What did you reload today?

[Huvius]

375 H&H till I had a case head separation and now I have a headless case stuck in my resizing die, Redding said they would take it out with their lathe for $20. I tried to remove it but no luck.

You should be able to give it a good soak in penetrating oil and slightly thread a 1/2” tap into the case and tap it out from the other end. Maybe try that.

 

[1peggy]

28 ga.

 

[Ray B]

It would involve sacrificing a case but you could remove the front half of a case, keeping the head and sufficient portion ahead of the head to make good contact with the stuck case. put the die with the headless case into the press. Put the case head in the shell holder on the ram. Press the head portion into the die, making it tight inside of the headless case. you may be able to pull the two out of the die. I the head comes out without the headless case you may want to put some adhesive on the portion of the head case so it sticks to the interior of the headless case. Being careful that no adhesive contacts the die. Adhesive sets-up, then pull combination out

 

[Woolley Bugger]

I loaded up some powder puff wadcutters for my S&W 686-6 for teaching purposes. Barely any recoil. 148 grain Acme double end wadcutters and 2.6 grains of Winchester 244, which I like because it meters well. Simple and pleasant load.

I also disassembled a couple of boxes of 9mm that got soaked in a flood. Does anyone have any tricks for using a collet puller without leaving a circular dent? I’ve messed around and can’t manage it. I ended up just using an inertial puller but that takes more time and I don’t like slamming that thing against my bench. I was doing the mental math about the economics of this exercise, and it makes no sense to spend over an hour in disassembly, die set up, and resssembly to rescue maybe $40 of ammunition. But it’s still fun.

Does anyone still reload 9mm? I don’t see any point, either economic or performance. I do reload for my revolvers because the cost savings is greater, and there’s a lot more room for experimentation. One of my favorites is light .44 special loads. Much nicer than full house magnums. And the cost savings is significant.

 

[Ray B]

Does anyone still reload 9mm?

Years ago I had a Browning Hi-Power and reloaded it, although I preferred the Remington 115gr HP for any serious use. Recently my son got a S&W Shield and I load for it. With the exception of exorbitant price of primers by casting lead and reusing brass, loading is really cheap.

 

[Rare Breed]

10 rounds of 9.3x62 with 62 grains of Big Game powder with Speer 270 grain bullets producing 2417 FPS at 48,600 PSI slowly getting ready for my leopard hunt

 

[Cucuy]

40 rounds of 7mm RM for a west TX mulie hunt in about 2 weeks. 160 gr. Nosler Partitions seated long over 60 gr. of IMR 4350.

 

[Ray B]

75 rounds: Winchester Compression Formed 16 ga hulls, W209, 23.0 gr W540, WAA16, 1 oz #8 shot, 8 point crimp. rated at 2 1/2 Dram Equivalent.

 

[Old3Toe]

7x57 162gr AMAX over 45gr H4350

 

[Brandon.Gleason]

Today saw 20 rounds of .300 Win Mag with 180gr Woodleigh PPSN's (64B's) get loaded in four lots of 5 with RL22 (73.0 and 75.0) , H4350 (67.0), and H1000 (80.0). Hoping to shoot them Sunday for initial groups.

Filled some additional boredom with a flat worth of 12ga 1oz trap loads, and another 100 12ga 1.125oz handicap loads.

 

[Daggaboy375]

180 TTSX in 350 Rem Mag traveling at 2600 fps.

 

[50Gunner]

All this week and a few hours early this morning I have been replenishing my supply of old school 45 ACP ammo for an old Series 70 Colt Government.

New Nosler brass
230gr FMJ flat point bullets
7.0grs Longshot powder
Rem 2-1/2 [rimers
COL 1.250"
Vel 900 fps

This easy +P load functions just fine in this old stock Colt, standing offhand at 20 yards will put all you want to shoot in about a palm and half sized group on paper plates stapled to cardboard shipping boxes, 8 rounds all up with three 7 round mags in a back pocket still makes a mighty fine, fun and effective woods carry and target shooting rig.

I love the old guns.

 

[Longwalker]

Today I loaded a couple hundred .30-06 light "practise and deer" loads. 180 gr. Hornady soft points, under 47 gr. IMR4064 for 2600 fps. out of my Brno ZKK. It's a very accurate load in my rifles, and nice to shoot. It has a bit less recoil than loads going 100 fps faster and less muzzle blast than heavier loads using slower burning powder. Effectively turns my 30-06 into a .308 and I'm OK with that.

 

[fourfive8]

Loaded and shot another small batch of 577-450 out of the M-H Mk IV today. Now have three different loads that shoot comparably sized groups to same POI at about same velocity. I am certain now about the loads and muzzle vel for this rifle and bullet that yield barrel harmonics for smallest groups. There are loads that yield similar vel but the pressure/acceleration curves are likely very different thus creating variable harmonics thus variability of POI and group size. Seems the best loads produce relatively low pressures and vels between 1050 and 1130 fps with the 440 gr GC bullet out of this particular 1887 Mk IV M-H. Took a lot of trials to get here, approaching 30 different load combinations. Now time to recheck the safe and load log book for next problem child to work on. Maybe a sometimes stubborn M1874 45-70 trapdoor??