Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Al - HandLoader Forum WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE RELOADING ROOM TODAY.

Decided to make my own cast bullet lube.

Got my new on sale at academy store closing sale
Chargemaster lock an load set up
Got some cleaning up to do and get so e loading did

I walked though my reloading room yesterday and wish I could load some 38s instead of going to work.

Did my post hunting season gun cleaning and neck sized 50 .308 cases.

Made more beeswax muffins.

Had a box of 110g Sierra HP. Loaded up 10 just to see if they would even work in my AR10. If I can get them to group half way decent I may try to eliminate a few 'yotes. What else am I going to do with a bullet that light!

Loaded up a 20 rounds of 300 Weatherby with 168 TTSX bullets, 12 rounds of different loads with a 210 partition to test in my 338-06 AI, and 20 test rounds with 140 and 150 partitions for my brother's 7X57.

Sized several different cases and put them in the tumbler to clean. 20-300 win mag, 60 7mm RM, 100.223 and 20 375 h&h magnum. Found out its probably best not to throw your 375 and 223 in the tumbler at the same time...

Cleaned, sized, trimmed about 75-260 rem and a handful of 280 Ackley improved
Got them ready to load
Waiting on some 7mm-08 to get here for the same treatment

Boy oh boy does that look familiar. Been there, done that too. lol. At least you can get them out, just think if they got stuck inside the shell, wow, now that would be a real PITA.

Prepped a 100 7mm-08 sized, cleaned and primed ready to work a load for the new barrel

Loaded a some tsx 130gr for my 3006 . 56,57 58 gr imr 4064.

Had 33 .308 cases primed and ready. Had 36.168g Sierra HPBT International bullets. Was just going to load them up and got to looking for a powder. Hmm Accurate 2200 will work. Went to pour powder and looked again..I was about to load Accurate 2700. SMDH at least I caught it. Guess I need to do some more research. Tumbled 81 pieces of .270 WSM I have been saving. Where that 1 extra came from I have no clue. Granddaughter was in there watching me asking questions so I put her to work for a few minutes. She has asked me to take here fishing and now she wants to go shooting. She has never showed much interest till now. I guess that is what pawpaw is for! Chargmaster lite will be here Next week. I can't wait!

Resized and cleaned 120 cases of different calibers. Loaded up a dozen 7mm RM with the new Sierra 165 gr Gamechanger bullets over H1000 to see how they shoot. Gonna try to get in a little range time this weekend.

Getting ready to start fire forming some 9.3 x 74R brass into 3" brass 410 shells for a bolt action 410.

Well I finally found a few spare hours to get these brass shotshells made for the 410.
The brass came already annealed at the neck area, but I would need to anneal it further down on the body so the fire forming would expand the base area of the case as well. The brass is thicker towards the rim and you only get one good first time shot at a good forming. Using a cordless drill with a 1/2" socket to hold the base of the brass while it is spun in front of the flame until the purples start to show on the brass then it's tip the drill an drop it into the cold water. The brass should be sufficienctly softened enough to take the fire forming first time around. Then a quick dry in the oven, load regular large rifle primers, 10.7 grains of Unique powder with a poly foam disc to separate it from the cream of wheat, capped off with a custom cut card using a sharpened case mouth of another brass casings and all packed snuggly with a Bic pen and sealed with sodium silicate (water glass). A overnight drying and they will be ready to shoot.





















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I bought and setup a Harbor Freight 2" cutoff saw to cut 5.56 brass down for 300BLK. Next weekend I'll be running that brass thru new dies and load some 175gr projectiles.

I spent all day yesterday working on subsonic .300blk loads. Found an inexpensive one that works for my AR pistol

Inquiring minds want to know!

Tell me more about the 410 nitro. TSS Turkey slayer?