What did you do in the reloading room today?

[49ereric]

Yesterday I sized, primed & flared 100 357 mag Norma brass and finished them today with 300MP & Northeast reloading’s 158 gr JSP & Lee factory crimp die.
Stopping the 357 loading until I get a lever rifle and see how they run.

 

[Castle Rock]

I tiled a bathroom
Shitty job but I prefer it to reloading

 

[JF_Idaho]

Got my new autotrickler v4 setup. Loaded 80 rounds of 6.5cm with h4350 and prepped another 100 pieces of brass that are now ready to load.

Impressed with the v4. I would say it probably runs 3 to 4 times faster than the chargemaster.

 

[Austin Kaufman]

Loaded a few hundred more rounds for PRS, NRL, and some 223s for my trainer. Shot up 400 rounds of 68 grain BTHP hornady bullets last week that I loaded and going back to 73 ELDMs for practice. Not pleased with the 68s over the few loads I tried and at distance the 73s seem better to me.


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[Gbrecka]

50 rounds of 223 with TMKs and 8208

 

[Luked]

Got everything now to start loading for my new to me 6.5 PRC other than Brass.
Haven't decided on what I want to do there.
Will probably start with the old cheap Hornaday for a while.
but thought of buying some ADG or Something higher end as this will probably be my main rifle for some time.
At least till the 6 Creed in Tikkas are readily avalible.

 

[ResearchinStuff]

Got everything now to start loading for my new to me 6.5 PRC other than Brass.
Haven't decided on what I want to do there.
Will probably start with the old cheap Hornaday for a while.
but thought of buying some ADG or Something higher end as this will probably be my main rifle for some time.
At least till the 6 Creed in Tikkas are readily avalible.

Don't pick adg. Only bad brass I've ever tried.

 

[Luked]

Don't pick adg. Only bad brass I've ever tried.

Interesting.

 

[Harvey_NW]

Don't pick adg. Only bad brass I've ever tried.

ADG has been great in my 6.5 PRC and was fine out of the box, not sure if something happened in production or QC process but my new 7 PRC brass necks looked atrocious.

 

[mills0713]

50 rounds of 223 with TMKs and 8208

How much 8208?

 

[Gbrecka]

How much 8208?

22.5 -23 shoots well for me

 

[JF_Idaho]

ADG has been great in my 6.5 PRC and was fine out of the box, not sure if something happened in production or QC process but my new 7 PRC brass necks looked atrocious.

That sucks. Did you end up contacting them?

I bought 2 50 count 6.5prc probably about 4-6 months apart. Both were immaculate out of the box.

 

[Harvey_NW]

That sucks. Did you end up contacting them?

I bought 2 50 count 6.5prc probably about 4-6 months apart. Both were immaculate out of the box.

No, I just ran them over an expander and prepped them like I used to with cheap bagged brass. Probably not worth my time to banter with them about it, but I'll probably keep an eye out for Lapua in the future.

 

[Reece123]

Trimming 400 pieces of 6.5 creed brass.

 

[MtnSquach]

N565 was only a little bit faster in mine, but clear precision winner. I pressured out around 58gr in fireformed brass. 56.5gr runs super smooth in all temps and about 2900fps in a 21" tube suppressed.

I loaded up 10 rounds of 143eldx and 56.5 of N565 and headed out to the range. The accuracy was much better than the H1000. All 10 shots combined were just under an moa. The average velocity was much slower at 2745fps. The ES was 44.3 and the SD was 16. I think I’m going to try 57.0 and 57.5 to see if I can get closer to 2850/2900. I have been really happy with the eldx’s but have a few boxes of 130/140 bergers. I might experiment with those as well. I might look into better brass also, I’m using Norma brass from a few boxes of factory match I had laying around.

 

[JF_Idaho]

Loaded up another 100 round of 6.5cm

Alpha brass
40.7 h4350
Winchester LP
2.828
140 eldm

Getting right at 2750fps

 

[CMcCormick1805]

Today I loaded a small amount of rounds to test for pressure signs in a new rifle and prepped some brass for follow up loads. Seeing what other people are doing in their loading rooms motivates me to spend more time doing something I enjoy and don’t do enough of.

Post up what you’ve been doing as big or as little of a job as it might be, hell even cleaning up your bench counts!

Mounted a scope into rings for a .223 trainer that is shipping my way.

Prepped brass for the last stage of load development with my .30-06 for a bear season. My 06 is old and has been on only 2 hunts in the past 6 years. I love the feeling I get hunting with it. I reworked the barrel channel on the wood stock to free float it. It’s been through a lot but I’m optimistic that my handloads will provide good results at the range tomorrow.