What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Matt5266]

Loaded up another 100 rounds of 147 grain 9mm subs in the garage while the kids enjoyed the 70 degree weather today in Idaho

 

[Glimmerman151]

I built a little stand for my trickler setup on my lab scale. Also mounted the primer seating depth checker I machined as well. Seems to work pretty damn good. I just couldn't get myself to drop 850 bucks for the primal rights version, so i found a way to make one for myself.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Please post up your results.
I use the 88 ELDMs in my 223out to 1500 yards with great results and have used a heap of 80.5s but thought the 80.5s might have been asking a bit too much.

Will do! I’ll post up some groups and then see how they end up at distance with the hotter loads. Hoping to get out today but may hold off with the 30-40 mph winds.


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[Briant_az]

View attachment 1033972I built a little stand for my trickler setup on my lab scale. Also mounted the primer seating depth checker I machined as well. Seems to work pretty damn good. I just couldn't get myself to drop 850 bucks for the primal rights version, so i found a way to make one for myself.

How well does the depth gauge work? Great idea and I’m always impressed with the things that guys are able to make themselves. I wish I had that kind of skill.

 

[Glimmerman151]

It works incredibly well. Way easier than trying to use the stem of a caliper sticking out the bottom. This way i know the primer at least has the anvil seated and the cup shouldn't shift forward from the primer strike.

 

[mtnbound]

Spun on a new 6CM barrel on my Tikka, so I did some load development today. H4350 and N555 are my tried and trued but gave some Superformance, Hunter, and 4831SC a go along with a few of the new 107TMKs. Superformance had a big ES of over 120fps but still gave a great group.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Please post up your results.
I use the 88 ELDMs in my 223out to 1500 yards with great results and have used a heap of 80.5s but thought the 80.5s might have been asking a bit too much.

Ran a few more loads with the 85.5 hybrids with the 223 today. Never hit pressure but I found a load I’ll probably run with. I usually do 10 shot groups of everything but I had already done that with a few of these so I did 3s and then a 5 shot for a new load. The load at 2553 fps was 0.45” 3 shot and yesterday it was a 0.7”-0.8” 10 shot group. The 2613 fps load was 1.18” and the 2678 fps was 1.2”. I may try one more hotter load but with the low SDs, spread, and accuracy of the load at 2553 I’ll just roll with it most likely. The other hotter loads were good enough 10 shots but I’m just picky. This gun isn’t really a gun to shoot bug holes though. I usually shoot 73 ELDMs or 77 TMKs and the loads for those are in that 0.7-1.2” 10 shot groups as well. Excited to see how the 85.5s are at distance.

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[snuzzo29]

Prepped some new 270win brass.

 

[nphunter]

Modified my Redding die with two part putty so it would stop leaving rings on my long skinny bullets.

Worked great, no more nose rings. Use it to load up 50 rounds of .243 ammo and it worked great. Not sure how much the dented rings mattered because they shot great but I couldn’t handle seeing them squished and marked up.

 

[longranger1965]

Ahh the Lazzeroni. I’ve had it since 2004 and it was the primary rifle for 15yrs. Haven’t shot it much the last couple and then my oldest went back to it this year.
Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend someone going out and getting one unless you really just want to dink with a fun caliber. The Lazzeroni is like justifying to your wife why you decided to buy a Ferrari for your economical commuter rig.
That said, it does hit like the hand of god. I originally shot 180s Mach 2, reduced the powder charge well under max and my brass life was great for any magnum and it was still ridiculously fast. We’re sending 230 Bergers now.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Loaded up 55 rounds of 6mm arc with alpha brass, lever, and 107 SMKs to shoot some steel. Sized 250 pieces of 223 brass to load tonight.


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[NWBLKTAIL]

Loaded a new batch of 100 Starline 5.56 brass for 223 with 75Eldm

And resized, trimmed and loaded 50 rounds of Starline 243win with 108 elite hunters

 

[Nykki]

I bought my hunting partners collection of guns and reloading equipment. He had Alzheimer's and I don't trust his reloads. I pulled his 30.06 stuff apart and dumped the powder cleaned up the brass and neck sized it with my old Lee Loader haven't decided what bullet I want to load up.

 

[49ereric]

Primed 300 more 223 mixed cases over the last couple of days here and there.
2-300 more to go…

 

[brandonh98]

Still trying to find a decent load for my bergara b14 carbon in 7mm prc. This has been quite the journey getting this rifle to shoot well.

 

[crowlja]

I used to have a Harrells combo press which is different than the press they sell now but has the same clamp. I think they're best with custom dies or just light sizing in general because the clamp isn't all that robust. I haven't used the Sinclair but I see them alot at BR matches but you're limited to 308 length cases. The Summit is the most versatile obviously.

At the range I've used arbor presses, Harrells combo, Rockchucker, and currently been using an RCBS Partner for a number of years now and it's by far my favorite of those four. It's a light duty press but robust enough for doing what I need at the range while light enough to easily move around. The Rockchucker works fine but it's noticeably heavier to carry around. I don't know the weight of the Summit but I'm guessing it's similar to a Rockchucker give or take so I'm thinking it's probably not the most convenient thing to haul arouond. For me though, I have a lot of hand dies and there's an arbor press conversion for the Summit so it could be a one press for everything even if it's less than ideal wieghtwise.

I have my Summit bolted down so haven't moved it around in a while. But its pretty dang heavy. I want to say its about a pound or so heavier than the rock chucker. I guess one could look to see if weights or shipping weight is listed anywhere.

 

[crowlja]

Does anyone else use this thread just to remember what they did last week at the bench?

Loaded up 53 rounds of Nosler 150GR ABLR for the 6.5 PRC with 54.5grs of H4831.
COAL: 2.956
CBTO: 2.338

Below is a photo of how this load shot for me this past weekend (group 5) right at about a half inch.

Going to fire form the rest of this brass and see if these SD's and ES's settle down a bit and re-shoot groups 3-5.

Have a match coming up this next weekend, looks like I'll be shooting two different bullets with ES's in the 50s. At least I'll have an excuse for when I miss! Lol.

 

[Sponge]

Modified my Redding die with two part putty so it would stop leaving rings on my long skinny bullets.

Worked great, no more nose rings. Use it to load up 50 rounds of .243 ammo and it worked great. Not sure how much the dented rings mattered because they shot great but I couldn’t handle seeing them squished and marked up.

Would you mind sharing a picture? I have an idea of what you did (bedding a bullet in epoxy putty on the seating stem to create more contact area?)
I'm about fed up with my Forster seating die doing this on uncompressed loads with 'normal' neck tension, and would like to try this before getting a different seating die.

 

[Slick8]

I've prepped and primed 100 new 6.5 Creed cases.

Project gun from used pieces and parts. Working on the stock fit now and should be ready to shoot in a few weeks.

 

[Ckat]

Going to be picking up a Marlin 1894 SBL in 357 mag in a couple weeks, so snagged some brass and projectiles from Scheels earlier today. Sized and primed 300 cases, and will be working up a load with 158 gr XTPs.

You might like that combo. . H110 is the easy button for me…