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Pulled out some 520 grain boolits my neighbor gave me for my 45-70. Wasn't sure they would chamber due to the .460 diameter, and there to go into a 1885 Browning which are notorious for having a tight chamber. I lucked out. Seated them at 2.655 and they fit. Not a plunk, but no real resistance when closing the breach either. Should be a fun load I hope. Not fast, only a bit over 1K fps, but with the weight I think it will be good for elk.
If I like them and their accurate with some work I can pick up the pace on velocity if needed.











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Worked on some test loads for my upcoming 280 ai project
Loaded up 7mm-08 to test out when I get done redoing my wife's rifle
Sized up some 7mm-08 and got them in the tumbler

Just got another 400 cases of range brass in 45 acp. Will get them decapped, sized and pin tumbled. I'll have to get the casting equipment set up soon if I want to fill them. I just used up the last of my cast 225 grain RN I cast last year in the last 200 cases I processed last week. As soon as our weather starts to warm up a bit I think it'll be time to try my new casting project. I'm taking a full sheet of plywood with a 2x8 across the end sticking out the back of the tailgate and attach my Master Caster to it. I can start casting with it backed in the car port out of the wind. Tailgate height is perfect for many chores.






This particular mold drops a great boolit. It's sad that today's production moulds from Lyman don't seem to be as good as the product line from the early 2000's.

Been looking for my 9mm sizing dies for a couple weeks since I got in 200 range pickups. Finally opened the right box from the move of 18 months ago. So these all got the primers punched and then pin tumbled and inspected before yesterday's resizing. Dug out the Styrofoam holders and you-fold-em boxes and packed them away until I can get more 9mm cast up and powder coated to stuff in them, but there ready to go.

I installed LED lights over my reloading bench.

Hey Snuffy, how are the Let's on reducing shadows? Lighting is so often not thought about.

Finally finished boxing up all the prepped brass. There all ready for loading and range day. 38/357, 9mm, 223, 45 acp, and 7.62x39. Guess I'm going to have a weekend to get casting.

I used an LED track light system in my last house. You can adjust the spacing and angle of the lights to reduce the shadows and it really helps. You can also easily add more lights if needed.

I just moved into a new house and starting to plan my new room. This room us about half the size of my last room so I'm having to gut creative with my storage.

It makes all the difference in the world. 20 bucks at Wal Mart.

Put together 100 cartridges of 41 magnum for a friend who hunts almost exclusively with handgun.
Hornady 210 grain XTP with 18 grains of Alliant 2400.

I will check them out. I hate having shadows.

Since I just started loading 38 special and 357 magnum I decided I needed to get a cast boolit mold for my Magma master caster machine. I was able to have Magma send a blank double cavity block to NOE moulds for cutting one of their designs. Well it arrived within a week of the order. Just an example of the great customer service one gets from Al Nelson at NOE. Time to get it cleaned up an ready to go. I'm planning to run thousands of cast to feed the 38 special and the 357 magnum. I'll powder coat them and run them at 80 % of jacketed velocities to begin testing at.

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Finally found the box with my master caster in it. When I packed it up for the move it was in two pieces. And since it was a warm day, so time to assemble it and get ready to try out my new mold.

Poured 44 mag and coated

Finished loading some 41 magnum cartridges for a buddy.

Picked up a hard to find set of rcbs 25-35 Winchester dies made back in 1977 for $30 bucks. They were in great shape with appearing to not have been used very much, but went through my process of cleanup anyways. Now I've got a lightweight 25 caliber shooter that's also easy to make brass for from 30-30 if I need to.

Sized up 60 pieces of 223 and made 7mm tcu out of it.. only split 4 cases. Made a good rainy day project

AR, did you anneal the cases before opening up the mouths.

Did some readjusting on my Magma Caster and tried out a new mold I got a while back from a member and I'll get them lubed up today for loading and replenish my 9mm inventory.

No I just lubed the crap out of them. I have done any annealing so I'm kinda scared if it. And to be honest if they don't split when you size them they will hold together. So if the gone split I had rather them split when I'm sizing them