What did you do in the reloading room today?

[BigNate]

I think we're going to need some details there, sir. You can't drop a 64 year old ammo post and just walk away!

Guy at work gave me four partial boxes. Don't know if the bullet pic is clear enough.

 

[49ereric]

Guy at work gave me four partial boxes. Don't know if the bullet pic is clear enough.

Bound to be surplus 4831 powder

 

[BigNate]

I remember seeing a few surplus powder kegs as a kid. Seemed 4831 was for everything. There were a few Sierra boat tails as well, that seem to have a sharper angle that new ones.

I wonder when Nosler quit turning the groove into them?

 

[Sinistram]

Guy at work gave me four partial boxes. Don't know if the bullet pic is clear enough.

Clear enough for me. Those sure are lathe marks. I love the "4831" on the reloading label, which is almost certainly WWII surplus powder as others mentioned. That stuff was a boon to olde tyme reloaders, as it was quite a bit slower than the new production H4831. I'm sure quite a few rifles saw some damage as a result of using the same powder charge with the new stuff.

IIRC, 58gr with a 150 was Jack O'Connor's favorite load followed by 61 or 62grs with a 130.

 

[Caseknife]

Think that is how Bruce Hodgdon got started, buying railroad cars of surplus 4831 and repackaging it in smaller containers.

 

[7SAUM-J]

Developed a 7SAUM load with the 180 ELDM. H1000 and max short action mag length yielded some great results. Going to load a handful at the middle charge weight!

 

[49ereric]

Swaged 223 mixed cases for an hour, plenty left to do.
Shoulder bursitis limits how much I can do before icing it.
Golden years my a—

 

[Darren_8167]

Today I loaded up 50 6.5 Creedmoor rounds. It is for my wife’s Tikka T3X SL.
130gr Hornady ELD-M
42.4 gr RL-16
WLR
CBTO=2.185”

 

[flyfisher117]

Went to the range and shot a ladder today. Changed seating depth in increments of .003” and charge weights in increments of .05 gr.
/s

I tease, just got a kick out of this target at the range the other day. I did however just finish another 500 round batch of 123 eldm for the grendel.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Loaded up 150 more 6 creeds for my PRS gun, then prepped and primmed 150 more pieces of 6 creed brass and 150 pieces of 223. Been shooting a lot lately, so trying to stay ahead of myself.


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[Fireflyfishing]

I sold a bunch of old dies…so I could buy more stuff!

 

[HuntHarder]

Today I loaded up 50 6.5 Creedmoor rounds. It is for my wife’s Tikka T3X SL.
130gr Hornady ELD-M
42.4 gr RL-16
WLR
CBTO=2.185”

You swiggin 1792 while you reload?

 

[sodaksooner]

picked up a box of ELDMs off my shelf and wondered if I should work up a load with some H1000 for my 300wm. Then I continued to clean almost 50 years of carbon out of my 10/22....lol.

 

[Darren_8167]

You swiggin 1792 while you reload?

No sir. Not swiggin. But I do sip. It is the full proof and a store pick. Tasty bottle.

 

[Feral Jared]

A little bit of organizing and cleaup to make room to load some 38spl for the space cowboy rig.

 

[ShakoMako]

Scored a Dillon 550 locally. New powder tube, extra primer tubes, 223 dies and six caliber conversion kits. $400.

 

[wyosam]

Took my 223 apart to send the action and bolt off for nitriding. Dug out all the pieces and parts for my heavy Tikka Dasher, donor rifle should be here next week so I have an action to put it back together to sell. Need to thin the herd a bit.


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[49ereric]

Shot the savage 110E 30.06 today. Playing with lengths & 3.18 opened up but could have been poor shooting but 3.15 works well. This rifle always liked deeper seated bullets.
Play with powder charges now as primers were backing out.
Data I was using must be lite cuz I was near max.
other data goes up to 48.5 & 50.5 instead of 45.9 max with 180’s. I was using 45.5 of W748.
Not using iMR 4350 which is great but faster load.
Trying slow things down for the short range woods shots.
@2500-2600 fps is enough. Soon as primers stop backing out I’ll call it good.
Loaded 3 more at 46.5 then 3 at 47.5 then 3 at 48.5
Worst case scenario I pulled down the hotter loads.

 

[Marty]

Tumbling a couple hundred pieces of 6ARC brass and picked up a 500 pack of 109 ELD-Ms to load in my 6CM and son's 6ARC.

 

[JD Jones]

Scooped 500 more 108 eldms