What did you do in the reloading room today?

[sierracharlie338]

That 87g Vmax is a varmint hammer!

 

[waspocrew]

That 87g Vmax is a varmint hammer!

Definitely! Worked great, will burn through the 500 on my shelf in no time haha.

 

[sierracharlie338]

Definitely! Worked great, will burn through the 500 on my shelf in no time haha.

Heck yeah. I shot more of those out of an old custom 243 I had than anything else because they were cheap and devastating on anything with fur.

 

[JDMBEND]

Annealed 225 rounds of brass for the first time.

 

[hunting1]

Pretty close to the old gold medal copy cat recipe if memory serves

Yep, mine just likes a few grains over is all.

 

[doc holiday13]

decapped, annealed and reprimed a bunch of 6.5 brass thats getting necked down to 25 creed

 

[Luked]

loaded up some 120 Barns Tac TX 120s for my daughters 300 Blk
Want to try and figure out a load with these for her for deer season next year

 

[Falon]

Ordered my first round of powder, primers and bullets to start down this crazy journey.

 

[CBGunner95]

Annealed 225 rounds of brass for the first time.

If you don't mind me asking, what annealing machine / process did you use? Been thinking about adding annealing to my process but hesitant to go down that rabbit hole... Any lessons learned or pointers for a guy who hasn't annealed yet?

 

[Billdoe]

Painting is done, working on putting the room back together and building the bench with my brother

 

[JDMBEND]

I am probably not the guy to ask since this was my first attempt. I use a AGS, but there are lots of other options out there. The AMP unit is probably the best, but very expensive.
I set the time to drop the case when it got a orangish glow. Not very scientific or precise.

 

[CBGunner95]

I am probably not the guy to ask since this was my first attempt. I use a AGS, but there are lots of other options out there. The AMP unit is probably the best, but very expensive.
I set the time to drop the case when it got a orangish glow. Not very scientific or precise.

Looks like a pretty straight forward piece of equipment, I wasn't aware of this unit but may have to give it a look! Thanks!

 

[HuntHarder]

Rare I get a week day off with no one home. Loaded 100 6.5's and chamferred/trimmed 150 6.5 prc's.

 

[sierracharlie338]

Ordered my first round of powder, primers and bullets to start down this crazy journey.

Welcome to the rabbit hole where you can be as OCD about the smallest details and someone will still know a better way to do it if you like to tinker you will probably enjoy reloading.

 

[sierracharlie338]

Rare I get a week day off with no one home. Loaded 100 6.5's and chamferred/trimmed 150 6.5 prc's.

I love those days. . . I need to schedule one of those once all this moving crap is over with.

 

[49ereric]

Ordered my first round of powder, primers and bullets to start down this crazy journey.

keep it simple to begin with cuz some of us are still simple reloaders after decades of reloading… now if you venture into smacking steel at extreme range then you step into a serious reloading world of OCD.

 

[Falon]

keep it simple to begin with cuz some of us are still simple reloaders after decades of reloading… now if you venture into smacking steel at extreme range then you step into a serious reloading world of OCD.

I’m basically just copying what’s already been built for my gun. So extremely simple and the loads already been developed. Just my buddy who’s done all the leg work set me up with a press and scale and all the info I needed to reload mine and my sons 6.5cm (we shoot the same load) so just made sense to start doing it myself.

We’ve already been banging steel passed 1000 yards so not sure how much farther I need to go before I get to the ocd part.

 

[sierracharlie338]

I’m basically just copying what’s already been built for my gun. So extremely simple and the loads already been developed. Just my buddy who’s done all the leg work set me up with a press and scale and all the info I needed to reload mine and my sons 6.5cm (we shoot the same load) so just made sense to start doing it myself.

We’ve already been banging steel passed 1000 yards so not sure how much farther I need to go before I get to the ocd part.

As mentioned earlier by another poster the different shooting disciplines all have quarks with varying degrees of intricacy. The bench rest guys are notorious for being OCD but some of them hold some crazy world records.

The short of it is find what works for you and run with it. The only wrong way to do it is doing it unsafely.

 

[Falon]

As mentioned earlier by another poster the different shooting disciplines all have quarks with varying degrees of intricacy. The bench rest guys are notorious for being OCD but some of them hold some crazy world records.

The short of it is find what works for you and run with it. The only wrong way to do it is doing it unsafely.

I’ve got a really good mentor/teacher luckily and I don’t know how deep down the rabbit hole I’ll go for bench shooting. I ultimately just wanted a good hunting rifle that I know forwards and backwards. So it makes sense both financially and knowledge wise to build my own ammo.

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

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Rare I get a week day off with no one home. Loaded 100 6.5's and chamferred/trimmed 150 6.5 prc's.

Well I’m glad you to do some prep in peace

I had my 2yo standing on my foam target launching wrenches and screw drivers, oh and misc nuts and bolts across the work bench.

But I got 100 pieces of 6.5CM resized and chamfered.

And he had the time of his life.