What did you do today in the world of reloading?
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Bradmartin78
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It doesn’t look like that now and I took those pics last week. Both benches are covered right now. Made up some 308 last night on the rcbs and started 223 on the Dillon before the index ring let go. Now it’s even worse.
TheMailMan
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I sorted through 15 gallons of wheel weights a buddy dropped off. One more 5 gallon bucket to go. I'm not really interested in sorting them any more but these were some good buckets.
TheMailMan
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I'm envious.
TheMailMan
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Yesterday I rounded up all the iron and stuff from sorting wheel weights. This morning I headed down to the scrap yard to sell them. While there I noticed they had a bunch of wheel weights from a truck stop. They also had some pewter and a bunch of .44 Mag brass in the brass barrel.
Total haul was 280 lbs of wheel weights, around 250-260 lbs of good stuff, 14 lbs of pewter and 459 pieces of .44 Mag brass.
Total haul was 280 lbs of wheel weights, around 250-260 lbs of good stuff, 14 lbs of pewter and 459 pieces of .44 Mag brass.
Dang. The local scrap guys said they basically charge $2/lb or something for buying brass. I've thought about sorting through and finding all the oddball and expensive brass and filling a bucket but I have a feeling my wife would divorce me. And I do t really want to spend that long digging through dirty brass if I don't have to.
Maybe next time I go I'll bring an empty bucket and just scoop up whatever is there. Even at $2/lb if it was all 9mm and 40 it would still be worth the cost I suppose.
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Maybe next time I go I'll bring an empty bucket and just scoop up whatever is there. Even at $2/lb if it was all 9mm and 40 it would still be worth the cost I suppose.
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TheMailMan
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$1.60 a lb. That's cheap .44 Mag brass. There was a bunch of .30-30 and other bottle neck stuff in there.
TheMailMan
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I sorted all those wheel weights today. I only had 17 lbs of iron, zinc, and trash.
Then I loaded 300 rounds of 9mm competition ammo.
Then I loaded 300 rounds of 9mm competition ammo.
I worked up 10 loads with 2 powders for the 7mm-08. Started with varget from 39 to 40.5 and then imr4064 from 37.8 to 38.7, all in .3gr increments.
I'm debating setting up a test with h4885 but not so sure. When I first started reloading I was under the impression it was a great all around powder for everything. Seems like now everybody makes it out as inferior to varget.
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I'm debating setting up a test with h4885 but not so sure. When I first started reloading I was under the impression it was a great all around powder for everything. Seems like now everybody makes it out as inferior to varget.
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I started out with a Lee single stage mounted to a folding sawhorse in my apt. Unless you have lots of stuff you can continue to turn out loads.
I had to move out of my third garage bay into a built on room in back. My buddies call it the reloading closet!
This week's project(from my list, not the sammichmaker's)is to get all the 762 brass(1500?)cases off the floor, decapped and pin tumbled. Afterwhich I'll decide if I really want to bother sorting these by year. LC this, LC that!
Little by little my closet is gaining floor space. If I can get this done, then the shelves emptied then raised(rising water is an issue in my yard)before I get a job I should be good since my cardiologist told me I'm not going to die soon, as long as I look both ways.
Thanks Wes.
Little by little my closet is gaining floor space. If I can get this done, then the shelves emptied then raised(rising water is an issue in my yard)before I get a job I should be good since my cardiologist told me I'm not going to die soon, as long as I look both ways.
Thanks Wes.
