What did you do in the reloading room today?

Recovering from knee surgery so loaded 1000+ 9mm, deprimed and primed 1300 cases. Sorted 2000 more cases to remove the .380s from the 9s and looked for cases with that ridge. Everyone stay safe.
 
Carried out about 50lbs of bullets to the load shed. Another shipment due in tomorrow.
 
I found about 850 resized and primed 9x19 cases a few weeks ago while cleaning, but set them aside because the cases weren't as clean as I'd like. Needless to say, they are now loaded and ready to shoot. :D
 
Brass sorting day...
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Have not done it yet but going from little to big.
Starting off with a 204 Ruger 32 gn bullet (40)
223 55 grn (100)
9 mm 124 (100)
45-70 405 grn (20)
And if time permits, some 6.5 CM with 140 grn ELDs
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While resizing a huge pile of WCC .223 brass, I found about 100+ that need to be trimmed. Was going to just trim these but decided to go ahead and trim the lot. Ass deep in brass shavings :)
 
Somebody gave me a bucket full of 45acp last year, so I decided to get started on decapping/cleaning. I decapped all of them, and have about 2/3 of them cleaned. I had a lot of "ringers", cases where the top of the primer broke off, leaving the rest of the primer stuck in the pocket. I've usually seen this when the brass was out in the weather, wet, etc. The rest cleaned up real nice, though. I hope to get the rest cleaned today.
 
Started on my bucket of range-pickup 223, probably around 2500 pieces. Got them all decapped, quick wet-tumble without pins, and primer pockets swaged. Tomorrow I will start sizing. Then trim and chamfer. Prepping rifle brass is my least favorite reloading activity, but still more fun than being at work.
 
Over the past week, I drunk the blue koolaid hard. Finally got me a better reloading setup that I could ever have imagined lol

this one hopped in my car and followed me home

thanks @Jerzsubbie
 

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Started on my bucket of range-pickup 223, probably around 2500 pieces. Got them all decapped, quick wet-tumble without pins, and primer pockets swaged. Tomorrow I will start sizing. Then trim and chamfer. Prepping rifle brass is my least favorite reloading activity, but still more fun than being at work.
Got all of them sized, and about 750 of them trimmed, chamfered, and wet-tumbled.
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Busy weekend...

Ordered 3k 147gr 9mm FMJ
Unmounted and sold my SDB
Mounted my XL650
Ordered a handful of accessories for the 650 incl DAA mini case feeder, index cam bearing, Hitfactor bearing kit, extra small primer tubes
 
Started updating my inventory sheet of reloading components, store bought ammo & reloads.
Re-packed, consolidated & relocated my primer stash.


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Then I set up the 550 for 40S&W and made 19 test rounds to Chrono tomorrow.

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Over the past 3 days ran off 600 rnds of 223/556 with 55 gr pills purchased from fellow CFF'ers. Crimped primers makes me really want a 1050.
I just got the latest Blue Press, I see they have an 1100 model now. I just can's see spending over $2k for processing brass, especially for no more than I shoot.

I'm looking to get the new APP press from Lee, looks like it could be a poor man's case processor.
 
How about the last week?

Take 250 pieces of 300 RUM Norma brass, cut/trim to length, then formed to 458 B&M brass for two different fellows that were going to take their rifles to Africa later this year. Now that is in question, but I have their brass ready to load.

Cut and trimmed 300 pieces of 300 RUM Norma for a fellow that has a 50 B&M ordered. I also have to do some test work for him later this week, he wants to use his at SubSonic. Have to sort out some loads to test for that.

In the meantime I checked my .308 caliber 100 FB Raptor stock, was down to 1250 bullets, so decided instead of putting those into 300 BLK< I better load more 308 Winchester, so loaded all the brass I had prepped, 500 rounds of 308 with 100 FB Raptors.

I am now checking my brass for 300 Win Mag, and will be using that brass for both 100 Raptor and 130 Raptor loads.

Cleaned all the B&M Brass I had fired over the last few months, and cleaned all the 223, 300 BLK, and 7.62X40, and in the process of working that brass. Will start loading that sometime this week.

We keep plugging away at projects while in Lock Down here on the compound..........
 
Panicked.

No, I didn’t actually load anything. Still haven’t done that after creating a loading closet almost 2 years ago. But I wandered in there while on a conference call and saw the .40 dies were installed in the press. Found the .45 dies still in their original box. Then wondered where I put the 9/38/357 turrets? Looked everywhere in the closet multiple times, then headed to the garage...and found the couple of plastic containers I never moved upstairs. Whew.

One day I’m going to get somebody back over here to walk me through it again. :oops:
 
Banged out 50 rnds of 80gr 6BR. Doesnt sound like much until you see what i go thru to make BR quality ammo. Weight sorted primers, mandrelled brass, weight checked bullets, checked BTO on bullets, weighed pdr chrgs to +/- 0.02grns, primed cases, chrged cases, seated bullets. The real serious BR shooters would add about 6 more steps to this process.
 
I got my 3k 147gr 9mm FMJ delivered from American reloading today...

Pretty sure I owe my 105lb mail lady some homemade cookies or a bottle of hand sanitizer LOL! She just left the plastic mail bin on my porch with the medium flat rate box in it. Too bad I was in the middle of a conference call when she arrived or I would’ve helped her.
 
Does anyone know the purpose of the stepped brass?
I've read that it is just another way of manufacturing brass cases. I've read that it is to prevent bullet setback, but that is not the case for some headstamps, , such as Ammoload, as the step is too deep. The Maxtech cases have the step high enough to actually prevent setback, though. But I agree with @Wolffy , they do it just to piss us off, right along with Berdan primed cases and brass plated steel cases.
 
Yesterday, during stay-at-home, I processed another 700 pieces of 223 brass. Lubed, sized, trimmed, deburred, wet tumbled.

Rather than batch process all at once, I would do them in batches of about 150 at a time, until I had enough to fill the wet tumbler. I may repeat the process today.
 
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