combo.

Now I have something to do with all those 175 pulls I bought.

So you've duplicated a .40 Smith & Wesson?

[Hoser]

So you've duplicated a .40 Smith & Wesson?

Yup. And it is a 40 S&W that is accurate enough to hit an orange at 300 yards that you can not hear if you are more than 20-30 yards away. Or I can load the same bullet up to 2700 fps. Not many 40s will hold together at that velocity.

[Zombie Steve]

As far as I'm concerned, one needs no more justification than "it's fun".

I plugged in a 175 SMK into a ballistics calculator. Surprisingly, it only loses about 100 fps at 300 yards...

[Alpha2]

Put my two pounds of new Varget on the shelf in the Gun Cave! Big score at Cabela's in Thornton. I kept wiping my eyes, couldn't believe what I was seeing.

[Zombie Steve]

Sometimes when I'm all alone I like to sniff Varget.

[Hoser]

Killed my RCBS Chargemaster last night/this morning. I didnt use it that much all in all, but it was handy to have on the bench for small batches of stuff when I did not want to screw with my Prometheus.

Error code 02009. Called RCBS and it turns out it is a fatal error. Being more than a year old they told me I was SOL. No biggie. I get that. Electronics die and they dont make them. They just stick their label on them.

Time to get a new one from Brownells.