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Well it's sorted, weighed and bagged. 65 pounds of #5, only had a bit over 6 pounds of rejects, and those will get melted down into ingots for the 30-40 Krag. The 7-1/2 shot ended up at 122 pounds. Very little lost to bad coolant this time. So all an all no complains on my end. Totally happy with the shotmaker performance. I learned a ton and the experience is invaluable. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/9XK3Qjgj/IMG-20240929-111839813-HDR-2.jpg)
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Did some shooting and settled in on H335 for my 7.62x39 upper. It really seems to like it in two different loadings vs others. Settled in on a load for the Hi Point 45 carbine and therefore found a use for 2 bottles of 1990's era AA#5 I've had floating around. In the RR itself I prepped a bunch of 44 Mag brass for the Henry I have ordered. Wanted a lever action handgun caliber since I sold my Ruger 99/44 a thousand years ago. The micro groove rifling in it just would not shoot SWC worth a damn and back then I was casting my own bullets. I wasn't about to by jacketed stuff...lol
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(Can't Keep It Up...)
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Loaded and tested 45-70 load using IMR 4198 and 300gr Sierra HP/FN.
Settled on a load after testing and loaded up 60rds.
Pulled some 7mm-08 rounds that were loaded with surplus BLC-2. They were waaaaay to hot.
Primed some starline 30-30 with Unis Ginex LRP and Remington 30-06 with CCI 200's
The Unis Ginex are larger than CCI's. They were really tight in the Starline 30-30 and wouldn't seat flush in the Remington 30-06
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I loaded up a box of a 140 grain Nosler Accubonds with 58.0 grains of H4831SC and Federal 210 primers.
Last edited by Snuffy; 10/14/24 02:35 PM.
If you always do what you've always done you always get what you've always got
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Today's project is to assemble the shot graphite powder tumbler. I finished getting all the parts needed to make my tumbler. New bucket, round 3/8" cast floor flange, bolts nuts and washers to secure the flange to the bucket bottom. 3" nipple to go in flange to attach to the motor shaft with a section of new heater hose and clamps. Four 2" rigid casters for the home Depot bucket to rotate on. I still need to wire up the motor (done), screw some 2x1 Short furring strips into my red harbor freight bucket to act as paddles and we're ready to go. Video link below. Test run to see if it works. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/7YQP5yQm/20241025-125442.jpg) https://youtu.be/lFYCbFpZBvQ?si=18pKRc_0AJuDa4jh
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If anyone wants to build a similar tumbler most of t parts can be found at home Depot. I used a 1/2" floor flange and a 3" nipple to connect the bucket to the motor shaft with a piece of heavy duty heater hose and two hose clamps. A 5" 1/8 round aluminum disc with four bolt holes drilled in it to match the hole pattern on the floor flange., 1-1/2" bolts, washers, nuts to attach to the bottom of the bucket after drilling matching holes in bottom of bucket. You can use wood furring attached to the inside of the bucket with screws and washers for paddles or apply the paddles to another bucket that you can slip inside the drive buck, using the drive bucket as a carrier for the paddled bucket. Easier to empty the tumbler regardless of what you're tumbling.
Last edited by nitroexpress; 11/01/24 01:56 PM.
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Graphite powder doesn't change the color of the shot very much, but it will help immensely on going through the choke. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/QCJMn26W/IMG-20241027-112655824-3.jpg)
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Chased/inventoried/TRIED to figure out what all I have for all my shotgun gauges and components to load them.
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Started using the Walmart great value ice cream tubs to store all my fired brass needing cleaning and tumbling, an to put clean brass that's ready to start the reloading. Good size tubs with a good lid. I just throw in a few packages of desiccant for moisture control.
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Went to HD and picked up 8 tubes for organizing all the shotgun wad, hulls, by brand and wad weight capacity. This is why the hunter in the sky gave us winter. Lol
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Started working up a load for my 270 with H4350 and a Barnes 130 TTSX. I need an electric powder measure. Maybe Santa will bring me one.
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Loaded up some subsonic 300 blackout with the Speer 110 JHP and Titegroup for the coons on my feeders. Just prepping for the post deer season ritual. It's early but I was bored.
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I found a good load for a buddy's abolt 270 with IMR 4350 and 150 gr partitions. Four of the 6 recipies shot 3-shot groups 3/4" or less at 100. Didn't even have to do a 2nd round of testing. Love it when the first batch produces very good results.
You gonna pull them pistols, or whistle Dixie?
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I found a good load for a buddy's abolt 270 with IMR 4350 and 150 gr partitions. Four of the 6 recipies shot 3-shot groups 3/4" or less at 100. Didn't even have to do a 2nd round of testing. Love it when the first batch produces very good results. That is a good feeling.
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.
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Two days of working up and loading up 600 plus 5.56
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan
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I had planned on working up test loads for heavy subsonic 300BO while trapped inside but my powder didn't make it in time so I brass prepped a few calibers and loaded a handful of 300BO supersonic and 357 Max to top off my plastic ammo boxes for each. I'll do more brass prep and priming tomorrow as I have brass drying tonight.
Mailman decided it was too cold to do their job today or I would have had some extended 10/22 charging handles to install but whatever.....
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I prepped 50 pcs of Peterson 280 AI brass. Had Tooter Meredith install a Proof Carbon wrapped 1:8 twist barrel on my Begara and picked it up today. Gonna try 180 Berger VLD in it.
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
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